Abstract Practice

"Sometimes you need a little rain"

Originally, the painting was suppose to be this way- horizontal. That way the orange represents rain, across the contrasting blue. I wanted to make it represent a falling, but a balanced and controlled falling. It reminded me of rain, and sort of that yin and yang theory of one not being able to exsist without the other...

However, my family liked it this way- so i thought I'd show it vertical as well.

I wish it wasn't so controlled...i would like it a little freer- but I didn't know if there was anything else i could do to it...maybe ill go back to it in awhile..

Art Therapy

A little painting for feeling...

I did this when i was in the zone..all my emotions were raging and I was pretty pissed off.

I have been trying to loosen up and just let me work with the paints by feeling- and

this happened!

"Set Fire to the Forest"

I originally was going to make it a forest scene- realistic. Then i just kept going with the energy and my mood and it became this.

I still think it looks like an abstract forest. But more passionate, and burning...

It looks great hanging up on my yellow bedroom walls!

Wind Blown Dress Sketch

So i stumbled upon this website that people post "looks" on and then they get 'hot' and you can rate them and etc. And since I am obsessed with the human figure- and like photography and fashion is intriguing me...this site called 'lookbooknu' is where I found this picture posted and decided to sketch it for fun.

The paper is originally this color, (as seen above) and I couldn't photograph the details that well...

but yeah. So the dress is gorgeous in the picture! I wanted to capture the flowyness of the entire scene...

sketch practice!

I'm thinking about doing a series on these? Maybe in watercolor? Just play a little bit.

I love it when people say...

"I don't get it...anyone could do that."

I love it when i hear people say this. I seriously just chuckle to myself. People are telling each other all the time, "I could've painted that!" or  "how is that art? That looks easy"
 Well guess what. You didn't do it yourself. And it is art.

i do understand where people are coming from...some paintings look like a second grader could have made them, and others are just lines..etc etc. But the simple fact is- is if the artist intended it to be art...and created it- and it has meaning to them? It is art. And someone else, could not do it. They could not do it because they could not experience the EXACT same feeling or drive that compelled them to produce a piece of art...

There is a beauty and a grace, i think, that lies within the idea of art itself. it is almost like meditating. I am unsure if any artist honestly thinks- im going to create the best painting in the universe- or sculpt the most awesome sculpture ever... and im sure some do- but i think the desire to create is just a natural one, and by fullfilling that desire- comes works of art.
Some people throw paint at a canvas, and yeah you could do it too. But the reason the artist did it- is probably not the reason someone else did it..

And in a sense everyone is an artist. Anyone can create. Everyone feels. It's just the idea of tuning into your creativity, and emotions and experiecing art that defines what artists do...

Understanding this universal communication, through expression and emotion- it's not something everyone is going to understand...so go ahead, and claim it's not art. But you just don't like what you don't know:)

Design Cover FINAL Proj

So this is suppose to be our final Design Cover for my Design II class...

The sketches and the process is shown below. It is suppose to reflect and represent us and be in a triadic color scheme. I chose to paint mine because painting is what I do- and I am computer challenged when it comes to illustrator. I wanted to do something that is my style of painting and at the same time incorporate elements of design into the cover. This last phot is suppose to be the final- with the words "Design II by Corbie Leiker" however I did not have access to transfer the words at this moment- so I will upload them later...and I'm still deciding if I want to add the bricks...

Colorado Cabin for design

Our assignment in design class was to create a space- that was eco friendly, in the dimensions of being 20" x 40" and was functional. We were encouraged to design a home, however we could design whatever we chose- as long as we focused on eco friendly building as well as economically friendly features about the house as well. I knew that I wanted to design a residential home, I ended up extending the 20" x 40" dimensions, but Sarah said it was okay- and here is the process of designing my home!

I had trouble on figuring out where to start when designing a home. This way of thinking was something that was totally foreign to me, and I spent a lot of time just struggling to come up with layouts of floor plans. The first image is my first attempts to get the rhythm of floor plans down. I could not visualize how I wanted a 'dream house' or any house i wanted to look like since I usually draw from photographs or real life imagery, so I continued to work with the basis of floorplans in order to visualize my home as a whole.

