I created this piece of work for my girlfriend. Her favorite color is blue so I figured since I did the rest of my work for people special to me I should make one for her too. She loves it. My work actually came out way better than I suspected it to. I did it a little sloppy but a messy artist is a dedicated one! I wanted to have that galaxy effect at first but I felt like that was a little to complicated for me to do in such a short amount of time so I had just decided to go with a wavy kind of flowy background.
I think it says “water” or “ocean”. It’s such a pretty blue it might even make you a little nostalgic. Looking at it for a long period of time will allow you to see how the paint flows into each other, you may just be able to identify the technique I used to achieve that flow. I think I achieved another level of experience when working with these paints and techniques. It’s very different from what I’ve done in the past which is what my goal was, to do something different.

There's a painting by David Munroe called “fade Into You”
. His painting is similar to mine when it comes to the style of having two or more colors fading into one another without lines.

First I chose 3 colors; blue, white and black. I used those colors to create a mixing guide that would allow me to make several colors out of the 3. After doing that I was able to save the colors I made. I initially chose three other colors that was made from the mixing guide, I don't want to spoil them so I won't say which ones but when starting my work I took heed to the kind of brushes that i decided to use and started from there. Using a lighter color mix at the top and a more darker one at the bottom.
It doesn’t have that kind of impact on my life. It’s just something that was fun to do, you know? I can say that I’ve created a painting like that and am able to show it to my friends and family. I personally don’t believe that it will have any kind of impact or could for that matter.

For the painting that I’ve created you need to have a medium sized brush and have a straight hand. The curves are very noticeable so you must try your best to keep your lines straight. You don't want you brush to be too wet because then your paint will have been too watery and wet and would require you to apply more than one coat to have your painting bold with the color of your choice. For this painting i chose to go horizontally rather than vertical so it will look like it would go on forever if it could. Like I have always said, I compromise every time I do a new piece. I come up with an idea of how i want it to look and then I shoot.
Overall as you can see the work I produce is a reflection of my thought process when it comes to doing new creative things. I'm a risk taker, i feel as though when I think too hard it doesn't come out the way I picture it in my head.

I have chose to create this piece using limited painting because I really wanted to calmly paint. I feel like painting was the most soothing and the best fit for me, so I chose to do something along the lines of paint. My overall vision for this work was to have sort of like an ombre feel. I used two bright colors and then black because that color is bold and I feel like it really would have made each color stand out on its own. My work communicates calmness. My work does not look like it was too hard to make and you can see the brush lines as well so when I look at it I think of just sitting there and calmly moving my brush along the paper. I think the communication can still be interpreted differently. I achieved the image that I want which was to just have a painting with blended colors and to have a painting where I made colors only using certain colors. This work relates to my last work on the same level that my last work I used colors to really pop and catch the viewer’s eye sight immediately. Well the same applies here. This piece catches viewer’s eye because of the bold colors and how well they pop. Leo Gabin, for example in his Belgian pieces is the exact same method that came to mind in the midst of brainstorming. All of his pieces use bold and colors that pop which is very contemporary because now a days kids are using and wearing all types of bright colors because that is what is in style.

My process for this piece was to complete what I can each day in the given amount of class time we had. I started with the solid black color first since there was no mixing involved using that and then on to the solid yellow since there was no mixing as well. After that was complete was when I moved on to the background because the leftover space which is the background is where the mixing of colors came into place. I mixed the colors on a palette first and then applied it to the brush and then the canvas. There really was no inspirations behind doing this. I just thought of nature and kept going. I just wanted to capture a sunset look and apply a tree. I thought about adding flowers, but I did not think they would fit as nicely. As stated before my image just reflects the world because of the bright colors that are in trend today. I would say that the world and my life is not as peaceful and beautiful as my painting is. To explain that you would have to use a lot more darker colors. My work can impact the world as a goal or to send out a message to make the world calmer or more peaceful. My image can be a representation of somewhere tropical or paradise so, this can give people the inspiration to want to calm and settle down to be able to either view their own world this nicely or to be able to travel somewhere this nicely. Lastly, a really nice technique to use when painting with limited colors is to really make sure you mix your colors well and apply enough color that you needed. I realized sometimes that I would pick up more of a certain color because it was not all that blended. However, a new technique I learned would probably have to be with the background to start painting from top to bottom to capture the colors fading in better instead of corner to corner or section by section. This way the colors really could have been blended better and so you can really distinguish the difference between the different mixed colors.

I decided to do a mix media project because I wanted to try something different. I never painted anything before so I stepped out of my comfort zone and tried that. My piece was a bird flying over a sunset from the view over an ocean. I specifically chose the sunset over the ocean because that is one of my favourite sites to see and the bird should be representing free roaming to me, but people can make their own interpretations.

After doing this project I can say I learned a lot about painting and blending colors etc. This was a challenge for me because it was my first time but I felt like I managed it fairly. What I did was, I first made a sketch then I started painting, and at the end I added the cotton for the clouds and the feathers for the bird and I also used sharpies to color the bird in.

