project 4

final 

draft

idea

Description/ Interpretation: 

This piece is an egg that is breaking in one point and all the pieces are flying out. The background is abstract. The egg represents my life, and the pieces represent all the things I don't have together. I don't have my life together, there should be more pieces. The egg isn't a normal chicken egg because those are boring and the spots make this egg more unique and draws focus from the background. 

Analyze: This piece has contrast between the egg and the background because the egg is super white and the background is colourful. The background has movement because its all going in one direction but the pieces of the egg draw some attention away from the egg itself. 

Medium: For this piece I worked in acrylics and started with the background. I used every colour paint I had to make the background and to mix all the colours together. I started with brighter colours and went over them with darker cooler colours to dull it down. Then I started with the white on the left side and added the pieces on the left. And added the spots at the end. 

Self Reflect:

This piece is really weird. And I don't really like it. I wish i would have done a better job on the shadowing of the egg. I like the background and where I was going with that but I odn't like what I put on top of it. I like the movement and how it seems to flow but I feel as if the egg takes away from that too much for my liking even though the background isnt the main focus. 

project 3

Description/ interpretation:

This piece has a lava like background, with flat black triangles across the middle and white drips coming from the top and bottom. Each one of the three triangles represents a specific event in my life and that is why the last one is cut off. It hasn't finished yet. The black represents the fact that each triangle was taken over by something else, something more sinister without me ever really realizing. The white drips represent a path because they force you into the middle, but they have places to turn just to trick you in the end. It always looks like there are many options, but in the end its all the same road. The coloured background represents light, and that it will always be underlying beneath darkness. Even when its not the first thing you see. 

Analyze:

This piece has many forms of contrast. Comparing the flatness of both the black and the white between the colourful background makes whatever you choose to look at stand out. The contrast also has to do with colour and the black versus white, white versus colour, black versus colour. I feel as if the drips coming from both the top and the bottom make it appear symmetrical as well. The painting has movement from the triangles moving across the page and the fact that the drips move up and down towards the triangles. 

Medium: 

for this piece I painted in acrylics. I started with the background by adding different shades of mostly orange, then red, then highlights of yellow. Once that dried I took white paint and glow in the dark paint and made the drips from the top, waited for those to dry and repeated with the bottom. Once that was finished I taped out triangles across the page and painted them in and removed the tape. I had no method behind this really, i just did it and it looked appealing to me. I made no plans or rough drafts. 

Self Reflect: 

I really like this piece because of the background. I like the flow of all of the colours by themselves and the way they all look together. I'm a geometric type of person so the triangles I like, but they are plain in themselves. I really like the drips because dripping things always reach out to me and because they are glow in the dark. I wish i would have layered the background more before doing anything with it but overall I actually really like this piece even though its plain and what you see is what you get. 

port.

Final Piece

progress

progress

Descriptive and Interpretive ParagraphFor this piece I started drawing random drips on the side of the page and then it slowly turned into more and more things being attached together and once I did most of the left side of the page I thought it kinda looked like someone staring off into the distance so I made the other half look like a landscape and it looks pretty cool. Then once I started adding colour it looked even different and now it looks like some giant floating landscape in the sky.
Analysis ParagraphI think this piece has a lot of movement because it has a lot going on and there's details in it. It also has a lot of variety in colour and I think the pink and purple background give it contrast because they're so lightly coloured while the rest is more solid and vibrant.
Medium ParagraphFor this project I started in pencil and I drew the entire thing with an hb pencil and thought I was done. But it looked too plain so I started messing around with coloured pencils and I've rarely ever actually tried doing something in coloured pencil and I like using a varitey and having a lot to look at so I made each design its own colour scheme and let the piece go with itself.
Self Reflection Paragraph
I think this piece is really colourful and I liked the way it turned out. I wish it was bigger and that I put a boarder on it. I also wish I used pen highlights and used all of the colours a lot lighter. I also wish I made a rough draft before doing it to plan it better. But for how it is I like it. 

Project 2

reference

reference

reference

final piece

Descriptive and Interpretive Paragraph

I did this piece to go along with the quote in the negative space. I thought that the bottles would represent that poison doesn't have to look like poison to be poison. Like how things don't have to look like they're going to be something they'll turn into. I did the skull blue to represent that toxins and that when they have a point they're noticeable but not destructive. But poison that's just poison will only be destructive. I also added the arrow to separate the piece for symmetry and just because I like arrows. 

Analysis Paragraph

I think that this piece has symmetry because the skulls are divided and because the arrow comes down the middle to kind of show the line of symmetry. I also think that the words add to the balance and add to the symmetry. I also think it has a lot of contrast when looking at the pitch black sharpie over the valued coloured pencil. And with the white words on the black background. 
Medium Paragraph

For this piece I used mixed media. I started off with the coloured pencil for the skulls and the bottles. I did the cloth next also in coloured pencil to give it a base. I started doing the black background in sharpie and then I added the arrow in coloured pencil to give the piece something else to center it. Then after I filled in the black background I added my own quote in sharpie paint. 
Self Reflection Paragraph

I really like this piece because I created it to go along with something else I made. and it really just feels like all mine and it's kinda cool. I wish I did a better job on the blue skull because I feel like its not proportionate with the pink skull and they're too different styles but the different styles also plays into the meaning behind them but for the sake of looking at it I feel like it would have looked better if it was all the same style. I also wish I would have wrote what I did a lot better because its off and crooked and I have bad handwriting. But I do like it. 

project 1

idea

quick sketch

reference for skull

final piece

Descriptive:

For this piece I took a skull and I made its brains melt out of it's head. The skull shows that, it, is all we are and the melting of the brain is to express that a lot of people lose their minds when trying to do something well. But even if it didn't go well you made something out of it. Then you get to think, hey at least it looks cool right? and you feel better about yourself because everyone else's brain is a little melted too. And the middle part is the head of an arrow, because I like arrows. Not much to interpret from that one. 

Analysis:

For my first project I stayed geometric because I like shapes. I tried to go back and forth between value and flat when working with each different shape to give it contrast. I intended it to be symmetrical, but you can tell that it's not in some places. I left the composition in the middle and it brings attention to the skull. 

Medium:

For the medium I used various types of graphite pencils. I tried to give it more value by using more than one in different places but it overall has a flat gray tone to the whole piece. Afterwards I went back into the drippy parts of the brain and added some ink to make the drips look more heavy and stand out more individually. 

Self reflect:

I wish I would have made it more symmetrical because I'm that type of person who likes things even. I also wish I would have put some colour into it to make different parts stand out more so it doesn't seem so flat and like you can just glance at it and see everything about the piece. I also feel like there is a lot of empty space where I could have done more to it to make it look better. 

Idea:

I don't really know where I got the idea from. I think I just drew too many triangles next to a sketch of a skull and was like hey I bet that'd look cool. Then I did it, turns out it doesn't look too bad. But the picture I had in my head was a lot better. I'll work on it. 

test page.