visual journal final

I really enjoyed this project because I didn't really have any boundaries and I could think out of the box. The topic for this page was not clear to me until about two or three days of just thinking and going through magazines for ideas. Before I had made my decision on what to do, I had gone ahead and put different blues, purples and white tissue paper crumbled on the page for texture. These are the same colors as I have in my room so maybe I could keep it in my room if I really liked the way it turned out.  I went with a fairy-tail land made out of different fashion materials and objects. The perfume bottle is the house with a bow roof and clouds made out of soapy pearls and glitter as the rain. I also have upside down perfume bottles with real leafs on it as the tree, a path made of nail polish liquid and a sun that is golden charms. Underneath all of this though where stamps of different shapes like stripes, flowers, and hearts. On top of that I also hot glued golden twisties used to keep bags closed and also different scraps of pink fabric. The next layer was the whole setting of this fairy tail land decorated with a couple more cute bows at the end. Overall, I really loved this project! It was one of my favorites from this semester because I could pretty much use anything I found and stick it on the paper.

visual journal draft

This project was very fun and let me use my imagination.The first one with the Christmas topic was fun but in the end it just looked all crazy and unorganized. My favorite part was curling the bows and and adding the ribbon to it. It really framed the whole page except the page was not that great. Having the teddy bear see through was not the best idea cause it just looked like a big brown blob. But it was fun putting all the different Christmas colors and wrapping paper on the background. My favorite was the summer page. I love this one because I put a bunch of bright summer colors in the background to make it pop. I also love this one because I didn't go to overboard with it. It looks more neat and organized so it looked nicer. My favorite part is probably the part with the sunglasses and the beach going through them with the bright orange kinda as the mouth. I also loved the colors of the ocean cause it was nail polish and the beach mad of fabric. It took me a while to think of my ideas but it sure turned out to be a great creative experience.

clay and colored pencil project

I am very proud of my clay project because it turned out a lot better than I thought it would. The hardest part about molding the food was trying to get it hollow and still have the right shape of the meal. I love the hash browns and the way they still have a rugged edge. I also really like how the bananas turned out. The hardest part of this project was getting the right color on the toast and apples. Because I used glaze, I couldn't blend the colors together as well or use the right kind of value. My favorite color on the meal was the butter and the bananas. It looks real! I was not as happy about the Oreo. In the picture I used to go by, the light was on the oreo making it look more brown. After I finished though, I tried to put black over it too but it just made the picture look more scribbly. My value was difficult to get all in and because there was a lot of different sections to do. My favorite part of this Oreo is the outside rim. I think it looks almost real except it's way darker than the rest of the oreo. Overall, I am proud of what I have accomplished and I learned a lot from it.      

colored pencil, chalk, and oil pastel project

This project was more difficult than I thought it was going to be. The chalk was my least favorite project to do because it smeared everywhere and looked sloppy. It was harder than the other projects to get the direction of the mint but it was the easiest to get the value through. This is because I would smear the two colors together with my finger to let them blend better. I was surprised with the colored pencils because I usually don't like using them. I don't like how they make the object have stray likes and not just one color. Coloring the lollipop helped me find a way to make the object colors collide. I also really liked using the white colored pencil because it helped make the colors blend better. I am most proud of the Jolly Rancher I made. I think I did a great job with the value on the candy piece and the side of the wrapper before the yellow part started. The oil pastel was also easy to use because it blended the value in a unique way. I liked this use of coloring because the candy looked like one big peice that was colored together.

Jasper Johns Project

I had the artist, Jasper Johns, and I decided to paint like him because he was very unique. He always had an American flag in his artwork and painted very thickly and spotchily (random strokes everywhere). I thought I did a very good job of replicating my artist with the flag because there are thick strokes randomly everywhere and there are still some white spots on the page because it is not a super detailed or perfectionist type of work. I also glued splotches of  newspaper everywhere in the background to make the painting have more texture and make it look more dirty and messy like Jasper's. The hardest part of this piece for me was the eagle. Drawing it wasn't as hard as making sure I have the right value in the right places. Also it was hard to paint because the eagle is not actually just plane white, it is dirty in some places and is darker around the eyes. Overall I was very proud and happy with how the project turned out and I shocked myself with my capabilities.

perspective project

I really loved trying to figure out what I was going to draw and taking the pictures of the eno. It turned out a lot better than I thought and I even shocked myself with the turnout. I had a hard time drawing the legs and trying to color it with the right value. I also thought I did a good job with the perspective of the picture. The eno had a separate vanishing point and then there were two other points on the side. This drawing is also personal to me because I took the picture in my backyard and i'm happy how it turned out looking just like the picture.  

Print Project

I thought that this project was more complicated then I thought it would be. It was hard to figure out what parts would be with the ink or without the ink. What I did first was draw my pictures in the small rectangle. I thought that this was the hardest pert because I had to make up everything from the beginning and make up what the texture would be. I also had to trace the picture on the linoleum and then cut it out in the right pert. My favorite part about this whole project was printing it out. I liked mixing some of the colors together and making it look very cool.     

pancake face

I thought that this project was fun a first. I liked smearing the pancakes out and I also likd croping the jaw face out. but twards the end I got really angry with this assignment because my computer was super slow. I also had a problem with the earasing part because my back ground was dark. But overall I thought that this was a very cool picture to make and I liked this assignment.  

stencil project

My stencil did not turn out very good at first. The first time I started, I accidentally got the wrong type of paint and color and it got all wrinkly and dark in only some area of the final part. I had restarted because I was not happy with how it was staring to turn out. My second and last time I made turned out better. I used all of the right colors and everything. But then when I was done I thought that it would look better if I fixed one part on the stencil. I knew that that was a bad idea because it made part of the eyes all wrinkly too and colors overlapped. I learned that you should not always want more and more because that could lead to something that was worse than what you started with.

Contour Line Shoe

My drawings improved with contour lines because now I was able to draw more of the texture. At first I thought that it would be difficult because we  couldn't lift up the pencil, but it actually wasn't that bad. Also I think that drawing without lifting your pencil up helps with poportion because you are not drawing at different times and with different sizes each. One of the hardest parts to draw on the shoe was the stitching lines because those are basically dotted. Instead, I just drew darker and then ligther on the stitches tso hat it almost looked dotted. I think that the shape of my shoe was not the best but I did a good job of making the shoe look more 3D and using contour lines.

ipad Value project

Using the ipad was much more useful then using oil pastel. On the ipad, I could do the same amount of things like smudging and drawing different colors as I would on a real peice of paper. In most ways, the ipad was easier because there were more colors to choose from, you could undo whenever you wanted, the smudges seemed smoother, and your hands and paper would not get dirty. I accomplished being able to make art on a technology device and I think that it turnd out better on the screen then on my paper. Technology is important in art because it can make things easier sometimes and it can help because you can undo and not make a mess and worry about menning up.

Stich Skeleton

The skeleton that I drew had alot of the same types of bones as a human would have. The difference between the bone parts for a human and for Stich is that I have long bones for the ears, claws for the fingers, big eye and nose areas, and thinner bones because he has so much muscle to fit in. I thought that this project was fun because I could make the bone structure however I wanted because it was a cartoon character. Something that I might change next time is make the jaw line look more real, make a bone/bones for the tail, and draw darker. I am very suprised at how well I have done making a skeleton out of only my imagination, I just thought about what an alien and a dog's skeleton might look like and I also thought about what cool characteristics I could put in that most skeletons don't have. 

-Nicole K