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Midterm Critique
This semester, I decided to continue working with the concept of angst, however, rather than create artwork depicting traits associated...
Courtney San Juan
Mar 18, 20211 min read
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Potential Ideas for Painting#5
Here are some potential ideas for a fifth "dreamscape" painting. Continuing with the landscape concept, the last two sketches contains a...
Courtney San Juan
Mar 9, 20211 min read
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More Paintings
These are too completed paintings for my dreamscape series. The first piece depicts a more interactive toyland, based on my love for...
Courtney San Juan
Mar 5, 20211 min read
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In progress
Over last week, I have completed the Forest piece and have outlined the rest of the dream-like, landscape pieces. Of the other four...
Courtney San Juan
Feb 23, 20211 min read
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Forest
19x24, made with acrylic paint. Still in progress
Courtney San Juan
Feb 18, 20211 min read
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Week 3
I took the time to redraw the dream-like landscapes with some minor adjustments before coloring them with acrylic paints. The landscapes...
Courtney San Juan
Feb 16, 20211 min read
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Week 2
This week, I did a little more research on surrealism and the artists associated. Among the many surreal artists, the ones that stood out...
Courtney San Juan
Feb 9, 20211 min read
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Tutorials III-Rough Sketches
Here are some rough sketches of different sceneries for a potential piece in tutorials 3. These sketches include examples of escapism,...
Courtney San Juan
Feb 2, 20211 min read
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Final Critique
My artwork focuses on angst, especially teenage angst. Most of the figures depicted in my work shows a young woman with long black hair...
Courtney San Juan
Dec 16, 20201 min read
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Additional Pieces-Part 2
These are the last few drawings that I made before finals. The last piece that I made in particular is titled "Cry-baby", where the woman...
Courtney San Juan
Dec 7, 20201 min read
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Additional Pieces
These are some additional pieces to go for my next project. For the first piece, I might leave the piece in black in white as the main...
Courtney San Juan
Nov 30, 20201 min read
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Feeling Blue
The piece is titled "Feeling Blue" and it depicts the same woman wearing various shades of blue and expressing two different emotions....
Courtney San Juan
Nov 30, 20201 min read
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Time and Overworking One's Self
These are two additional pieces depicting angst. The first sketch revolves around time, hence the presences of clocks on the floor. The...
Courtney San Juan
Nov 18, 20201 min read
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Potential Project
The piece being shown is another potential project, which depicts angst, along with the concept of finances. The girl being depicted is...
Courtney San Juan
Nov 9, 20201 min read
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Isolated figure-Now in color
I colored my isolated figure using photoshop, which seemed like a last minute decision and contradicts the medium that I usually use in...
Courtney San Juan
Nov 9, 20201 min read
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Post-Midterm Art
I decided to focus on more smaller scale pieces as opposed to bigger pieces like The Loneliest Friend. I did a lot of sketches of figures...
Courtney San Juan
Nov 2, 20201 min read
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Post-Midterm Critiques
During midterm presentations, I thought I did alright, hopefully. I did what I could to improve and do better for Art Tutorials II,...
Courtney San Juan
Oct 26, 20201 min read
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Midterm-Part 1
I decided to do drawings involving youth and angst, mainly cause angst is something I have experienced since I was young and art is...
Courtney San Juan
Oct 20, 20201 min read
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Midterm Part 2-Uncanny Valley
Unlike the previous 2 works, this piece depicts a group of girls smiling, yet something is a bit "off" with them, as each girl feels...
Courtney San Juan
Oct 20, 20201 min read
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Additional Drawings
These are some additional drawings associated with angst. Some of them were made for the sake of being productive whenever I'm stuck...
Courtney San Juan
Oct 20, 20201 min read
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