I wanted to make my home a cabin feel, homey style house that you would find in Colorado. I really wanted the wrap around porch..family feel. I was torn between a country home, a mountain home and the modern feel.

I chose Colorado because I have such a strong connection with the state. My family and I have been takig ski trips and vacations since I was in the second grade and I love Colorado as if it was my hometown! So hence why I have chosen to design a home for Colorado...

Finally, I got somewhere with the floorplans. Kept drawing random things, and tried to get the shape of the home to start with. I finally decided on an odd shape in order to make it seem more modern, and thus extended walls upward so the house began taking shape!

After we had a group critique and I expressed my distressed feelings of confusion on how to design a home...I came up with simpler sketches. I dropped any attatchments I had to designing a home for "me" and I stopped thinking too complexly, and I just drew what I would think of a cabin home in Colorado to appear like... All of the advice from my fellow classmates!

I moved away from the extremely traditional look and found myself focused on the cabin feel with a touch of moderism.

first and second floor blueprint sketches!

Spec Sheet.

Residential Home by Corbie Leiker. Located in Colorado.

Materials: Rammed Earth Insulation, Recylced Wood for internal structure of the home, Recylced Wood for paneling of house.

Special Features: Rammed Earth Insulation Method provides natural insulation in the extremely cold winters in order to reduce the heating bill and naturally cools the home in the summer to reduce the cooling bill and use electricity to heat and cool the home.

Main rooms (such as the living room and the outdoor patio) will be located on the south side thus allowing the house to be lit natually by sunlight and conserving electricity.

Solar Panels: natural energy when electricity is necessary.

Floorplan: Second Floor. 32' x 24'. Includes: Master Bedroom and Bath, Extra Bedroom, Extra room that could be used as study or another bedroom, floor bathroom, hallway, studi space for artist.

Floorplan First Floor: 32' x 24'. Includes Kitchen. Living Space, Laundry Room, Garage, Outdoor/Indoor Sitting Area, Bathroom, Closet and Pantry

This is my essay about my eco friendly residential home located in Leadville Colorado. I designed this house to be modern, eco friendly, and to be specific to fitting the needs of an artist who desires to live in Colorado. This spacial and eco friendly home provides enough space for guest, ski gear, artist tools and plenty of family! This home would ideally be up on a mountain hidden within trees; harmonizing it's eco friendly functionality with nature itself. The cabin's exterior includes logs in order to provide a cabin feel to the home. Yet it's recycled materials and many windows provide a modern feel. The interior color pallete includes earthy colors in order to harmonize the modern home with the theme of nature inside and out. The rooms would include colors such as warm creamy browns, soft yellows and deep hues of green. This home will provide an enviromentally freidnly relaxing enviroment that any artist would be able to live in and create artwork for a lifetime! 

Final Design made on Sketch up!

I'm programmed challenged so this was an accomplishment!

* Art STAR + PBR *

Art Star and PBR is a lil life drawing session! Was held at Bluebird Art Studio. And they had figure drawing and beer. Too bad it wasn't wine. And too bad I am underage! Anyways, still really cool! and really chill! First time drawing nude figures, so it was a challenege to capture entire figure so fast and to give her the same character in the drawing as she had sitting...

since I ran out of time for the head, I thought it looked better cropped out!

just a different tone of paper to enhance the charcoal

This is the full image of the first drawing.

45 minute pose. I ran out of time on her head, I think it would have completed the drawing if I would have taken my time on that...

her darn head, always run out of time...always do it last.

this was a 5 minute pose. She was posing with the beer in her hands!

but I ran out of time...kind of like the implied form though. and cut her head off cause it looked realllly bad!

I don't understand...why I can do upclose portraits extremely detailed...but in gesture drawing for still life nudes? She always looks like a cartoon! :/