Light Artist, Leo Villareal

     Light is electromagnetic radiation that we can see.  It makes objects around us visible.

     Leo Villareal currently lives and works in New York but was born in Albuquerque, NM.

His chosen art form is through the use of LED lights and computer software.  He programs the work himself to make they lights do certain patterns and movements.  He took up this practice after being inspired by the theories of Isaac Newton and John Conway.

     My favorite piece that he has done is pictured.  The colors and patterns grab my attention.  I find this to be the most intriguing because when I look at his work side by side, this is the one that captivates me.

          

    The artist that is most like Leo Villareal's work is Marcus Tremento.  I find these similarities because they are both a bit abstract, however still beautiful.  They both make use of color, however not all of Villareal's work is done in color.

                                                                                              

SOURCES:
"http://library.thinkquest.org/27356/p_index.htm"
"artpratical.com"
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Villareal#Photo_gallery"

Object Drawing

Leaf Drawing

I drew this leaf sitting in my backyard back home.  It took me about twenty five minutes but that's mostly because I had my turtles outside with me and they kept wandering so I would be forced to stop what I was doing and retrieve them.  I think just drawing only took me about fifteen minutes.  I find this leaf to be the most successful because it has the most shading to it and stands out from the page better then my prior leaves.  Every leaf I drew, I picked a certain aspect to focus on and in this particular leaf I was focused on the shadows. 

A Place For A Leaf

Final Project

Prior Model 

At first, this project totally shocked me right out of my comfort zone.  A place for a leaf is in a tree or on the ground, not in a piece of paper.  Or so I thought.  This project took me all over the place because I had no idea what was expected of me.  I ended up soaking printer paper in coffee and vanilla for the color.  I did this because my leaf had died and I was putting it to rest.  My prior model looks more like a coffin, but it wasn't an appropriate coffin for a leaf.  With that in mind,  I kept to the same idea but changed the shape and arrived at my final project.

Where do you find inspiration?

I find inspiration in many different things.  The things I find the most inspiration in are my family and my faith.