Extra Credit Blog Post #1
Artist Elizabeth Chapin’s painting’s that are exhibited at Wally Workman Gallery use a world of color to express her emotions about a variety of topics. As a parent she has strong opinions on the way people spend their time and the relationship that has with social media. These concepts are apparent in her works and are presented with a southern twist to them. Her paintings are a mix of realism and fauvism. Most of her paintings show people, but some have the aspect of nature. Elizabeth Tiger describes the artist’s process as follows “She’s not usually painting for the sake of painting; she is painting for the sake of telling the story of each person she paints, unfiltered by her own assumptions.” This is evident in the majority of her paintings, as you can see the emotion and story behind each work. This is shown through the expressions on the peoples faces and their body language. I find these paintings fascinating, and you can hear her talk more about her pieces on this website:http://wallyworkmangallery.com/blog.lasso?linkid=1433.
Some of my favorite pieces by Chapin include “The Green Room”, “Instagramming El Cosmico”, “Only for One Place”, and “Mouthful of Forevers”. You can see these works listed below.
You can see the full exhibit of paintings on the Wally Workman Gallery website included below.
My Projects Visu1100
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- Glass Bottle Drawing
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- Unfinished Cat drawing
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- Boot Drawing in Pen
This semester I have been working on my drawing skills and developing better artistic habits. These are a few of the works I have done in drawing 1 and outside of class. The glass drawing was a challenge for me because I have never drawn glass before. I am also practicing my skills with prisma colors. Ive never drawn animal fur before so I attempted to draw my cat Einstein. With practice I’ve gotten a lot better with prismacolors. I have a little practice with pen drawing but I wanted to practice so I used pen to complete my shoe drawing assignment. Im pretty proud of all of these projects and I hope to continue developing my skills.