Japanese Poster

     In my room I had to take down the shades because they were starting to rip. The material was really interesting though and had this papyrus paper feeling. I brought in my old shades and cut a large rectangle out of it. Then using a chair top traced a circle in the middle of it. I then drew it in with red watercolor pencil and then painted over it with water. On one side I used black ink to paint a large Japanese cherry blossom. Using regular paint I mixed white and reds to get the pedal color. On the opposite side I wrote in black ink, "Japanese Cherry Blossom Tree By Emma"

Spray Paint

     In English class one day I was looking at someone's spray-paint art on the wall and the more I thought of it the more I wondered how they got the different shadowing and details. The more I thought of it the more I wanted to try it. I have always been interested in the Greek culture so I thought I would start with a figure that was small and simple: The discus thrower.

     I put this image through photoshop then printed it. After printing the image I used a blending marker to copy it on a harder type of paper.The first stencil I was was of the general shape of the discus thrower, the second was of the general shadowing, and the third was of the details of the face, muscles, and bone. This was my first test:

     Using some gold spray paint from home for the general shape and using a bronze spray-paint I made a second test.

     For the final test I spray-painted the whole figure onto the back of my iPhone case.

     The second spray-paint project that I tried was for my friend that lives in South Korea. I bought a cardboard "H" from the Paper Source because her name is Hanseul. Then spray-painted it with the gold spray-paint. Then making a stencil of her name I spray-painted one side in bronze and the other with a neon pink.

Prom Video

     For prom there was a contest on who could make the best video of asking their date out to prom. Most of the other videos were of people asking their dates while someone recorded it but I wanted to take a different spin on it. So I made a stop-motion film asking my date to prom. Here is the YouTube Video:

(He said "Yes" by the way)

Birthday Card

     Coming up in March is my best friends birthday so I wanted to make a nice card. I hand drew "Happy Birthday" in pencil then went over it with a golden paint marker. For the border I used water color and for the border of the white area I also used water color. Inside the card I made the birthday cake and present 3D by just cutting to parallel lines and pushing them in and glueing the sides. I made the cake and present with an exacto knife. The flags also say happy birthday with I just glued on a string and put it through the paper.

Reconstruction

     When I was little my grandmother would read me Japanese stories. They were picture books that were written in Japanese. They were my favorite childhood stories and I wanted to do something with the beautiful pictures. For each picture I reconstructed I used different materials. The images were what I thought represented the book. The reason why I wanted to use different materials for each picture was because I thought it would be a challenge for me.

The Story Of Two Foxes

                                                                Peach Boy

The Cut Tongue Sparrow

The Monkey And the Crab

Peach Boy

Birthday Card

     Taking a break from my other drawings to make a quick birthday card for my friend Jess' 17 birthday. Just a one day project and tomorrow I will return to my big project that I am working on.
On the front of this card is a balloon with a string hanging from it. Inside the card are two strings that hold up the two words, "Happy Birthday."

Duxbury Beach

      In this water color painting was just a two day process. It is a simple painting of the Duxbury beach in Massachusetts. 

Melted Crayon Art

     This project was started with a link that I found: http://www.stilettosandboots.com/melted-crayon-art/ The piece that I made was similar to it except on a canvas and it had a different color scheme. I never melted Crayons before until this project so I was also working with some new materials. The girl with the umbrella is the girl on the Morton Salt containers. 

     I took this picture and placed it into photoshop to get rid of the rain and the salt to just have the figure then I printed it out and painted it black so it was only a silhouette of her. 

     The art teacher showed me how to put the canvas on the frame and staple it down. After that was finished I hot glue gunned the Crayons onto the canvas and in the bottom left hand corner put tape on it so crayon could not get on the part that I would place the girl. I melted the crayons with a heat gun (that is usually used to take off wall paper) and mostly let the crayon move to their own place. The final product turned out well although if I were to do this again I would not have used canvas because the crayon seeped through it.

Shoe

     For this art portfolio project I just wanted to do something simple. In the end it turned out a little more difficult than I expected. For Christmas one year my mom let me design a sneaker on NikeID.com and order it. The shoe is very colorful.

     Painting is not in my expertise but I wanted to work more with it and try to get it down more. I thought that the shoe would be perfect for a painting because of the define lines and lots of colors.
The final product turned out well although I had trouble recreating some of the bright-neon colors.