I feel very accomplished about this project, because I had an idea and I visualized it. I would like for people to see this and not think the way I think but think of it in their own way.

Maliya Edwards

Art 2

My Artist Statement

The reason I did this project because I really like painting and i thought it would be interesting to do this project. It was fun to mix the acrylic paint to see what the colors make. The design i created for this project was a sea shell. A sea shell with a sea like background was my original vision for this project. My  sea shell came out the way i wanted it to be the only thing that didn't come out so good was the coloring i choosed for the seashell. The three colors I decided to use for this project is dark blue which I had mixed with an acrylic black. I used a yellow orange color that made a light orange color that was the color I used for the seashell, and it was another darkish color I mixed with the blue to add into the background just to darken it.

What my work communicates is a sea shell with a dark blue background. It would make the viewer think of the beach because that's where you would find a lot of sea shells. I think what I achieved best through the creation is i made it look like the design i wanted to look like. I also achieved mixing my colors very well and picking out my colors good. This relates to my last art work because every time I do an art piece I challenge myself to something new.

The process I went through to create this project was simple steps. First I had to figure out what I wanted my design to be for my panting. Next i had to decide the 3 colors I wanted to use and rather i wanted to be regular or acrylic paint. Then I had to sketch my project, after i was finished sketching my project I then used some kind of printing paper to transfer that design onto a canvas. After that step I then mixed made a color graph that showed me what colors to mix and what the colors came out as. Once I was finished that I then made the 3 colors that I needed for this project and started to paint my design.  Here is the link I got my design from in case anyone was interesting. https://www.google.com/search?q=seashell&rlz=1CADEAA_enUS713US714&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwil0dP05PfSAhUC1mMKHfgFBTcQ_AUIBigB&biw=1366&bih=654#tbm=isch&q=easy+seashell+drawing &*&imgrc=puILndU1yw-yRM:

My artwork is a reflection of life because looking at this picture I think it would remind a lot of people of the beach. The beach is known as a happy place and where a lot of people have a good time at and it is considered as relaxation. It’s very important to keep a certain technique because if you don't or do something wrong that is not apart of the process it could mess the project. That's why it is very important to follow all steps of the project and it teaches us along the way how to follow steps in life to be careful and take our time.  

I always wanted to print my own really cool design. Honestly, I never thought past that so the design was not thought of until I sat down to do my sketch. This piece in particular is a result of my mind wandering. I could not think of a topic, so I thought “what if I base my work around my thinking.” This is why the work outside of the creature thinking is very abstract: half of the time when I’m thinking I may not be thinking of anything at all, I’m really just zoned out and really heavy into my mind at the moment. I wanted to portray this in my print and I feel as though that went well. I believe it even conveys that exact theme perfectly as my peer reviewer saw my work and instantly thought “Is the title ‘Imagining’ or something like that?”

Although I am mostly proud of my final product, the process was very frustrating. After two days of working to cut my channels, I found that they were nowhere near thick enough to print as I wanted them to. This meant that I had to do a lot more work and really had to focus on honing the skills involved in this. Channeling IS SO CRUCIAL to printmaking, without it everything else is futile. Just being able to finally produce an acceptable print is an accomplishment I am proud of and the finished piece really fits into my collection of work. I usually do abstract art so this is no exception, however it is a different art style than I am used to which makes it unique.

A while ago I met an artist named Antonio (you can find some of his work here https://twitter.com/SantosTheArtist/media) whose style reminds me of what I aim to create. His surreal style is my mind’s first example of abstract when I think of the term as it applies to art. He uses realistic figures with very strange backgrounds and designs which I tend to do as well.

Cyrus Foster

Artist Statement Art 2

For my project I chose to do the Linoleum Cut. I chose to create this to help me out with my personal art. I was interested in printing stickers and thought this would be a good way to start. I remember learning a little about this in 9th grade but I never got a chance to make something of my choice. I wanted to basically create a stencil of the half faced character I use for street art which is shown below. The artist that i’m inspired by is myself because I am an artist. My work isn’t meant to communicate with viewers but the product of it does. It creates cartoon like characters that any people enjoy finding and seeing outside. Through the creation of this work I was able to complete my goal of creating the stencil. I will now be able to create more artwork at a faster rate. This adds on to all of my previous artwork and builds on to many different methods of  artwork. Street art in general is contemporary art and I am one of the many artists who contribute to it. Creating the stencil on the linoleum block isn’t hard at all. There’s only a few steps to follow. First, I drew my design on paper with a pencil. Next, I used transfer paper to transfer the design onto the linoleum block by placing the transfer paper on the block and tracing my drawing. This will place the material from the transfer paper onto the block in the places that were traced. Then, I traced my design on the block with a marker so my drawing doesn’t disappear while i’m working. Finally, I used the cutting tools to cut out my design. The tools have different blades and I had to carve away the linoleum in all of the negative parts so my drawing can be the only part sticking up. I made a few prints to test my cut and make sure everything is fine.I learned that it’s very important to cut deep and have sharp solid lines. I am planning to have a future in art and this project is helping me improve my craft. I learned that I do can create the same piece of art using many different techniques.

