This is my first year in the Advanced art class (which is VERY exciting) and within my first and last year of GT I plan to branch out and experiment with new media, techniques, and other things of that nature... This is all in hopes that I will find my own personal style. I want my art to have a signature... other than my name at the bottom of the page.Our first assignment- My inspiration was the word "feather" I loved ALL of the ideas that popped in my head! More of my projects later on will probably be inspired from feathers as well.
This one is Hail to the War God. It is an indian "war pony" when the Native Americans prepared for battle they dressed their horses in bright paints, with different symbols meaning different things. Feathers (and medicine bags) tied in the locks of the maine were seen as good luck. A Paint horse in general was preferred by the Natives. I wanted to show beauty within the horse rather than evil spite (a warrior) to show that these horses were sacrificed much of the time in battle. I wanted to represent the forced effort put forth by the horses of the Indians.
MUCH LOVE.
Gretta
4 comments:
Gretta,
I love your piece! It has such texture; you are a talented artist. I like the way you thought through the meaning behind your image. Thanks for sharing!
Mrs. Llibre
The blending of the brown is perfection and wonderful color combination in background. I love every aspect of this piece. The thought and intensity you put into this piece makes me feel something when I look at it. (if that makes sense to you)
Rachael
Such a great job on the feather. You already know how I feel about the divine horse, but you really managed to capture a hard-to-create item in our everyday life; the elusive feather.
Fantastic job. :)
crazy cool!
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