I created batman and used the colors red white and blue. I think I liked the contradiction; batman is known to be black but he is a variety of colors in my painting. I was hoping to show the people who view my work how you can play with colors and change the way things are “supposed” to be viewed. I think that’s exactly what my painting communicates to the viewer too. I think that I did achieve my overall goal to show the people who are viewing my work something unique that you wouldn’t see or really think about. I think it goes against what’s considered the “norm.” I think that this project did kind of relate to my first color wheel. The objective of both of these works of art were to show how you can use a few colors and get the result of several different colors that blend together differently and nicely. Looking at the website provided, I don’t believe that my work really relates to contemporary art.

     It was a multiple step process in order to come up with the final result of my work. First I had to pick three colors. I chose red blue and white; I believed they would work together nicely and create a nice purple, the white white making it a more lavender color. The one only inspiration I really had for this drawing was a picture of batman I had saw. Then is when I decided that’s what I would draw. I think my art reflects in the world we live in by showing that it’s okay to be different and go against expectations to be different. People can use that idea in their life to inspire them to be themselves. There isn’t necessarily a right or wrong way to do this. You have to experiment with colors and decide what you think would work best for you as an individual. I think this project did indeed teach me how to paint better though.

I created this work because I felt that it would be interesting to create a picture using only 3 colors. It was also cool to see how 3 colors could mix into many more. My overall work is disappointing. I think it came out a sloppy mess and that the viewer of my painting won’t be able to see my vision. I was hoping to achieve a more uniformed look, but instead it looks thrown together.

I would hope that my viewer could see something in the painting that I can’t. The lighter parts of the portion are supposed to represent the good sides of the butterfly and the dark parts are supposed to represent the bad parts that the butterfly has to overcome in order to get to the better parts of his life. My current work doesn’t relate to my previous work. I think that each pieces of my art are different and doesn’t reflect off of each other.

My painting doesn’t fit in with contemporary art because it wasn’t meant to be put in that category of art. The process I worked was first I did a grid of colors and mixed blue with blue, red, and white. Then I mixed white with white, blue, and red. Then I mixed red with red, blue, and white. In some parts of my painting the colors mixed more bluntly than in other parts it clashed better into a new color. My art reflects the world I live in because in the center, the butterfly is bright, but all around it is not so bright, so it’s like the environment you live in doesn’t affect who you are.

My art would make an impact on the world because it would make people realize that they are not the people who are around them. One of the certain techniques that was essential to the piece was the dotting I did around the butterfly. A new technique I experienced with was mixing paint to form something different and use them together on a painting to make sense.

The reason why I’ve created this artwork is because when you approach Linoleum cut you will noticed that it only consist of one color black. Because of this I decided to do a fish yin-yang because I thought that it would be great for this project, and as it turned out it went as I imagined it would. My overall vision for my work was to be precise and cautious about my work because it was my first time doing linoleum cut so I wanted my work to be spectacular. But I was hoping to achieve a fish yin-yang through the creation of my work and that's what I got. I think that what my work communicates to the viewers approaching it is that they will look at the colors and shapes and their first thought would be “ooh this is a yin-yang how cool” and hopefully they cherish it. I think that I achieved many things in this project, some which were completing it on time, measuring how paint I needed for my piece of art to be readable, by readable I mean so that they can noticed that it's a yin-yang as soon as they walk up to it.

For my quarter 3 project I decided to chose the limited palette because I wanted to try something different. For my project I  have created a pikachu because i wanted to draw something different beside a flower. My overall vision of my work is it turned out better than I expect it. I expect my audience to react in a positive way and I think that they will react in a positive way. What I think I’ve achieved through the creation of this art is mixing colors to get the color that I wanted for my drawing. My current work relates to my previous work because I have done it in art. One example of a piece of contemporary art that compares to my art is Spencer Finch because of his use of shapes and color mixture to make his drawing. The first thing I did when making this artwork is I first drew pikachu, then traced pikachu onto a canvas board. After that I traced pikachu with a sharpie, then I started to add color to the drawing. I had to pick three main colors then try and create other colors by combining the colors with each other. The three colors I chose were black, yellow and red. For my palette I had black mixed with yellow, black mixed with red and etc. This art piece really doesn’t express me. I don’t think my work could influence anyone. A new technique that I learned while making this art was making a color guide to create multiple different colors.  

Just Joking

So for Quarter 3 I decided to do the mixed media project. I chose this project because I thought it would be awesome/look so cool if my drawing came to life with different mediums that’s not just paint. My vision was to have the Joker hanging upside down like that scene in “The Dark Knight”, but then I wanted Harley Quinn in it, But I didn’t have space for her… So she and batman became mini figurines, like their “Pop vinyls”. Before I started drawing I was gonna make Joker like a teenager, That’s why he’s dressed the way he is instead of the purple suit. The different mediums I used were: Paint, Markers, Colored Pencils, Charcoal, Newspaper letters, Magazine letters, and a Lead Pencil. Newspaper and Magazine letters were used for the “Ha Ha’s”, The colored pencils for their skin, parts of their clothes and the moon. Markers for parts of clothing, the moon, Charcoal for a like evil aura, and the paint for the background and stars. I feel as though the only way you can do good in art is to draw something you love or something that makes you happy, that's why this work compares to my previous ones. I always draw according to what makes me happy. When I started I had a totally different idea, didn’t like it so I trashed it. My inspiration for this was Heath Ledger’s performance in “The Dark Knight”. I loved his performance. Me and Joker have a lot in common, Laughing at stuff that aren’t really funny lol. To sum this up, This project was awesome, I feel like I could’ve added a bit more, but I just had little time with the whole starting over thing. I’m still marveled by this though, didn’t think I’d pull it off. Anyways, I hope you enjoy Just Joking. (Idk about the title...)

