1. Define which techniques you tried and mastered? Struggled?
Texture was something that required a bit of time to master. In some of my earlier attempts at creating something like this the texture wasn't as clean and as rigid as this one. So it took time to get this one. Value was also something that I had to get a hang of because of the fact that it took a bit of time to get this to be how I wanted it to be. 2. How did you draw inspiration from other artists techniques or aesthetics in your work? In what ways did you derive meaning or gain historical perspectives from their work? Why these artists? Getting the idea of what to do from the internet, I was able to derive what exactly and how I would implement it into my project from this and overall know what to do. |
3. Describe the evolution of your piece. Decisions made. Compositional elements.
Through the many trials that I did, they continually got better and better depending on how much ink was originally on the string. Having to use the string multiple times without putting new ink on it was a decision I had to make in order to see how it would change overall and see the outcome of the different attempts.
4. If you could consider doing something over, explain why you would do this and what you would do next time?
I would want to get colors that go along with each other. Seeing a version of this that is colorful that perhaps some actual color on it could be rather interesting.
5. Elaborate on how this piece links with your other pieces? What is the common thread?
The central theme of what I am making is symmetry. This applies to my project because of the fact that for the most part, each of these is rather symmetrical as they were both made together in the same way.
Through the many trials that I did, they continually got better and better depending on how much ink was originally on the string. Having to use the string multiple times without putting new ink on it was a decision I had to make in order to see how it would change overall and see the outcome of the different attempts.
4. If you could consider doing something over, explain why you would do this and what you would do next time?
I would want to get colors that go along with each other. Seeing a version of this that is colorful that perhaps some actual color on it could be rather interesting.
5. Elaborate on how this piece links with your other pieces? What is the common thread?
The central theme of what I am making is symmetry. This applies to my project because of the fact that for the most part, each of these is rather symmetrical as they were both made together in the same way.
1. Define which techniques you tried and mastered? Struggled?
The technique that I had to play around a lot with for this piece of art was colors. Attempting to find a combination of colors that looks good and that I enjoyed actually took a large amount of time. Testing out different combinations of this took a while to find something that looked good and worked well together. Another technique I was going about would be size, as I needed to figure out the best way I could size this piece of art in relation to everything else.
2. How did you draw inspiration from other artists techniques or aesthetics in your work? In what ways did you derive meaning or gain historical perspectives from their work? Why these artists?
Something that I saw on Instagram was something fairly similar to this. Except they made a pizza through it, and it was really cool. When I saw this I thought that it was rather interesting to see and so I decided to make a piece of art similar to it, but with something resembling a snowflake more than a pizza (obviously).
3. Describe the evolution of your piece. Decisions made. Compositional elements.
Completing this project took a fair amount of time as figuring out what exactly I wanted to make it took some time for me to decide. I did a number of trials, some successes and some failures, but in the end I had to choose between a couple of options. Making the decision to go with this one is rather different for me, because I personally don't usually look at these types of colors, and so in the end I was very pleased with the outcome of this one.
4. If you could consider doing something over, explain why you would do this and what you would do next time?
I spent a lot of time with the value of each line, and obviously there are a lot of combinations that work. However, I would want to try and find a way to make the lines darker without changing the overall art too much.
5. Elaborate on how this piece links with your other pieces? What is the common thread?
The overall and arching theme between my art is meant to be symmetry. This piece is symmetrical and so it fits in with what I want my show to be at the end of the year. Overall this does in fact fulfill the components of what I want in my art show.
1. Define which techniques you tried and mastered? Struggled?
Shape is something that I had to focus a lot on in order to do well on. Attempting to create and ensure that the circles are shaped well and are symmetrical in descending order is something that is something that took a while to do. Also color because I had to play around with some of the colors that I was using quite a bit in order to see what I wanted it to be like.
2. How did you draw inspiration from other artists techniques or aesthetics in your work? In what ways did you derive meaning or gain historical perspectives from their work? Why these artists?
