04/21/2015

I have finished my text project along with my stamp project. I did potatoes. 

For my next project that I am currently in the developing stages of, I will be doing an acrylic painting that is sort of like a collage. It will have different elements from Apex and from life. Here is my sketched out plan of what I'm planing on doing although I know the end result will probably differ. 

02/15/2014

I am still in the works of completing
my text art project. I decided to do quilling, which uses rolled up paper to make a design. It takes a lot more time than I thought it would to roll each one and glue it, but I am almost done. 

I decided to do a Chinese word because I love how artsy simple words can look. I decided to do the first letter in warm colors because I had only rolled up those colors and I wanted to get started on my project. But I think the warm and cool colors adds character to the artwork.  So far, it has come out very nice and I am very pleased with how it looks. I don't think I would've done anything different. 

Once I complete this unit, I'm thinking about either doing an acrylic project or a print making project. So in the next to weeks I will be completing one of those two units. 

Text Art

For this project, I did my research using Pinterest under a board named "Text Art". I discovered a lot of different types of art that had text incorporated into it. From shading using different size text to create an image to using everyday materials to create a word. There were a lot of techniques that I have never seen before.  

For my first challenge, I created a cross using bible verses to create the shape. 

It was tricky to get all the words to fit perfectly straight, but once I added shading, it blends the line more. 

For my second challenge, I created my name out of colored pencils. 

I haven't officially started my final project, but it's in the works. I have somewhat of a plan. I am pretty sure I will do "quilling" which is where you roll paper and make designs out of it, with which I was going to use to form a word.

These are my ideas/sketches, I am still unsure of what word, or symbol, I want to create, but I am very close to starting my final project.

Book Carving

My idea is based around Jesus and elements surrounding Him and His glory. Before starting, it was very important to have a clear plan. Without a clear plan, I would've lost track of what I needed to cut. Some challenges I faced were cutting the smaller areas and cutting the corners. I also struggled with painting, it was harder than I thought to paint book pages. I originally tried watercolor, but it wasn't turning out nice so I changed the paint to acrylic. The design has nothing to do with the book I carved out of. My design is cosisted of a larger cross, then a star, 3 crosses, a dove, the Alpha and Omega symbols, IXOYE, a church and a fish. I didn't really take too many risks throughout the course of this project. I suppose one risk I took was I made my layers thick which made it challenging to cut. I think this project gave me a new experience with book carving, however maybe next time I will make the layers thinner.  Overall, I think my project was sucessful, it turned out the way I imagined it would.

Amusement/Mixed Media

    In my piece, I chose to do a flower for amusement because some people find gardening amusing and I thought it would be fun to do. I decided to add a hand and a hummingbird to make it look more out doors-y. My experience with mixed media was pretty good.  I think I did a good job of making everything "blend" together. The mixed media I used was watercolor, magazine, tissue paper, and pencil drawings.  My experience with visual journaling helped me in this project because it gave me a new perspective and more experience with working with different materials.  Throughout the project, I didn't face that many challenges. It was pretty smooth and I think it turned out good.

Portrait

For the project of portraits, I decided to do myself so I could hang it up in my room. When I was thinking of materials to use, I had a lot of ideas. However, I chose the Sunday comics because I read them every Sunday.  I could get a lot of different tones and colors.  The choice of comics gave my overall portrait a childish/abstract look.  Also, the comic people faces gave my face color.  It was important to have the different tones because it gives my face depth and character.  I faced some challenges during the project.  It took a long time, and an overall of three Sunday comics combined to get everything I needed for the portrait.  Finding and cutting out all the tiny faces to go around the eyes was also a challenge I faced.  A risk I took was adding all the speech bubbles in the background.  It was a last minute idea, and I went for it, and I think it turned out pretty successful.  I think my choices created a comical and overall fun portrait.  The materials have a connection with me since every Sunday, I read the Sunday comics and it's interesting to see some of my favorite comic characters on the portrait. I feel my portrait was successful.

Sticky Situation

When I heard the prompt "Sticky Situation", the typical sticky situations popped into my head, for instance gum and an up-side down ice cream cone.  I can honestly say I do not know how I came up with the city idea with the food, I was just doodling and that came up. I think I succeeded with thinking outside of the box, doing a series of over sized foods in the middle of city buildings.  I also showed repition in my paintings, each one has the same buildings with the same number of windows, and each contains a different type of food-type object.  For my medium, I chose acrylic.  I found it easy to get values and different colors using the acrylic. I found the mini lessons helpful in deciding which medium to use and helped with practicing with that medium.  I found this project really fun and I think it turned out great, especially the ice cream cone one, which is my favorite.