CR #6 My original essential question was what stories do the people, plants, and animals of Ditmas Park have to tell? In the end however, it turned into something[…]
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Pandemic Painting and Pondering — Final Painting
For the last two weeks of my project, I decided to forego my paintings of the day and focus my attention on larger paintings. I spent the first of these[…]
CR #5 — Wriley Hodge
The combination of being quarantined and doing an in-depth painting project definitely illuminated a lot about my process. In the past few days, I have been thinking a lot about[…]
Pandemic Painting and Pondering — Somewhere in Another Universe…. (Wriley Hodge)
A majority of my senior project has been painting things around me — namely birds and little landscapes — so for the end of my project, I wanted to step[…]
CR#4 Wriley Hodge
CR # 4 Relating Learning To See by Barry Lopez and Why Look at Animals by John Berger to my Senior Project. One of the first times I feel[…]
Pandemic Painting and Pondering — Bird Paintings (Wriley Hodge)
A large part of my project has been photographing and painting the local birds. Sometimes, as was the case with the wood ducks, I get very acquainted with the subject,[…]
CR#1 Wriley Hodge
This week, a lot of my time was focused on finding, observing, photographing, and painting a couple of wood ducks in prospect park. It started when I got a picture[…]
CR#2 Wriley Hodge
CR #2 Wriley Hodge Today, while sitting on my back porch, I saw something I have never seen before nor expected to see ever. I saw a squirrel running[…]
CR#3 Wriley Hodge
Mimi’s Hummus CR#3 4/28 It has been both sad and inspiring watching the restaurants and stores in my neighborhood adapt to COVID. Many are closed, many seem to be[…]
Pandemic Painting and Pondering: Wood Ducks — Wriley Hodge
One of my favorite birds that I have found and photographed thus far is the wood duck. The males have these green headdresses and red breasts and the females are[…]
Pandemic Painting and Pondering: Larger Painting #1 — Wriley Hodge
Towards the end of week 1, I began thinking about constructing a painting that was different than the open-air painting I had been doing. I was excited by the opportunity[…]
Pandemic Painting and Pondering: Week 1 — Wriley Hodge
This week I really got into the flow of my project. I began going out every day and making a sort of map of where different birds are when. Prospect[…]
Pandemic Painting and Pondering: Paintings From Spring Break — Wriley Hodge
A large part of my project is my daily oil painting. I began doing this before the official beginning of senior project, but they are still a part of my[…]
Pandemic Painting and Pondering: Exploring Ditmas Park Through Ecology and Art — Wriley Hodge
How can I use art to add to scientific observation? How do I show meaning greater than words through sketches and how do I show meaning greater than sketches with[…]