For our quarter 3 art project, we had a list of options we could chose from to create something. Personally, after the one I did last quarter I didn’t particularly like any of the other choices. But, the most interesting to create to me was the Value, Line and Texture Drawing. Speaking in a perspective of someone who doesn’t have much art experience or a lot of skill, I think this was the most simplest to create. You can come up with anything while doing a project like this because putting value, line and texture into one drawing is something easy to do. It's a collaborative process which creates something unexpected and beautiful in the end. My overall vision for this project was to be as simple as possible but to also bring a pop to it as well. I think brings a good vibe because of everything incorporated into it.

The process I used for this project isn’t complicated nor did I try to make it something that I knew it wasn’t going to be. I involved basic things; colored pencil and marker. But, to make sure there was texture within the drawing and to make it have value, I had to shade differently to make it pop. By shading differently, using my colors effectively and making my lines bold, they all work together to make a more eye catching piece. This artwork is quite different than my past projects because I usually try to go above for my grade. Now, I am trying to make my pieces subtle and that makes them not so harsh. I feel like using simplicity as a key factor in creating something makes your art more presentable. Trying new techniques always makes my work look different, but I feel like that really shows in this piece.

Not much came together to make this artwork. I never usually think too much about my projects. But, I do think that it shows that not much is needed to create something beautiful. I also feel as though using your imagination is a key point in art as well. Techniques are a big point in making your project the way you want it to look. And as an art student, I take past mistakes and other techniques into consideration while creating something new. Nothing major comes out of anything I create. The only way my art work impacts me is making me feel confident in myself when I get compliments or if I think it looks good. Art doesn’t have a direct definition in how it is suppose to look so I feel like whatever you do is going to make its own statement; that is what I took out of this quarters project.

    For my Quarter 2 project, I decided to limited palette painting. With limited palette painting, ONLY use 3 different colors of your choice to make other color using the 3 colors of your choice. I chose limited palette painting because I found it more difficult and challenging to do. Simply because, when you have created a piece of work and want to add color you would want to color with many choices. But, with this type of art your challenge is designing with only 3 colors which is difficult. My overall vision was to create a painting of flowers. Personally, I love flowers. The colors I chose were to have a specific meaning pertaining to myself. Flowers represent a sign of peace to me.

   In my piece, I believe that my artwork does not look like it was my first time painting opposed from my first painting in Q1 color wheel. My art is unique so I do not believe it fits into any specific category. Flowers reflect upon my own life by representing the death and reproduction. When one flower dies another grows. Never keep watering a dead flower with or without that dead flower there are many more flowers that are willing to grow. In life you lose many things, but for every loss there is a win of something new entering your life. My work and words could influence people to keep pushing in life no matter what dies off.

   Color is important in this project because that is the main thing that is being used to create this portrait. Overall, my project could have been represented better in connections with these my storyline behind it, but it was what was still enough to incorporate the idea.

In quarter 2, I decided to go above my normal standards. I wanted to be able to explore outside of my comfort zone and what I am usually use to. I wanted to do something that I can relate a lot to and that I knew would be challenging for me. Art is something that your suppose to express yourself through and that definitely conveys my project completely. Makeup is one of the most expressful arts to me. You can really do what you want when doing makeup; you can really make it your own. Although I know I wouldn’t of been able to use actual makeup as a project, I decided to incorporate some things and make it seem like a made up face. In this project I used glitter, different pencils shades (light shading and dark shading) to create actual features, an outliner pen and I even incorporated my own highlighting swatch.

I feel like my work conveys the idea that makeup can be anything you want it to be. Makeup something that is suppose to be one thing and there isn’t any right way how to do it. I definitely achieved that goal through this piece of work because it shows the unique and powerful vibes that makeup gives off. This piece of art is a lot different from the past projects I have worked on because I opened my mind to a lot more this time. Instead of going off of people I already know, I looked into different MUA’s such as Carli Bybel and Jeffree Star to get an inspiration. They triggered my more dramatic looking part of my project.

My piece of art reflects upon my daily life and experiences because I am very into makeup. On the weekends, when I go out or when people ask me, I do makeup. I get very into it and I kind of make it my own thing. It's something that I love to do and it is a way that I express my bubbly personality. Being able to do your eyebrows, eyeliner, eyeshadow and many more makeup world tactics takes a lot of time and patient in which I incorporated into my project. It includes a lot of thin lines, blending, mixing and perfection all in which I do on a daily basis while doing my makeup! I also like trying new things so I decided to put a little shading on the lip color as well.

