Liberty Leading the People

I'm on a mission to start photographing my work that I have done since I started college. I only have low-res cell phone photos or blurry attempts of photographing things in my dorm room. So, I borrowed my father's tripod and set out to get good documentation of my work. This will allow me to submit to calls for work and, of course, post images here on my blog.

I found a great place to photograph in the outside stairwell of my dorm. I emptied a little, metal rolling bookshelf that I have in my room, took it up the stairs, and used as a stand for the pieces I photographed. Near dusk, the lighting was great, and I think I was able to get some really good images with the help of the tripod. However, because it was nearing sunset, I was only able to photograph 2 of my pieces.

Here is one of them, Liberty Leading the People (After Delacroix)

I created this piece last semester in my Drawing II class, right around the time that the Egyptian protests were occurring. Our project was to use appropriation to create a piece of our own art. I was inspired by the piece Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix, and I thought that it related well to the current events.

Above is the original by Delacroix, which was created after the French Revolution of 1830. Delacroix used oil on canvas, but I chose colored pencil, watercolor, and acrylic ink for my version. I really love how this piece turned out, and I hope to find an outlet to display it before all of the salience is gone.