Parallel Final

1. Artists Create Original Art:
This parallel assignment had me really thinking about the possible ideas that could be imagined. With a little help from my classmate, I was able to fabricate an idea that demonstrated my artistic ability to create a piece of art from my imagination. I came up with sketches and theories for this to be a great project. Although the outcome was different, I originally wanted this to look like a 1960's comic because this event took place then and comic book were a big back then.

2. Artists Take Risks:
Mr. Sands was really urging me to try new things, which led to him persuading me to do prints. Because prints are so difficult to make, I knew there was no way that I could make it look like a comic anymore. Another reason being that I had not done prints this size ever before, nor with this material. Although the risk was high, I still took it, the school year was over and I thought it might be a cool thing to do. In the end things worked out exactly how I thought.

3. Artists Develop Art Making Skills:
Throughout the past week I learned more than I though about making this print. The logic behind this really blew my mind, but made sense. I now know how to layer the colors how I want, and could probably do this print again in the future, but I could manipulate the outcome to look like something else too. This really was a great experience for me, and I feel better knowing that I have one more thing that I know how to do in art.

Parallel Idea

Artists Take Risks:

-Even though I am somewhat accustomed to the iPad, I am still learning the tricks to making quality digital art. This project will further help me understand the use of different functions. Especially since I am tuning this into something that will look like  really old comic book picture.

Artists Communicate Through Their Work:

-This piece of artwork will represent the hasty tensions between the United States and Russia during the Space Race in the '60's. The metaphor is to be that it looks like a comic and that they are threatening each other with Ray/Space guns.

Artists Reflect:

-While in the middle of planning and sketching out my ideas I realized that instead of having real guns and making look realistic, I should give the picture a classic "Comic book" look and add in some fictional things that were in the 1960's. This reflection really helped because it gives this whole picture another meaning now.

Complete Perspective Chalk Mural

Artists Collaborate:
-During this extensive project, many classmates were put into groups to make masterpieces of chalk art in a perspective manner. In order to come up with interesting ideas, we had to discuss amongst each other about what topics would work best that we could all contribute to. In this case our group chose "The Chronicles of Narnia." This  way it would not be too complicated for members to illustrate different parts of the wall.

Artists Solve Problems:
-As a group, often times there can be...difficulties. These can be fixed with simplifying the problem and/or concluding a strategy to work together. For our project the most common problem was trying to figure who was better at drawing certain parts of the picture. Once we decided whom each person would be, he/she did their job and then we all added some details in the end.

Artists Create Original Art:
-When we each put in our skill for completing this project, we all had our own ways of doing it as we have accustomed to in the past. For example, I used my skill for creating the background because I have an eye for detail. Kim used her artistic skills to create the animals/creatures seen throughout this piece because she is used to drawing them. So each and every group member contributed in their own special way to make this perspective piece really 'Pop' out.

Art Three Perspective Project

The Chronicles of Narnia:

Our group: Me, Jordan, Taylor, Kim, Noel, and Chase; will recreate a scene from the movie "Narnia." This will preferably be a basic 1 perspective background as if you were looking into the wardrobe.

Space

Time Animation

                                          
Artists Take Risks:
This "Time" project was EXTREMELY difficult to come up with an idea. The whole point of this was to express time as an element, and not as a picture or clock. After a good two weeks of thinking and thinking, with many ideas being shot down, I decided to go with my first idea of making a "Flip-book/Animation." I needed to come up with some idea, so I went with a machine that, over time, breaks down and needs fixing. I took a risk here because I was the only person who did this type of art piece while everyone else made something totally different.

Artists Collaborate:
I spent a lot of time talking with my teacher and my classmates trying to think of a good idea. While still stumped, I felt that I was never going to think of one because this project was hard to comprehend. Eventually some of the students came up with base ideas that gave other kids hope for creating something. I spoke to my teacher again, and asked about doing a flip-book, and also involving TIME. He said to try doing gears and other things of that nature, so I came up with this machine.

Artists Communicate Through Their Work:
Nothing lasts forever. Things will break over time, whether it be a car, a clock, or even a computer. In a way, this message tells someone to live life while you can because the good moments don't last long. But at the same time can be fixed, so there's always hope no matter what. This artwork describes me because I like to fix things, and I am very good at it, also at the fact that I drew this so I am an artist as well.


Writing Rubric:
 This assignment really helped me think of new ways to view art. It taught me how I should extensively think out my ideas in order to find multiples ways to create the art. I am glad that I created this animation, though not the best, it still is much different from any of the other pieces in the class. Every artwork is special, and is designed to make the viewer feel different about themselves and/or how they look at reality. This piece demonstrates life (though it's a machine), life breaks down as we get older, which is why we all should be happy and enjoy every last bit of it while it is still there. Through this project I learned more about stop motion, which one thing I'm looking forward to doing in the future along with animating.

Finished appropriation Project

Overall Analysis of Appropriation Project:

For this project I used acrylic paint, an old book, glue, and an X-Acto knife. This experience for a project was very new to me because it was my first book carving. I didn't feel very confident in finishing this project once I was knee-deep in, but I kept going and the outcome wasn't as bad as I thought. The really hard part of a book-carving is in the name, the carving took up most of my time and caused many problems. After carving, I glued the side pages together and then added my base coats of paint.

The purpose of this project was for me to try something new and test my skills against whatever odds lie ahead of me. At the same time though, to convey my idea of the four seasons of climate as a common additive to most of our foods. I definitely learned about how to carve a book, and the correct steps to proceeding in the technique. The most important step is to glue the pages accordingly so that the book sticks in the right way, the rest is up to the skill-level of the artist on how to paint.

When one thinks about the four seasons, the conclusion of them being food items may not pop into the brain so I brought that idea to life. The four seasons are: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. So to demonstrate a relationship between that and "Seasonings," I came up with some interesting thoughts. Sugar, in some cases reminds me of cold and snow; hense it be used for Winter. Spring is often known for it's flowers and green grass, so I came up with the idea of turning it into colored sprinkles. Summer reminds me of cooking burgers and going to the beach so I came up with garlic salt due to the fact that it not only looks like sand, but is ALSO used to cook burgers. Last but not least, Autumn, this time of the year is full of bright red-orange and brown leaves. This reminds me of types of dried pepper used in spices, so I made it look like pepper flakes as the leaves.

Although this project was was hard, it taught me more about the art of craftsmanship and I am very glad I tested my skills.

Appropriation Progress Update #2

Appropriation Progress

 

 

 Creating Original Art:

 During class brainstorm activities, we discussed different ideas for our new project on "Appropriation," and we all wrote down 20+ ideas that could benefit our progress. During my pondering I came up with the idea of "The Four Seasons," which means that the seasons of the year (Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall) would be incorporated into the seasons of food. This can include things from Sugar, Salt, Pepper, Sprinkles, etc. I thought this idea was interesting because it gives the viewer a different perspective on things.


Artists develop art making skills:

In order to create style in this piece, I decided to make it out of an old book so I can carve the 'Seasons' into the pages. Then  will paint them and it will be like a book of seasons for someone to read through.


Artists take risks:

I feel very uncomfortable trying this piece because I have never done a book carving. I am quite anxious as to the outcome of the final product. Although I am worried, I am also confident in my abilities to succeed in the making of this project so I will gain some experience in another field of art.