Abstract art is something that looks easy to do, but is actually ver time consuming and ambiguous to re create. I found something similar to this on the internet but I eventually simply made it my own by making it be a way that I wanted it to be.
3. Describe the evolution of your piece. Decisions made. Compositional elements.
I went over the colors several time in an attempt to figure out what exactly I wanted to use. Having to redo it and put a bunch of layers of the water paint took time because it had to dry, then I had to try something new, and if I didn't like it again I had to wait some more. The decision to do this was time consuming but I eventually got it to be a way that I liked it to be.
4. If you could consider doing something over, explain why you would do this and what you would do next time?
I would want to ensure that I was more careful with the white piece of paper that I glue it on. A bit of a smudge got onto the white background and I could do without that in my life.
5. Elaborate on how this piece links with your other pieces? What is the common thread?
The common theme is symmetry. I have had to make the pieces symmetrical, and this piece of art follows those requirements that I want to have for my art show.
Shape is something that I had to focus a lot on in order to do well on. Attempting to create and ensure that the circles are shaped well and are symmetrical in descending order is something that is something that took a while to do. Also color because I had to play around with some of the colors that I was using quite a bit in order to see what I wanted it to be like.
2. How did you draw inspiration from other artists techniques or aesthetics in your work? In what ways did you derive meaning or gain historical perspectives from their work? Why these artists?
Abstract art is something that looks easy to do, but is actually ver time consuming and ambiguous to re create. I found something similar to this on the internet but I eventually simply made it my own by making it be a way that I wanted it to be.
3. Describe the evolution of your piece. Decisions made. Compositional elements.
I went over the colors several time in an attempt to figure out what exactly I wanted to use. Having to redo it and put a bunch of layers of the water paint took time because it had to dry, then I had to try something new, and if I didn't like it again I had to wait some more. The decision to do this was time consuming but I eventually got it to be a way that I liked it to be.
4. If you could consider doing something over, explain why you would do this and what you would do next time?
I would want to ensure that I was more careful with the white piece of paper that I glue it on. A bit of a smudge got onto the white background and I could do without that in my life.
5. Elaborate on how this piece links with your other pieces? What is the common thread?
The common theme is symmetry. I have had to make the pieces symmetrical, and this piece of art follows those requirements that I want to have for my art show.
1. Define which techniques you tried and mastered? Struggled?
Shape is something that I was working a lot with in this piece. When I was using Adobe Illustrator, figuring out how to structure and position the stars in a way that looked appealing took some time. Choosing not to use color in this piece and simply keeping it black and white with a defending color scheme that got darker the further from the middle looks rather interesting to me. Creating the number of layers took a bit, but eventually the ending result turned out rather well.
2. How did you draw inspiration from other artists techniques or aesthetics in your work? In what ways did you derive meaning or gain historical perspectives from their work? Why these artists?
When scrolling through Pinterest trying to figure out something that I could replicate, I ended up coming upon a piece that I liked, and so I decided that I would try my hand at doing something similar. The computer made art took a while to actually but getting ideas from other people is something that influenced my ideas. I simply used this because of the fact that I thought it was interesting and I wanted to try and make something similar.
3. Describe the evolution of your piece. Decisions made. Compositional elements.
When figuring out the curvature of each layer and the rotation of each layer took a while to do. Choosing the rotation that I liked and something that looked visually appealing was something that kept on changing about the piece. Line shape and size all played a major role in this piece, as it was very time consuming to figure everything out in a way that I enjoyed.
4. If you could consider doing something over, explain why you would do this and what you would do next time?
I would perhaps try and put the center of the star off to the side, as to make the focal point not in the middle. Doing this would ensure that the piece is more interesting, but would also hinder it from being symmetrical. However doing this has the potential of looking rather interesting.
