This project is definitely my favorite of this entire year. The puns and proverb theme was right up my ally (seeing as I LOVE anything to do with words) and I quickly found the perfect inspiration for a piece.
    I had tons of plastic bags in my room. I needed to do something with them, but I couldn't bring myself to just throw them all away. As soon as this project was announced to be 'found' objects I knew I could finally put my plastic bags to good use! Normally I would not base a project off of a material, but in this case I believe it worked out to my advantage.
    As seen in my previous post, my proverb is "Not all that glitters is gold." My aim for this sculpture was to embody that proverb using plastic bags as my main material.
    The process I went through included ironing hundreds (literally!) of plastic bags and then folding, cutting and gluing them to get the shape I wanted. In the end I got a pyramid of 'gold bars.' I like the effect the plastic had with the spray paint, making the material seem crinkly, just like flakes of fools gold. I also feel that the texture of the gold bars meshes well with the texture of the gold fabric.
    When the entire thing was assembled I used a can of spray glitter to dust the gold bars and fabric to give the piece a 'glittering' effect. Then, as you can see, I added the can TO the piece along with some piece of plastic.
    Not everything believe holds worth in this world does. I used plastic bags for this idea because I feel we have become such a captive and consumer based culture, sometimes people don't see what things are truly gold and... well... plastic. The spare pieces of plastic and can hidden amongst the fabric represents those of us who DO realize this and try to cash in on it, hiding the evidence. The 'evidence' is visible because there will always be someone who finds out the truth.
    So thats my final project! Just remember my proverb and take a look at the steps I took to create my piece :)

    My room was such a mess this weekend. By the time I had gotten into the project plastic bags were everywhere. That picture above is just the beginning O_O It was also quite annoying to have to do the whole thing on my bed and not on a table. Thankfully my roommate had an ironing board :)

    And here is the finished piece! I tried to edit it a bit so the crappy picture phone quality was not evident, but that was the best I could do :/

All these entries were made much later than the critique day, but here they are! I tagged each one to have a specific category so its easier to find them. Just click on one of the assignments to the right and you'll be taken to the exactly blog post you're looking for :)

Enjoy!

There isn't much I have to say about these pieces. I do feel like all of them relate to each other and help each other out, but I agree that the green and black backgrounded one can do just fine to tell the story on its own.
The car shape took a LONG time to do. Very long. My piece ended up being hundreds of layers- and that is with no exaggeration. Each word on the car was re-sized, colored and placed exactly where it needed to be and fit the most. Each word is on its own layer.

I have found that @One has the best printing services ever. I really like how much more professional it makes my art look.

Photoshop is one of my favorite mediums to create art in. When I was around 11 I discovered graphic and website design and was constantly dabbling around in both areas. Since then I have lost pretty much any coding languages I knew, but the graphic design techniques weren't as lost.

To me, this piece says all of the things that I was not able to do with my cardboard sculpture. It has the right colors and message and the curly and twisty brushes I used give the squiggly, brain effect I wanted to show in my cardboard piece.
Though this piece is pretty crazy and probably doesn't make sense to most people who look at it, I really like it. I feel it was a way for me to actually start to like the entire cardboard sculpture assignment.

I literally spent hours and hours cutting out tiny triangles of moose and almost two entire bottles of rubber cement were used to create this piece- it turned out to be one of my favorite pieces done in this class this semester.
It was pretty cool doing each step individually, and not finding out what else we were adding until we were completely finished with the previous part. I think if we had known all of the elements of our piece at once they would not have turned out as good as they did.

Our midterm project was a challenge for me. How the heck was I supposed to connect three completely different artists? Then MAKE art that represented all of them while still looking like something... not awful?
The power point and paper were easy enough. The art part was what really got to me. I spent so much time trying to figure out what to do I almost ended up with nothing. Finally I did come up with the Panda painting. I feel it was the best way I could have possibly combined all three of the artists while still putting in a bit of myself and my own artistic style.

The Panda represents Takashi Murakami, and his love for pop art and childlike things that aren't really childlike in the real world. The colors of the background reflect the Ukiyo-e color choices and the vibrancy of the old woodblock paintings.

Lastly, the background's harsh brushstrokes are reminiscent of the impressionist style of painting. However, instead of using the strokes of paint and color to represent how light forms images, mine merely uses the brush strokes to blend colors and make them stand out.

I didn't notice until the after this project that my roommate has a PERFECT example of a contour drawing up on her wall. Its a group of musical instruments that are made up using different colors and lines to create their realistic shape. I kind of wish I would have realized what exactly was wanted out of this project. My impression of it was to just go crazy with color and crayons.
Besides not completely understanding what had to be done, I'm kind of pleased with the outcome of this piece. The brighter, more dominant cherry is my favorite part of this piece. In person the smoothness and blending of colors from the crayons can be seen really well and looks pretty cool to me.

When starting this project I had so many different ideas on how to capture a fruit's 'essence'. The only problem was that all these ideas were involving any material except cardboard and hot glue. Cardboard and hot glue have to be the most difficult mediums to work with in the world.
I don't have much to say about this piece other than it was hard and fun. I do like what I did with the glue and the 'stringy things' inside of the peach.

This assignment was a lot of fun to do. I picked a picture and planned out the distortion knowing exactly how I wanted it to come out.
I think I'm really bad at planning things like this out though, because the final piece was nothing like I had intended it to be. Originally I wanted all of the candles in the picture to be exaggerated and long, but the way I distorted it seemed to only exaggerate my face and actually shorten the candles in some places.

I'm pretty satisfied with the outcome of this drawing. The hair and eyes took a long time to do and ended up being my favorite part about this piece. Stippling on the face did not really work out for me too well, but I think the paleness of the face adds a bit to the creepiness of the drawing.

This thing took forever to do. I literally started seeing little x's whenever I blinked. There isn't much I really have to say about it, except how much more I appreciate comic books and pen drawings now. Stipling, cross hatching and all those other pen techniques are very hard to master and take a lot of time to achieve the effect you want on the piece.

This piece is one of my favorite ones I have done this year. I honestly didn't think I would be able to be successful at recreating a shape using only pen and paper.