GIF

Art is really important to me, and I always find myself doodling. So, my GIF is a doodling pencil.

Pop Art Print

In Progress

Artists develop art making skills: 

Before this project, I had never printed layers of color on top of each other. I have used a brayer and bench hook before to print cork board  stamps, but I hadn't used linoleum before. 

Artists take risks:

I found it really risky to carve away part of my peice after each layer in order to continue. It was a process I had never experienced before and it almost made me nervous knowing that there was no going back. 

Finished: 

Color Project

In Progress

The theme of my project is explore. The paper airplane flying around the globe symbolizes exploration as well as the vintage map I used in place of a paper background. I chose to use acrylic paints for this project because it is quite thick and I knew it cover the lines on the map pretty easily. I think it would have been near impossible to cover those lines using a different material such as watercolor or colored pencil. I haven't had many difficulties so far, however I have found that it is fairly difficult to paint inside the tiny lines created by the continents borders. 

Finished

I think my project was very successful, I am very happy with the map I was able to find to use as the background of my peice. It is a National Geographic map of China from 1945. I also really like the contrast in the paper airplane between the white and the black outline. If I could go back and change one thing I would probably make the red dashed line more curvy, but other then that I am really proud of my peice. Throughout this project I deepened my experience with acrylic paints and mixing colors. I also learned to take risks by using the map.

Paper Sculpture Project

Artists create original art, and in the paper sculpture project I created something I have never done before and have never seen before. I got the idea to use origami flowers to cover the cardboard shape because I absolutely love floral prints and I have some experience with origami. My inspiration came from Pinterest (http://www.pinterest.com/tesswiegmann/paper-folding/). 

Artists also collaborate. I would never have the artistic skills that I do if I didn't communicate with the artists around me. During the paper sculpture project I helped my classmates when they were stumped with the origami steps online. Sometimes the steps are hard to figure out and because I have some experience with the material I was able to help a few people.