A feedback to painting class :)

I was in Grade 12 painting class last semester, and painting self portrait was our final painting.And I had no experience on drawing people, painting people. (Especially myself...) I have no idea what colour should I choose or how to start to draw the structure of my face!!! I thought I'm going to be a dead meat, but Ms. B made us do TONS of practices.

Through the process, I kept complaining to her why do we have to do this, she just gave me a smile and took my brush showed me where to fix. When I think back now, how immature I was. Even when I got nothing to do draw, I started to paint self portrait on my computer... it amazed me. I never thought my painting skill could reach that high level.

This may not my best drawing of myself, the eyes part is a bit off. But what I really want to say is... Practice really makes you perfect. And once again, "Ms. B thank you. You are one of my best art teacher. ;)" (But not the funniest, LOL)

This is How We See The World

This is an still-life acrylic painting assignment students from Visual Art - Painting class did last  November and December.

Taking a look at these paintings, isn't it amazing to see paintings on the same subjects done by artists from different perspectives and with various styles?

Yes, York Mills' got many art talents. ;)

Artist: ChaoYing

My friend said that I should name my painting "The Romance between Mannequins" or "Star-cross'd Dummies". The colours are very powerfully used in this painting. and it turned out very emotional and enthusiastic, as if there is somehow a story between the two mannequins. 

Red, Purple, Yellow are the basic colours I used, and they are like a great team that works amazingly together. But I explored a lot with colour theory in this assignment and I followed a consistent style for this painting with smooth, fresh brush strokes. 

Artist: Rasa

I was really drawn to the relationship between the male and female dummies -- I ultimately created a narrative using the aforementioned, as well as a dummy head. I used mostly expressive brushstrokes and colour so as to incorporate some movement and action into the still objects. My palette consisted of red, cadmium yellow, magenta, cobalt blue, and white.

Artist: Kayleigh

My painting is called Dinosaur King, I guess. I was inspired by the dominative look of the dinosaur within the still life- that something that was so comparitively small could have such a dramatic presence. I wanted to experiment with brighter colours, so I exclusively used primary blue, red and yellow, with some cadmium yellow and lots of white. Overall, I think the painting looks great- and is a more optimistic portrayal of dominating personas, but I digress.

Artist: Naomi

This painting was an entirely experimental piece, where i explored a method of painting outside of my comfort zone. Although i still don't know how i feel about it, i am proud of the colours involved and would like to pass on that even though you may be unhppy with the end result, or decide to go back to the artistic style you are comfortable with, take all that you can from your detours because sometimes there are valuable skills you may pick up.

Artist: Kelly

 It was my first time to paint still-life in such a huge canvas and it was fairly fun. I tried to create a casual and free style so that the brushstrokes were kind of short and broken. I focus on dealing with the entire colour and construction relationship rather than small details of each objects. I use rich colours in order to show the reflectional colours betweeen the objects.

Do you believe in sell outs?

If any of you have been keeping up on the indie music scene, or just watch MTV Canada on a regular basis, you have probably heard of Lana Del Ray.

Many people have criticized her for being a sell out, because of the facial and style reinvention she did, in order to create a more marketable image. Many people exclusively dislike her on that basis alone- even though her music has remained the same.

Its ironic, that we feel that we can criticize artists who are just trying to live off of their art- especially when their new image does succeed in bringing more attention to their music.

For those who want to check out her stuff, search up songs like "Videogames" or "Blue Jeans"- she has a nostalgiac style straight out of the idyllic, suburban Americana from the 60s, and her songs are admittably catchy.

However, to be fair, her wealthy upbringing certainly gave her access to great marketing resources- but does that matter if people actually like her stuff? Life isn't fair, and there are certainly better artists, no one denies that, so why should we judge her? And who decides the definition of artistic integrity, especially if it is performance art, like music, where public opinion plays a huge role? Justin Bieber, Micheal Jackson and countless others were heavily molded by forces other than their own artistic desires, so how is Lana Del Ray all that different?

Christmas Party!!!~

Christmas is a time to PARTY!!!!! Art council had a party at today's lunch.

FOOD, FOOD, FOOD AND FOOD!!!!!

Everyone had fun and ate. Ha ha ha ha!

Chatting and eating

Eating and chatting

I wish everyone has a merry Christmas and a happy holiday!~

XOXO

Vanessa

Han Liu Photography

Hello guys！I'm Han, a 18-year-old boy who is currently study in York Mills C. I.

Here are some of my works that I want share to the Art Council:

Qin: Watercolour= playingwithWATER + havefunwithCOLOUR

Hey there, this is Qin writing (well, my last name became my "pen name" for blogging somehow).
I am one of the heads of the Art Council, currently in grade 12.

This year has been crazy busy, especially for people like Kayleigh (the other head of the council), who has sweated her blood over the School Show (She is the costume exec for the show. Two more showings left. Yeah for her~:).
For me... I am a total nerd: taking 4 sciences plus one math this year, full schedule, no spare. Well, it's actually not bad at all. I enjoy all my courses, and especially the painting class with Kayleigh, Anastasiya, Coco, Kelly, Kristina and Gloria(a few other girls on the council).
For ArtCo, we've been working on our next-year-event, the Costume Show (not gonna get into details)...

Both art class at school and doing art in my spare time delight my life indeed.
Art is indispensable.
lalala...


I'd like to share a few watercolour paintings I did last winter.
These are very Chinese. I know!


It has a Chinese name:


雨巷（Drizzling Allay)
Qin. Watercolour on paper. February, 2011
READ ABOUT THIS @ QIN THEORY

The Lotus
Qin. Watercolour on paper. March, 2011


READ ABOUT THIS @ QINTHEORY















Watercolour is not the material I use the most often, but I LOVE it.
If say acrylic paints seems to be forgiving for the mistakes on canvases, watercolour are not the same at all. But it doesn't mean helpless. I did paint a few stokes I did not want but I blended it with water or surprisingly created something nice out of my mistakes.

If someone professional criticizes me for not using the materials properly, the only answer I would give is "well, I was just playing with it XD."

Just have fun with whatever you are using.
I hope this is the message you get from my post.


If you like my paintings and want to know more about me. You can visit my blog @ http://qintheory.blogspot.com/

STRESS from school has made me an extremely slacking blogger, and as a result, my blog hasn't been updated since September! The loss of my camera (used for taking picture of my visual works) certainly contributes to my absence from Blogger as well.
However, you can take a tour among my old works and my portfolio. It will be lots of fun because I always share my stories behind them:).

That's all.

FOLLOW YM ART COUNCIL.
You are gonna be amazed by the talents.
Keep your eyes OPEN!

Levitation...

Japanese artist Natsumi Hayashi took picture of herself "floating" around in the city. i heard of her a year ago on tv and i saw her blog recently when i was randomly surfing around on the internet. i found it really interesting and inspiring (but i then think it is a little but spooky XP). Natusumi Hayashi used to post a "Today's Levitation" everyday but she stopped earlier this May.



(http://yowayowacamera.com//)
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This is the levitation from a France photographer -  Franck Bohbot

(http://www.feeldesain.com/levitation-series.html)


now go ahead and check on their blogs to see more photos! =]
-Natsumi Hayashi
-Franck Bohbot

PS. What's your thoughts? Leave a comment down below and share with us! =]=]