Marissa Burt

Alright so here’s the plan:

I’ll be carrying these old school 25 mm film cameras with me at all times and snap photos of whatever gives me inspiration during my day. I already started over the break with some shots of the beautiful Rodeo beach at sunset! Then, if I can access the darkroom, I’ll experiment developing them in different ways, like scratching the negatives or painting on the chemicals. If I can’t use the darkroom, I’ll just have the negatives developed and edit the photos in Photoshop.

Next, I’ll choose my 4 favorite pictures and mount them on a canvas. Then I’ll draw or paint over them in some way, and incorporate some natural objects like seashells or leaves in a collage style. Maybe I’ll use cloth or other mixed media materials as well. I’m planning on working as I go and seeing what happens!

Photos of my Super Surfaces sculpture, made from a magazine page

Marius Watz makes a clear distinction during his discussion about his work. He claims he’s not a scientist, researcher, or designer. He’s an artist. His talent, like the talent of several more traditional artists, came naturally when he was very young. He was able to pursue his passion for coding and make a career out of it without any formal training, so he didn’t really need an art school education to be successful. However, that doesn’t mean that he shouldn’t have at least had the opportunity to get a formal art education. It isn’t fair for art programs to exclusively teach traditional art practices and ignore non-conventional ones like programming and coding. Just because Marius couldn’t fulfill the requirement of drawing a hand for the art school he was looking into doesn’t mean that he is any less artistic than the other students. Art programs should offer a wide variety of classes depending on what individual students are interested in. It would be useful for an artist like Marius to be exposed to more traditional forms of art as well as vice versa.

Processing Drawings

5 Photo Story

While reading about the importance of lines in Understanding Comics, the first artist that popped into my head was Keith Haring. Nearly all of his work revolved around the expressiveness of lines, and his use of them was what made his work so unmistakably unique.

Haring’s most iconic images depict simple, thickly outlined figures in dynamic poses that look like they’re dancing. His style used bold lines to reduce the human figure to its simplest form, almost like a stick figure. However, through the balance of sharp angles and organic curves, his art reflects incredible vibrancy and movement in a way more realistic art cannot. Every single person or object in his art seems to be in motion all at the same time, and can barely be contained to the surface it’s painted on. 

Accent lines surrounding the figures heighten the sense of motion, and give the impression of surprise. These lines in particular demonstrate the emotion Keith Haring aimed to convey through his art: pure, uninhibited joy. The striking colors and strong lines explode with emotion and radiate energy, and express the way Haring viewed the world around him. 

A couple cool videos by Carl Kleiner for a recent IKEA ad campaign

http://carlkleiner.com

Check out the website of my artist, Carl Kleiner!