Portraits Using Photoshop

     For this project I got the idea of this type of portrait from a picture that I found on Pinterest. http://artistaday.com/?p=15225 The picture that I found was made from oil and canvas. Instead I took my own approach on it and used Photoshop. The first step was a mini photo shoot with my best friend in which we had to take some plain photos of each other's faces and then some photos of our hands over our faces.

     After trying to get the perfect photos I put all of the photos onto Photoshop. It was a long process of trying to cut the basic features from one picture and pasting it to the pictures that contained the hands. It had to be exact so you would not be able to tell that you cut and pasted the eyes. I'm sure that there were many different approaches that could have been taken but it was a project that was different from anything else that I have done so it was a good learning experience. The final pieces turned out well. 

Art Ideas

These images are of other peoples' work in art portfolio and in the future maybe I can work off of an idea that I got from their work process. 

Eric's Spray-paint Art

Alexandra Barnard Pottery

Japanese Theme

      In freshman year I started a project that I never got around to finishing. It was my only art project that I really did not get done so I brought it in to finish it. It was a drawing and it was supposed to represent my grandmother. It is the Japanese Rising Sun flag and in the red there are mostly bad memories and in the white memories she thinks of.

Japanese Rising Sun Flag

In the right hand corner I drew a picture of my grandmother and my grandfather, it was their wedding photo.

My Grandmother And Grandfather's Wedding Photo

In the top right hand corner I drew the Vermont flag because that is where my grandfather is from. On that same side I put 1996 and 1961 because those are the years of my birth and my mom's. The left hand side has the man-of-war Jellyfish. When my grandmother was little her brother got stung by many man-of-war Jellyfish and she has been scared of the swimming ever-since. To the right of the Jellyfish there is a tree because, like me, my grandmother was a little trouble maker. When she was little she tied her brother up to a tree because he was bothering her. So the tree represents that moment that she thinks fondly of. On the bottom left hand corner there is a close up drawing of the Japanese wood block painting of "The Wave" and the pages of Beethoven's music floating in it. My grandmother loved Beethoven as a child and she remembers listening to it with her father.

The Great Wave

Next to that I put a Singer sewing machine because this is a memory that she has with her mother. Because her mother taught her how to sew.
        The part I needed to finish was the middle. Before I had the solders in Hirojima lifting up the American flag. But I did not like the idea of war in the middle of her life so instead I drew a lady holding a samurai sword. For some reason this image reminded me of women's rights in Japan because men were the ones that went out and fought but this women looked like a samurai. My grandmother told me before that women's rights in her time was much different than it is now. And that they were just suppose to stay home, cook, and raise the children. I also tried to paint similar to the Japanese wood block paintings. To the right of the women I drew a line of people traveling thought the mountains. My grandmother has had a different life than a lot other people and she has traveled a long way to be where she is today. So this picture represents the journey of her life. I drew both of these in the island of Shikoku in which she was born and raised in.

Around the Island I wrote worlds in Japanese such as "Japan", "Mimi", "Emma", "Paula" "Jack" and "Shikoku".

The Final Product

     The start of the new term started the next project. For this term I really want to get more done then I did last term. Which means small projects. This next project I got from a website called Pintrest. It was a quick process that I got done in two days. The first day I painted a black tree (without any leaves). The next day I mixed some paint to get a pink color and I took a plastic Coca-Cola bottle and dipped it into the paint and then placed it on the paper. The final result made the painting look like a Japanese cherry blossom tree.

