Sketch practice

          Harlem renaissance sketch

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                                                                   Shading Project

                                                         A compass turned race track.

                                      

     

        My References

 "Sunset"

I wanted to do a sunset as my background because I enjoy the colors and i didn't care for what was at the center or the foreground so i just decided to put a tower with the Eiffel Tower in mind but i didn't want to make it exactly. I messed up on the clouds in the sense of color and trying to get it to blend with the sunset. I didn't like how plain the tower looked so I decided to experiment with colors.

    "Leonardo Da Vinci"

This is a an incredibly famous piece, one of it's generation created by the one and only Leonardo Da Vinci. The name of this work of art is "The Last Supper". This piece was made in 1489. This piece was based off of the a story or scripture in the Bible " The last supper". The last supper was supposedly when Jesus ate his last meal with his disciples.

First of all the people eating at the table seem to be the center of the piece. This being the case your eyes are drawn to them. However there is a person sitting in the center of all these people causing your focus to go toward them. This being the case, it can be assumed that the one in the center is Jesus and the rest are his disciples. Looking at this painting I get the sense that a great secret or shock has been revealed to the disciples causing panic.

Da Vinci was known for painting what he felt in a sense. He painted how he saw the world and what he saw with his own eyes. Whatever he created is meaning all by itself. By reading the bible scripture he made this painting based on what he saw in it. This painting itself is his meaning because Da Vinci has given access to see the world through his eyes and imagination with this piece.

I think this was a piece worth creating simply because Da Vinci's philosophy itself. Everyone sees the world differently and some see it in their own image, but not all put that image on a canvas like Da Vince has done here. In my opinion, art is creating something after you have been moved or inspired. That is not what Da Vinci does in a case such as this work here. What he does is, as I have stated before, put what and how sees things on a canvas. The Bible scripture about the last supper brought to life through one mans' genius