I have created this art piece because I felt that the light and dark contrast of the design would stand out and speak for the picture. My overall vision was to create an image of how how the year wrapped up. I am hoping that the viewers see that I am displaying various lines textures and shades in my drawing.I feel like I achieved great lines and different textures from how i thought it was going to come out. My current work relates to my previous work because of all the different materials I had to use to bring the drawing out. It was definitely cool to work with the light and dark pencils and the charcoal sticks and pencils. Also erasing and lightly shading with the regular pencils and the gum erasers held mold the design, creating the was but is not there anymore shade.

Tiffany Irick

January 20, 2017

Art

I have created this work because I wanted to create a african Piece with colors I never seen those art pieces done with.  I was hoping to create a defined painting of an african woman. I what to achieve a strong look with the three colors I used. I think that my work communicates strength, elegancy and struggle. I think I achieved my outline, but I don't think i achieve the sharpness and definisce that I wanted my painting to have. My current work relates to my previous work because I wanted it to be an african portrait. I usually paint african related pieces.

I think that me and the artist Wang Yuping has more of a connection than a lot of other artist. We both drew pictures of people that was on the realistic side. I believe Wang Yuping has more definition in his work and it's way more realistic but I feel like we connected on the idea levels.

The first thing that I did was sketch out my person that I was going to paint. Then I started to paint my person. I started to do dots but I figured that I was not going to finished. Therefore, I just finished my piece with just paint strokes no dots. Include links if applicable. I seen this painting of a black woman on south street. She was filled with color. I thoughts about that picture and I knew that I could only use three colors for the project. Therefor I made it my own. At the time I did not think to take a picture of the painting but I wish I did. This work I have created shows the hardship, strength and dedication that a black woman has. I believe that the painting reflects on my community in a positive way.My work can influence young artist to step out of their boundaries and try new things. Also my work can influence young black girls to be strong. With my artwork I have created it's important to use a stroking technique so that If you want the brush lines to be defined or soft. It matters to use a specific technique so portray your image.

For this project I tried to do pointillism but I did not complete that task. I learned that pointillism is very time consuming and you need specific paint brushes for the sizes you want your dots to come out in.

I choose to do value, line, and texture drawing because I am a fan of free drawing anything that comes to mind. one my favorite animal is a chimpanzee, one reason why I like chimpanzees is their similarity to humans. My overall vision of my drawing was chimpanzee can do just as many things humans can do, for example, walk on two feet, dress up, and etc. The drawing shows a chimpanzee in a suit taking a picture on an iPhone, I wanted to show a sense a humor in my drawing to make a viewer giggle or laugh. The process of my art drawing all started with a  movie call Planet of the apes, the movie shows an ape name Caesar growing up to be super intelligent and started to develop human characteristics, for example, he dresses, talks, and have a family.  My idea for my drawing was an ape with human qualities.  My work can influence others by thinking outside the box and being open to draw whatever they put their mind too. My work now compare to my previous is completely different, I notice some improvement over the last two months, a new tool I'll use was pencil shading. Pencil shading is twenty different types of pencils you can use to draw light, medium, or dark. Something I think I need to work on differently in the future is my time management Overall I am happy with my art project, I hope to influence people to draw whatever they put their mind too.

For my project I did a Linoleum cut this was my first time doing this project and I will admit it was very complicated to do but it was a fun project to do. I decided to create this project because it seem like it would be interesting and i honestly wanted to see if i could pull it off.  I also wanted to see if i would be able to curve it correctly. My overall vision of the work was to make my print look like it was a turtle in swimming in the water. That’s what i would have liked to communicate to the viewers also.

I don't think i did a good job trying to communicate that to the viewers because along the way i made a couple of permanent mistakes. In my opinion the only thing that the viewers might see is the water thats behind the turtle and a half turtle. I did a bad job the head of the turtle and the shell that was the most complicated part of the drawing the print. I feel like I did a good job doing the drawing the print in pencil. Although i made a lot of mistakes on the project I think the thing i achieved the best was actually still finishing the project despite all the mistakes and it still looked a little close to the picture i was trying to create. That's how my previous work is also, even if i make a couple mistakes designing the project I still finish my project and it always comes out looking close to the design i based my project off of.

The process I had to go through to create this project is first I had to draw my design on a my print on a white piece of paper first to show how i would like my print to look. Second I had to copy my print onto the linoleum cut with a black sharpie. Next I had to use cutting tools to carve  out the design. Then I had to use the printing ink and the rolling tools to roll the ink on the linoleum cut. Lastly i put the linoleum cut on a white piece of paper so that it could print and I was finish.