Modern Art History

I LOVED this class. One of the best art classes I have taken. For our final project we were able to write a paper on an artist and then do an art piece based on their work. I chose Georgia O'Keeffe as my artist. For my final art work I did a multimedia, with a combination of acrylic paint and printed images. The two under flowers are based on two of O'Keeffe's paints, I then added some of my own artist ideas.

When You Wish Upon A Penny

I did this for my painting class, it was our final assignment and we were able to paint anything we wanted. I chose a few images, starting with my friend and I throwing wishing pennies in the bottom right hand corner. From there it turns into everything I could have ever wished for at that moment and that it has come true. I have an image of my boyfriend, Micky, and I. A whale because they are special to us, and the beach because we have had a lot of great memories there, with many more to come.

When You Wish Upon A Penny
Acrylic. October 2012

Doodling @ The Carwash :D

My boyfriend, Micky, works at the London Road Car Wash. Most days I get to go down and sit with him while he works, and almost everyday I decide to do a doodle on the notepad that is near my stool. I decided I would start taking pictures of them and posting pictures of them. I don't really think much of them, but I found out Micky has been saving them, which makes me happy (: .

Pen doodle. Images of: a pine tree, tree with no
leaves, the moon, star, stars live Van Gogh, rocks,fire,
dancing people, music, wind....

Images of: Octopus, Flamingo with and Oxygen mask, Palm Tree
Sailboat, Island, Stars, Rocks, eyes, sea weed & flowers, sun
 





Circus :D Images of: Elephant, balloons, spot light, moon,
stars, tent.

Art Major. Painting 1.

As part of my Art Major I am able to take 6 different painting classes. These are my favorite classes in my major and I am very much looking forward to doing all of them.

We started the class off with a colored pencil
drawing of a leaf.

 

Still Life painting with Vase of flowers, and
bowl of fruit.

Drawing 1. Art Major Requirement

As a sophomore at the College of St. Scholastica, I am given the opportunity to take a drawing class to for the foundation for my major in art. I will be posting the different drawings we do through the course of the semester.

Fruits and Vegetables Still Life

 

First attempt at a self portrait....

 

Vase of Flowers

Paper Bag still Life

 

Paper Bags

Vases

Box. Working on Depth Perception

Light, Medium, Dark Still Life. Shading exercise

 

Rose {Titanic} shading Exercise
 



Bust Front Profile

Still Life of someone at my school



Plaster Bust, Side Profile

Bust, 3/4 Profile

 

Still Life with one of my classmates



Drawing of a screen, Old Indian Woman



 



Doodling (:

Just been working on some pencil sketches for fun, trying to cover one of the walls in my new room.

Peacock

Untitled....

I wanted to re post the images of my three part collection that I made right after high school graduation... to read more about these multi-mediums please check out my other blog: myart03.blogspot.com  Thanks!!!

 

Acrylic Paint, Peacock feather, spray paint, & mirror

Acrylic paint, Glitter, & plastic Beads

Acrylic paint, colored paper, colored pencil, charcoal, glitter, & sequence

The Beauty of Insomnia

The Beauty of Insomnia
June 2012
Acrylic Paint, and Oil pastel

Insomnia    {in-som-nee-uh} :
The inability to obtain sufficient sleep; difficulty in falling or staying asleep; sleeplessness.


For some reason over the course of the past weeks I have not had my regular sleeping pattern... I love my sleep, however I find myself unable to fall asleep, or stay asleep, and am up until the wee hours of the morning sketching, painting, watching movies, or checking my Facebook...
The Beauty of Insomnia was first started with the image of the lunar moth, last weekend when I got to my cabin this beautiful moth was on the sidewalk. As I started to move around the canvas I wanted to create a feeling of beauty with the flowers, stars, and planets. Since, right now being able to fall asleep would be beautiful...

Dreamer Series

Bigger Dreams
By Victoria Johnson. April 2012
Acrylic Paint and transfer, Colored Pencil, & Glitter

This is a two part series. I created, "Bigger Dreams," as part of my Intro Art class at school. This project was to work on multi-media skills and learn how to do acrylic transfers. This piece was inspired by my previous painting (Starry Night). I wanted to create a dream like quality representing where I am at in my journey of life. In this painting there is a dream catcher- representing that I have dreams and goals. A Peacock feather to represent royalty and good luck- I am named after Queen Victoria. My face/the moon, I am the focus of my dreams, and there are pieces torn out to look like craters but also to show that I am missing pieces, and there is the quote which is something I say to my friends and family. 

 

 

"Dreams of a Child"
By Victoria Johnson. April/May 2012
Acrylic Paint and Transfer

After creating, Bigger Dreams, I wanted to keep painting with the same theme, so I created "Dreams of a Child." Which I wanted to be very full and busy like the mind and dreams of children. I also put a tree on top of the images to represent life and growing up. The acrylic transfer I decided to do on this multi media is an image of myself when I was about 6 years old.

 

*close up image on the acrylic transfer*

 

 







Starry Night



Starry Night replicated by Victoria Johnson.
April 2012. Acrylic Paint.



For my intro to art class we were given the opportunity to pick a painting done by a famous artist and try and replicate it to the best of our abilities. I picked Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh. This is one of my favorite paintings, and I had a lot of fun working on it. It took me about 8 hours to complete. I love all of the different colors that Van Gogh used and all of the symbolism he had put into this painting. The main message to take away from his painting is, we will only be happy in our dreams... or when we die. {Starry Night was completed shortly before his suicide...}

Please take the time to check out my other art blog with some of my older work from when I was in High School:

myart03.blogspot.com

Thank you very much!!!

ME

Hi, my name is Victoria Anne Johnson, I graduated from Hermantown High School class of 2011 {yippee!} and I am going to college to major in Art. Over the course of my first year at the College of St. Scholastica I learned about the importance of media and the Internet. So, I am creating a blog to help make my art portfolio come to life. I have another blog that I have put some of my previous works from high school on. I would like to use this blog to show the next phase of my life and figuring out who I want to be as an artist.


Peace&Love
Victoria