Cambree Ney

Oil Painting

Not only did I learn how to build my own canvas with this artwork, but I also discovered how to use oil paints. I chose to create a large canvas since I have been working on more of a large scale recently, and I thought that it would be exciting to paint the canvas. Using a picture I took while walking through Times Square, I simplified the shapes and painted a thin acrylic wash over the background. On top of the acrylic, I used the background’s complementary colors with oil paints to fill in the buildings.

 

Acrylic Painting

For this specific piece, I wanted to focus on experimenting with acrylic paint, various mediums, modeling paste, and different techniques of painting. The work began to develop after I chose to draw a hallway in the school, eventually abstracting the image and simplifying the shapes to break up the space. Using a primary color scheme with a thin black outline around each shape, I believe I have successfully experimented with acrylic paint.

 

Watercolor Collage

Focusing on collage work, I wanted to tie in a social aspect of diversity. In the original collage of the three children that I cut out, they are all of the same race and gender. With the watercolor painting, however, I changed up the races and included a female on the far right. I chose to focus on young children since a lot of pressure is put on them today as they are the future of the world.

Final Product

 

Encaustic Painting

I decided to take an Independent Study course to focus on painting throughout this next semester. Painting is my main focus since I have never taken a single painting class in high school other than experimenting with watercolors and acrylic for a couple of weeks in the introductory art course.

For this encaustic piece, I decided to collage pages from Dr. Seuss’ “Oh, The Places You’ll Go” to create a map on top of the paper using various shades of blue and green. To make the countries pop out more, I toned down the blue by melting transparent wax over the dripped blue wax. The central idea behind this artwork was to incorporate one of my favorite hobbies, traveling, as the major theme.