Art Pants is a 365 day-long-daily-photography-challenge, featuring Will Roegge and Linhbergh Nguyen which was started on November 1st, 2009. Our goal is to each publish one photograph a day for an entire year. But different from usual "photo 365s" out there, we've set ourselves a rules to abide by throughout the year:
1. No photos of anything automobile related
2. No self portraits.
Both of those rules are there to prevent us from going the easy route on taking our daily photos, or in other words, to use a crutch. The purpose of this project is to make the both of us think outside of our usual subjects and expand our creative defaults. The harder we make it upon ourselves, the better off we'll be creatively (or so we hope so!) come Novemeber 1st 2010.
We'll also be having different 'theme weeks' throughout the year. These themes could range from different subject matters; places, portraits, grass, sunrises, landscapes, faces, etc, etc. Or it could even be a technical theme; biggest aperature, smallest aperature, slow shutter speeds, 35mm film, camera phone fast action, etc....
We would love to hear your input throughout the course of the year. If you have ANY ideas for theme weeks or shots you'd like to see, let us know!
Oh, we both love black coffee and we both love Art Pants.
Day #43 Abstract Theme 7 of 7 – For the final day of Abstract Theme week I’m going to pull a Jasper Johns. No, I’m not using a broom and paint to make a piece. Instead I’m following Linhbergh’s lead, the color of the flower and the texture of rust made the framing appeal to...
Day #42, second to last day of the Abstract Theme Week. While down in Costa Rica, I have been able to enjoy beverages from glass bottles. This might sound like an odd pleasure – considering many great beverages come in glass bottles in the United States. Soda in a glass bottle and made from real...
This is my last submission for the Abstraction theme. I’m finishing the week off with a very minimalist composition; its just solid color with a simple break.
I have to admit, Theme Week #1 was really difficult to create content for. I spent a lot of my time thinking and finding things to abstract. And when...
Day #41 – Abstract Theme Week 5 of 7. The color and square cutout shape of this door caught my attention while walking the streets of Jaco, Costa Rica. Since I’ve been stuck in airports for too long – I have some serious PANTS’ing to do now. No artists to reference, just: shape, color, and...
Today’s abstraction piece is a bit on the borderline here. There’s a sense of abstraction, but the objects within the frame are completely identifiable. The American artist whom I’ve referenced to before, Jasper Johns, is also another great reference for this sixth day of abstract ‘pantsing. He mixed abstract expressionist brush strokes with found objects...
Back in high school, when I took the Advanced Placement (AP) art class, we had to come up with an overall concentration to focus for our end of the year portfolio. I, while being the huge art nerd that I am, thought up of the pretentious “study of the lines and shapes of typefaces as...
There’s a lot of drama in the imperfect. Mankind’s quest for perfection is always undone by the ineptitude of man himself! From far away, our cities look pristine, flawless, and even awe inspiring.
You will notice that those qualities will diminish as you come down closer and closer to the street level. This cross walk is...
Day #40 – Abstract Theme 4 of 7. Linhbergh’s first abstraction referenced the work of Piet Mondrian. Mondrian’s linear composition, flat white background, and use of primary colors is simply captivating. At dinner…yes dinner, I noticed the ceiling was exposed. The wiring, piping, and lighting being visible – and creating an impressive intersection of lines. ...
Day #39 - Reflections of the Broadway Bar in downtown Los Angeles are lost in the grunge of the parallel storefront. The neon glow of the sign caught my attention and fades into a mass of glowing text. Framed by a hastily painted wall. Artifacts of popular culture and the past.
Richard Diebenkorn compositions were not thought up and created because of his mood or emotional thought at the time, but rather, his compositions derived from actual subject matter. In the case of his infamous “Ocean Park” series of paintings, his compositions were based from the actual landscape of Santa Monica, California itself!
As artists, we...
Day #38 – Abstract Series Theme 2 of 7.
Personally, some of the greatest art comes from the elements. It can modify human creation in ways a brush cannot. Water pours through the cracks and stains the walls. Nature makes it’s own abstract expressionist work. Maybe a rain storm is the best action painter? Its detached...
Day #37 – My first of seven days of the first theme week of ARTPANTS – Abstraction.
I choose different references than Linhbergh’s artists – with analytical cubism. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque are well know cubist artists. The scene above has many different angles, lines, and intersections. It also contains foreground elements that obscure the...
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