Technique/Media Process Portfolio: Make sure to use subject specific language, balance text with visuals, use legible writing, cite all sources, and label every image including your own. Make sure to pick various media from the Art-Making Table.
Insert reference photos or contact First: Pick what 3 artists or art movements your experimentation will be based on in relation to your AOC. At sheet here. Label as “My own work”, least one of the artists must be from a museum/gallery visit and sited as so. Briefly state why you chose them. lens media, digital photography, Then insert and state that this is your reference photo or contact sheet you will use for experimentation for date. your next artwork and that you chose this composition, subject matter, etc. because ______. Explain what your AOC is and how this fits into your AOC/Theme, explain. Due: ______/12 Explain your goals and preliminary planning. Your goals must explain that you plan to experiment in at least 3 different techniques before choosing in what direction you will take your final artwork. State the 3 techniques from different art movements, cultures, or artists (name them) that you choose to experiment with and why. Do they have similarities or are they vastly different? Why or how do you believe these skills, techniques, processes and materials will be appropriate selections, consistent to your intentions?
For each experiment state where the idea originated from- in other words what Experiment #1 . Label as “My own artist, culture, and/or art movement. Provide research on the artist, culture, and art work”, art making form?, media, movement that sounds personal- when writing down facts and characteristics date. Due: ______/25 Show an image from about the artist and art movement always relate it back to its importance to YOUR For all of the experiments you may this artist labeled with work. do them a small size to fit directly name, title, media, into your workbook or complete date. Things to include in the writing above: You do not need to include any extraneous them at a larger size and just stuff like bio info, just what relates directly to style, technique, subject matter, and photograph or scan them inserting influences. Evaluate their work in terms of function, purpose, and/or aesthetics. the picture in your workbook. What are their goals, do they align with the art movement, how do they align with your ideas? Explain. Document clear, specific connections. Annotate experiment if possible- point out certain areas that were Explain how the technique is achieved, does the technique try to exhibit a certain set of emotions or color more successful, techniques or color theory, does it use special tools, if so how? areas that worked better, etc. Show an image from this artist labeled with title, date, media, and compare it to your experiment. State whether this experiment is based on this particular work or their overall style. How is it similar and how is it different? Analyze how it will impact your own art making practice or intention. Why were you drawn to this technique? After completing the experiment state clear details how this could be a technique that you will use in your final artwork. If not, why? Reflect on what you learned, how could this progress your portfolio or concentration, how could you refine this technique or media? Cite source.
Option 2: If your You still must answer all of Show an image the questions above from from this artist experimentation is in a digital format you must Experiment example 1. labeled with name, have at least 3 images title, media, date. showing the original image,
final edited image, and at least one stage in-between. Thoroughly annotate and explain the edits in each stage and why you made certain artistic/design choices. Experiment #2 Due: ______/25 Experiment #3 Due: ______/25
For at least 1 technique: Make a record of the process (photos) and annotate. Due: ______/10 Complete a “study”. Due: ______/12 Conclusion and Planning Due: ______/15
Conclusion: Which of these 3 techniques is most appropriate for the artwork you plan to create, why (think about Annotated planning #1 technique and media application, maybe these effect message or emotion)? Will you change anything before adopting this Label as “My own to your final artwork? work” Annotated planning #2 Complete various trials of compositional arrangements (more than 1 planning sketch). Annotate sketches. Reflect and evaluate what is successful or unsuccessful about Label as “My own work” arrangement, use of color, background, lighting, etc.
Rubric Checklist: ___ Completed reference photo and goals section. ___ Completed 3 different experiments. ___ Completed Conclusion section. ___ Completed a minimum of 2 planning with writing/annotations. ___ The experiments are in at least 2 different forms, preferably 3 forms from 2 columns. ___ At least 1 artist influence is from a Museum/Gallery visit or artist lecture. ___ For at least 1 technique: Make a record of the process (photos) and annotate. Complete a “study”. ___ All sources are cited in MLA or APA format ___ All images including your own are cited. ___ Subject specific language is used ___ Text and visuals on each page with legible writing ___ Clearly and concisely answered ALL the questions. Especially how the research connects to your own ideas and experiments. * It would also be a good idea to take photos as you work and include a couple of those as well.
Technique/Media Process Portfolio Example: Student Name
For this artwork, I will be exploring the topic of colorism in South Asian culture. Colorism is prejudice or discrimination against darker-skinned individuals within the same ethnic or racial group. This topic is especially important to me as my family comes from Pakistan, a South Asian country where colorism is a huge issue, and because I have personally dealt with this issue.
My area of concentration focuses on self-portraiture. This piece will not be an AOC piece because it will not depict myself but it will still be related to my AOC as it will be a portrait. Previously, I have created artworks related to my culture and artworks that depicted women’s issues. However, this will be my first piece to combine the two topics. It will depict a woman holding a mirror and looking at her reflection. Her face will depict her emotional response to a speech bubble above her that reads, “If only she wasn’t so dark, she would be so beautiful.” I chose this phrase because it is one that I have actually heard people say about many women throughout my life. By depicting the woman from the side while looking at herself in the mirror, the artwork will better illustrate the impact that others’ words and prejudices have upon one’s self-view.
