-Art with an Intention-

By Pink G8
 Unit Inquiry Section

Statement of Inquiry: The idea of beauty can be developed by making proper use of aesthetic
elements.
Global Context: Personal and cultural expression
Key Concept: Aesthetics deals with the characteristics, creation, meaning, and perception of
beauty and taste. The study of aesthetics develops skills for the critical appreciation and
analysis of art, culture, and nature
Related Concepts: Composition - as the organization of the elements of art according to the
principles of art.

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 1.
Shaping the Artistic
Intention
Artistic Intention:
From my gathering of ideas inspired by references from Ten’s artwork, my artistic intention is the
combination or the balance between greek mythical creatures and their astronomy legends. Many
of the greek mythological creatures came from legends or stories that lead to the creation of a
constellation in the sky. These two topics have always been one of my top interests. One side of the
art piece would be the greek mythological side, and the other would be its legend in constellations.
The art piece is making a statement to show the connection between greek mythology and the
astronomy that we see until today. From my personal experience and imagination of the greek world
from reading all kinds of text, has fascinated me of the contrast and balance between the normal
world that I see and the world that I’m constantly lost in. Ten’s artwork, ‘Prince Leon’ captured my
interest a lot because Leon is Ten’s adorable pet cat, yet Ten was able to draw him into a piece that
identifies his unique features yet still shows Ten’s own imagination and style of drawing. In the
second piece, Ten drew two of the same creature, yet both have lines, shapes, and colors that are
different but fits together perfectly, representing the principle and element that I have always liked,
balance and contrast.

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Exploration of Ideas:
Mythical Creatures ( Pegasus, Phoenix, Griffin)
Greek mythology: personal aesthetics and interest
Pencil, Pigment Pens/Marker
Contrast; Balance
Using colors and lines to create balance and contrast
Color Scheme: Dependable (Color of the creature)
Pegasus: White, Blue, Gold
Phoenix: Red, Orange, Yellow
Griffin: White, Black, Brown, Gold

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Artwork: Prince Leon (Rough Sketch)

Artist: Ten Chittaphon Leechaiyapornkul

Technique: Pen and Ink; Contrast; Space & Lines

Medium: Pencil, Black Pigment Pen (Different
Sizes)
Support: Paper

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Artwork: ---

Artist: Ten Chittaphon Leechaiyapornkul

Technique: Balance & Contrast; Line & Shape

Medium: Apple Pencil, Art App,
Support: Ipad (Digital)

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Sketches

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Color Scheme

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Second Entry/Update: The picture shown above is the color scheme that I have chosen for my artwork. The
materials are my colored pencils. The different shades of yellow and brown are for the griffin's body.
Although, the shades of blue, silver, and gold, are accent colors that I have chosen to highlight the griffin
and the artistic intention. Blue has always been my ideal color. It is the color that my eyes first drift to
wherever I am, in whatever shade of blue. Silver and Gold however, it is not always my favorite color, yet, it
commonly represents strength, armour, protection, wealth, and power. In the ancient times, all in many
different cultures, the Griffin, or as I prefer to call it, the Gryphon, has been represented as the protector of
treasures. The Gryphon is the combination of an eagle and a lion. As everybody might have known, the
eagle is the ‘King of the air’. While the lion is called the ‘King of the beasts’. Together, the Gryphon has
been called, ‘The King of all creatures’. It has the head of an eagle with two pointing ears. It has two front
eagle legs with mighty wings that soars through the sky. It has a strong back body of a lion with the power to
defeat any creature in its way. The Gryphon does not have a constellation of its own. It does not have a
special myth or legend that resonates throughout time. But I chose the gryphon, because of its unknown
and unshown story. It is the combination of the mightiest creatures of the sky and the earth, the protector of
all power and wealth. It is the guardian. The colors blue, gold, and silver that I have chosen, are meant to
give the Gryphon its own characteristics. Silver represents armour and protection. Gold represents power,
wealth, and might. While blue represents its mythical presence, the magic and sorcery inside it.

