For our final pieces we were given a lot of freedom, other than three unique rules given to each student. I chose to create a video for my final piece and my three rules were, no people could be shown in the video, I had to use less than 5 edits, and I had to work on it a little bit every day. The reason that these rules were given to me is because I almost always have people in my videos, I spend a lot of time editing my videos, and because a lot of things I do are very last minute. I honestly didn't know what to do for a while, I got a lot of footage but none of it really felt right. Then one day when I was walking home at night I thought, hey, it'd be fun to record myself running maybe I can use that for my video. Keep in mind I had pretty much tried everything else so at this point, especially because I didn't have that much time left, I was really just trying everything. The next day I was walking home the same way, but this time it was the middle of the day, and I was like hey what if I did the exact same thing I did yesterday but cut to make it look like it's going from day to night. I had never really done that before but had always wanted to so I decided to give it a try. For four days I recorded basically the same video except that each one was taken at a different time of the day. I feel that I somewhat followed all my rules; I didn't have any people in it and technically I didn't actually edit the video at all I only cut up the footage I had and moved it around. The rule that I feel I didn't do that well at following was to work on it a little bit every day. As I previously stated, I like to do things last minute but I did work on it every day for the last four days so I would say I kinda sorta followed that rule but just a little bit.
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My art piece was created to show the change from something bad to something good, more specifically the downfall of civilization and the new beginning that this will bring. My piece is split into two sides, the left showing the oncoming darkness and the right showing the light that will come after. In the center is a telephone pole. Coming off the left side of the telephone pole are powerlines, something that many people rely on and use daily. Once the powerlines reach the telephone pole, they transition into vines representing new life. When I first started brainstorming ideas for this project I wasn’t really liking anything I was coming up with. All of my ideas were basically the same thing, and it just seemed too obvious for me. The good coming out of the bad, the light in the dark, the thing that everyone was going to think of. I wanted something different, something distinct. My piece is different in the way that it shows the transition from the dark into the light rather than the light coming out of the dark. For this project, we were given a lot of freedom. Our only instruction was that it needed to include multiple art styles. I wasn't sure what to create at first but then I remembered that I had created something the previous day just for fun. I used my piece to try out a few different things. First, I took a picture of it and printed out three copies, one in color and the other two black and white. I ripped up the colored copy and I painted on the black and white ones. None of those actually felt right so I decided to try something else. I took a bunch of colored papers and a Chipotle box and I recreated my work. I then had someone hold it up and photographed them sitting on a bridge. I feel it still isn't finished but that's what I've done so far. For this project, we were tasked with creating a still life painting using items that are meaningful to us. The items that I chose were a blanket, a small bottle of gold flakes, a prism, and a Pringle. The blanket was given to me soon after my birth and I have had it ever since; the bottle of gold was given to me by one of my first friends; the prism reminds me that there’s more to the world than what we can see; and the Pringle because I mean who doesn’t like Pringles. Setting up the objects in a way that was visually pleasing was a little challenging but I soon overcame this. I put the blanket down first, positioning it so that you could see some depth, and then I set the bottle and the Pringle in front of it. I couldn’t figure out where to put the prism but I finally settled on putting it in front of the bottle, so that I would see the bottle from three different angles. I sketched this out on paper with a pencil and once I was satisfied with my sketch I transferred it from the paper to a canvas by tracing over the backside with charcoal and then traced over my sketch, rubbing the charcoal off onto the canvas. When showing my work to the rest of the class, I received some feedback to help me understand how I could improve upon my artwork. The feedback I was given was somewhat helpful, but none of it was new information to me. I was given advice on how to make some aspects of look a little better but nothing significant. Along with the constructive feedback, I also received many compliments. I consider the compliments just as, if not more, helpful than the feedback as it helped to boost my esteem and encourage me to continue doing my best. I feel that this was my most successful piece as of yet. There is obviously room for improvement but I am proud of how much I’ve already improved from when I first started this class. This is one of the only paintings I’ve ever worked on and compared to the others this one is much better. Something that I particularly improved upon is painting glass. The prism is the only part of my piece that I wish I could redo. Our second project was a still life drawing. For my drawing, I chose to draw three things. A vase because I need to work on curves and symmetry; some red fabric to work on my shading, and a plant because it looked interesting and difficult. I drew this piece three times. The first was just a rough outline, the second one had some detail added in, and then I spent the remainder of the class working on my final piece which you can see below. When doing the rough outline I realized that I should start all of my pieces like that, outline the entire thing and then add the details. This really helped me while working on this piece. The most difficult part was probably the shading but overall I feel I did a good job.
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