Vessels

Artist Create Original Art
In this piece I tried to go above and beyond everyone else. Not being limited to just one medium allowed me to do this. When I made this I was thinking about how I could incorperate nature into my piece because there are so many things I could use just outside the door. Even though I have to explain alittle bit how it was a "vessel" it is still a creative piece. I thought it would be really cool to make a real life scene of something that would normally be a picture. Also I thought of what the person I was giving it to would like (that person was Ms. Whiteside). Its a vessel by the wire is holding the raindrops but essentially its not useful.
Artists Develop Art Making Skills
I learned alot from this project. I leanred that hot glue is the best binding medium for fast work. Also I learned that if you cut wood the wrong way it will make a horrid squeak which is helpful because I will probably use wood for future projects. Another thing is proportion even though my project does not have very good proportion it looks well made because of where everything is oriented. I learned that just because something looks good in the piece doesnt mean it should be there. This peice really opened me up to possibilities I didnt think was possible in school.
Artists Reflect
I had to reflect throughout this whole project. When I was making the stand for the cloud I had to measure how tall I wanted the wood to be and how much my platform could take. When I was doing the platform I had to cut the foam core to match the grass just every aspect of this project was planned. I was going to try to cut a big peice of foam and try to pour water in to see if it would give a rain effect but then I saw that it would get everything else in the peice wet and I couldnt have that happen. I tried to put a squirrel in there but it was too big and didnt fit in with the peice. Even though some of thesr ideas didnt work I still made the peice come out to my liking.

Visiting artist

1) Bryant Holsenbeck is an environmental artist that makes natural things out of inorganic items that people usually throw out.
2) My expectations are that she will teach us how to make any animal (since in hindsight all 4 legged animals have basically the same structure) out of basic trash people throw away.
3) I think the project will be confusing at first but once i get the hang of it I will make something really cool.
4) I plan to make a rat or a deer or a fox or a raccoon.

Book carving

I developed my idea by basing off fear of mirrors and I had this cool idea but it eould take up too much time so I did fear of water and just pained water. If I didnt have abclear plan before starting I would of never know what to do or where to start. Challenges I faced were keeping the layers straight and even and I think it messed up the whole project. I overcame the challenges by trying to make them as straight as possible and trying to ignore the parts I couldnt fix. The design of smaller boxes decending represents how people decend into their fear and once they are down deep into it its hard to get out. My risk was this whole project it was kind of hard because I am a perfectionist and this whole thing was very messy and unorganized. I felt very uneasy about this project I didnt like it very much because it was hard and messy.

Mixed media

1. I showed amusment by having a soldier in a ballet studio dancing with the dancers and most people would find that funny. Ballet dancers are graceful and elegant but soldiers are usually tough and rugged so bringing these 2 elements together makes an amusing peice of work. It is unified because I put elements of a war bunker and a ballet studio so it flows together.
2. Using mixed media came quite simple to me because im so use to doing things like that. I used a mirror, wood models, flower petals, duck tape, paint, and cardboard.
3. The visual journaling mini project didnt really do much of anything for me because my peice didnt have the same elements.
4. One challenge I had was making sure there was enough in there to make it flow. At first there was just the background and the figures but I knew that wasnt enough so I added the baracades and the posters on the walls and it kind of tied it all together.

Non traditional portraits

1. I chose the portrait of my cat because I thought it would be easy to do wirh rocks and I love my cat.
2. I chose rocks because they come in different sizes and can be put together easily. The rocks give a texture to the portrait even though its not that detailed you can tell what it is.
3. The risk I took when doing this project is I made it really heavy and only put hot glue but so far it has been doing well. The challenge I faced was actually painting the rocks.
4. There is no connection the the person in the picture and the material used. The rocks made a cool texture I think and make a kind of rugged feel to the portrait.

Sticky situation

1. How u developed my ideas for "Sticky Situation" is I thought of stiuations that would put someone in a bad spot. I thought of how street artists look when they get caught by the police so I went off if that.
2. I think I was able to go outside of the box in multiple ways. One way was the idea ni one else that I saw had the idea of police finding this elaborate graffiti . The other way is that I didnt just use acrilyc paint I used spray paint too.
3. I was able to show repetition with the different color bricks but alot if them wete covered up by the spray paint.
4. The media I used was acrilyc and spray paint. I did fine with the acrilyc but the spray paint gave me trouble. The trouble the spray paint gave me was mostly my fault I didnt let it dry so it blended the 2 colors I put down.
5. The mimi lessons didnt help me much because I already knew how to use paint and none of the skills we learned were used or supose to be used in me painting.

Up Close and Personal

1. Developing my ideas was the hardest part because I wanted to be creative but the only ideas I came up with were pretty generic.  I finally chose the idea I did because I was fed up ttrying to think creatively. The picture I did of the eye with demons in it was pretty unoriginal compared to other ideas but the demons made it creaive.
2. I showed emphasis in this picture by isolating the eye and making it blue to stand out from the skin, the white and red of the eye, and the hair. Also I made it so the eye had black make up on so it would outline the eye even more.
3. I chose to use prisma colors for my medium. The reason being is I could add the detail of the eye without it blending or smudging like the oil or chalk pastels did.
4. The risks I took was making it an edgier subject like you can seem fine but if you look in your eyes you can see your inner demons. Also im usually bad with colored pencil but it kind of worked out this time.
5. I showed emotion in this picture because I made the person with a single tear dripping down like she is tired of her demons. This is a strong picture I think thats why I drew it I want to get a reaction.