Artwork: Summer Project #2
Title: "Final Prayer"
Size: 51 cm x 40.5 cm Medium: Faber-Castell big brush markers on illustration board Completion: 08/09/19 Final Prayer is an illustration drawn on an illustration board from canvas. This piece was inspired by Peter Nicolai Arbo's piece, Hervör’s Death and Rembrandt's Christ in The Storm on the Sea of Galilee. Final Prayer represents the role that religion plays in personal issues and tragedies, especially those that result in personal or mental harm.
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Inspiration
I liked both of these images and they really helped me to come up with my idea for my piece. The image to the left is Hervör’s Death by Peter Nicolai Arbo and is about a shieldmadien who is dying on the battlefield after leading an assault against the Huns. What I wanted to use from this was the overall idea of a woman on the brink of death from a battle and show how it is inevitable.
which is why the next painting that I found helped me connect a sense of my religion in it as well. In Christ in The Storm of Galilee by Rembrandt, Jesus is calm in the midst of the storm, an event that is out of their control. I wanted to use the sense of calm in a storm in my battle scene that I decided to draw. I ended up making the woman praying in order to further add the aspect of relying on my religion in hard times to the picture. |
Planning
Based on the inspiration paintings that I chose, I decided to do a battle scene and have a girl warrior in the few moments before she dies and have her in a surrender pose while praying. In the first image I just jotted down my original ideas for the characters that would be involved in the illustration. In the second image I changed up the placement and proportions to make it a larger-feeling piece and expand the scene more to balance out the various characters involved.
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Experimentation
Most of my experimentation was exploring different poses for the two main characters, the girl and her eventual killer. I wanted to find the pose that gave the characters the greatest sense of motion within the piece even though it is a 2-D piece. I also wanted to equate specific colors with the two opposing sides which is why I colored the poses I picked in a blue, for the girl, and a red, for the opposing warrior. It took looking at references and posing myself to figure out proportions in order to fully decide on the poses to the right. I chose the girl's pose because I wanted her in complete surrender to make her rely more on her faith and God to help her through the moment.
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Process
Next, using a Micron graphic marker from sizes 1-3, I outlined and added darker areas to the sketches that I had done previously. I darkened the people in the very back to create emphasize that they were very far away compared to the main figures for the piece and to make it feel as though there is some kind of depth to the piece.
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Reflection
Compare & Contrast
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CritiqueI like the feelings that I put into this piece and the balance and contrast that is created, but if I were to redo this piece I would definitely use a more limited palate of colors to limit the business that the piece has currently and rely more on the light and shadows to create contrast rather than the colors. I would also make the girl an opposing warrior lighter and make the background and less important figures to the story darker than them.
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ACT
Clearly explain how you are able to identify the cause effect relationship between your inspiration and its effect on your artwork?
My inspirations are about tragedies and hard times in the people's lives, which is one of the things that i wanted to showcase in my piece, especially because I wanted to show how my religion has helped me through some not-so -good times in my life. What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration? The author's approach is fairly descriptive and less analytical than I would hope for, but it still gets the point across about way the piece was created. What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, culture, etc. while you researched your inspiration? I generalized that art will usually become about some type of conflict, either as a response to it or as a way to address it. What is the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?. The central ideas around my research were religion, specifically Christianity, and the tragedies in our lives that we may face. What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research? I inferred that most artists will depict bad situations in their art as a means to release the emotions that were bottled up for so long. |
BibliographyFerreira, Rute. “Christ In The Storm On The Sea Of Galilee, By Rembrandt.” DailyArtMagazine.com - Art History Stories, 22 July 2018, www.dailyartmagazine.com/storm-on-the-sea-of-galilee/.
“Hervor's Death.” Ancient History Encyclopedia, Ancient History Encyclopedia, www.ancient.eu/image/9830/hervors-death/. “The Story in Paintings: Peter Nicolai Arbo, Valkyries and Mermen.” The Eclectic Light Company, 8 May 2016, eclecticlight.co/2016/05/09/the-story-in-paintings-peter-nicolai-arbo-valkyries-and-mermen/. |