Saturday, December 21, 2013

Day five: Animal texture project
I totally nailed my image. It was a little crooked, but I like my final matte.

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Dat four: Texture project
Now that I've stamped my second ink color, I can carve away what was needing to be grey and do my outlines

This is all that's left on my stamp, and you can clearly see the elephant. 

Day three: Texture project

I ripped my template and had to re-cut one. Therefore, nine of my ten prints are now crooked.
But on the bright side, I am a problem solver. And this will be fixed.

Friday, December 13, 2013

Day two: Texture project
We cut our white away and rolled out ink on Plexiglas. We mix our two inks to get the desired hue and then make another square of ink until it looks like crushed velvet- or until you get tired of the kissy sound.
Then print ten papers with your first layer cuts. Whatever shows up will be in you lightest color.
Then you cut away anything in your color plan that was that color.
You now have your second layer.


This was after I carved away all possible pick-up. I left my birds in the horizon. I hate them now. They're too little and complicated to cut.
Day one: Texture project
we worked on finding an animal with a visible texture, we also had to google what "visible texture" was in art. I immediately thought of pachyderms- animals with rough, thick skin.
So, I picked an elephant.
We had to draw three prints of the animal, or different ones, and create a 4x6" panel to put on our rubber stamp. then transfer it and begin cutting out the white places on our color plan.
On the left is my color plan. And the right is my practice print, after I had cut my white out.
I also carved my art teacher's stamp for her, both sides, I think I'm getting better at precise cutting.
New project: Stamp texture project
We have a few requirements.
* Animal
* 3 textures. not all three can be in the animal.
* Use time wisely
* three colors
* craftsmanship

Thursday, December 12, 2013

These last few weeks, we've been experimenting with prints and carving stamps and making mats; which I'm great at
The first stamp was on an art gum eraser, and was used to make a "Radial Tesselation" which is a design that you pivot around one point and repeat.
We made stamps of our initials and then matted it, officially. We learned how to title, edition, and sign our mats. And now we're working on three layer rubber stamps.
I feel I met all five requirements on the celebrity painting because I used all of my space proportionately to my 1:1 scale print out then converted it to a 2:1 scale using a grid.
I also included about seven shades after blending and all were shades of blue.
I used my time wisely, because of course Giudice expects it.
I think it looks something like Helena Bonham Carter, at least to me- although I had used a different type of photo effect than most other students, I didn't use "cutout" I used "marker"

Day five: Celebrity Monochromatic painting
I finished Helena's hair and I am quite satisfied with my result
Day four: celebrity monochromatic painting
 I began Painting helena and contouring in the shade blue. I worked on the neck first, then working to the face and hair.
Day three: Mononchromatic Painting
I added numbers to Helena today, to indicate which areas would be which shades.
Day two: Celebrity monochromatic painting
* I started drawing today and I tried contouring because Helena has a very sunken look on her eyes and cheeks. Lots of blending.

Day one: Celebrity monochromatic painting
*We were supposed to pick a celebrity, do a grayscale print-out, and pick a color to paint it in.
I chose blue and Helena Bonham Carter, because I love her. I also decided to do a grid on my print out to help me, which worked in some respects.

New Project! Monochromatic paintings.
Requirements:
* Needs to look like the celebrity you chose, or at least resemble.
* Needs to be proportional- Use a grid to help
* Use time wisely
* Use as close to ten shades as you can get
* Needs to be monochromatic of the one shade
How I fulfilled the color wheel's requirements:
I feel I deserve an A because
A) I chose an original design for the color wheel, while demonstrating the correct order and shades
B) My colors were blended in the other schemes but crisp in the main color wheel, therefore showing the shades in between the primary and secondary colors.
C) I used my time wisely and effectively, and finished early
D) My lines were crisp and I didn't spill much paint on my final work.
E) It was neat and distinguishable- you could clearly tell it was my prior design.

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Day five: Color Wheel Project

I restarted, I re-shaped my minor logs on the left side, and used the foreground-to-front technique. Other than that, my painting is exactly the same design.
My final result was as this.
Day four: Color wheel project

I was frustrated when Giudice told me I should paint back to front. I am a "Type A" personality and things must be my full potential if I am presenting it.
So, needless to say, I finished the day's work and restarted.

However, i made sure to paint the white foreground white. That was something Mrs. Giudice advised us of later but I had already done.
Day three: Color wheel project

I started painting, but I hadn't known to paint foreground to topmost textures-which was my downfall. I was sure to keep my lines crisp by using painters tape. I wouldn't suggest you do this unless you stick it on something else first, it will be too sticky and rip your paper.

Day two: Color wheel project



I drew my original idea. I labeled which sections would be which color. and drew a wood texture on the log's side.
Color wheel project:
The first few days we searched for inspirations on the wonderful site, Pinterest. We "pinned" ideas that were helpful or neat.
I ended up doing mine as a log pile with an axe splitting the schemes.
New Project requirements:
Color wheel project.
1) craftsmanship
2) uses at least one color theme
3) portrays the color wheel in a creative array including primary, secondary and tertiary colors
4) use time wisely
5) colors are correct order and shade
I fulfilled the requirements of the cabinet project by
A) Keeping my lines straight and precise with an exacto blade
B) keeping proportion to my original line design
C) Resembling my original "view-finder" panel
D) Demonstrating how to emphasize a line without altering the line itself.
E) And using my time wisely throughout the class period
Final day of our cabinet project; my end result was pleasing, I think.
Took forever, I feel bad for whoever needs to take the tape off at the end of the year.
cupboard porject day one. we cleaned our cabinets.