This piece is based off of the song Everybody's Fool by Evanescence. The song was about her sister becoming what she considered "fake" and pretending to be someone they aren't just to be accepted and fit in to society. For this I did a woman peeling off a mask that has the qualities of a perfect girl with makeup on, and the face underneath contained words that pertain to the subject, like "vision" and "perfect". This was one of the first pieces where I had to work smaller because of time. It definitely helped. Some things I liked about this piece is how the composition flows nicely, and the colors also flow together well, like the dark sky blue background against the purple shirt. It didn't take away from the main subject of the piece. Some things I can improve about this piece is the hand. It was a difficult hand position to draw, and still doesn't look right to me. If I were to add to the piece, I would add more elements into the mask like eyeshadow, or the face behind it. Overall I thought this piece turned out good and neat.
The song this piece is based off of is For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield. The song is about the protests that took place after the Pandora's Box nightclub closed, which was a popular nightclub in the 60s. The protest was peaceful, but turned violent when the police showed up. I felt like the song can relate very easily to times now. For the piece I did an up close of the front on the night club, with protesters in the windows. The background is a collage of images from that night and the protests. What I like about the piece is contrast between the color of the nightclub and the black and white of the background. With this piece I was able to get it done in the timeframe it needed to be done, which was a nice change. It turned out to be one of my favorites. Some things I struggled on was getting the background to blend with the paint portion of it, because if I would paint over it you could tell the places I could, so I used a lot of gel medium and did multiple paint layers over it.
The song I choose for my sixth concentration piece was Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People. The song is from the perspective of a school shooter. The songwriter of the group likes writing from the point of characters and wanted to write the song trying to get into the mind of a school shooter. For my piece to represent the mind, I did a geometric background with swirls. The shoes they talk about in the song are the Rebook pumps, so i put the back of the shoes as newspaper, since when school shooting happen, it creates a conversation about the story and about other topics, like gun control. I am not finished, but the rest of the plan is the paint the details of the shoes over the newspaper. Essentially, the newspaper is used for all the white that is on the original shoe, since I didn't want to have that much plain white. Some things I like about my piece so far is the background. It was different and fun to do. I wanted to have the design of the shoes to be more abstract and wild, to just add meaning to the craziness and confusion of the feeling behind the shooter.
The song this piece is based off of in Joanne by Lady Gaga. Joanne was her dad's sister, her aunt, who died early due to lupus. Gaga described her as always being the good girl, and Gaga felt like she always needed to be that good girl for the men in her life like her dad and her husband. When Joanne died, Gaga's dad took to the bottle, and drank very heavily. Throughout this experience, Gaga learned to grow as a woman, and became the woman the men in her life could depend on, and that she didn't have to be that perfect little girl. For my piece I demonstrated her growth as a woman into plants growing, and at each new piece of the plant growing, I put imagery that symbolized that point in her growth like for the final growth, I put imagery of her renewed better relationship with dad and the tattoos they got the symbolized their growth, she got Joanne tattooed and he got hope tattooed. In the top in glitter I put the lyric "can't wait to see you soar" which represents Joanne's legacy that she left and Gaga's growth throughout the whole experience. I am not finished with the piece yet, but some things I like so far is how the colors fit well within the piece. One thing I don't like is that the lyrics didn't come out as clear as I wanted to in glitter.
The song I based this piece off of is In Time by Kris Allen. He wrote the song after he got into a car crash and broke his wrists and had to relearn how to play guitar, which he previously used as a coping mechanism in his life. In the song he says "in time I'll learn, and in time I'll heal" showing his dedication to relearning how to cope. My idea for the piece was to have the front view of a dashboard with a person's hand on the wheel to symbolize the moment before the crash, and have a guitar shaped air freshener to show how the crash affected his ability to play. In the windshield I found words that I felt like pertained to the song like "crush" or "future". Then I did a blue acrylic wash over it to make the words look more together. Lastly I added a crack in the windshield. I really like how this piece turned out. Finding all the words were a pain, but it looks really cool. Some things I had trouble with in this piece as I do with all pieces involving acrylic, is blending. Though I felt like I improved with my blending with this piece. I had to work fast and do many layers to get the look that I wanted in the hand and in the wheel.
The song behind my third concentration piece is Man in Black by Johnny Cash. The meaning behind the song is that he wears black for the poor and for everything wrong in the world, while there is others who are happy and rich. So the basis behind the piece was that the left side symbolizes the rich and famous and overall blessed side, with images of rich items and colors. The other half is in black and white and has images from poverty and war. Over the colored side I painted the silhouette of Cash walking down, like there is on the album. On the black and white side I wrote the lyric from the song "Till things are brighter". Overall, I feel good about this piece and how it turned out. I would like to go back and add better transitions between the sides and images, but I will do that when I have more time. Some things that I feel went well in this piece was that I felt like I started to get a better grip on mixed media and have found new elements to put into my piece. Some things that I need to work on for this piece is the transitions and not having such harsh lines within the pictures.
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