5. Elaborate on how this piece links with your other pieces? What is the common thread?
All of the pieces have the common theme of symmetry. This piece reflects that idea as it is symmetrical and so overall it ties in with the overall theme of the actual piece of art itself. This is important because it is ensuring that it follows the overall theme of my art show, and so it is a respectable piece to have in my show.
Shape is something that I was working a lot with in this piece. When I was using Adobe Illustrator, figuring out how to structure and position the stars in a way that looked appealing took some time. Choosing not to use color in this piece and simply keeping it black and white with a defending color scheme that got darker the further from the middle looks rather interesting to me. Creating the number of layers took a bit, but eventually the ending result turned out rather well.
2. How did you draw inspiration from other artists techniques or aesthetics in your work? In what ways did you derive meaning or gain historical perspectives from their work? Why these artists?
When scrolling through Pinterest trying to figure out something that I could replicate, I ended up coming upon a piece that I liked, and so I decided that I would try my hand at doing something similar. The computer made art took a while to actually but getting ideas from other people is something that influenced my ideas. I simply used this because of the fact that I thought it was interesting and I wanted to try and make something similar.
3. Describe the evolution of your piece. Decisions made. Compositional elements.
When figuring out the curvature of each layer and the rotation of each layer took a while to do. Choosing the rotation that I liked and something that looked visually appealing was something that kept on changing about the piece. Line shape and size all played a major role in this piece, as it was very time consuming to figure everything out in a way that I enjoyed.
4. If you could consider doing something over, explain why you would do this and what you would do next time?
I would perhaps try and put the center of the star off to the side, as to make the focal point not in the middle. Doing this would ensure that the piece is more interesting, but would also hinder it from being symmetrical. However doing this has the potential of looking rather interesting.
5. Elaborate on how this piece links with your other pieces? What is the common thread?
All of the pieces have the common theme of symmetry. This piece reflects that idea as it is symmetrical and so overall it ties in with the overall theme of the actual piece of art itself. This is important because it is ensuring that it follows the overall theme of my art show, and so it is a respectable piece to have in my show.
1. Define which techniques you tried and mastered? Struggled?
Shape is the technique that is the central focus of this piece. Using a computer program, I was figuring everything out as I went along and eventually I came upon something that I enjoyed. Figuring out the sizes of everything took a while, then putting colors to each shape individually took some time as well.
2. How did you draw inspiration from other artists techniques or aesthetics in your work? In what ways did you derive meaning or gain historical perspectives from their work? Why these artists?
The program that I got inspiration from has past examples that some people can see and get ideas from. A person posted a piece anonymously. I saw what the program was capable of, and so as a result I worked to complete a piece that was similar to that.
3. Describe the evolution of your piece. Decisions made. Compositional elements.
When testing out different shapes that were capable of what was showing and representing what I wanted in the art. When it came to decision making, I knew I wanted colors to be overplayed and I wanted it to be focused off to the side of the picture itself. Elements that I took into account are shape line color and size. All of these played a role in the ending bit of the art itself and all affected how the piece ended up.
4. If you could consider doing something over, explain why you would do this and what you would do next time?
Something I would do over again is I would probably just switch up some more of the shapes. Figuring out how exactly I wanted it, there were a lot of options to go with, but if not then it's not that big of a deal. Also I would want to figure out how to save the image as a higher quality photo. I didn't realize how pixelated it was until it was too late.
5. Elaborate on how this piece links with your other pieces? What is the common thread?
The common thread for my art is symmetry. All of the shapes themselves are different sizes, and are actually only rotated and stretched to be different sizes. However symmetry still plays a role in this because all individual shapes are still symmetrical and variations of each other, only stretched and rotated and different colors.
Shape is the technique that is the central focus of this piece. Using a computer program, I was figuring everything out as I went along and eventually I came upon something that I enjoyed. Figuring out the sizes of everything took a while, then putting colors to each shape individually took some time as well.
