Photoshop

This is a photoshopped picture of the Eiffel Tower, a ballerina, and cat. In this picture, a ballerina is falling off of the tip of the Eiffel Tower, and a cat, wearing a cape, is flying to catch her. This creates the allusion that a ballerina is standing on top of the Eiffel Tower and that the cat is flying. To do this, I used many tools in photoshop, such as the liquify tool, rotation, and polygon lasso. This was a fun and exciting project because I have never used photoshop, but have always wanted to try it!

Photoshop

This is a picture of a photoshopped rhino and zebra. We removed the background of the zebra's picture and then moved the zebra on top of the rhino and adjusted its size to match the rhino. Then we made the zebra transparent, so that it looks like the rhino has stripes.

Ceramics

In class, we created a ceramic pot with clay. First we got a slab of clay and rolled it out on the slab roller. We cut out templates and cut our clay to make a design. We then placed our clay over real bowls to get the round shape. After letting our clay rest, we carved it and shaped it. The next day we painted it with wet red clay. Later, we put it into the kiln to harden and turn into greenware. I like my bowl because it looks organic on the end (with small dots that I poked through). I also like that it is simple and not too dramatic. If I were to change one thing about my bowl, I would add a little bit more detail on the inside around the circle. Overall, I enjoyed making the bowl and I love the outcome!

Pastel Still Life

In art class, we created still life pictures using pastels. Our assignment was to draw what we saw in front of us on the table. I think that this project was very successful. I loved the outcome and thought that the objects that I drew had good proportion and it looked neat. I included highlights and shades in the objects to make them look realistic. One thing I would change about this picture is to fix the white stand/table to make it look like it gets smaller in the distance. Overall, I love my project and enjoyed drawing the objects and adding detail to them. This project was so much fun and I loved creating a still life drawing!

Localized Perspective

In art, we did a group project with localized perspective, where we projected an image onto two boxes and a sheet of paper. In my group we each painted an object separately (I did the paper/head) and aligned them to create an image. We chose to do a polar bear as our image. The hardest part of this project was to adjust and align the three different objects to get the picture to match up. I think that we were successful in this project and matched the whole picture nicely. One thing I might change would be to add more detail to some of the parts of the body. This was a very fun experience and I was excited to see the final result! Overall I think this was an                                                                                     exciting new project that I have never done before.

This is a picture of me painting the head of the polar bear.

Spray Paint Stencils

In art, we created a spray paint picture using stencils. I choose to do a toucan. We used photoshop on the computer to make our picture black and white. Then we traced it on overheads so that we had no black or white islands. We cut out the shapes and had our stencils! I also built the frame and painted it blue.
I think that my picture came out great! I love the colors I used, and I think that the green in the back makes it look like the toucan is sitting in a rainforest. I think the project worked very well, except for the fact that it was difficult to spray paint it because it was raining and I was afraid it would smudge. It was also difficult to cut out the picture with a blade because of the curves. If I were to do this project over again I would probably paint the frame a different color to mach the rest of the picture. I enjoyed doing this project, and think that it was a very fun experience. I also love the outcome!!! :)

Brick Mosaic Art

In art, we created mosiacs on the wall of our courtyard. We each picked an animal (we choose a monkey) and colored in the bricks. Each brick would count as three pixels. Overall I think that our group did a great job because you can make out what the image is supposed to be. However, I think that we should have picked some more contrasting colors because most of our colors are in the same color family. Different colors would have made the monkey stand out a lot better. In our group we each colored different sections and swtitched on and off with calling colors, and coloring. This project was pretty simple, but it was tiring to color all of the blocks in the sun. I enjoyed this project and think that it was a very fun experience and I loved learning how to create a mosaic.

In this picture, my group and I are working on our mosaic.