I chose to make this because I wanted to further my understanding and use of colors. I wanted to make the project focused more on the colors than a design so I used up all of my available space. I expect the audience to think that it’s a basic practice color wheel so that I can become a better artist by trying new things and just making things. It fits in with contemporary art because it uses a sorts of colors and looks slick and modern. This fits in with art history because it shows how you need to practice with art as much as possible to be good.

I was influenced by an artist named Jason Polan because he uses very simplistic designs that look intentionally sloppy. Making the piece look sloppy is helpful because it allows me to show that perfect art doesn’t exist and allows me to remember not to get too caught up in making things look perfect. I experimented with intentionally messing up and not fixing it, I found this very helpful and I see myself doing so in the future. I really enjoyed making this color wheel and look forward to using the techniques and colors I learned while making this to help further my future work.

 What you see before you is a wolf howling. My drawing was inspired by my love for this animal. Wolves are loyal and strong I highly value those two factors about them. Drawing a wolf was the first thing that came to mind when I found out about this project. It was pretty cool painting my drawing in 24 different colors. On my painting which you won’t find on any other there is a streak of red across my painting. That streak represents the anger and aggression in the wolf.

 There is Black painted around the painting to give the wolf a final Shine. So all of the colors are made brighter and there is white left on the inside on the Wolf. Now about the red in the drawing it could be the blood of a person or another animal. Since wolves are natural predators. The blood could have come from a number of things. It makes the painting present a deeper story about the wolf and why it’s howling.

 In my painting all of the tint colors lead away from the face of the wolf. All of the regular colors are in the front or closer to the face or on the face of the wolf.

I created the flower look for my color wheel because I felt like it fit best with the idea. A flower could have as many petals as I wanted to draw and it was simple. My overall vision for my wheel came out as I pictured it to be which was all of my color attached to my petals with a clear, solid color background so the my petals with color would pop out more. I expect my audience to be just as satisfied with my final product as much as I was. The color wheel project did not so much remind me of past art classes although, the creating and having my own idea did. Knowing each color and mixing them also reminded me of old work while learning these colors in the beginning of the semester.

    Creating this project, I knew my choices and variety of creativity had not limits. Although, I was inspired by the original color wheel, I liked the plane feel of it so my colors could stick out. To give my project my  name I wanted to add some originality to it by adding a solid black background and white splattered paint.. This gave my project an edgy feel.  While working, my routine/technique was to do the primary colors first then work on secondary colors because I knew since I had such a small space for painting I was bound to mess up.

Artist statement

I created a star even though it is not exactly a star because i think stars are pretty and simplistic. The object of the project was to see how colors mixed and see how three primary colors blue red and yellow could mix into many different colors. I used the color white in the center of my art piece because that's how all the colors started from white and you cannot make white with any colors like you can with black. My vision for the star is believe in yourself because you are a star. I expect that they will like how all my colors connect and go with each other. This project is very different from the previous projects because now we used colors and not shading. I think it fits in because i used many colors to create this. My work fits in with the history of art practice because the color wheel was used to practice on how to mix colors. I used google to look up different color wheels and shapes. I haven't been really influenced by anyone except any street artist because i like how they express themselves and i don't like how people criticize their work. I feel like this piece is the start of every art piece with color. A good technique i used for this was that i made sure i used the proper amount of color every time. This art project taught me how to create different colors with only three primary colors and i think it was beneficial because it helps with upcoming projects with color.

I have created this piece of art because I didn’t want to make a wheel like everybody else. I wanted to create something unique. My overall vision for my work is was to make the captain american shield but it wasn't coming out correctly so I just decided to make 5 circles with stars in them to separate the colors. What I expect from my audience is complements and also things that they think I need to work on. The way the audience will react is confused at first because they're going to try and figure out what I did and it’s probably gonna take them a while. My current work relates to previous work because I put my knowledge together of things I’ve learned in the past art classes to make the shapes I did and paint . Also I used my understanding of how to mix colors to complete my work. I think my work fits into the current contemporary art of creating my own color wheel my way. My work fits in with the history of art practice because if you look at my work and look at someones who had more practice than me you will see my process of practicing the color wheel. My work fits into groups of exhibitions, or series of projects I have done because knowing how to mix colors and draw the things that needed to be drawn helped me accomplish my goal of this project. Sources for the inspiration of my image were the avengers one of their protagonist Captain America. I was going to do he’s shield. I guess you can say that my works relates to other artists work because every artist starts with an idea works on it for a while but see things they don’t like and decide to change their idea or improve it so it can be better. Like myself I was going to just do a circular shape and add lines in the inside but I did not like it so I changed it and made my work better. This work fits into series or longer body of work because everything starts of small to be greater. Certain techniques are important to the work because that’s what helps the work be better, not just average. A new technique I learned was not to but a lots of paint on the plate to create a new one just with a drop of the paint it’s good enough to create a new one.

Emotions

I’ve created “Emotions” because I’m highly fascinated in affective science (the study of emotions or affect) and colors. That’s why I took these two elements that are commonly used in art and made my not so much of a color wheel, but colors from the color wheel into a pulse pattern. When we have feelings, our body reacts to those feelings in different ways, we also tend to correspond those feelings to colors, Such as the color red. Anger. When you’re angry, your pulse-rate will quicken. Or the color blue, sadness. Your pulse-rate will slow down. Also Yellow, Happiness! You can be either way when you’re happy; I start moving quickly because I get so jittery!

I think others would be able to relate once I explain why in certain colors the pulse-rate spikes. The thing that makes this project so different from my previous projects would have to be that I was given feedback and suggestions while finishing up. This made me re-think about how I was going to go about the final touches. My work totally fits in with contemporary work today.  The color wheel is a classic, but I added science into mine, and science/technology is a must nowadays.

I was influenced by many artist such as, Vincent Van Gogh and Mark Rothko, who unfortunately painted such deep and meaningful paintings at such depressing moments of their lives. Even though my work isn’t depressing it shows how emotion can depict your work.

In conclusion, “Emotions” is actually my most emotional piece of work. I am extremely happy with how it came to be. I’d have to say the Artist Critique was my main highlight of this project. I don’t usually get constructive criticism when I draw or paint, and when I did, it helped make me see my art in another perspective which was really helpful as I finished up my work. Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoy “Emotions”!