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Materials:
Acrylic paint to practice painting a figure out of bees for a selected work and to add highlights to make the beehive look like it is glowing.
Canvas
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Processes: Practice creating a person/figure made out of bees and painting bees. I also was inspired by the way Vladamir Kush uses compositions and surrealism.
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Citations:
Vladamir Kush "Sunrise" and "Diary of Discoveries" for composition inspiration and surrealism.
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Materials:
Graphite Pencils to show shading and value
White multimedia paper
White gel pens to add highlights and individual hairs on the bee
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Processes: Create a diagram of a honeybee to practice drawing them and understand how they work better.
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Citations: Francesco Stelluti for scientific illustration inspiration, Kelly Standford for her bee and insect artwork
Materials:
Graphite pencils
White multimedia paper
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Processes: I wanted to show what it looks like to hand pollinate a flower when there are no pollinators to do it.
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Citations:
Michelangelo "The Creation of Adam" and Cath Riley for her hand drawings in pencil
Materials:
Colored Pencils to show the color of a UV perspective
White multimedia paper
White gel pens to add highlights and make the pollen look like it is glowing
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Processes: I wanted to practice showing what bees see though their eyes by depicting flowers in UV lighting
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Citations:
Craig Burrows UV photography, Wayne Thiebaud for interesting colors
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Materials:
Colored pencils
Graphite pencils
White multimedia paper
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Processes: Colorful style and drawing of the Earth to show the different reality and perspective bees have from us.
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Citations:
Craig Burrows UV photography, Wayne Thiebaud for interesting colors ​
Materials:
Watercolor for the main figures of the thistles, bees, and sky
Watercolor paper
Paint pens to add highlights and finer details​
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Processes: For a selected work, I want to do a watercolor of what happens when pesticides are sprayed on bees.. So, for my sustained investigation, I decided to practice the kind of scene I want to do without the pesticides. I also know how much bees like thistles, so I thought they would be a perfect flower to include.
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Citations:
Jan Van Kessel "Insects with Creeping Thistle and Borage" , Doreen Ingebridgesten "Standing Guard" and other thistle paintings
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Materials:
Watercolor to practice painting insect wings and the "fur" or "hair" on bees
Watercolor paper
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Processes: I wanted to practice water coloring bees and other pollinators in order to try out a different technique and
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Citations:
Albrecht Dürer "Stag Beetle" and watercolor ideas, Lucy Arnold "Amazon Insects"
1/2 sustained investigation:
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Materials:
Graphite
Colored pencil
white multimedia paper
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Processes:
Use graphite and colored pencil to represent how bees are becoming an endangered species and show them fading away.
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Citations:
Francesco Stelluti for scientific illustration inspiration, Kelly Standford for her bee and insect artwork
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1/2 sustained investigation
Materials:
Canvas
Oil paint
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Processes:
Create a serene and ideal environment that would be greatly influenced by pollinators
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Citations:
Grant Pecoff doe his ocean and tropical paintings, Georgia O'keefe "Lake George"