Faith Butterfield

Here is the Cool and Warm colors drawing I did in Figure Drawing II. It was made with oil pastel that had shades of blues which were complementary to orange that had analogous colors of yellow. It was based on a model I saw in class.

Plus, it was made in the spring of 2022 of last year and it has been 9 years since I first started drawing realistically in order to achieve artistic success.

Here is the second contour drawing I did in my Figure Drawing class from last year in 2022. I used a charcoal stick to make a c and s curve for the head, rib cage, and pelvis. Then, I drew the arms and legs based on the real life human model that I fully observed.

It has been this way since I started doing contour drawing which is the foundation for basic shapes of character design based on humans which is the bipedal species that I previously experienced in Physical Anthropology 4 years ago.

Here is the Inside and Outside oil painting which was made in my final project for Beginning Painting.

It was inspired by my childhood memories of growing up neurodiverse by using visual thinking through geometric and abstract shapes which was influenced by Kandinsky, Margarete, and Picasso, an homage to the great artistic masters which I learned in the past.

It represents a fantasy world which was in contract to a golden gradient door which was projecting a filmstrip that records everything I remembered in the past and present such as the semi colon that is a representation of anxiety along with the rainbow infinity symbol.

Here is the monochromatic painting which I painted last night which took 2 days to produce. It has to have hues and values of a color like blue for example. Next, I used Winster Newton water based oil paint along with turpentine to make it a more smoother and cleaner edge.

I used a reference photo of a African American man which expands more ethnic diversity to promote equality.

I mixed white and ultramarine blue to make lighter shades with the highlights with a palette knife like flipping pancakes or hamburgers.

Furthermore, It looks purely realistic and amazingly great with the shadows and highlights to make it look like the photo.

I just adjusted the oil based liquid which I had to be careful of in the future by being stoic to control the emotions.

What is your feedback on the Monochromatic painting of a cropped eyes and nose so I can get more advice from you?

I painted a sphere in a monochromatic tone which was my first assignment from my Beginning Painting class. I used Winster Newton water based oil paint colors of Burnt Sienna and Blue to make the color of black from scratch and used Titanium White for the shades ranging from dark to light gray for the shadows, highlights, reflected light, and cast shadow which I learned from Intermediate Drawing.

First I used the blue tape because I didn’t have artist’s tape and was nowhere to be found.

Next, I used Mars Black acrylic to mix with water as an alternative to turpentine a water based liquid for oil paint.

Secondly, I used a brush for darker colors and a brush for blending in.

Then, it took 2 days to finish the painting which oil paint takes 6 to 8 hours to dry and a coat of it for 24 hours.

These are the Old Master Copies I drew on my sketchbook for Figure Drawing which were based on drawings of the Grotesque Man drawn in 1488 to 1490 and The Head if Leda which was made between 1505 to 1508, and the Head of a Young Woman for the Study of the Angel in The Virgin on The Rocks from around 1483 to 1485.

I selected Leonardo da Vinci who was a Italian artist and inventor who lived in the Italian Renaissance a period which saw the rebirth of Greco-Roman culture and philosophy in Italy that later spread throughout Europe that broke away from the Middle Ages. I drew it in graphite and used an ink pen to draw some hatching for the shadows by using light logic.

The title of my double self portrait is Never Grow Up.

I did a pre-instruction drawing of my closet of my bedroom where it was a observational drawing based from real life. I added shadows and highlights to make it look 3D in video games. Next I used a blending tool to make not look like a cartoon and I used a eraser to make more highlights like chiraacuro in Renaissance paintings.

I drew a self portrait of my delft which I learned how to shade in the hair based in the root it grows from and add some highlights like in real life