To decide how I will create this piece, I will be researching the techniques and styles of the artists Roy Lichtenstein, Malika Favre, and Ezgi Pamir. Each artist utilizes a different style and technique that I will be experimenting with in order to decide which would be the most appropriate to create my final piece in terms of clearly conveying my message. To the left I am showing 2 reference photos that I have taken. The one on the bottom (full face view) is similar to the position I intend to use for my final work. In terms of experimentation though I might use a closer up view, like that of the eye reference photo I photographed.
All three of the artists that I am researching create portraits but their methods and styles of doing so differ greatly. Roy My Photos, lens media, Lichtenstein and Malika Favre both create Pop Art-inspired pieces but Lichtenstein draws his inspiration from comics while Favre digital photography, 2017 prefers a simpler, graphic design-based style. Ezgi Pamir’s work differs greatly from the other two as she creates embroidered portraits
that fall into the Impressionism art movement rather than the Pop Art movement. All three of these styles give me a great range in which I can express my ideas for this artwork. In addition, experimenting with these styles will expand my artistic skills as I have never used any of these techniques in my work before.
MALIKA FAVRE
This experimentation is based on the work of Malika Favre. Favre is a graphic artist. Her work is very bold and simplified. Her pieces make good use of positive and negative space, often utilizing the two to create shapes within each other. In each artwork, Favre only utilizes a handful of colors and shapes, relying on limited color palettes and manipulation of negative space to create forms. All of this is part of her aim of being as minimal as possible within her art due to her belief that less is always more. I find this a very interesting concept to explore within my own work as most of my pieces have been more Expressionistic and therefore much more textured and detailed than Favre’s work.
Favre’s work fits within the Pop Art movement, although it often displays influence from the Op Art movement. She often utilizes cultural symbols, a staple of Pop Art, within her work as she creates a lot of pieces for famous companies. Her bold colors and lines are also trademarks of Pop Art while her manipulation of negative space and
(Left) Malika Favre, Mural at Barra de Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2016. simple shapes often create a similar effect to the illusions of Op Art.
(Right) Haaniya Ahmed, My Experimentation of Malika Favre’s Style,, graphic My experiment is based on Favre’s general style of work. However, I based the drawing application, 2017. color palette of my experiment on the colors she used to create her mural in Rio de Janeiro, pictured to the left. Like Favre, I kept the color palette as pared down as possible, only using shades of red, pink, black, and mustard yellow. I also used the colors for the same parts of the portrait as Favre did in order to better to create contrast and emphasize the subject as she does. Both Favre’s work and my experiment are very simplified with few unnecessary details, yet enough to still convey meaning. While both pieces are similar in style, my experiment has sharper lines than Favre’s softer work, as well as a slightly brighter color scheme. I also included a few more colors and details than I needed to replicate Favre’s style. For example, I made the eyes brown when they could have simply been black and I included a highlight on the left eye to show a reflection.
I like Favre’s technique because it is bold and eye-catching. In addition, despite its simplicity, minimalism, and focus on being aesthetically pleasing, it can easily be used to illustrate a story or a message. For this reason, I think this technique would work well for the purposes of my final artwork. The style would communicate my idea in a simplified, graphic manner, placing the emphasis on the message of the piece. As Favre does Sources: not often feature writing in her work, I would have to adjust her style and add a speech bubble to my own final piece. "Malika Favre’s Best Advice for However, she has done this herself on a few rare occasions, demonstrating that this type of style can work well with my Aspiring and Young Illustrators — plans for my final artwork. Kuvva Blog." Kuvva Blog Malika Favres Best Advice for Aspiring and Young Experimenting with this technique taught me a lot as I have never created such simplified art before. It also Illustrators Comments. Kuvva, n.d. allowed me to experiment with a new medium, digitally created graphic art. This experiment encouraged me to pay Web. 10 Mar. 2017. more attention to the positive and negative space, color palette, and composition of a piece. This style can easily be Moorhouse, Guy. "Insta — Malika Favre." Insta. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Mar. 2017.
incorporated into my future works as it is well suited to creating portraits and my area of concentration deals with self-portraits. ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Roy Lichtenstein is a famous artist whose work came to define the Pop Art movement. His art borrowed from comic strips of the time, altering them to create a completely new artwork. He often cropped the original comic strips to create new compositions and changed their style. I could do this for my final artwork by recreating one of Lichtenstein’s pieces in my own style and composition while also incorporating my original ideas for my artwork.
