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.

In my Art class each student got an opportunity to design their own project. We were given options from different varieties of  Art pieces that we had to choose one. I chose the value line and texture drawing because I’m more comfortable with that type of Artwork and I think it would be easier for me.

When I started brainstorming I knew that I wanted to draw the face of an Animal, so I decided to draw the face of a dog, but it wasn’t coming out how I wanted it to and I later changed my mind to draw the face of a Lion.

I drew a Lion, because Lions are a very strong and fears specy. I’ve always told myself that I have the heart of a Lion, but I want when people look at this art work they find their own meaning, because this is art and different individuals should be able to have their own insight.

What I really like about this drawing is the eyes, I feel like the eyes gives it a realistic look even though it doesn’t look a 100% real,because I did have some problems with the hair and the background, but otherwise from that I think the facial structure was somewhat good enough.

Artist Statement

When I was in the process of choosing what type of Multi Media I wanted to create I wanted to chose something that showed who I was in a way and something that would challenge me. I looked through the materials I had and saw clay. I chose to do clay because is a very hard material to mess with for multiple reason. Once I had my material I started to think about what I wanted to make. I knew I wanted it to relate to me in some way so I decided to do something with the ocean. I looked through animals and then picked to do a manatee. As I drew a sketch of what I wanted to sculpture to look like I wanted it to show what a manatee looks like and its environment. I believe that with my sculpture the view can clearly tell the message in the sculpture and what animal it is. While I made my sculpture I got to understand how clay works. My work fits into contemporary art because it's abstract and different.

To make my project I use basic shapes like circles and manipulate them into a different shape. I molded my clay and use tools to smooth it out and to create other textures. . I got my inspiration for this project by looking up pictures of manatees and other sculptures of manatees. These are some pictures that I got inspiration from. Picture 1,  Picture 2, Picture 3, Picture 4. I think that my art relates to the world we live in because with global warming becoming a big concern and animals becoming endangered i think my sculpture reminds people of the beauty in these animals.

The project choice I choose to do for my Q2 benchmark was Value line and Texture Drawing. I decided to choose this because I wanted to create an image that uses various techniques that would make my drawing realistic. When thinking about doing this project I had many different vision and ideas of what I wanted to do. I had did 2 rough draft of sample drawings I wanted to do. The first idea I had, was for me to do a one point perspective drawing of my name. The second Idea I had was to do a necker cube illusion. The reason why I didn’t go through with those ideas was because I didn’t like how the drawing turned out. I finally then decided, that I wanted to draw a human skull because when I was looking up realistic human skull drawings, I like what I saw and I decided I wanted to make a skull drawing. I think my work communicate to the viewer because of realistic aspect of the drawing. I think I achieved the realist aspect of the skull drawing. My current work relates to my previous work because I have done a value line and texture drawing in the 9 th grade. We had did still life drawings.

I believe my work fits in with contemporary art because of portraiture art work. When I looked at artwork on artsy.com I saw portraiture and when i had clikced on it, I saw that it was portaits and relaistic drawlings  that looked simlair to my darwling. When I finally decided to draw a skull for my benchmark, I had went online to looked up different skull ideas I could draw. When I found the one I thought I could replicate, I went on youtube to see different examples on how to draw a skull. I also watched some drawing videos about shading. When I had got an idea of what I wanted to draw a had started to draw my rough draft  to see how the skull would turn out. After I was done my rough draft I pretty pleased with what I had. However when I was working on my final drawing I realised that something was missing that would make my skull different from the skulls I saw on the internet. I then decided to add bones inside the skull mouth to make it look like a pirate flag symbol.My inspiration came from google because I was looking up different ideas for realistic drawing and I saw a skull which I thought was pretty nice. My work could have an impact on the world by showing people they can and try new things like I did when completing this project. My work could influence people to step out their comfort zone and try new drawing techniques. A certain technique I used in my drawing was the shading. When shading in the skull it gave it more value and realism to it which I think is really cool. I learn how to make different textures with a pencil and how to shade had realism to the drawing.

We wanted to do something that is similar to the project choices mixed with something we really like to do.  Our overall vision for the work is to mix and older style of artwork with a newer style of art. Henna is an older cultural art and it is very detailed. Graffiti style lettering is a very new form of art. When you put these two together it creates something new that you rarely see. The message that we are trying to send is that nothing should be stuck in it’s category and trying new combinations can turn out well. We made a unique artwork and that is not seen a lot. Practicing on the henna designs and also the lettering help us a lot. I like working with 3-D art and street art and this is mixed with a little of both. Our artwork is similar to  ZADIE XA because the  work is very detailed. First we sketched out where we would do my henna designs and then I started with a little flower into a big henna designs over all the buildings. I make a sketch in my book then I drew it on the canvas. I colored it in with acrylic markers and went over it again with another layer of acrylic paint. Our work shows Philadelphia which is the city we live in.  It could make different artists get together and collaborate to make new ideas. Without shading the lettering wouldn’t look the same. The shading makes the letters 3-D. It it was all white it would be very hard to read and look very flat and basic. I learned to go back over my paintings with layers of paint which is something I didn’t do before. I hope everyone likes our art work.

