Amsterdam Travel Poster

This is a painting I did. I used an analogous color sceme of blue to red. I used all paint to create this peice. The biggest principles I used were contrast, color, and shape. I used contrast with the colors, putting black against purples and blues. I used color a lot to create interest. And I used shape with the things I advertised from Amsterdam. I have never painted simply on a peice of paper becore this. I learned a lot about paint and how to use it. I found painting very stressful and difficult. Throughout creating this I learned different techniques that worked best for me. This project was a first for me and I think I grew a lot. In the future I think I will be more comfortable with the medium I'll be working with and I think it will help the final product look better.

Clay Whistle

I made a whistle using clay of Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer. To start this project i made two pinch pots and put them together. Then i had a small rectangle and put it on the end of the sphere I had created. Then I put a hole in the rectangle that went all the way inside of the hallow sphere. Then a created a hole in the bottom of the sphere. Using trial and error, it soon made a whistling sound when I blew into it. I then added more peices of clay to the basic whistle to make it look like Rudolf. Form was the most important and dominate element I used. I used some carving tools to make some of the peices and to give the peice texture. I have never worked much with clay. I made a clay whistle in 5th grade but my art teacher helped a lot. I learned through this project how to shape and mold clay. This was a very challenging project for me but I learned a lot from creating this. In the future I feel clay work will be easier for me because of what I have learned from this project.

Self Portrait Project

This is a portrait I created of myself. I used graphite pencils and a range of values to create a 3D style drawing. Contrast and value are very important principles to use when drawing faces. They make the peice look realistic and life like. This project helped me practice proportions and observations in art. Through practice and activities prior to actually drawing this peice helped me to use more values then I typically do when drawing people. I think this project improved my ability to draw faces realistically. 

Value Project

For this project I drew five random idems with value. The goal was to use contrast from light to dark to make the idems look three demential and life-like. In majority of artwork I create, the visual interest comes from shading. So I feel like I gained less out of this project then someone who hasn't done some of the projects I've done. Although, I was able to expand on what I already knew and practice in areas I wasn't as good at, like cylinders. Also I have a tendency to draw very light and this project helped me to work outside that and practice drawing with a larger range of shades.  

Negative Space Still Life

To start this peice, I made an outline of a still life that had masking tape, pearls, flowers, and other objects. This outline had no interior contour lines. Then, I filled in the negative space behind the outline with a pattern. My orginal plan was to create a floral pattern but I couldn't find a referance picture that didn't remind me of an old lady's curtains. So I started to just add random flowers and wildlife I liked. The pattern I created was radial, with its center point in the top left corner. I used various colored pencils for this project and even though the main principle I was trying to use was pattern, I used balance by placing smaller items around the larger ones to make the weight of the piece even. I used contrast a lot through color. I have blues and greens next to reds and oranges. I also have unity because I used color pencils as a consistant medium. This project helped me to think "outside the box." I would never have done a project like this my own, but I think it was a good exersice to see things in an abstact and unique way: using the right side of the brain. During this peice I would turn my paper and draw something. This made several of the idems in the pattern sideways, which I would have done differently I could change it. Although, I liked the way this piece came out and I think the sideways objects gave visual intrest to the artwork. 

Emphasis Portrait

This is a portrait I created to represent emphasis. I did this through color, isolation, and light to dark contrast. I used drawing pencils and several tints and shades of blue colored pencils. This shows what I learned about emphasis as a principle. Before this project, I knew very little about it, nothing much more than it was used to draw your eye to a specific part of the peice. Through what I learned using the Exploring Visual Design  textbook and in class, I made this artwork. In the future, if I make another emphasis piece, I would incorporate more solid examples of the principle. 

I Am Poem

I am confident and unique.
I wonder how others see me.
I hear music in the distance.
I see people dancing.
I want peace of mind.
I am confident and unique.
I pretend that time has stopped.
I feel a hand on my shoulder.
I touch the soft petals of a rose.
I worry about my future.
I cry when I'm alone.
I am confident and unique
I understand the world is imperfect.
I believe everything will be okay.
I dream of happily ever after.
I try my best to make them proud.
I hope to change the world.
I am confident and unique.