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Life and reality, hybrid art portfolio started on paper, finished in computer as COVID hit

2020 · AP ART DEMO

Art Portfolio

Paintings and digital art

An AP Art portfolio themed after life and reality.

LOG · WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT DOES

An AP Art portfolio of paintings, drawings and digital art around one theme: life and reality. A wider collection of art from 2017 to 2020 sits on its own page.

WHY

The main pieces, aside from the general portfolio, were made for my AP Art class.

WHAT I WORKED ON

I themed my portfolio after life and reality. COVID hit halfway through the year, and I didn't have enough time to finish some pieces in the workshop, so they became hybrids: drawn by hand, finished digitally.

OBJECT: M7
YEAR: 2020
CONTEXT: AP Art demo
CATEGORY: academic
TYPE: art & lit
STATE: working
TOPICS

PLATES · 8

PLATE IEmpty Land of Mind
One of those hybrid examples. The background was painted, inspired by the limbo from the movie Inception, then items were placed into the scene using Photoshop to show the things on my mind during 2019–2020.
PLATE IIFar From a Dream
Inspired by my story "Far from a dream" (in Trick Mirror), again digitally created from a hand-drawn sketch. It shows the Nikola Ring from the story, the place where humanity now lives in the story's timeline.
PLATE IIILife & Life
A canvas sketch that was supposed to be painted right before COVID hit, so it was traced and painted in Photoshop, again. It's meant to show life and death, as from death grows life, and all life faces death.
PLATE IVSmile
Again drawing on the theme of life and reality, we have a tearing eye, yet the piece is titled "Smile". It's inspired by Seneca: we suffer in mind more than in reality. Is that a tear of joy and laughter, and are we only imagining the sadness? Or is it a tear of sadness, formed in the mind and held back, as reality is far less grim than the eyes reflect?
PLATE VWe Are All Fooled
More about reality, deception, and the dualities of life: how what we perceive is sometimes the opposite of reality.
PLATE VIPhenotype
A colorful digital illustration of a DNA strand, to signify the colorful traits it brings to life.
PLATE VIIDepth
An early work in which I wanted to try a different medium of work. It's beautiful nature scenery, meant to show the depth of life.
PLATE VIIIDepth: the carved stencil