Henna Design by Shirin Akhter

Graffiti Lettering by Cyrus Foster

Abdulomar Tucker

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To begin, I created a linoleum cut wolf because that's my favorite animal and I wanted to make an animal.  After deciding that I focused on my vision for the work. I wanted to make a wolf with a moon in the back. I think my work would communicate deep thinking and even appreciation for a wolf in it’s glory. With this, I will be able to really capture this wolf. This project relates to my other projects in which the ideas come rather spontaneously. The original strokes I put into my artwork is the same as well. After reviewing some contemporary art, I noticed that my artwork is very similar to Wolfgang Tillmans. Wolfgang and I tend to see beauty in the little things and things people would really overlook. Things that would be taken for granted and where others don’t see the light in something. His artwork is also spontaneous as it captures either current emotions or moments in life. When creating this project, I had looked at some wildlife pictures of Wolves. I just decided to add a moon behind it to make it more special. This project doesn’t reflect my own life;however, the wolf in a multiple ways reflect some things i instill in myself and what I see in the world. Like when chasing a goal , I imagine being as serious and making every move towards that goal as purposeful as a wolf hunting to feed the pack. I also like what the wolf represents such as integrity and bravery. I feel as though my work can influence people to take some valuable lessons from this and change a life.  The most important technique is the specific knifes I would use to create certain cuts that would come out in the print. This technique is also new to me. I had fun experimenting  with it.

This quarter I have challenged myself to make a piece of artwork with a style that I have never done before. Mixed media was new to me, but I enjoyed creating this piece. My overall vision is actually amazement. I really was aiming for something very colorful and I definitely feel like I have achieved that outlook. At the beginning, I had no idea what techniques of mixed media I would use, but the three that I have chosen worked out perfectly fine. As my main materials I used tissue paper, sequins, and pompoms. These object all come very colorful.

I started out with this idea of being having color pop out of the work. I started out with painting white first just because that made sense to have that dry. I then went onto the background of tissue paper and I made my way on down. Nothing was really planned, I simply just laid out the tissue paper, the pompoms, and the sequences. There was no particular plan for where I wanted things to go, I just knew the space that I wanted things to go in and from there I just used up all the space that I sketched out. Along the way I learned I should cover the space that I may not want to get messed up, because when I went to melt the crayon it spilled over a bit on a space that I did not want it to. Fortunately, I was able to fix it up but I now know that when dealing with liquid materials I should cover up parts just in case for a spill over. As far as learning something new, I can take away the importance of probably knowing the quantity and the exact of mapping things out. I was a bit under prepared with pompoms and I had to run out and get more in order to complete the project.

This work just like my other work tends to be very different and stand out to the eye very well. Bella Szeift is a great example of my work comparing to contemporary art work. Her piece of art, Lace Maker was the first piece of work that I saw on the paper that made me think of my own art work. I see a face resembling out of different objects which is the concept of mine. There is a face inside of the objects that were used. Her work is very bold and colorful and I feel that my piece of work transpires the same views.

Overall, my work came out as expected and I am proud of it. There was no reasoning or inspiration behind the thought of making this. I literally have none tried this and found the thought interesting to try. I have learned that you can take just about anything and turn something into art. You can use different tools into a masterpiece. Beings though my artwork is a girl and she is bold and colorful, this idea can be inspirational for other women to really stand out for themselves.

We wanted to do something that is similar to the project choices mixed with something we really like to do.  Our overall vision for the work is to mix and older style of artwork with a newer style of art. Henna is an older cultural art and it is very detailed. Graffiti style lettering is a very new form of art. When you put these two together it creates something new that you rarely see. The message that we are trying to send is that nothing should be stuck in it’s category and trying new combinations can turn out well. We made a unique artwork and that is not seen a lot. Practicing on the henna designs and also the letterings help us a lot. I like working with 3D art and street art and this is mixed with a little of both. Our artwork is similar to  ZADIE XA because the  work is very detailed. First we sketched out where we would do my henna designs and then I started with a little flower into a big henna designs over all the buildings. I make a sketch in my book then I drew it on the canvas. I colored it in with acrylic markers and went over it again with another layer of acrylic paint. Our work shows philadelphia which is the city we live in.  It could make different artists get together and collaborate to make new ideas. Without shading the lettering wouldn’t look the same. The shading makes the letters 3D. It it was all white it would be very hard to read and look very flat and basic. I learned to go back over my paintings with layers of paint which is something I didn’t do before. I hope everyone likes our art work.

Henna Design by Shirin Akhter

Graffiti Lettering by Cyrus Foster

I chose this because I felt like this was the most challenging project on

the list and It was different. I was hoping to capture the three different media’s in my project and really be able to bring them out. I think my work communicates to the viewer because I drew something everybody likes. I hope to do good as an outcome of this project because I never did something like this before.

This relates to my previous work because in my previous work I went

outside of my comfort zone and tried something new. I gather my materials first which was difficult because I couldn’t find three different media that was going to work on the board I was using. Then I sketched out my sunset on the board. Then I painted the ocean first.I used acrylic blue and white paint. Next I filled in my sun with 2 different color constructions paper yellow and orange. Lastly I used a white substance and filled in my palm trees then I went over it with color pencil brown and green so it can really show.  

My world could impact the world because It could make people want to try something new. A new technique I experienced with was using construction paper to fill in my sun I always used marked or coloring pencils, etc.