Brainstorm + Artist Models

In this picture I was told to brainstorm about the things I care about.

So I started with a General topic of music and branched it off to Instruments.
Another topic I chose was Family and friends and Darkness.

This is the start of finding what drives me to make art and what inspires me to make art.

ARTIST THAT WORK WITH NATURE:

This Dragon Picture Is A Beautiful Representation Of A Desert Dragon Made By Julie Dillon.


Emperor Huang Di from Austin Hsu.



Jaime Jones. This is one of those paintings that instantly places you there. Each time I see it, all I can think of is, “We are so screwed.”…and then I remember to admire the light, the composition….

All Pictures And Explanations Are From
https://www.tor.com/2014/07/16/picturing-dragons/

My selfie woodcut plan

My emotion I am trying to portray is annoyance because of the way society treats young people trying to express themselves. My most inspiring print maker is Kathe Kollowitz Because she contrasts the positive and negative quiet well and has inspiring work that is better than the other print makers i have come across. In my final work, I want to portray the annoyance I feel when my friends try to express themselves and get shut down by society. My next step is to sketch out the final picture and make a start on the print making.

German Expressionism Cont

 I chose the two images to work from because I liked the way the faces were portrayed and the differents between them even though they are so similar.

I did not get the chance to draw 6 enlarged images in my book because I was busy doing something else and helping others.

Here is the woodcut of three images I drew onto the wood straight from Pinterest.

The three pictures chose to use were
Two of the ones from my previous art post and a new one by the same artist.

What Is German Expretionisim?
German Expressionism was first mad around the time of the Holocaust and was a way for Germans who were against the Holocaust to express how they thought the Jews were feeling at the time.

Year 10 Art German Expressionism

Käthe Kollwitz 
(German, 1867-1945): 
Death and Tragedy

Kathe Kollwitz 
(1867-1945)
An artist and woman of great courage.















Kathe Kollwitz Interesting Facts

1. Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant War, depict the effects of poverty, hunger, and war on the working class.
2. Kathe was born in 1867 in Konigsberg, East Prussia (now Kalingrad in Russia).
3. She studied art in Berlin and began producing etchings in 1880 In 1881 she married Dr Karl Kollwitz and they settled in a working class area of north Berlin. In 1896 her second son, Peter, was born.
4. In 1914 her son Peter was killed in Flanders. The loss of Peter contributed to her socialist and pacifist political sympathies. In 1919 she worked on a commemorative woodcut dedicated to Karl Liebknecht, the revolutionary socialist murdered in 1919. 

This is my work so far

My next steps are to add more color and make the picture more interesting