Printmaking Project

This project was fun to me because it reminded me of when I was little and I had made little stamps of butterflies. The first step I did was draw out 2 animals (which was a sea turtle and an elepant) and then I had to find the right postition, of one drawing, that would look good as the final copy. In the end, as you can see, I had chosen to print a sea turtle. Next I had to make my turtle drawing only have black and white color without any value. Then I copied the last drawing of the sea turle and I put it on a linoleum backwards so that when it comes out on the paper it will be in the right direction. After this you would cut out all of the white space in the linoleum, for me I had to cut the black spaces. Then you would paint on a color to the linoleum and put it onto a colorful peice of paper. In my opinion, the complementary colors didnt go well because it was just hard to see. For example, putting bright red paint on a light green peice of paper. I would say the most challenging part of this was finding the right colors that matched because if it didnt look right you would have to clean off the linoleum and start again. My successes was when I finally got one print right because in some of my prints before that there wouldn't be enough paint or the linoleum had moved when I had placed it down on the paper. I learned that you have to be very careful when handling paints and cutting out linoleums because the slightest movement in cutting or painting can be hard to undo.

Crazy Computer Art

Today and yesterday we were told to make these crazy images above. I thought that these images would turn out horrible but in the end I think they had turned out well. These images were done on a photoshop link that I haven't really used before. The part that I like about this is that you could just mess around with some of the icons to see what they would do and it is just really amazing. The first image I started was the pancakes. You would take a normal picture of pancakes then expand/stretch it, at the center, to make it look like it has a mouth. Next I placed in teeth from a fish that was cropped off then I would change the color of the teeth to make it fit into the pancake color. For the next image I had gotten an image of a frog which I then cropped out and placed the frog on the background image above on the right. I then changed the color of the frog to match the tongue (This part is what took me the longest amount of time). This was a very neat and fun project, to me, that I hope to do more of. 

Colorful Spray Paint Assignment

A cool assignment like this requires a lot of work but in the end I am proud of what came out. We had to start off with choosing a picture that shows emotion and I chose a picture of my mom who is laughing. Then we were told to put only 3 colors into the image and i chose pink, purple, and yellow. (My final project colors turned out to be orange, dark purple, and yellow) Then we projected our pictures onto a poster board and we had to trace each color on different posters. For me, I had to trace the pink shapes on one poster board and then I also had to do trace the purple and yellow shapes on 2 different poster boards. After this we had to cut out the traces and used the posters as stencils. Next we had to get a peice of cardboard and paint it. I chose to do yellow paint because I thought it would stand out more. Then we taped one stencil on the cardboard at a time. The first stencil I taped on was for the color orange because that was the more dominant color. I then sprayed the cardboard with orange spray paint and I began waiting for it to dry, then I tape the second poster board which is for purple spray paint and I repeated this process (also with the yellow spay paint). I thought this project turned out well because I could see the value and it looks quite similiar to the actual picture I printed out. The worst part of this was when the smell of the spray paint just got in your head. I would like to do more projects like this and try different pictures to spray paint but without such a big headache.

Countour Shoe Drawing Project

I thought this project was really intresting to do because you had to do countour lines. A countour line is a continous line drawn to show all surface ridges and edges. We were told to draw countour lines of someones shoe at our table, in the end my shoe was the one that was chosen to be drawn. I thought that this project is a lot harder than it looks because you can not lift the pen when you are drawing and some people may just think this drawing is just an outline, but it is not. The class had practice with these countour drawings, and what we did was we chose to do countour drawings of our hands. The first 3 drawings we did, we were told not to look at our paper and just try and draw our hand without lifting the pen. Our pen drawing was suppose to go the same rate as our eyes looking at our hands. And each one of these drawings are suppose to get better along the way. Then afterwards we could look at our paper and try to draw our hand but we still couldnt lift our pen. I thought I made a big improvement from when I started to when I finished. This was a really creative project and I hope there is more to come.

Cool iPad Value Project

This value project was done on a iPad using the Layers Pro app. The point of this was to find the lights and darks of the object and try to blend it together. We learned how to do these value projects ealier in our sketchbooks with one pencil and we also learned how to do this with oil pastels on black paper. The oil pastels were a little bit messier to use and I havent used oil pastels since elementary school. I would say this project on the iPad was a lot cleaner and was easier to blend the colors, than having to do it with oil pastels. I learned how to blend in the colors and how to emphasize the lights and darks. Technology can be important when it comes to art because it could help create cool artwork like the one above. I hope we can do more interesting and fun projects on the iPad because I really enjoyed that.

Tweety Bird's Skeleton Drawing

To start off with a nice project for Visual Arts 1 we had to choose any cartoon and then we had to create a skeleton out of it. As you see in the picture I did Tweety Bird because I thougt he would be a fun and intresting character to make a skeleton out of. I tried to make Tweety Bird's skeleton have some bones that you would see in a human. For example I created ribs, a spine, and skull. I would say the feet were the hardest part for me because I could not find a good way to draw bones. I wanted to make his feet look close to a human's foot but then I just had to use a lot of imagination in that. I got some practice making skeletons when our class had to draw a copy of a human skeleton that was put out infront of us. I really enjoyed this project and I hope we get to do some more later on.