Friday, July 31, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
dissecting the creative process: Chocolate's visa
How I do a painting?
I will show you the process, step by step.
Usually I work with live models or I gain the confidence of a interesting people (with food or alcohol or good conversation) and then I do a portrait.
But this painting was created as a product of meditative process that took several weeks.
It is why I will use this painting as example.
"Visa con chocolate"
By Ytaelena López
Mixed media in Fabriano paper
2009
I STEP
do a simple draw with pencil in Fabriano paper.
I set the color and technique that I will use for the skin: blue and pink watercolor. This is as a reference, only.
Then, I work in the visual focus of the painting: the eyes. I work with watercolor Ink and I use a masque for protect the white parts.
II STEP
Then I worked with the watercolor:
I did the loose lines in blue, then pink.
The lines follow the patch of the muscle... well maybe no. Maybe I did because I fell in that way, jejeje.
The same with water... I paint mostly with water.
Then the tenths with ink and then the lips with red pen ink. Before applied red I used a acrylic transparent glossy mask. ;)
And the eye again! Acrylic brown (? I don't remember the mix) is perfect for Dans eyes.
STEP III
Now it is the turn to play with blue, sorry, shadows.
Up do down: the watercolor dripped for the forehead to the down, in the shirt.
The blue color is color river that expanded and mixed, though the water's magic.
Then, the hair... an expresso coffe is mixed with sepia, then brushed, and then... mmm!
I like it!
But It's not ready yet
FINAL STEP (I jump some :S)
At least! the final version of "Visa with chocolate"
After correct the "Marilyn Monroe"'s dyed that I did in the hair with Prussian washes and finish the arm with the same technique that I used in the face, there is a lot of work remain.
1- The background:
If we are portraying a baker, the background should be a kitchen. I do the sketch of the kitchen in hard pencil.
But I don't want to steal attention to the main figure. I do the shadow with washes, using coffee infusion and the dirty water that I used for clean the brushes.
Then, when the paper is dried, I do all the background with lines, using fluorescent metallic and sparking Sakura ink gel pens.
2- The focal point: the cake (+the knife)
I always keep the space for the knife clean since the beginning, using masque liquid. Now I retired the masque and I do the lines with black ink.
The cake was already settle, too. I put a copy of a H1B Visa (American work permit for non immigrants aliens) in the cake, using medium acrylic gel. Then I cover with modeling paste (already tinted with brown acrylic), that looks like chocolate glazed. I put that "chocolate" in the knife, too. Then, some black and golden ink washes in the cake and... VOILA!
The chocolate visa's cake is ready to eat!
I will show you the process, step by step.
Usually I work with live models or I gain the confidence of a interesting people (with food or alcohol or good conversation) and then I do a portrait.
But this painting was created as a product of meditative process that took several weeks.
It is why I will use this painting as example.
"Visa con chocolate"
By Ytaelena López
Mixed media in Fabriano paper
2009
I STEP
do a simple draw with pencil in Fabriano paper.
I set the color and technique that I will use for the skin: blue and pink watercolor. This is as a reference, only.
Then, I work in the visual focus of the painting: the eyes. I work with watercolor Ink and I use a masque for protect the white parts.
II STEP
Then I worked with the watercolor:
I did the loose lines in blue, then pink.
The lines follow the patch of the muscle... well maybe no. Maybe I did because I fell in that way, jejeje.
The same with water... I paint mostly with water.
Then the tenths with ink and then the lips with red pen ink. Before applied red I used a acrylic transparent glossy mask. ;)
And the eye again! Acrylic brown (? I don't remember the mix) is perfect for Dans eyes.
STEP III
Now it is the turn to play with blue, sorry, shadows.
Up do down: the watercolor dripped for the forehead to the down, in the shirt.
The blue color is color river that expanded and mixed, though the water's magic.
Then, the hair... an expresso coffe is mixed with sepia, then brushed, and then... mmm!
I like it!
But It's not ready yet
FINAL STEP (I jump some :S)
At least! the final version of "Visa with chocolate"
After correct the "Marilyn Monroe"'s dyed that I did in the hair with Prussian washes and finish the arm with the same technique that I used in the face, there is a lot of work remain.