In order to create his pieces, Lichtenstein brought hand painting techniques together with mechanical techniques. Because of their newspaper (Left) Haaniya Ahmed, My Experimentation of Roy Lichtenstein’s Style, Acrylic Paint, 2017. comic influences, his pieces were very simplified and featured bold colors and (Right) Roy Lichtenstein, Girl with Hair Ribbon, Oil and Magna on canvas, 1965. thick outlines. Lichtenstein also often employed Ben-Day dots, a mechanical technique, to create his work, adding more detail to each piece. Although Lichtenstein’s pieces were simplified, they still had details that added dimension to them, unlike Favre’s work which, while simplified, is very flat and only has minimal details. This makes Lichtenstein’s work more closely related to the detailed works I usually create but still much simpler than anything I have created before.
In my experiment, I wanted to replicate Lichtenstein’s general comic-inspired style rather than focusing on the style of a specific piece. Although he often used a mix of manual and mechanic techniques to create his work, I chose to use only paint in my experiment. Like Lichtenstein, I used a simple yet bright color palette. I painted most of the work with thick outlines and blocks of colors. However, I also included dots that represented the skin in order to replicate the newspaper-print style of Lichtenstein’s work, illustrated in his piece shown above, Girl with Hair Ribbon. Because I chose to hand paint the Ben-Day dots, my dots were not as uniform and did not achieve the same aesthetic effect as they did in Lichtenstein’s pieces. Sources: As a result, the dots would be an impractical addition to my final artwork so if I were to use Lichtenstein’s "BIOGRAPHY – Roy Lichtenstein." Roy Lichtenstein style and techniques in my final artwork, I may have to create the piece without them. Foundation. Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, n.d. Web. 30 Jan. 2017. I was drawn to this style because it works very well for the purposes of my artwork. Lichtenstein used
Ezgi Pamir is an illustrator and designer who also creates embroidery art, mainly focusing on portraits. Her work is expressed with vivid colors and flowing lines. While her art is very contemporary, it has Expressionist influences. This is illustrated in the winding stitches of her pieces, imitating the swirling brushstrokes characteristic of Expressionist paintings. She often creates her pieces in a large scale in order to create more detailed artworks. In addition, Pamir often adds detail to her works by including 3-D materials. For example, in her piece shown to the left, Pamir embroidered the face and body of the portrait as well as the leaves in the foreground and background. However, the subject’s hat was made with fabric sewn to the piece so that it is projected from the piece providing some actual depth.
Pamir’s work generally has the goal of being aesthetically pleasing rather than illustrating social or political commentary like I hope to do in my final artwork or raw emotion as Expressionists would do in their work. However, her technique is incredibly versatile so I could easily apply it to any artwork with any purpose, aesthetically pleasing or otherwise.
I created my experiment based on Pamir’s overall style. Both of our pieces have Expressionist characteristics while still appearing to be modern. Due to the nature of using stitches to illustrate a range of values, both of our pieces have the flowing lines and obvious “brushstrokes” of Expressionism. While our pieces are similar in style, they differ in appearance. Pamir used colors in her work that contrasted much more greatly than the colors of my experiment. She also utilized complimentary colors by including the red lips and green leaves but maintained unity in her piece by also making the flowers and the subject’s cheeks red. My piece is unified in Sources: its use of neutral colors but it does not have the contrasting colors of Pamir’s work. However, I think that this can partly be attributed to the fact that I focused on a single "Expressionism Movement, Artists and Major Works." The Art eye rather than a full portrait so I had a smaller range of colors I could include in my Story. The Art Story work. Our pieces also differ in the fact that I did not include any 3-D fabric creations Foundation, n.d. Web. 01 Feb. 2017. (Top) Ezgi Pamir, Embroidery Portrait, in my experiment, simply because I did not think they would serve any real purpose
I think Roy Lichtenstein’s technique will be most appropriate for this final artwork. While the other two techniques I explored would also be sufficient for this artwork, Lichtenstein’s technique has proven time and time again that it works well in presenting cultural commentary and therefore, it will be very suitable for my artwork. The simplicity and incorporation of speech bubbles in the technique will also clarify and emphasize my message. This will leave a greater impact upon the viewer. I will use the same technique and media that I used in my experiment. However, I will not include the Ben-Day dots in my final artwork because I did not like how they looked in my experiment and I do not feel that they are essential to the piece. My message and ideas can still be illustrated completely without the Ben-Day dots.
(Leftmost) Planning for original idea for final artwork Source:
(Center Left) planning based on altered version of original idea Acornell. "Hopeless 1963." Blog post. Roy Lichtenstein. University of Oregon, (Center Right) planning based on Lichtenstein’s Hopeless 17 Mar. 2015. Web. 07 Feb. 2017. (Rightmost) Roy Lichtenstein, Hopeless, Oil Paint and Acrylic
Ultimately, I think the leftmost sketch will be most successful in illustrating the goals of my final artwork. It is simplistic yet communicates my message in a meaningful way. The other two sketches do not represent my ideas as clearly, especially the sketch on the right which could be misleading as a viewer who glances at the work too quickly may think that the woman was thinking that statement to herself, rather than hearing it from someone else.