Mukhtar stones

Hertz

Art

For my Q3 art project i created a sculpture combining a shoe clay, screws, feathers, and marker. The point and idea if my project was to create something I like or bring something I love to life. I love wearing converses so I came up with the idea of personifying one of my old shows giving it eyes a mouth and feathers. The sculpture represents many things for one skateboarding the feathers represent how I fly through the air when i do tricks and the eyes and the mouth are my shoe and feet coming to life whenever i do. I had a different idea for the project i wanted to give it hands a sculpted mouth, and horns to represent that my fear are monstrous when I'm skateboarding but I didn't use enough of my time to combine the sculpted hands and horn with the show. Which were sculpted out of clay along with the eyes that were already painted and done. I call the art piece “The monster in my converses”.

For my quarter 3 art project, I wanted to do mixed media. I think media media is very cool and you can also physically feel the art of the canvas. For my mix media project, I wanted to do wings with actual feathers, with a pretty background,  little pendants and a quote. I chose to do this because I wanted it to connect to my grandparents that passed away and I never met them. The quote is in Arabic lettering, and it said “Think of Others”. This quote connects to my grandparents because even though I never met them and barely know them, I still think of them and how they would be.

I did many art works before, but this project is different because I haven’t really did a quote on a canvas. I always thought it was so basic, but on my art work, I put more materials on it. The process of my artwork on confusing. I kept changing my mind about different ideas. First I wanted to do an ombre background but at the end I decided to do a different background. The first thing I did was sketch my idea. Than I started of with my background, I painted it light brown, and than I put late in different places so I can add white. After the paint all dried up, I drew the wings and glued feathers inside the wings. Than I wrote the quote in bold lettering. After most of the work was finished, I added little navy blue pendants.

I would say, these artworks fits with what I made because My feathers were dark also, but yet they are beautiful. The artwork is very detailed like mine. In conclusion, my art work was kind of personal but not so. It’s a pretty art work, and a lot of people might think of something different when they see the art. But in the end of the day “The artist sees what others only catch glimpse of”.

For my project this quarter I decided to create a sculpture of a cherry blossom tree. I wanted to do a sculpture because I thought it would be a fun idea to create something out of different material like a mixed medium project. I wanted to make a cherry blossom tree because my name is Sakura and in Japanese culture Sakura means cherry blossom which is a tree. My overall vision for my sculpture project was for me to create a cherry blossom tree out of clay. I decided to not complete my at piece in clay  but instead copper wire. I decided to make the tree out of copper wire because when I was looking up videos of how to make tree sculpture I came across a video of someone making a tree out of wire. I thought that it was cool idea to make the tree out of the wire. I found out that it was easier for me to shape and make the branches with the wire than with the clay. The clay was too much of a hassle for me because the clay keep cracking and wasn’t holding it shape really. I think that I made a good decision to change my sculpture idea from clay to wire because it had a better turnout overall. I think my work shows the viewer that my art is a creative piece. I think I achieved the visually appeal my art piece draws to viewers. My sculpture relates to previous work because it is similar to mix media which is a type of art wear you use different materials to create an art piece. I believe my work fits in with sculpture  artwork.  When I looked at artwork on artsy.com I looked up sculptures. When I looked up and saw different type of sculptures I saw many similarities and differences between the artwork. Most of the art work I was on the website were made up of different materials like mines and others were made out of clay. When completing my benchmark had encountered  many failures during the project. The failures I had encountered was making the tree out of clay. This was difficult  to be because of how the clay keep trying out fast and how it didn’t really hold it shape well. I also had a hard time making the cherry blossom flowers out of clay. When I was frustrated with how things turned out with the clay I decided to go on YouTube and look up pictures online on how to create a cherry blossom tree sculpture. I saw that most of the sculptures on YouTube and online was made out of wire. After I saw a YouTube video of someone making a tree out of wire i decided to change my concept. When moving forward with my project I found that it was easier to make my tree out of wire because I was able to bend it many different ways to make the shape of the tree. For the truck of the tree I decided to do paper mache at the bottom so I could cover up the wire. I also wanted to put paper mache at the trunk of the tree because I wanted that part of the tree to be thicker and the braces be skinny. The branches for the tree was just made up of wire. I had painted the whole tree brown because the copper wire I used to make the tree was red. On the branches of the tree I had put pink flowers on their to represent cherry blossom flowers since it was a cherry blossom tree. I had made origami flowers which I learned how to do from YouTube. I really didn't like how the flowers turned out when I was done with them. However when I put them on the tree I thought it really made the tree look nice. My inspiration came from google and youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ojsLZxYcwA&list=WL&index=19

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQGoVx8xMdM. My work could influence people to step out their comfort zone and try new ways to experience themselves through art instead of traditional drawings and paintings. My work could influence people to step out their comfort zone and try to create new things that they want to make. From this project I learned that there are many ways to make a tree sculpture.