Ocean Themed Titles

This project was a lot of fun. We were given these foam tiles and tools to carve a 3-D image into the block. Our teacher wanted the subject to be related to the ocean, and for us to show off our blending skills (Like for the water and fins) This was a challenge in the sense of you had to work backwards in a way. I also had trouble pushing myself to make the different layer more extreme, I'm used to doing only 2-D works mostly. My favorite part of the the project was the painting. I put multiple colors in each object, like the seaweed has Green, black, yellow, and a bit of white. I think my strongest point on this project was how I did the hair, and painted the water. I could have craved everything a bit more deeper to give it a bit more contrast. 

Quick Challenge #4

This quick challenge had the theme of "travel" Of course I didn't want to just do a simple road, I wanted to think out of the box. I came up with this because I feel travel doesn't have to me limited to just physical. You can day dream about going to different places around the world. You can read and watch things about different worlds. So that is why I chose to do something like this.

Extreme Expression Masks

This assignment was to create a mask out of paper mache. Our teacher wanted us to do extreme expressions, like the classic theater masks. Mine didn't turn out very extreme. . .more flirty! I focused mainly on the details, to the contrast of the light and dark colors, to the outline of the purple. I wish I would have pushed myself to make more of an dramatic expression, but at the same time, that type of work doesn't go well with my personal style of art. 

Quick Challenge #3

This challenge was themed "elements" after a bit of thought, I knew I wanted to do something like this. When I thought of elements, I tried to think back to times in my life where one of the natural elements stuck out to me. One place was a gaveyard. I've always liked the feel graveyards give you (in the day of course!) For me, it is a quite, peaceful place. Where the people of the past can return and rest in the earth below. So an image of a run down graveyard came to mind. It is very easy to let the earth take back that place if you don't take care of it.

Quick Challenge #2

This creative challenge had the theme of "dwelling". This is defiantly not my best work, though it had a few good points. Many liked the bold colors and outlines the markers gave the work. My concept however was apparently weak. I wanted to show that you never know what people are dwelling on in their mind. Apparently that is not something that first comes to mind when viewing this art work. The markers also didn't blend like I expected, which was disappointing. I will plan out my drawings better in the future.

Grid Drawing

This project was a lot of work, but I think it paid off. We were given a picture of a celebrity (I do not know who this is)  with a grid over top. It took me about a week I think, I'm pretty happy with it. There a lot of things I could have done better however. 

Elongated Wire Sculptures

The goal for this project was to create a elongated human figure. We had to display an emotion in just a pose and simple color. I choice to do one of sorrow, or worry. Firstly because it is an emotion I know all too well  in my daily life. Second, this emotion is a pretty powerful one by itself, so I was sure I would have an easy time showing it in my work.

Linear Perspective

As the title suggests, we were working with point point and two point perspective. Not only did we have to display this skill, our teacher also wanted us to put some elements in it to make it ours. Be it our favorite place or favorite things. Sense I am a comic book fan, I decided to put in some of my favorite marvel characters and references.  One the far left you can see America's favorite, Captain America, chatting to Wolverine. On the far right you can see a clueless Peter Parker.

Timeline

This assignment required us to use tones and symbolism in this timeline piece.  We had to sum up our lives so far, picking out the important events that effected us the most through the years. I am pretty happy with this project. I used sharp outlines along with soft ones. Can you understand what each of the images mean?

Quick Challenge

Messages

In class we had a quick draw challenge. The Single theme was messages and we were to draw a picture portraying that in any way we saw fit. We were given magazine and Newspapers for a stock resource. I'm on the internet a lot, so of course the first thing I thought of was IM, E-mail, and all of the social medium sites out there. I tried to focus on the feelings and common phrases that come up when I think of the computer and how it affects me, and others out there.

Christmas Card Project

Happy Holidays!

This holiday season, we were assigned the project to create a card design. We had to keep in mind how different the drawing would be once scanned and printed out. We also had to draw it big enough for it to look alright shrunk down. For this project I used a combination of ink pen, colored pencils, and markers. I tried to give the picture a homey feeling. A warm kitchen, stuck in the middle of decorating some festive cookies.

Self Portrait

Self portrait based on famous artwork

This is the self portrait assignment I was assigned to do. The famous art work I choice to use was "Crying Girl 1963" by Roy Lichtenstein. As I have said in my artist statement, I enjoy comics. So I thought going for a pop art comic style in the painting would be the best way to portray myself. I used tempera paint and permanent marker in the work. I enjoyed working with the bold lines and colors of the work.