Clay Tile

Working with clay was another project that I didn't particularly enjoy, but as far as clay goes this project wasn't too bad. The most difficult part in doing this project was shaping the clay to look like it does in our references. Another obstacle I faced when making this tile was creating the right texture in the clay to create a good background.

landscape painting

This wasn't one of my favorite projects mainly because I don't like to paint. But by picking a simple reference, it made the project a lot more bearable. The most difficult part dealing with painting on a canvas such as this is making the texture on certain parts of the painting look as it does on the reference. A good example of this is the leaves on the tree.

Game Drawing

I disliked this project, therefore I didn't really care about the final outcome of this piece. I don't feel like I was very succesful on this piece because I wasn't interested in what I was doing. If I did this project again, I would most likely focus harder on making the dimensions more similar to my reference. The water color painting was the hardest part of this project.

3D Drawing

While in the computer lab, we used Photoshop to transform the scale as well as the perspective of the image so that looking at the image from different angles shows a different shape of the picture. Using this picture, we used the grid method to transfer the picture from the printout sheet, to our sketchbooks. The most important aspects of this project were first, creating an appropriate perspective and scale for your initial picture. Also, it is important to be exact when transferring the image to your sketchbook.

Spray Painting with a Stencil

In order to create the stencil for this project, we had to use Photoshop to manipulate the threshold on a picture we selected off Google. From that, we expanded the picture and used it as a stencil. to create the background for this work, I just sued random pieces of newspaper, there was no rhyme or reason behind which pieces I chose. Using black and white creates a clear contrast in the spray painting, which is why i chose to use those basic colors. Cutting with the xacto knife was a challenge because it was difficult to cut little pieces in the paper. It is important to remember however, to never cut towards yourself or your fingers.  Detail is important to have present in a work of art such as this, however, adding a lot of detail makes it nearly impossible to cut with an xacto knife. Another important aspect to consider is using the correct colors to define a positive contrast in the spray painting.

Print Making

Adding texture to my print was done by using grooves to create the the white part of the penguin. Rather than removing the whole top layer, I used individual lines for the purpose of adding texture. There is a clear positive vs. negative theme in the art in the form of the black and white contrast in the print. The project didn't turn out as well as hoped, mostly because of either a lack of paint on the press, or too much paint on the press. Depth was difficult to create in this print because we only made one layer of color in the linoleum was created a struggle to show true depth. I have no experience working with prints, therefore knowing how deep and far apart to make each cut was a difficult process for me.