This year has gone by really quickly! My freshman year of college is already under my belt! It's hard to believe how much stuff I've learned this year. I've loved all the classes I have taken this year. Even when I was so frustrated at my last drawing project for Drawing 2.
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| (Cleopatra by Artemisia Gentileschi) |
That project was very interesting. It took a lot of time... and a lot of patience. We were assigned to create and anatomy pop-up book. We had to choose a historical reference (basically just an old, famous, nude painting). I chose to render Cleopatra by Artemisia Gentileschi. After we rendered the flesh of the figure we basically dissected our piece! We had to then render the muscles and bones of our figure. This was tedious. I was not a fan of this part of the project. To make it a pop-up book we need to have paper mechanics to reveal the different parts of the figure. I chose to use a simple multiple-flap system.
For this project we had to make our own covers (complete with ribbons) and fully render every part of our design
We also needed to add a little text blurb about the artist and the subject of the painting. My blurb was this
"Artemisia Gentileschi (July 8, 1593 –
c.1656) was an Italian Baroque painter. In an era when female painters were not
easily accepted by the artistic community or patrons, she was the first female
painter to become a member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.
She painted many works of strong and suffering
women from myth and the Bible – including victims, suicides, and warriors.
Cleopatra (1621-22) pictures the Egyptian queen at the
moment of committing suicide. Cleopatra prefers death by asp bite rather than
public display behind the chariot wheels of Octavius, soon to be Augustus
Caesar, Rome's first emperor. Historians have concluded that the asp could not
have caused a slow and pain-free death, since the asp venom paralyses parts of
the body, starting with the eyes, before causing death. The asp was brought to
Cleopatra concealed in a basket of figs. After eating a few of the figs, she
let the asp take its own fateful bite."
Pictures!
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| (The flesh!) |
(The muscles!)
(The bones!)
(Pop-up snake feature on front cover connecting to Cleopatra's story!)
Thanks so for reading! And listening to all my art babble!
M. Arnett
