Home Concentration 2

This piece was inspired by the flashback scene in the movie where Grinch is ridiculed by his class as all of his classmates stand around and laugh at him, except for Martha. I chose to make this distinction by painting Martha in a brighter blue and adding a hint of green to her right side to show that she sympathizes with Grinch and doesn't follow the actions of her peers. 

From what I could gather, the quote I used was from Kurt Cobain. I chose to tie in the second line of the quote with the dripping coming off of the classmates to show that they all will drip into the same puddle. At that point, there's no way to differentiate one from the other. My message for this piece is that it's much better to be different instead of being the same as everyone else. 

Class Concentration 2

Grinch and Martha have hardly any interaction in the movie, so I wanted to change that with my own vision. I was greatly inspired by the ballroom scene in Beauty and the Beast for this piece. I also wanted to focus on movement and let the details drive the piece and create interest. The dress Martha wears in this piece is actually my favorite costume from any movie, so I took a great deal of time to add as many details as I could. I also played with layering different mediums within those details to get the look that I wanted. 

Home Concentration 1

This piece was created using the technique I researched, using a sponge to create texture. I'm incredibly fascinated with the interior set of Grinch's cave in the movie, which was inspired by the Guggenheim Museum, so I wanted to use the sponge to create the rocky texture of the cave walls. 

This piece was a redesign of my favorite piece from my summer concentration:

I really wanted to approach it in a different way by using a different medium and trying to give Martha a more realistic look. 

With my concentration, I really want to explore scenarios that deviate from the canon plot of the movie and put my ideas of 'what if' into my pieces. In the movie, this dress has less than a minute on screen, which I think is a shame. Because Martha wears this dress only a short time after she professes her love for Grinch and it's white, I think it is a visual representation of the purity she feels within herself and shows that she is ready to start her new life. She also wears this dress during her first visit to the cave, so I wanted to depict how I think she'd react to it, with awe. 

Class Concentration 1

For my first concentration, I really wanted to push myself and give perspective drawing another go. This piece was also challenging for me because my reference pictures were in one-point perspective and I had to mentally think about it in two-point perspective so I could think about how to draw it that way. I also had to take some creative liberties because I could not see what was supposed to be on the left side of the room, so I chose to add a hallway because I liked the look of it. 

I really wanted to convey emotion with this piece. Choosing to make the piece so small was deliberate because I wanted to create a sort of claustrophobic atmosphere because Martha feels trapped in her situation because she longs to be with Grinch, but Augustus is after her heart as well. She also feels socially pressured to be with Augustus because he is the mayor of Whoville and has basically brainwashed the Whos into thinking that Grinch is a menace to society. She feels very small and feels that she won't ever get the life she desires. 

The blue color scheme was not my choice, it's the color scheme of the actual set. I found it was an interesting choice of color because not only is blue a color that evokes sadness, this particular shade of blue comes off as very cold. I was also very inspired by what the set designer on the movie, Meridith Boswell, had to say about the set, "Martha's set deviated from most of the rules we had established in that it was more cluttered, which gave it narrative to help explain her character." The cluttered aspect also added to the claustrophobic atmosphere that I was thinking about when creating the piece.