Portrait Project

Portrait Project

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My Piece: 

Charcoal Face:

I did a portrait of myself, because I haven't done many self portraits before. I picked pencil and water color (with some pen) because I wanted a very light medium where I could easily mix colors and do small details. I think the most successful thing in my piece are the eyes; I am happy with how the details turned out. Next time, I might try to make the piece a little neater, because the transition between some of the colors in the piece are a bit blurry.

Stop Motion

Stop Motion

For this project, I worked with Amelia, Maddie, and Mikaela. We all helped come up with the idea and the storyboard, I built the pipe cleaner nest, Maddie made the egg, Amelia filmed and put it together, and Mikaela helped stage and direct it. I think the most successful part of this is the beginning, when the egg is shaking back and forth, because it really looks like the egg is shaking on its own, due to the way we took the pictures. Our storyboard pretty much lines up exactly with the storyboard, except we had the egg hatch inside the nest rather than hitting a tree and breaking open, but overall, our idea remained the same throughout the project.

Printmaking

Printmaking

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Worst: 

I thought this process was fun and interesting, but very time-consuming. I think the most successful thing about my best print is the small details of the whiskers and the stripes. The least successful thing about my worst print is that I didn't put enough orange ink on it. I learned patience from this project, because it took a very long time to cut out all of the small details.

Postcard

Postcard

I represented the themes "Dreams" and "Your Favorite Holiday" in my postcard. I thought multimedia art was a lot of fun and I liked getting to add so many different layers. It was very interesting and fun and I would definitely try it again.

Quilling

Quilling

I had never heard of quilling before this project, but I though the technique was interesting and different, and I would definitely try it again.

Painting

Painting

This still life represents my sister. The yarn, crochet hook, and crocheted owl represent her love for crocheting, the mixtape and records represent her strange taste in music, and the small painting represents her artistic skills. I liked painting a lot and found it easy to use; it is definitely one of my favorite mediums. What I think is successful about this piece are the album covers, because I am very proud of the detail I put into them. If I could change anything, I would fix the blending of the black into white on the Billy Joel Album.

Intro to Sculpture

Intro to Sculpture

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Inspiration:

1. I picked this project because I really liked the idea of taking old or common objects and turning them into something new and unified. I was drawn to this medium because I liked how in each sculpture I looked at, I could see each tiny piece individually and also see how everything fit together as a whole to make the piece.
2. Some difficulties I had to overcome in this project were working with tiny and sometimes delicate pieces, getting things in position exactly the way I wanted them (especially the tiny ribbon bows I had to tie), and repeatedly burning my fingers with hot glue.
3. I think the robots themselves are the most successful part of this piece, because I think they are very fun and individual, and for the most part they turned out exactly how I wanted them to. However, if I could change one thing, it would be the blouse on the bride robot because I couldn't get it quite right.

Mini Magazine Challenge: 

1. In this project, I enjoyed picking out the pictures from different magazines to use for the piece and making them into a fun shape. (I mainly used pictures of nature scenes from an issue of National Geographic from the 1970's.) However, I didn't like working with hot glue because when I tried to put it together, the magazine poles kept getting glued to my fingers and I kept getting burned by the hot glue gun.
2. From this project, I learned about how you can make sculptures that are abstract and vary based on the angle you look at them from, and that hot glue is difficult to work with.