I have created the ballerina because I wanted to draw something that would represent me and what I love to do. I was hoping to achieve showing my personality through my work and showing how creative I am doing it. I think my work communicates to the viewer that the definition of my ballerina is very exquisite and the way that I used the background to bring my drawing out was nice. I have achieved outlining the figure to have straight lines and I also achieved in printing the figure out very nice. My current work relates to my previous work because of the definition that I used for my previous one I used on my current work. An example of contemporary art that is similar to mines is the artist Stephen Mackey. His drawings of Arcadia Contemporary is like mines because his use of dark in the background to bring out the main point of the picture is what I did for my painting. Also his use of colors I would definitely say contrasted together like mines.

The process I used to create my work is I first drawn my figure. Then I transferred my image to my linoleum and traced it. After that I used some tools to carve the figure the way that I wanted it. After this whole process, I started printing my linoleum onto a paper and I chose to do a pink background because I felt like it would have made the ballerina pop out more. Then I was finished after that all I had to was scan my paper. My inspiration for this was me and my personality and what I love to do which is dancing. My work reflects the world I live in and my experiences because this is really all I know to do besides volleyball. My work can influence people to know that you don’t have to draw what everyone else see and know, you can draw something that you know, learned, and love to do. A certain technique is important because like say you're drawing a picture and the way you hold your pencil is important if you want the lines to be hard or soft or curvy or straight it’s all in the wrist. A new technique that I learned is how to carve at a certain angle and basically how to carve linoleum in the way that you want to carve it.

In my limited palette, I had a whole lot of different colors and different shades to choose from. I have created the project that I created because it seemed like a very easy way to be colorful and creative while drawing what you choose.  From this project , I learned how to create multiple different colors by adding other colors. I also learned how to paint different parts of a painting with certain brushes. I think my work communicates to the viewer because the viewer can see the painting how I viewed it. I viewed it as if it’s love in the air. . My current work relates to my previous work because I always end choosing basic art pieces that are difficult , or difficult art pieces that I cannot do and i'll fall behind, but for this one I thought simple , and my backstory bigger. My work fits in with contemporary art  because contemporary art is art that has been created and continues to be created during our lifetimes. With limited palette , it fits into contemporary art because most female artist tend to draw hearts since it’s easier to express. Creating this project , I believed it was gonna be easy. Turns out … It was the total opposite. I had to pick three main colors then try and create other colors by combining the colors , with each other . For example,  My colors were black , white and white . For my palette I had black mixed with blue ,blue mixed with white mixed with black and etc.Then i would have to figure out which color goes where An artist or art piece that inspired me was Shar and his piece called “ hearts on fire”. This art piece inspired me because there were sky high roses on a long stem with red streaks smeared on it to make it look like it’s on fire . So I figured I will draw blue hearts to relate to the sky. My art work could relate to my life because there is all types of love spreaded everywhere , whether it’s friendships , relationships, or just somebody who wanted to help. My work can influence people that it’s okay for their artwork not to be huge and full of a whole bunch of detail as long as their backstory is bigger, that makes everything better. A certain technique that is very important for limited palette is choosing your main colors. This technique is important because you have to mix them colors with the same colors , and change the volume from dark to bright or however you want you painting to be. So you will need to think all of that through before actually painting.

I have chose to create a Linoleum cut in press out a hands but i’ve chosen hands specifically because without hands where would we be? But the overall vision for this piece was to show my hands just five fingers but when you flip it upside down you see the other five within my five fingers. What i think this piece of art communicates to the viewers of this is that I think that they could perceive anything but if they were a deep critical thinker like be I would think that they would think where exactly would they be without hands , they basically help you do everything just like your legs. What I feel like I achieved through this creation art was some patience because you had to cut the right way and ona particular angle to get the exact picture that you wanted. This relates to my previous work because it has to do with carving lines and the process of taking your time because it won’t be right the first time so that’s why you try again until you get the work how you want it. My work fits into contemporary art because just like Qiu Deshu’s piece of art when you look at it you could think it’s one thing but when you look closer it’s something different or you can get different ideas from the piece of art just like mine.

The way I created my work was firstly I sketched a draft of what I wanted my drawing to be like in my art book , and once I was done that I took a piece of copying paper and placed that over top of the linoleum cut to copy my sketch the exact way I wanted it. After this process it was pretty light on the linoleum cut so I took a sharpie, traced it I grabbed the cutting tools i heated up the linoleum cut with the iron and started carving but it was a specific one I used first to trace out the whole hand to make it easier and I started carving out my drawing but I had to look at which one I wanted to be the positive and negative and space. Once I finished carving I took some ink and two rollers one for ink directly on the linoleum cut and the other was a dry one used to press on the paper to make the print come out. This was the whole process of the linoleum cut. I had no inspiration on my image I came up with this on my own because everything I looked up online was hard so I thought it be cool to come up with my own thing to draw. This artwork reflects on the world I live in because hands are how you get through your everyday life. This reflects on my own life because without my hands I wouldn’t be able to do anything I love or even type on this computer right now lol. My art work actually can put an impact on the world because it would make people stop taking their hands for granted in certain situations. One technique that i s very important to this work is the carving skill because if you don't carve correctly or miss one important little piece this will show on you art work and it will become annoying because if you want it perfect you will have to keep repeating this cycle. A new technique I learned through this process is  carving , if the linoleum cut is not warm you can even carve it and I never used these cutting tools before. Overall this project was challenging not as easy as it seemed!