2. How did you draw inspiration from other artists techniques or aesthetics in your work? In what ways did you derive meaning or gain historical perspectives from their work? Why these artists?
The program that I got inspiration from has past examples that some people can see and get ideas from. A person posted a piece anonymously. I saw what the program was capable of, and so as a result I worked to complete a piece that was similar to that.
3. Describe the evolution of your piece. Decisions made. Compositional elements.
When testing out different shapes that were capable of what was showing and representing what I wanted in the art. When it came to decision making, I knew I wanted colors to be overplayed and I wanted it to be focused off to the side of the picture itself. Elements that I took into account are shape line color and size. All of these played a role in the ending bit of the art itself and all affected how the piece ended up.
4. If you could consider doing something over, explain why you would do this and what you would do next time?
Something I would do over again is I would probably just switch up some more of the shapes. Figuring out how exactly I wanted it, there were a lot of options to go with, but if not then it's not that big of a deal. Also I would want to figure out how to save the image as a higher quality photo. I didn't realize how pixelated it was until it was too late.
5. Elaborate on how this piece links with your other pieces? What is the common thread?
The common thread for my art is symmetry. All of the shapes themselves are different sizes, and are actually only rotated and stretched to be different sizes. However symmetry still plays a role in this because all individual shapes are still symmetrical and variations of each other, only stretched and rotated and different colors.
1. Define which techniques you tried and mastered? Struggled?
Value was something that took a rather long time to try and get in this self portrait. Trying to make shades look even similar to what was actually in the picture was something that was very time consuming. I struggled with this greatly and overall the outcome was alright, but still needs a decent amount of work.
2. How did you draw inspiration from other artists techniques or aesthetics in your work? In what ways did you derive meaning or gain historical perspectives from their work? Why these artists?
Seeing my classmates working on their art and seeing little things that I could copy from them and implement it into my work was a great experience. I got meaning through seeing how they wee doing things and attempting to recreate it. My classmates all did this project so doing something similar to them would ensure that I couldn't mess up too badly.
3. Describe the evolution of your piece. Decisions made. Compositional elements.
Having to redo a lot of my work is something that took a long time to do. Whenever I did something that I didn't like I would try and redo it over and over again. This took a very long time to do, and getting the finished product took a while to finally do.
4. If you could consider doing something over, explain why you would do this and what you would do next time?
I would want to do a lot of this over again. Overall my portrait doesn't reflect what I look like very well, and it the value in a lot of it is something that I couldn't complete very well.
5. Elaborate on how this piece links with your other pieces? What is the common thread?
This doesn't really relate to my theme because I am doing symmetry, and a portrait isn't supposed to be symmetrical from simply a picture that I took.
Value was something that took a rather long time to try and get in this self portrait. Trying to make shades look even similar to what was actually in the picture was something that was very time consuming. I struggled with this greatly and overall the outcome was alright, but still needs a decent amount of work.
2. How did you draw inspiration from other artists techniques or aesthetics in your work? In what ways did you derive meaning or gain historical perspectives from their work? Why these artists?
Seeing my classmates working on their art and seeing little things that I could copy from them and implement it into my work was a great experience. I got meaning through seeing how they wee doing things and attempting to recreate it. My classmates all did this project so doing something similar to them would ensure that I couldn't mess up too badly.
3. Describe the evolution of your piece. Decisions made. Compositional elements.
Having to redo a lot of my work is something that took a long time to do. Whenever I did something that I didn't like I would try and redo it over and over again. This took a very long time to do, and getting the finished product took a while to finally do.
4. If you could consider doing something over, explain why you would do this and what you would do next time?
I would want to do a lot of this over again. Overall my portrait doesn't reflect what I look like very well, and it the value in a lot of it is something that I couldn't complete very well.
5. Elaborate on how this piece links with your other pieces? What is the common thread?
This doesn't really relate to my theme because I am doing symmetry, and a portrait isn't supposed to be symmetrical from simply a picture that I took.