Fortune Cookie Book Page

I used my fortune to inspire me in a abstract and broad way. My fortunes were mostly about being vane and pompous and some were about trying to soften that so I did bright and intense colors with a mask on top like clouds and just used light soft colors.

Art x3

I liked this project because if there was something on the piece of art that you liked you could play off of it and if it was something you didn't like you could try to make it less apparent. I hated letting go of my half finished work but it was fun anyway.

Pop Print

For my pop print I chose to use my iPhone as the image for the print. I chose this because it is something that consumes my generation. For this project we had to do a drawing of the item and then rub them on a rubber stamp so that the image transferred. We then trashed the p ensign lines on the stamp with marker. This made it easier to see when we carved the rubber away to make the image stamp-able. We then rolled ink on the finished stamp and and stamped the image over and over and overs and over and over again.

Then I cut the paper just for fun.

The items that our class collected for this collection of blue items tell a lot about our society. There are very few things on the table and in the collection that we actually need. There was one thing that was for learning and only a few for cleaning and cooking but the majority of the things we just little trinkets. Our society is so materialistic and that definitely shows. This bothers me in a way but at the same time that is the one thing about America that sticks out to me. We have excess. We have excess of everything; clothes, money, cars, food, electronics, and just random stuff that you would find at the dollar store that have no use. I think that that definitely sums up my generation as a whole. 

Collecting vs. Hoarding

In my opinion there is a big difference between hoarding and collecting. People who collect just find certain things interesting and like to see multiple variations of an object. People who hoard have emotional connections and feel like they will eventually have a use for stuff so they have trouble throwing things out. Plus collecting have a theme while hoarding is random.

the difference is clear.

In my bike drawing I used only graphite pencil. I learned a lot about composition
and how the more abstract the composition of the drawing is, the more interesting it will be. I learned about value too and how shading creates shadows that make the picture have depth and that with metal the only thing that can be white is the shine. I did better than I thought I would but I still have more to learn about value and shading.

In my candy drawing I used colored pencil for almost the entire drawing. I learned a lot about how to create value using different shades of colors instead of regular pencil. I found this pretty difficult but i love drawing with colored pencil because of the way they blend together and how creamy the color is.