For the mixed media piece we all had to work with our art one students, this was really cool because I was able to talk to her and learn about what she was interested in. We found that both of us really enjoy sculpture. While I had fun talking to her i also enjoyed working with her for this project, she had a lot of cool ideas, and was ready to try anything. The mixed media is really different from anything else I've done, since it's just layering different textures together. I like the composition of our piece as a whole, but when we used the view finder, to find the best composition I was even happier with our piece.
My second concentration please I also like, the perspective is pretty neat and not something that I've really done before. There's a lot going on in the background which is kind of cool to have instead of one color, and in the foreground I have some lipsticks. So far I've run into the same problems I have with the last one, the oils just need a long time to dry so I haven't been able to do much at a time. When oils overlap when they're wet they tend to mix making a gross muddy color so I have to make sure that everything is dry before I can overlap the things that I need overlapped and my paintings. This picture is also pretty cool in the sense of the colors that I'm using I have a red lipstick top and then a red lipstick container but then there's also a lot of black in it. I usually tend to go darker and my paintings, I really like a lot of the dark oil paints. I'll be able to write more about this project once I'm finished with it
For my concentration I decided to do still lives of make up that I have. I wanted to do things that represented me and I really enjoy makeup. I set up a few different scenes and got Mrs Rossi's help deciding which two I should paint first. The first one I painted was in a make up bag, I thought it had a really neat perspective since the view was looking into the bag. It had interesting lighting and I really like the texture that the bag had on the inside and I like the way everything in the bag was laid out. While painting I've run into a few troubles, since oils don't dry very fast and we need to get these projects done quickly I had to do more than I would have at a time with oils. I still wasn't able to finish the whole painting in time, but I'll be able to finish it when we get back. So far this is the only problems I've run into it this project, I really enjoy doing seems like this and the colors that I get to use also. It's out the two pictures that I have this one is my favorite so far, I like the contrast of the pink and the Prussian blue that I used to achieve the darks, I think that it gives a painting a really neat effect
For my landscape I painted a picture that I had taken a picture at Hilton Head, of the sun set, with boats and a light house in the background. I did struggle with this project since there was so much in the picture, and I ended up not adding everything that was in the original picture, but I really liked the end picture. The water was my favorite part because of all of the different colors in the water from reflecting the sunset. While I enjoyed doing this landscape I found that landscapes aren't my strong suit, and probably won't be doing many in the future.
For the pet portrait I didn't have and good pictures of my pets, so I decided to paint a puppy that I had seen at the Pet Pad. I used oil paints for this project, since oils are my strong suit. I had started off by drawing everything out on the canvas, but then realized it would be easier if I started painting. I didn't run into many problems while painting this piece, the colors went well together, and I made the background blue, and it ended up looking like a curtain, which gave the piece a home feel. Towards the end is when I started getting more frustrated, since I had put the puppy's body in, but it looked like a hat. I got help from Mrs. Rossi and Mrs. Sudkamp on how to make the body look like it belonged in the picture. I ended up having to darken up the body, which helped the over all look, I also added in a leg, so the body didn't look like a blob.
For the mixed media project we all teamed up with our art one students and made a collage. We decided we wanted a colorful picture and started putting tissue paper, magazines, reflective tissue paper, buttons, and feathers. It worked out well since we agreed on how we wanted it to look, and when it came to cutting it we both knew the compositions we wanted. I enjoyed doing this project with my art one and look forward to any future projects we do together.
(can't find the project... will post pictures when found) For this project I wanted to use prisma colored pencils, to try to better myself with the pencils. I thought of a few different ideas for this project, I knew I wanted to be different from everyone else in my class. My first idea was to draw fish in a mechanical environment, or a cyborg jellyfish, but I decided I wanted to draw a peacock with mechanical parts.
For the final drawing I picked brown paper and started with my prisma colors. I mainly used blues, greens. and purples, to achieve the natural parts of the peacock, and then I used silver to and gold to give some of the parts a metallic look. I spent most of my summer in Savannah at SCAD, I took Photography 100 and Drawing 100. I was able to learn so many new techniques and meet so many amazing people. I was able to grow in photography and expand my knowledge of drawing basics. I used lots of charcoal, a medium I have always feared and struggled with. Having to use charcoal for the majority of my projects helped me to change how I feel about them, and really get comfortable with the medium.
One of my favorite drawing projects that I did at SCAD, was a still life with a manikin that had a blanket draped over its shoulders, this was my most challenging project; I started with a few different sketches in my sketchbook and then drew what I saw for the final. This project helped me grow the most because I had to incorporate different textures into my drawing, and make sure I had strong shadows and highlights to show the texture of the blanket. This summer I was also able to further my photography, I loved learning new techniques to shoot, and learning how to better edit my pictures. My favorite project I did for photography was a body image piece. For the body image project I photographed four of my friends shirtless, all with different body types, and put them together in a strip. The final was two boys and two girls in four separate black and white photographs. I loved this project because it has meaning behind it, I wanted the viewer to see that you can look different and still be beautiful, it doesn't matter if you're not muscular or if you have scars, or if you're short or tall, everyone is beautiful just the way they are, Among all of the great projects I worked on this summer, I was also able to get a few done when I was home. I did the self portrait project, with acrylic paint... this project was not one of my favorites, i couldn't get the skin tone right, the paint kept drying too fast, and the person looked nothing like me. I was disappointed with this project, and will hopefully be able to do it again, but better. Then for the different perspective drawing I drew the stairs going up to my third floor, I enjoyed this project and was overall happier with the final product, perspective has always been hard for me, but when I spend time on it, I am always pleased with the final picture. |
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