J-Term Description

For the J-Term Core Project at the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics in Vancouver, Washington, USA, we had to take a previous piece of art work, expand upon it and then share it through a form of technology (YouTube, a blog, etc.) with a potential for collaboration.  I chose to expand upon a series of paintings I did with a partner of Thomas Young and Herman von Helmholtz's Trichromatic Theory.  This theory is about the receptor (rods and cones) in the human eye that capture light.  The receptors pick up red, blue and green light therefore we did three paintings one in red, one in blue, and one in green.  We painted dancers because we had originally wanted to study how the eye captured movement but we were unsuccessful in finding research.  For this J-Term, I decided to select three new dance images and paint them in the same style.  I used black, grays, and white because these were the paints that were available to me at my house.  I had to do a lot of work out side of school because we had three weeks to complete this project and our Core class only meets three days a week for 45 minutes each day.  In this blog, my goal is to show the process that I took to complete these three paintings so that if anyone is interested in creating painting like this on their own they will know how.  I would also like constructive feedback on what people think of the idea, process and final product.

-Steven