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This project was not one of my favorites. The water colors are very hard to work with and get it to the color that I wanted it to be. I learned that more detail is better than less detail. The hardest part of this project was getting it to be the color that i wanted it to be. If I added a little water then hardly any of the color shows up. This project helped me shade and form colors into what i needed.

Statue of Liberty

For this image we used photoshop and used threshold to turn the photo to black and white. Then we printed the image and used a projector to cut out the stencil. Once we had the image on the stencil, we cut out the pieces that we wanted to be black. The background is pages out of a book. I would cut out paragraphs and just glue them to the back randomly. Then i chose a light color which turned out to be yellow. Because i used a light color as the background i decided to use a dark color as the actual image to show positve and negative space. Using the xacto knife was a little tricky because it did not turn corners well. We also had to always cut away from our hands and body to make sure that we did not cut ourselves.
My expierence with the spray paint was great. This was my favorite project because we got to use spray paint.

Flying Dolphin

The composition of this artwork is a dolphin jumping out of the water in front of a sunset. To add texture to the print, i added wavy lines for the waves in the water. I also added lines coming off of the sun for the rays of the sun.  To add contrast I cut out the belly of the dolphin so it would be more noticable. Both texture and contrast are important for a print because it helps the picture come to life and make it look more realistic. I used positive and negative space to show the outline and the shapes of the dolphin to make it stand out more. The project is decently technically crafted. I could have added more detail to the dolphin or to the ocean. I was able to show depth to the print making the dolphin bigger showing that it was closer and that it was jumping out of the water. I really liked doing this project. it was one of my favorite projects so far. Getting to cut out the print was the best part.

Print sketches

 This is the original idea for my print sketch. It is a dolphin coming out of the water in front of a sun set. Texture is important in our sketches so that we can translate them into the final project we have to do. If we do not add texture at the beginning, we might forget what the texture is suppose to look like exactly. It is important to have several references of our animals and backgrounds so we can have different angles of our animals and the backgrounds. If we just have one angle of our animal, we might forget to add something to the picture so it is important to have multiple references to look back at. It is neccessary to have multiple backgrounds so we can decide which one we want to incorporate in our projects. When looking at my sketches I could tell which one would make the strongest print. Some of my other ideas would not work because of the patterns on the animal or other aspects that would be needed to make the print of a different animal.

For our chalk mural, we decided to do a person taking notes in math class and doodling on the paper because they got bored. During this expierence, our team worked really well together. It was fun to get to work with others so we could hear their ideas and use their input on the chalk mural. Having more than one opionon helps the project as a whole because we can colaborate and make it the best we possibly can. Collaboration is very important when working on a team to make sure that everybody has a part of the project and to make sure that everybody is ok with the project. Having multiple poeple working on  the project also helps because it adds more ideas to the project and more diversity because it is not just one persons ideas in the project. I think the project was pretty succesful.  The project as a whole came out just like we had it on paper and followed the original plan. Creating artwork that other people can interact with is really fun. Seeing somebody that likes your artwork and interacting is really inspiring to help keep you going and making artwork.

Shell Drawings

This is me in class working on shell drawings. The shells came out alright, however, they were the first ones i had drawn so they could deffinitly be improved apon. If i had to do this over again i would add more shading to show the lines of the shells better. The most difficult part about these drawings were trying to make them look 3-D. From this piece i learned how to shade a little better and how to draw lines that help the picture look more 3-D.

 

I think this was a pretty fun project. it went well all though I think I could have done a little better on the minor details. I like how i did the left side of the body better than the right. The face was a little difficult because of how is face is constructed in the original picture. If I had to do this again, i would slow down and spend more time on the smaller bones and the minor details so  that the overall picture looked better. The hardest part about this picture was his left leg or the one on the right when you look at it. Because it was bent, it was more difficult to draw. From this piece i learned how to pay more attention to minor details so that my artwork comes at neater.