Creative art

Just because I liked the idea, I made a triptych of three identical trees; which was the hardest part. 

I used a graphite transfer technique to trace from. 

I started with just one; I wanted a tea-aged vintage look to my paper. I made a Japanese style blossoming tree with mixed mediums; sharpie, watercolor and tempera paint. 

Mrs. Hobart grabbed it while the paint was still wet and smeared the right corner's edge petals. But I made others, that were more satisfying. 

I made this with mixed mediums too; same kinds, different colors. 

And lastly, 

A tree that grows birds. 

I matted them and titled this piece "trees of life", arranging them in chronological order of the seasons. 

I liked it. I enjoyed it much more when it was finished. 

Water color project

I never actually did, but I wanted to combine these four pieces into a square so that there would be a square space in the middle for my signature, medium information, year and edition; all that. 

Upon peer critiques, I astonished the class. They didn't quite understand my struggle for perfection. They didn't see te flaws I saw. 

Any way, we had two weeks left, so we decided to just do expressive art with any  medium of our choice. I was thinking charcoal, but I remembered how much I hated it. I chose oil pastel instead. I made this cute little guy. 

It's a cartoony hedgehog. I gave it to my neighbor's five year old for her birthday. 

It was mixed medium; ink, water color and pastel. 

Water color project

This is the Chehalis Western Trail, in the fall. 

It looked pretty cool. But when it came to the cement, I should have stopped. 

This was fine. But I was dissatisfied with the lack of cement between the leaves. 

So I painted over it with black. 

Then I magic erased it. And tried to get back to this. 

In the end, I got this. 

Water color unit

I chose to paint tho scene from my Las Vegas trip. 

This was my first attempt. Naturally, I crinkled it and threw it away. 

So I started again.

I quit after this. 

But voile. 

Water color unit

For our final, we just played with watercolors. 

I liked that people immediately recognized my last work, the bridge, so I chose real places as my theme. 

I tried to get that same crackled, dry look with my watercolors, and made the ground. And then worked to the sky. 

Then I painted my windmills 

And let the paint dry, then added sharing to give it dimension. 

Voile! The eastern Washington windmills 

Water color unit.

I chose this picture, but I doctored it when I actually sketched it. 

I also outlined the shaded areas. 

I began to paint; back to front

As well as in color groups. 

It's the Olympia bridge! 

Day two: water color unit

I finished my watercolor but Mrs. Hobart was not impressed. She wiped off my water colors, I might add. And during criticism, she told me I wasn't skilled enough to do abstract work yet. 

I tried to do a fan brush technique and also a sponge technique, both of which were less than satisfactory. 

I also did a scene with salt technique, which didn't quite suck out the water and pigment like I had hoped. But I'm overall okay with how this turned out. 

Watercolor unit!

These watercolors have not been used in quite some time. They're rusty and crusted over with old paint. 

I had these great scenes to paint but they just didn't turn out how I would have liked. The salt technique didn't do what it was supposed to and the masking tape ripped up my water color paper. 

Blending wasn't a problem until I forgot which paints in my palette were paint and which were oils-which stay in the brush longer and are harder to clean. 

 This was day one. I intended to make a river scene, so I blended purple and green hues into my blue water 

For the sky, I just used the dirty water to create the pastel look. 

Final requirements: interactive mural

Mrs. Hobart does things slightly different than Mrs. Giudice did. We are no longer graded for our blog and we do final requirements on paper. 

I deserve an A because I went out and bought my own chalk and donate the rest to the class. That's an A for effort. 

And most days Alexyss and Charlie weren't both helping me on the mural. I took all of the pictures for both of them, because they forgot to blog. 

Interactive mural: day six

Mrs. Hobart has been watching our group exclusively. Making me nervous 

But our progress has been halted as we're running out of chalk. Luckily I went out and bought some. 

We made note of where the dock would be so we wouldn't run blue and brown together. 

We also noted that the dock would be three dimensional with posts holding it up. 

See what I mean? Mrs. Hobert's creeping on my team. 

We finished our sea. 

Now to finalize the dock. 

Alexyss was our model, she is fishing off the end of our dock. 

She had to go in a "deep squat". 

Interactive mural: day five

We used chairs to get the tale portions of the wall. We had to go back over the things we brushed because it took too much off. The image was faded and didn't look nice from the key. 

Interactive mural: day four

We began coloring the sunset and began blending other values into each other. Nicole Rollman helped us because I was late to class. 

I had a problem with the vibrancy of the PeptoBismol pink, so we took brushes to the wall to get the nooks and crannies of the brick. It helped blend, but also pulled off the chalk dust. 

Interactive murals: day three

We began to color the sunset. We should have done the water after the sunset because of the back-to-front method. With art, you're supposed to color the foreground first. We continued coloring the waves. And thought to outline the dock so we knew where to stop coloring the water. 

Interactive mural: day two

Alexyss posed. But we had just began the waves. 

New Project: Interactive mural

We were told to design an interactive mural, one that someone could pose with and complete an action. 

Similar to the carnival cut out murals of the flexing man or the woman in a bikini. 

We elected groups of three or four to complete our mural designs. 

Mine was chosen. And we, Charlie, Alexyss and I, decided to keep the sunset and dock, but the person will be standing and we could lay out a towel on the "dock" for them to appear to be sunbathing. 

This was my original design. Of course we will have to crop it, to make it proportionate on the wall. And we will have to modify the dimensions to accommodate or the newly adapted design.   

Day six: vans shoe contest

My shoe design was picked out of both classes to transfer onto the shoe. I was given the shoes and fabric sharpies as well as normal sharpies. One struggle I faced was keeping my shoe clean. The tape measure I was using kept smearing the sharpie upwards when I scooted it up. I resolved that problem with chemical cleaner and a paper towel. It was tedious work having to wipe the tape measure after every line but it ultimately saved my shoe from sharpie mishaps. 

Other than that, I transferred my design successfully. I brought the shoes home to finish them sooner 

Side profile

The diamond design in the front panel was horribly messed up, geometrically. I opted to color the design in to take away from the mistake. 

My ruler moved out of its parallel positioning; that really pissed me off..

Both shoes together

A tip I'd teach and advise you to do as well is to try stuffing the shoe with tissue. It helps hold the form of the shoe and gives you a harder surface to work on. 

And my final results, 

Right side view

Back view. 

Left side view 

Voile. 

Final requirements for Vans Shoe Project

Time management I brought my shoes home

Craftsmanship I had just one smudge but no major flaws. I corrected ones I saw. 

Contour line drawing drawn by still life my shoe was drawn, sketched and traced from both still life and pictures. 

Theme is represented my theme was Art so I won for both classes. I believe I was uncontended.

Originality of design I used Pinterest for inspiration but made it mine by simple touches. 

Day five: vans project.

At breakfast table, we decided which designs we would submit for our class, second period would do the same. I'm pretty sure I won out of both classes for the art theme. 

I did an aztec theme fused with a rainbow side panel. 

And as per request I sharpie'd the design to give it a final look. 

Close up of the side panel design. 

Day four: vans project

Front and side design. 

I wanted to design as much of the shoe as I could, so I even made a design in the tongue of the shoe. It's a llama, like in Mexican weaving and artwork.