#elective course

Memento mori

Now we are in the last days of spooky month, and here in Mexico we are getting ready for Dia de Muertos, a time for remembrance for our ancestors that have left this world; but also a time for reflection about our own mortality and our conceptions about death.

We believe that during November 1st and 2nd the souls of the deceased return to our physical world and came to visit. So we make "altares" for them with flowers of Cempasúchil and candles to light and guide them, salt and incense to keep away the evil, their favorite foods and beverages to relieve them from their journey, skulls made from sugar, chocolate of amaranto as a memento mori, and the Pan de Muerto, a sweet bread with orange flavor, as a christian element of remembrance of Eucharist.

Sixth Assignment: Plants/Leaves

Fifth assignment: basic technique and textures

As you can see: I failed a little bit. First image is basic techniques: First a solid wash of color, then we learn about transparency and what happens when you paint over another color, then we made a transition between two different colors, a gradient, wet on wet and wet on dry sprayed with water.

Forth assignment: Colorful Roosters!

Third assignment: color wheel

A basic exercise to understand the basics of color theory. I used Phthalo Blue, Crimson Red and Medium Yellow as my primary colors. As you know mixing this colors you can get almost every color.

Second assignment: washes

The purpose of this exercise was to test our paints and know what colors we have. I struggled a lot to get a decent graded wash, and with some colors I failed miserably.

First assignment

Again, we were asked to draw a still life, this time with a real life reference: a bunch of pears. And now I made a more traditional thing. The professor was really kind and helped me during the process.

Diagnostic assessment.

The very first day of my elective course I arrived almost an hour late, so I miss the professor's presentation and the talk about the materials we were going to use during the semester.