Hey it's Anna :)

So I'm a strong 74% done. I honestly can't explain what happened here, it's probably just my subconscious' fault for realizing this was supposed to be surrealism and just went nuts with everything in and around the box. Ms. Brought suggested I make pennies trickle down from my crayon savings bank and somehow extend my yellow brick road or rainbow river in the background. I'm not entirely sure how I'd do the latter, but if you have suggestions, I'm totally open to them. Originally it was a rainbow road for the shadow of the box but the road kinda was like, "heyyyy include me!" And things happened. There was wood off the banister with ivy wrapped around but now there's something under the stairway. It's too much black in one concentrated area for my tastes and detracts from the space in the box (get it? Space? Outer space? Okay.) so any suggestions would be great too. Thanks guys!

Alexa Buck 5BC Surreal Critique

Please excuse the atrocity that is this photo quality. In real life, the lines are not blurry, the colors make sense, and the faucet is actually visible, I swear. To finish this, I plan on caging in that cow and the wolf down there in the left corner and adding a few collaged people from that 1938 copy of National Geographic in the stomach up top. Please shower me with your advice, particularly in how to paint metal? If any of you know, please tell me.

- Alexa

Madison Deloach Surreal project

So far I have just the desert background type scene, but to make it surreal I plan to have desert foxes and maybe even other animals having a night time party. I'm not really sure where to place them though? Also I'm considering using part collage to make the party clothes or even all the animals, what do you think?
-Madison

JFountain Surrealism

This project was created as I was strongly inspired by the surrealism artist, Max Ernst. In many of his paintings there are mini figures throughout his pieces and also a lot of line usage. I thought I would just add more figures into this project and also finish the white spots of course. If i were to create a more bold outline, would it make sense for the largest most detailed creature to become the focal point? Thoughts? Suggestions?

Joanna Seivard surrealism piece

For my project, I'm going with watercolor and collage media.  My shoebox originally contained the boot, some sunglasses, a New York metrocard, a CD, and a book I have called The Unofficial Guide to New York City.  After drawing my shoebox arrangement, I added some surreal elements to the objects.  It looks a little warped from the water on the paper.  Hopefully I can flatten it out a little bit. I have some collaging already done, and I plan to do more for the background.  That's why I chose watercolor: it gives a smooth look, without texture, so I can balance it with a busier background.  I started to add some of the pieces for the background, but unfortunately ran out of glue :/  Let me know what you think!

Mira's Surrealism Project

Hey guys, here is my project. I found an old advertisement for toasters, and thought it would be funny if arms were coming out of it, instead of toast. I used photoshop to layer arms of various shapes and sizes on the toaster. I also placed a blue filter on the background image. I am kind of stuck though... what should I do next? Maybe I could have the hands holding different objects? Also, I'm not really sure what to do with the right half of the page.. Any suggestions?

GStoute Surrealist Piece

Hey so this piece is supposed to be inspired by Dali. It features a dense forest/jungle environment with a barren wasteland in the background. A few of the main objects have yet to be painted and the trees need to have more details added. Other than that, are there any other suggestions/criticisms?

Asia's Surreal Stuffs

Hey everyone! This is my surrealism project. Sorry if it's hard to see or anything, my phone was spazzing out and it didn't want to take a nice picture. I based my project off of the process of burning CD's (like putting music onto CD's from my music library) but in a literal kind of way. I wanted to know a few things. Does it look a bit too cluttered around the CD, and how can I make my focal point of the CD pop more? Thanks :D

Sienna Surrealism

This is my project (obviously). I chose to collage my background.In the top right corner is this orb thing I put in my shoe box, it's reflective which is why I'm making a mosaic with crushed up pieces of a mirror, that part isn't quite complete yet but I'm going to have several layers of it so it's more 3D. Then I'm going to paint a string onto the "I love NY" keychain.I'm also working on the box in the right corner which is a bit tricky, I think I may change the color of the box so that it pops out more against the background. Do you guys think I should change the color of the box? If I do what color should I make it? Thanks! 

Surreal Project 5BC Sofija Chroneos

I am in the process of  adding more value/depth to the background, and I will be adding one more flower in either the upper right or left corner. I wanted the background to be simplistic, but I'm currently trying to make sure the background and collaged drawings look cohesive while still maintaining that goal. That has been my main struggle with this project, so do you guys have any advice? Thanks! 

Period 5BC Wednesday Critique Info

For the Wednesday critique, students in Period 5BC (or whatever period follows first lunch) should try to upload an image and description (if necessary) of their surrealist piece at 70% completion. I would like for students to try to have their pieces uploaded by 6pm Wednesday evening. After that I would like each student to try to make at least one complement or criticism for everyone in their class. In order to make everyone's posts easier to find, they should be labelled "5BC".

When creating your post, you can add a label here:

To see all posts with this label, after entering "Brought's Blahzog" you need to select the appropriate label here:

Talk to me or Ms. Brought about any complications. 

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