Adobe

  Today was the first day I had ever worked with Adobe Illustrator.  The assignment was to make flowers and mess around with the settings.  Honestly, not my favourite project in the world.  It was boring and well, not fun.  I'm not much of a computer art person, I guess I prefer to use my hands in a physical reality. 

Clay

 The Clay project was a big learning expierence since I have never really made a serious attempt at doing much sculpting with clay.  Our first step in the project was to work with a clay ap on our ipads and create prototypes of what we might want to make out of clay.  However I kind of got bored with the ap and only did a couple.

My final project was a couple of clay eyeballs, wonderful I know.  They turned out just as creepy as I had hoped.  I really liked this project and wouldn't mind working with clay again.  I can't wait to see what they look like when they cook.  There is nothing I would change in this project, it was lots of fun!

Zentangle

My Zentangle project was probably one of the longest projects we've done in art yet.  As usual I worked with my friend Julia in a very cooperative fashion.  We started off with the paper zentangle as shown in the very top picture.  After that we moved to the concrete outside and we painted Julia's shadow with the so called "mud".  This mud in reality is clay and I really wish we had painted with actual mud because it would have been more fun.  I still don't understand why we didn't use mud but I figure curiosity kills the cat.

Next we moved to the courtyard where me and Julia decided to continue with our shadow idea except this time we painted Julia's body.  We spent the first few days filling in the outline of Julia's body.  Then, after hearing we had to fill in the entire wall, we went into turbo drive and got almost our entire wall painted in one day.  Of course we had some help from a few friends along the way, but in the end the final product was worth the effort.  

If I ever do this project again then there would be nothing I would change, except for maybe the boiling heat that pounded us.  It was a fun project and I would be happy to do it again with no more zentangles.  Although I enjoyed the clay paint, I didn't really enjoy the zentangles.  To be honest the zentangles kind of bored me and I don't think I'll be jumping for joy if we do them again. 

Forced Perspective

I had a bit of trouble creating my forced perspective.  For starters I worked by myself so it limited what I was able to do, but it was better than working with people I didn't know well.  My main trouble was that I didn't have many ideas and just wanted to take pictures of birds. The picture you see is one of the very last pictures I took and maybe it's not the best but I like it.  Although I can already see ways to improve on this photograph and on my ideas.  If I could have moved my hand a little bit in the photo I think it would look better.  It was an interesting project but I'm still not sure if I would want to do it again. I would much rather be taking photos of nature.

Flowers

 While me and my friend were outside spray painting with some yellow and blue cans, we found these beautiful flowers.  They are a perfect example of genetic variation because they are of course  completely natural.  

Spray Paint Portrait

 Best project yet!

New project, we had to create a stencil and a frame, put them together, and create a portrait.  I decided to make my stencil first because everyone else was being noisey and building a frame.  It took a couple days to complete but once I did, I moved outside with my friend to build our frames.  This was done quickly and easily. Once both the frame and stencil were complete I painted the background of by portrait yellow.

It took a day to dry by once the backgrounds were done I was eager to get outside and spray paint.  Of course all I spray painted was my portrait I most definitly did not spray paint anything else.  First I layed out my stencil and preped the black paint to spray.  In other words a shook a can vigorously for five minutes.

 Once the can was ready, I began to paint.

 Next was the blue which didn't require much vigorouse shaking.  It went down easily and quickly withouth any problems.  After blue came yellow which unfortuanetly did not go so smoothly.  I sprayed to close to the portrait and then took up the stencil much to soon.  The yellow pain spilled out onto the painting where it was not wanted.

 I decided to redo the blue so that I could redo the yellow and make it how I wanted.  It took quite a while to dry but the effort was worth it, my portrait was done.

By far this has been the most enjoyable project.  Partly because we got to go outside and partly because I got to spray paint.  Next time I will definitly make less mistakes with spray pain because now I have gathered expierience.  I'm looking forward to more fun projects.

Self Portrait

 In class I spent an entire week learning about self portraits and the proportions of a Homo Sapiens face/head.  Our project was to draw a self portrait, using a mirror to see your face. On first day of  self portraits I added the basic outline of my face.  On the second day of self portraits I added detail and some shading.  On the third day of self portraits I filled in most of the shading on my face. (I have yet to complete this and will add a photo of the finished product.  The only reason it's not done is that I was away for a day.)

The most surprising thing about this project was the different proportions of the face and how different they are from what you would think.  Overeall I'm very pleased with what I've done and hope the final product is even better.  Next time though, I think I would work a litte more on the shading and highlights, especially in the eyes.