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11/21/24 (?) I forgot when I drew this but it was a concept for the bones
12/3/24
First sculpting the bones
12/16/24
Fired and colored in
12/9/24 Cut and sculpted into the shapes I actually wanted them
Research sites used -
https://www.okeeffemuseum.org/about-georgia-okeeffe/
https://www.georgiaokeeffe.net/red-hills-and-bones.jsp#google_vignette
Georgia O’Keeffe has been a major figure in American art for decades, most notably shifting artistic trends in her time. She painted almost exclusively flowers, animal bones, and landscapes which became her signature images. By the time she graduated from high school, she was determined to make her way as an artist. She received formal art training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and New York’s Art Students League. This is where she learned the techniques of traditional painting and soon her artistic practice changed four years later when she studied the revolutionary ideas of Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow offered an alternative to established ways of thinking about art, so with this, she experimented with abstraction for 2 years while she taught art in West Texas. Through abstract charcoal drawings, she was able to develop a better way to express her feelings and ideas.
Red Hills and Bones
This is the painting I based my final on
This image interested me the most because of how it looks, and I’m interested in bones to be honest. You can also interpret the art as either being sad or quite happy if you really want to think about it. I think of it as a happy thing because of how Georgia O’Keeffe explains the painting. The idea I had for my piece was that it would be like you took the bones straight out of the painting. Although the spine isn’t exactly the same, I wasn’t going to make a full cow spine, just its vertebrae.
I actually really enjoyed the process when I made both of the bones, although what I would do differently with both of them would be to make them a little bigger. The leg itself, I would make it more detailed and actually take my time with the leg. For the vertebrae… I actually like it surprisingly. Maybe I would make it bigger and more accurate with the structure on the mid top. I enjoyed coloring the bones as well. How I even did it was I colored the entire thing white first, and then got straight red and white and mixed those, and then with the light red, dotted it along the bones to where I saw fit. Then what I did was take the red and run it across specifically, making it look like either veins or blood just like the piece. I mean that was the goal.
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