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I wasn’t able to continue with my constellation concept because the Gryphon does not have a constellation
of its own. But I’m still sticking with the concept of connecting the mythical world to our current world. As
some of us might know, the Gryphon, because of its power and radiating strength, is used as many
symbolism throughout our course of history; on coat of arms, logos, as the representative animal, etc. I
wanted to incorporate its presence throughout our history into my artwork to show the connection once
again.
In my previous artistic statement, I claimed that I wanted to create one side with black pigment pens, and
the other to be with colors. After sketching some rough drafts and some detail sketches along with choosing
the color scheme and the material, I had a change of plan to use pencils and colored pencils instead. That is
because I feel like the pigment pen wouldn’t be able to represent the Gryphon’s message since for me, it
didn’t fit the story that I want to portray. However, I’m still thinking about whether I want to use black and
white only with graphite pencils, or do I want to continue with my concept of contrast with colored pencils.
As you can see above, I have tried sketching and coloring with the colored pencils that I own, and the
results are not as bad as I thought it would be, but also not as good as I hoped it would be. This is my first
time putting colored pencils skills into practice, as I’ve never thought about trying them before. As I
continue to practice and sketch more of my work, soon, I will come to a decision before finalizing
everything and creating my final piece.

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Third Entry/Update: After more consideration during sketching and practicing coloring, I think that
I wouldn’t be able to do as good as I want to on the gryphon with all the coloring. As I have said
before, this is the very first time in my life that I have actually tried putting my best effort into
practicing colored pencils as the idea kind of ran through my mind a few seconds after I said no to
the pigment black pen material. I tried coloring the body and the wings of the Gryphon with the
color pencils that I have (Master Art) and had to stop in the middle because nothing was going right.
I didn’t have the colors that I needed and the material wasn’t good enough to reach what I had in
mind since I couldn’t go over the drawing and outline the details. What I had in mind right now is to
only use the special accent colors that I have chosen and use them on the Gryphon along with the
pencil drawing, and then highlight the contrast and balance with the background instead.

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Evidence of Progress and Development of Skill

Description: This sketch is my second sketch

of the gryphon, where I practiced my colored
pencil skills and the color scheme to plan for
my final piece. My skills developed a lot from
this piece considering the time I spent on it.
As you might have noticed, I am not someone
who likes to practice small sketches many
times as I should. My mind works by focusing
on one piece and devoting all my time and
effort into making the best out of each of the
few pieces I work on. In this particular piece,
the dimensions and angles were a bit
incorrect, but the colors used to blend and
create details were pretty exceptional if you
ask me. The beak of the gryphon is where I
would probably highlight my improvement. I
was able to create highlights and details using
colored pencils.

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Evidence of Progress and Development of Skill

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 Evidence of Progress and Development of Skill

Description: I wanted to include these two pieces, front and back, because this is also another important part of
my development. This is the paper I used the most throughout the whole process, trying out different patterns,
color combinations, sketches, and techniques. When I was proposed to add another medium to my piece, the
turpentine oil, I was scared after seeing the first few demonstrations because the results show that the colors of
the colored pencil will change a lot depending on the strokes, color combinations in each part, and the amount of
oil used. Also, I wasn’t sure if I wanted my piece to have the original colored pencil texture or the watercolour
texture that the oil provides. However, this unit was about developing skills, so I took my risk and practiced the oil
on different color combinations and parts of the piece to see how I could work with it. In the final moments, I’m
really proud and grateful for the proposal. This unit was about developing skills, and just the colored pencil itself
as a new medium to my hands, the turpentine oil was another step towards new and wider exploration in art. As
you can see in the pictures above, the body of the gryphon has a base of different shades of brown, but my
chosen color for my artistic intention for this piece are different shades of blue. Henceforth, I practiced the oil on
gradations of the feathers from brown to blue. The oil reacts with light ochre and light blue by blending it into a
light green. But when used with a darker and thicker sketch of the feathers, the oil was able to sustain the original
base colors while still giving the watercolour textures and the blended qualities.

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 Evidence of Progress and Development
Description: These are the sketches of the
rocks I need to draw in the piece. As you can
see, I started off not knowing anything about
drawing rocks. What I wanted to draw were big
stones surrounding one big, sharp, and pointed
rock that was where the gryphon was standing.
And I search for techniques of shading and
getting the dimensions and shadows correct and
looking natural. However, it’s obvious that I
need more time working and practicing with the
colored pencil shades of grey and using the oil
but still making the sides and shades distinctive
enough to see the dimensions and shape of the
rocks. The ones in the top and bottom right
corners were probably my best ones as the
dimensions are clear and the shading is enough
to see the shape of the rock itself.

