Design Your Own Art Project

In this project we were given the opportunity to design our own project. We each picked a topic that we were interested in and researched it to learn how we could make art that looked like it. After researching it we made our projects and refined them so that they looked as good as possible. Then we learned how to hang up our art pieces and displayed them on the walls. 

Artist Statment

My pieces, Delineation, are five minimalistic line watercolors depicting plants, faces, and bodies. I wanted to create pieces that allow what I was creating to show through yet allow the viewer freedom of what they think. I decided to do a combination of subject in my art to create a fluidity when pairing and displaying them. These five pieces are inspired by the simplicity of beauty. The minimalist lines are there to capture the basics of the world around us, from figures to plants. I decided to capture this idea of basics and use just black and grey water colors to create a soft contrast on the paper. By deciding to create minimalistic pieces I let the viewer see what they want. In one of my pieces I have painted the basics of two faces, but with my minimalist style the viewer can see two faces, one face, or merely a curved line. For the title of my pieces I decided to use the word delineation. Delineation is the action of describing or portraying something precisely. The word is both harmonious and opposing to my collection. The precision of the depiction is left for the viewers perspective therefore the delineation of the pieces is for anyone to figure out.

Pre-Assesment

Final Piece

Environmental Documentary Project

Mini Stop motion​

​Project Description

To start off this project we learned Photography Composition Rules along with Lighting Tips and Techniques.
We used these skills and went our own ways to create stop motion animations. They could be anything we want. After we had our images together we learned Photoshop Actions & Automating Batches, which we used in order to arrange our photos. Our last steps were learning and using Adobe Flash. Once we got our images into Flash we adjusted frame rates and exported our stop motions.

Project Reflection

This project really helped my learn not only stop motion but Lighting and Composition techniques. I feel that I can now apply these techniques to my upcoming environmental documentary. I really enjoyed using my camera to create a fun and enjoyable stop motion video.

logo project

Project reflection

  • What did you learn from this project?
  • I feel that in this project I was able to grasp an understanding of aesthetic. 
  • What are you going to take with you from this project?
  • What is your personal connection to the logo?

Self Portrait Project

Project Objective:  Create a self-portrait or develop a series of self portraits inspired by your personal and/or intellectual growth this year.​

Reflection

When is art criticism vital, and when is it beside the point?
In the self portrait project we were given time to do critiques with a partner. I felt that this critique was useful because it 

What problem solving skills are employed in making visual reflections of self?

Teacher Creature Project

Our Project Objectives:  Envision and Critique to reflect.  Recognize, demonstrate, and debate philosophic arguments about the nature of art and beauty (aesthetics). ​

Reflection

In the teacher creature project we took our teachers and turned them into something or someone else. We sent out surveys to teachers asking questions about things they like. Using the data we collected we began transforming whatever teacher you wanted into something else. I used an image I took of Brian Morgan and turned him into a presidential poster. In the beginning I had a very different idea of what I wanted to do. I wanted to make a scene of teachers voting for Kanye West in the 2020 presidential election. I sketched out many different version of what I wanted and finally came up with a presidential poster. In photoshop I took an image of a presidential poster and removed the words and images to end up with a color blocked red, white, and blue background. I took an image of Brian and layered him on top of the background. I changed him to look posterized and black and white. I added a drill, a top hat, text, glitter, and a hidden panda to add to the presidential poster. I have to say the hardest part of this project for me was working with all of the layers I was using. Including text I had close to 20 layers. I worked through this by grouping layers and hiding some so I had less room for mistakes. I feel that I was able to begin finding my artistic style. I feel fairly drawn to the posterized or vector images. I feel that in the future I will definitely use this style again. I feel that hearing all about Kanye West and his announcement about running for president and hearing about Kim Kardashian and Kanye definitely influenced me subconsciously to  play with the idea of presidency. I enjoyed this project and I am quite excited to keep working with photoshop.

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Proof Sheet

Photoshop Tutorials

Before Photoshop

To remove the braces from the original image, I used the patch tool and the spot healing tool

Before Photoshop
To change the hair color in this image I used the brush tool to change the color of her hair. 
After Photoshop


After Photoshop
Before Photoshop
I used the quick selection tool and the hue/saturation effect to change to eye color from brown to green.
After Photoshop

Foreground, Middleground, Background Mini-project

     I feel that learned a lot during this project. In the past I haven't had a lot of experience with Photoshop, so this project taught me a lot about how to use different tools and create many layers in one cohesive image. I used the quick selection tools very often while working on this project. It helped me easily select what I needed to be layered or removed on my image. Due to the fact that we were using so many elements, having something that could easily select parts of an image was very helpful. The blur and smudge tools also helped to create the natural look of the animals in my image. Knowing about scale and proportion in drawing was helpful to transfer over my skills into the digital world. I definitely believe that Adobe Photoshop is a useful tool to have and know how to use both in school and in the future.

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