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Ian Terway - Marking Period Three

Posted by Ian Terway in Art - Senior Art - Hull on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 6:55 am

Artists Statement:

The drawings assigned for the fourth quarter proved to be quite challenging to complete. I had to go out of my own comfort zone compose these pieces because I am more accustomed to drawing in a more cartoonish fashion, while we were instructed to draw realistically. I am not really used to being told what to draw, so some of my illustrations were difficult to start, but once I did I was proud of my results. My favourite assignments were the hand sketch and my self portrait, which surprised me because they were the two I was the most resistant to composing.

Having an assignment a week proved to be quite labourious to complete. I wasn't very thrilled with the idea because it takes me a while to get inspired to draw, but I realized that this was a good way of forcing me to try new techniques in an accelerated manner.

Ms. Hull was supportive of the students and was greatly concerned with getting the students to complete their work. Even though she was understandably a little pushy with making the students work in class she was willing to compromise with her students in order to let them work comfortably. I cannot think of any ways that she could have improved on her job.

I had a lot of trouble working on my pieces in class. I was afraid of having my art judged while it was still in the creating process, and I have a very hard time getting inspired. I should have tried harder to work during school hours instead of getting fed up and not really trying at all.

Hand- Small Sketch

Self Portrait- Small Sketch

Clear Glass- Small Sketch (Scanner didn't do the shading much justice.)

Art History Assignment- Art In The Style of Alex Pardee

For my Art History Assignment I decided to do my artwork in the style of Alex Pardee. Pardee has been one of my favourite artists ever since my cousin introduced me to him a few years back. I adore his use of colour and his bizarre subject matter. My pieces had no real rhyme or reason behind their creation, I just based them off of inside jokes that my friends and I share. The media that I used was prismacolor markers and pen.

Here's a link to Alex Pardee's website if you want to check him out.

Ian Terway - Marking Period Two

Posted by Ian Terway in Art - Senior Art - Hull on Friday, January 14, 2011 at 10:00 pm

Artist's Statement:

For my second quarter art project I decided to move back into the realm of illustration with my artwork. At first I wasn't really sure about what I wanted to draw. I spent the majority of my free time over winter break watching horror films with my cousin, and then the idea hit me, "I should draw a monster from one of these movies." It wasn't very difficult picking the creature I wanted to draw. Well, my one friend used to have an internet girlfriend from Ireland, and my cousin and I, being the A-holes that we are, used to make fun of her and call her The Creature From The Black Lagoon. She became my inspiration, and I added feminine features to my illustration to display this. My cousin also assisted me with the shading. The types of media used were pencil and a Pilot G-2 Rolling Ball Gel Pen. I couldn't finish the piece all the way because it was quite labor intensive and took a while to do, as I take my time to draw.

Ian Terway - Marking Period One

Posted by Ian Terway in Art - Senior Art - Hull on Monday, November 15, 2010 at 12:55 am

Artist’s Statement

Recently I have noticed a big change in the style of art that I create. I have been moving further and further away from illustration and moving into music. I have been playing the guitar since sometime sophomore year and it's practically possessed me. On my off time I spend hours upon hours practicing, learning new songs, tunings, chords, and techniques. I am intrigued by how the instrument works, and how different voicings and types of chords can invoke different feelings in the listener. I prefer using acoustic guitar when learning or performing music because it feels more personal to me, and I feel like I can put more soul into my work acoustically then if it was being distorted through speakers.

Bottle Cap Poster

When starting this quarter Miss Hull introduced us to the artist Aurora Robson. Aurora specializes in creating artwork out of plastic bottle caps and bottles. When she started creating these works they were made to reflect upon nightmares she used to have as a child. She connects these nightmares to the collective nightmare of the overuse of plastic that affects us all and is destroying the environment. We created posters to inform the school of a bottle cap drive; in this way we could keep some bottle caps out of our oceans and landfills and provide material for Aurora to use.

Project

For our assignment we had to create a piece of art that revolved around the theme of recycling. At first I had no idea how I could connect both music and recycling together, but then it came to me; last year for a physics project I built a three stringed guitar out of a cigar box, a piece of wood, and some odds and ends. Even though the guitar didn’t work very well as a conventional guitar, it worked perfectly as a slide guitar. My father also fairly recently discovered a beautiful guitar thrown away in the trash with some very fixable problems. After some cheap repairs he gave the guitar to me. So there I had two instruments that both had a relation to recycling, so all I needed was a song to record.

My choice song was “Loser” by Beck. There was no real rationale behind this choice besides it has a prominent slide guitar riff in it.

I recorded the song in three different parts, the slide guitar, the lead, and the sitar (which I arranged for guitar), and then pieced them together using GarageBand. I was going to record the bass in the song also, but my bass amp died on me during the recording process. Once I have the amp fixed I would like to go back and complete the song, and maybe add some drums with a drum machine.

MP3 and GarageBand File

Instruments

Home Made Cigar Box Guitar

Trash Find