Perceptive project

My team decided to do a project with landscape. I am in a group with Jessica, Chassity, Hannah, Ariel, and Rachel. We are gonna do stripes of different lands. Egypt, Alaska, and Florida. We were gonna add Nc with the lighthouse but we decided to put that one with florida. 

Time project

4. Artists take risks.

- try new things

- experiment

Did you try something that you weren’t sure about as part of this project?

Did you pick a material or technique that was new or different over something that was familiar?

I defiantly took a big risk the most with this project than any of my other project. I was very worried if it would turn out the way i hoped it would but thankfully it did. My experiment was to melt some crayons over a canvas with a tree bark over it it to show time of both melting and growing. I used a new technique with the way i would hold up the crayons with a ruler so that it wouldn't burn my fingers, the idea was one if my friends. I wasn't very sure how the crayons would come lined up but it came out very fine. 

6. Artists solve problems.

- try alternative solutions

- use mistakes as learning opportunities

How did you respond to challenges that occurred as you worked?

Did your work take an unexpected turn due to a mistake or did something happen that was unplanned?

A solution i could have tried out to make the project turn out better was to wait until the paint had melted and then melt some more because the colors would blend and turn out brown:( which was not what i wanted but i fixed it. The reason why i kept the background white abd made the tree bark plain brown was so that the melted crayons would stand out and the focus would be on them. 

Time!

1. Artists create original art.

-think creatively

-develop original ideas

How did you use your own unique ideas in your work?

Did you use a source for inspiration, then combine it with your own ideas to make it original?

 I decided to do something different than most crayon used project. I decided to use the showing of time through two way: a tree growing, and a crayon melting. I developed this idea throud crayons. I needed a way to show crayons growing over time so i used a tree :)

6. Artists solve problems.

- try alternative solutions

- use mistakes as learning opportunities

How did you respond to challenges that occurred as you worked?

Did your work take an unexpected turn due to a mistake or did something happen that was unplanned?

 I made alot of mistakes in this project but that is how i learned from them. I tried doing the project with wax and not crayons as shown below

-the idea didn't really work out as to how the wax wouldn't stick to the canvas. Another problem i had while working on the crayon project was that the crayons would melt on the the canvas and slide down immediately without melting slowly at the top.

  

7. Artists reflect.

- analyze work and process

When did you step back and analyze you work during this project?

 When i was melting the crayons rapidly i realized that the colors were mixing together forming brown:( i tried making the art a little better by going over it and using more bright colors. But thankfully i dont have this issue anymore. 

Appropriation final

4. Artists take risks.

- try new things

- experiment

Did you try something that you weren’t sure about as part of this project?

Did you pick a material or technique that was new or different over something that was familiar?

I have never done anything cartoon-like, or comedy before in one of my arts so that was defiantly risk taking since though I might not come together on not well planned. I tried doing the window in the apple and I felt like it would take away the art from the actual work or it would distract it. I wasn't very sure about doing the rays of light coming out of the laptop but it came togethrer. maybe not like how id hoped but it still looks nice.

7.

I stepped back and looked at my art work when i had painted the apple and laptop i wanted to see if it was well put. 

I liked my work and my progress until i started doin it a little sloppy. 

2. The techniques i used was water color. I used it sometimes without the water to give it a contrastin color. 

Appropriation questions

4. Artists take risks.

- try new things

- experiment

Did you try something that you weren’t sure about as part of this project?

Did you pick a material or technique that was new or different over something that was familiar?

I have never done anything weird or switched like i have in this appropriation project. I defiantly took some risk in creating the sponge green background since i have never used sponge art before. I felt like this project wasn't for the title appreciation but it all came together andi like   the idea. Using the sponge was defiantly something i wouldn't use but it came together.  

7. Artists reflect.

- analyze work and process

When did you step back and analyze you work during this project?

I felt like i was just making this up and that it was gonna turn out bad but its going very well. I defiantly stopped when i was using the sponge because I wasn't very convinced. 

 6. Artists solve problems.

- try alternative solutions

- use mistakes as learning opportunities

How did you respond to challenges that occurred as you worked?

Did your work take an unexpected turn due to a mistake or did something happen that was unplanned?

I had some issue with designing the laptop. I wasn't used to eye point. I had some issue with the sponge idea too. I would be using the sponge and some areas would look "spongy" and others looked like regular paint. 

Text project

I used this idea because i thought it was very simple and creative. I liked how it was easy going, nota lot   was going on in the page. I had a ballon drifting in the blue sky with text instead of the ballon string with the words "sometimes you just have to let go".

Tensions project.

For this project i tried to show tension by pulling a rope from both ends causing tension. With only one string attached also.