I created a coaster out of clay because that is something I never tried before. I wanted to try something different. When I first started I thought of making a mug but it was a bit more difficult and we didn’t have much clay. So I wanted to go for something that would cause me to use less clay. I made it for someone so I painted it one of their favorite colors but I wanted it to be more shiny to before I painted it purple I painted it with a gel paint which make it shiny. I think my work communicates that it is exactly what I was trying to make. I think they if they look at it they can tell that it is a coaster. In the process of making this I think I achieved a better creative mind. My current work doesn’t relates to my previous work because this is the first time I actually made something like this before. I think my work relates to Sterling Ruby clay work because I feel like the structure of both of our work is the same. The only thing he did differently is the color options which is more dark colors.

I created the linoleum cut because I simply wanted to try something different. I felt like it was something I didn’t think I could do so I wanted to try it. I wanted to create an image that people could make up their own story from. It is an image people can interpret in their own way. I think people would mostly see it as something spooky. Something you would see in a cartoon movie where kids are  trick or treating on a Halloween night and go into a forest for more of an adventure. Doing this project I think I created more of an imaginative mind for myself. I feel like my work doesn’t relate to my previous work because I feel like my previous work wasn’t much creative. I think my art relates more to David Hockney art because he did a lot of landscape art with painting of trees, woods, and towns with farms land. I feel like that is the type of art I was working towards.

Linoleum cut process was easy. First I had to sketch out an idea of what I wanted to crave and I had to make sure the image would be able to fit on the linoleum so that was challenging. After sketching the picture I had to print it on the linoleum using carbon paper. When it printed on the linoleum I then had to go over the image a black sharpie marker. Then I had to heat up the linoleum with a iron so that it would be easy to crave. The I began to carve the part of my image that wasn’t gone over with the sharpie. After I was finish craving I then had to print my image on a piece of paper using ink and a roller to roll the ink over my image so that it will print of the paper.

My work was created with more of a science art vision. I say this because I turned the color wheel idea into colorful atoms and I made my background all black. I expect people to get the idea through the circles being so close together leaving no room in between. My current world relates to my previous work because with any art piece I’ve ever created I made sure that it was some type of colorful. The whole concept of the colors is like my signature on any piece that i create.

An artist that I am influenced by is Andy Warhol because he is an artist who usually works with lots of colors. For example in his Marilyn Monroe pieces he shows how his colors affects different moods of his work. Anything that he does I try to do because he is a very unique artist who I think see things in his own way.

Campaign Experience

On 4/26/16 I volunteered on election day helping out the Committee of Seventy  for my very first time. I worked with my partner JaVon all morning talking to people and helping them with things they were unsure of. We walked around to four different polling places and collected ballots and took pictures and asked people survey questions.The first polling place we met at was on 50th & Spruce where there were lots of people standing at. Being in involved with helping with the election was a bit overwhelming because we are teenagers and don’t really know much about this stuff. We were around a lot of experienced people and didn’t want them to think that we didn’t know what we were doing. We kept calm and continued to do what we were told to do so at the end of the day we were ok. Beside being overwhelmed I felt like I was being a big help to our community and to the candidates and that was a really great feeling. Most teen don’t get the opportunity to get to put on their resume that they volunteered for an election and that is a very big deal. Even though I wasn’t receiving anything it was still a pleasure to help.  I enjoyed working with my partner because we were very helpful to one another and asked each other questions we were unsure of when helping other people. The only thing we didn’t get a chance to do was take pictures with candidates because we didn’t see any out there. That was what I looked forward to the most but maybe next time. I would like to do this again some other day. The only questions I have based off of my experience today is how do I read the ballot and understand it?  My second question is how do you register to vote once you reach the age of 18? My last question is how do those people get involved with being in charge of each polling place? Do they volunteer or is it an actual paying job?

Pictures During Election Experience

The first picture we took at our first polling place on 50th and Spruce.

We collected our first ballot that we didn’t know how to read at all.

How far we thought we should stand from the polling place. We didn’t want to be so close.