The Final Product Of The Japanese Cherry Tree

Written Piece

       For this piece my idea first started with the image of a 3D plane that looked a little antique. Without thinking much of the process I just started designing the plane and cutting it out of a black foam board. When I was thinking of making it look old I also had this post cards that I had collected that were made from old posters of national parks. For the project I wanted to mesh these two looks together. To make the project more original I made some of my own postcards that looked similar to the retro ones. Using Photoshop I took photos of trips that I have taken. The photos that were put on the plane had low color schemes and had some text explaining where the picture was taken. Collaging the images on the plane was a little difficult because all the space needed to be filled on the plane's surface and there were some weird angles. It was a very active project which made it fun to work with and unlike with some other pieces I have started working on I did not get bored with this one.
       It was a long process: Designing the plane, figuring out the measurements and dimensions for it, cutting it out of the board, making the post cards, printing them out, and then finally cutting and gluing them onto the plane. Although I did not accomplish more than one project this term I still feel like a got a lot done. It was a new learning experience for me because I have never done something like this project nor have I made a 3D project really. Once I was done with the plane project the next one I wanted to get done was quick because I had already started it freshman year. It was this drawing that was suppost to represent my grandmother. The drawing looks like that Japanese sun flag during World War One. In the red I drew bad memories of her and in the white good ones. The the part that I wanted to finish was the middle at first I started with a drawing of the solders putting up the American Flag in Iwo Jima. But then I erased that and in its place I drew the islands that she was born in, a Japanese girls holding a samurai sword, and people walking through the mountains. these were wood block images that I wanted to try to copy the style of. Since I am not the greatest painter I wanted to work with it a little more to feel a little more out of my comfort zone. During this last week I am working on this project and trying to finally complete it.

Artist Statement

    For this piece my idea first started with the image of a 3D plane that looked a little like an antique. Without thinking much of the process I just started designing the plane and cutting it out of a black foam board. When I was thinking of making it look old I also had these old post cards that I had collected. They were designed from old posters of national parks. For the project I wanted to mesh these two looks together. To make the project more original I made some of my own postcards that looked similar to the retro ones. Using Photoshop I took photos of trips that I have taken. The photos that were put on the plane had a low color scheme and had some text explaining where the picture were taken. Collaging the images on the plane was a little difficult because all the space needed to be filled on the plane's surface and there were some weird angles. It was a very active project which made it fun to work with and unlike with some other pieces I have started working on I did not get bored with this one.

       It was a long process: Designing the plane, figuring out the measurements and dimensions for it, cutting it out of the board, making the post cards, printing them out, and then finally cutting and gluing them onto the plane. Although I did not accomplish more than one project this term I still feel like a got a lot done. It was a new learning experience for me because I have never done something like this project nor have I made a 3D project really.
      Once I was done with the plane project the next one I wanted to get done was quick project because I had already started it freshman year. It was this drawing that represents my grandmother. The drawing looks like that Japanese sun flag during World War Two. In the red I drew bad memories of her and in the white good ones. The the part that I wanted to finish was the middle at first I started with a drawing of the solders putting up the American Flag in Iwo Jima. But then I erased that and in its place I drew the islands that she was born in, a Japanese girls holding a samurai sword, and people walking through the mountains. these were wood block images that I wanted to try to copy the style of. Since I am not the greatest painter I wanted to work with it a little more to feel a little more out of my comfort zone. During this last week I am working on this project and trying to finally complete it.

First Project

        For my first project I wanted to incorporate some old posters (that were made into postcards) into an art piece. 

Link to postcard website: http://www.rangerdoug.com/posters

        I have been collecting the postcards from places that I have traveled and more. I also wanted to make an model airplane because ever since I was little I wanted to be an aerospace engener and I have always been fascinated by planes. After some brainstorming I came up with an idea to make a collage using the postcards and paste it on the plane. Designing the plane was easy and the material I used for it was a foam bored. 

        When in came to making a collage for the pictures I did not want to cut up the postcards that I have collected so instead I made some of my own versions of them. I used pictures that I took from trips that I made then made them look similar to the old posters. 

Here is one of the postcards that I designed on Photoshop

Making postcard on Photoshops

        Ms. Patel helped me a lot with printing out the photos onto photo paper. I am still working on putting the photos onto the plane itself. Cutting the pictures and filling up all the spaces is difficult and I am also wondering if I have enough pictures to fill in all the free space. 

Barry McGee & Margaret Kilgallen in "Place" Video Notes

Inspiration

• Billboard
• City
• Country
• Exotic
• Energy
• Full of possibility
• Trap these places and make them into a work of art

Richard Serra: Large scale sculpture

• Process:
• DIfferent pieces
• Startles him
• People can't relate to sculpture

• Inspiration
• Work comes out of work
• Model
• Inside out
• Relationship between elements
• Recurring dream
• Drawing → keeping eye and hand together

• Studio space
• Big
• Open

 

The reason why this video clip was named "Space" was because space and places are where people get inspired. People get drawn to something particular anywhere such as these artists did and they are amused and inspired by it.

Link to video: http://www.pbs.org/art21/watch-now/segment-barry-mcgee-margaret-kilgallen-in-place