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Final Piece
 Final Piece
Description: The final piece is not finished yet with the background still blank, however, the
gryphon itself is enough to significantly highlight the artistic intention in this moment. As you
can see, there has been a lot of changes made to the color scheme of the gryphon. The upper part
of the body is not covered in white feathers with a blue tip instead to emphasize on the eagle part
of the gryphon. The wings combine the color base and the color of the artistic intention very well.
I wanted to keep the brown feathers as part of the wings to create my concept of balance and
contrast that I chose at the start. While the shades of white, grey, and blue is to make the wings
shine the most. Also, I changed the direction of the gryphon and fixed the dimensions of the
wings to a better and correct one. If you go back to look at my artistic intention at the start, you
would see that I wanted to emphasize on the gryphon’s power and symbolism that has been used
in different cultures in different times all over the world up until today. And one of the most
powerful parts of the gryphon, are its wings. The strong and graceful wings that soars in the sky
to guard and protect with wisdom and strength, one of the most unique and special parts of
Gryphon along with its body strength. Evidently, both sides of the wings are spread wide and
beautiful to show its glory and power.

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Afterthoughts/ Mid-Reflection : Up until now, I can say that I’m very proud of my progress so far.
As you might remember, I was very worried with trying to use colored pencils for the first time, in
fear of failing to make myself satisfied with the results. However, in the end, I’m very happy that I
took the risk, developed a new medium experience and tried a new solvent, and explored more of my
artistic potential. As a reflection of this unit’s art piece, the skills that I have developed and
experimented during the process were a boring yet very satisfying topic to write about. Obviously,
my colored pencils have developed from zero to some point where I can be proud of my
improvement. I did a lot of research online to see different techniques and methods. Using colored
pencils, for some reason, had me focused a lot on the combinations of different shades of colors I
put into one detail. That is most likely because of the addition of the turpentine oil that I used to
blend the colors. But I was very invested in choosing the right colors of the colored pencils despite
the lacking amount of material I have. When I was working on the rocks, for the first time, I paid
attention to the different shades of grey and how each combination would work with the other. Back
to the oil, I developed a learning sense of brush strokes that I needed to use to get certain textures
and blending results: either I lightly go sideways or I try to swirl the brush slowly in small circles to
help blend the colors. What I also learned was the technique my teacher taught me, where we use
colored pencil on a piece of paper to get the pigment, and dab the brush with the oil on it to get a

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Afterthoughts/ Mid-Reflection : --watercolour brush. I didn’t use this technique for the blending
or the base, but I used it after I finish each part, by going over all the details with all the different
shades of blue and white and brown, with its base color that I started from to try my best and blend
in all the colors.(See circles of colors on Slide 14 for evidence of technique usage :D ) This
technique became especially useful when working with the rocks as they rocks needed shading but
my colored pencils in shades of grey was very limited and each shade had a different base color
which if not combined and blended by the same color, would make the rocks look like a 2D geometry
pattern instead of dimensional rocks. What failed me the most was the details that I aced on my
sketches but completely failed on the final pieces. The beak and the front claws are undeniably
terrible. The beak was a result of too many layers of colored pencil and oil along with too much
pressure of the colored pencils. As I wanted to use the white colored pencil to highlight the beak, I
tried reserving the spot with the white and slowly blend the black from the tip of the beak, but in the
end, I couldn’t blend the yellow with the white properly, and by all efforts to fix the mistake, I ripped
bits of the paper with oil and more layers. The claws weren’t the same mistake, instead, I failed to
give it the details I used to do because of the change of colors from yellow to gray, and again, the
lack of shades of grey in my material range resulted in weird, fat-looking claws.

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Continuation: Continuing with my final piece, I started working on the background. I worked out
the color scheme with my teacher, concluding with the analogous color scheme of Blue, Purple,
and Blue-Purple. I didn’t want to much details on the background because I don’t want to outshine
the wings. Truthfully, the wings are already the center of the piece, although I am in doubt of in
which the purple and blue color scheme would suit the gryphon or not. But again, art is all about
taking risks and enjoying the beauty of the doubt in the end. :-) (Even if I freak out and overthink
every second of the way)

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