1- The background:
If we are portraying a baker, the background should be a kitchen. I do the sketch of the kitchen in hard pencil.
But I don't want to steal attention to the main figure. I do the shadow with washes, using coffee infusion and the dirty water that I used for clean the brushes.
Then, when the paper is dried, I do all the background with lines, using fluorescent metallic and sparking Sakura ink gel pens.
2- The focal point: the cake (+the knife)
I always keep the space for the knife clean since the beginning, using masque liquid. Now I retired the masque and I do the lines with black ink.
The cake was already settle, too. I put a copy of a H1B Visa (American work permit for non immigrants aliens) in the cake, using medium acrylic gel. Then I cover with modeling paste (already tinted with brown acrylic), that looks like chocolate glazed. I put that "chocolate" in the knife, too. Then, some black and golden ink washes in the cake and... VOILA!
The chocolate visa's cake is ready to eat!
La chica de los rizos anónimos
La chica de los rizos anónimos
Originally uploaded by alrevez
Ytaelena Lopez
2009
Acrylic on paper
By Ytaelena López
Retrato realizado en menos de 1 hora,
con la modelos posando frente a mí,
luego de un par de cervezas
bajo una luz pobre
en el block de acuarela que uso para bosquejos.
No voy a decir que es mi mejore retrato, pero es bastante bueno, tomando en cuenta las circunstancias. Me gusta.
De paso, los colores me recuerdan a mi infancia en los ochenta.
¡Espero que lo disfruten!
Monday, July 06, 2009
INDIGESTO
No confunde el hambre con las balas
No sale a marchar por el pan
No deja de llorar al recuerdo del calor.
La verdad,
Le hacía más feliz la mesa bien servida porque no es agradable sentir el humo del estómago achicharrándose con el ácido del plomo recién digerido.
La verdad,
Le gusta escuchar la radio para no oír la sirena persiguiendo a los herederos de la miseria que corren por las calles de cartón mientras gritan por su vida drogados de odio.
¿De quiénes son los alaridos?
Luces rojas brillan desde la montaña cañón mientras hago papel maché con los restos de mi esperanza. ¿Quién la necesita cuando el ácido del hambre no te deja digerir tu último trozo de dignidad?
No le interesa
Si pudiese vivir encerrado en la vistosidad del araguaney ya se hubiese cortado como un gesto de patriotismo.
(Poema y dibujo de ytaelena lópez)
Thursday, April 23, 2009
YTAELENA LOPEZ: My resume, as an artist
Education
2007 - Present Figure Drawing - Michael Markowitz Study.
San Francisco (CA)
2006 M. S. in Mass Communication - Spanish Language Journalism
Florida International University, Miami, FL
2006 Graduate Certificate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACC)
Florida International University, Miami, FL
(2004 Bachelor in Arts - School of Literature [completed coursework]
Universidad Central de Venezuela/ Universidad Católica Andrés Bello)
2003 Bachelor in Mass Communications – School of Journalism
Universidad Central de Venezuela
1997 - 1998 Narrative Workshop - National annual contest - Caracas -
LATINOAMERICAN STUDIES CENTER “ROMULO GALLEGOS” (CELARG).
1995 - 1996 Comics Drawing course - School of comics Lopez and Acosta
1995 - 1996 Painting and sculpture - Cristobal Rojas Art School
Caracas, Venezuela
Honors and Awards/Grants
"Best Contemporary Installation" Award during the Dia de Muertos 2008 at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2008, San Francisco (CA)
CELARG Annual Fellowship for study literature with a prestigious Venezuelan writer, 1997 - 1998, Caracas
Monte Avila Editores. Book: “Voces Nuevas”, 1997 – 1998, CELARG
Bibliography
KPFA Radio San Francisco - The host Darren D' Leon interviewed Ytaelena Lopez (artist), Río Yanez (curator) and Candi Farlice (artist). (Radio 2050) Saturday, October 4th, 2008.
Crosscurrents (KALW) Radio, 10/27/2008, broadcasted also in KPFA Radio San Francisco at 6:30 pm.
El Tecolote - "Día de los Muertos en tiempos de cambio" Sally Douglas Arce, SomArt, Oct 02, 2008.
El Reportero (Local newspaper of San Francisco) - "Bitch, Welcome to America" Edition #46, January 11, 2008
SFWeekly.com - "How To Keep Your Bitch Down" — A New Mission Play Dec. 14, 2008
Professional Affiliations
Volunteer, Artists Television Access
Volunteer coordinator, Mission Arts & Performing Project
Member, National Association of Hispanic Journalists
Exhibitions
- Miscelaneous Flesh (paintings), City Art Gallery, San Francisco April 2009
- The Living Map (Interactive installation with photography of Valentina Vitols), Maison Bleu during the MAPP (Mission Art Performance Project). February 7, 2009
- HOT! HOT!! HOT!!!, Erotic Art. City Art Gallery, San Francisco (CA) February 2009. (Collective)
- Mujeres (Action painting and art work) Maison Bleu during the MAPP (Mission Art Performance Project). December 6, 2008
- 85@85, 3rd annual International Juried exhibition. MiArte Gallery, Coral Gables (FL) December 2008 - February 2009. (Collective)
-Muerte sin fronteras, Dia de muertos exhibiton, MCCLA (Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts). November 2008. (Collective), San Francisco (CA). Her installation "Virgen de la Diversidad" was awarded as a "Best Contemporanean Art Installation".
- Day of the Dead in a Time of Change (Collective), SOMARTS Cultural Center, October - November 2008, San Francisco (CA).
- FEMINAS (first international breast cancer exhibition), Galería Locarno, Talca, Chile October 2008.
- Illussion 7 Dreams/ Sueños (Collective), MCCLA (Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts). September 2008, San Francisco (CA)
- Bitch, welcome to America (window installation), Artist Television Access, January 6 -31, 2008, San Francisco (CA)
- BITCH: pavlovian solutions for the modern home, (video performance), Artists’ Television Access, December 2007
- 2008 ATA (Artists' Television Access) Silent Art Auction (Collective), Receiver Gallery, January 26, 2008
- Actos Criminales (Collective poetry performance with Poetas en Tránsito) - Biblioteca Nacional, Caracas, September 27, 2003
- ANI-MALES (Multimedia installation / Performance), Salon de Jóvenes Artistas, Galería Universitaria, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas July 4 and 8, 2002
Related experience
I am journalist and writer at the same time. I have a poetry book published and I live to incorporate poems in my work. My experience as a online journalist is reflected in the extensive investigation that I use to do as a preparation for some installations, as you can see in the online multimedia map of "Mission, the virtual afterlife" in SomArts.
My concerns about immigration and minorities comes when I moved to Miami, where I studied Journalism Research specializing in Latino minorities. It was there when when I was touched in very intimate way by the drama of immigrants. The sensation of No-Place and their agony under the Ulysses syndrome, besides the poverty, it is a constant in my work.
Webpages:
http://ytaelena.com
http://arteyta.wordpress.com/
(Picture of Adrian Arias during ILUSSION SHOW VII)
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
THE TIED POEM (Ytaelena's Installation) @MAPP December 2008
TIDES
And I looked me
in the mirror,
and the sea
came out
of my eyes
(Yta's poem)
"The tied poem", by Ytaelena López
Mixed media
2008
This installation is made as a reflexion about the gender violence. The voice of the woman (represent in the poems) is tied with robes to a physical condition (the tree). Though this way, the woman is exposed to the humillation to made public her intimacies (represent in the underwear), unable to do nothing.
The result? the gradual physical and emotional disintegration, the annihilation of her femininity.
And I looked me
in the mirror,
and the sea
came out
of my eyes
(Yta's poem)
"The tied poem", by Ytaelena López
Mixed media
2008
This installation is made as a reflexion about the gender violence. The voice of the woman (represent in the poems) is tied with robes to a physical condition (the tree). Though this way, the woman is exposed to the humillation to made public her intimacies (represent in the underwear), unable to do nothing.
The result? the gradual physical and emotional disintegration, the annihilation of her femininity.
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