I really enjoyed making this collage project. My inspiration came from fashion magazines. When you look at my project it looks like a bunch of girly words cut out to look nice. But when I created this I intended the canvas to be women and how the media pushes them to be all the words on the canvas like "beautiful, flawless, fantastic, or sexy". All the mixed media on top of the words was supposed to be seen as make up and all the products or surgerys the media thinks women need to become perfect. When in reality the words or women's natural beauty gets covered up by all thw glitter, tissue paper and paint (makeup). I like how my project turned out. I thought I did a good job on adding many different mediums and I am very proud of my work.
Clay Pizza I really really love how my clay pizza turned out. It was pretty easy to get the right shape and texture for a pizza by making bubbles and lumps on the cheese. The most difficult part of making this pizza realistic was the color. I painted a lot of layers in order to get just the right color. I had to make sure the color of the sauce, cheese, crust, and pepperoni looked as realistic as possible. In my opinion my pizza looks very real. Trial and error payed off with painting. If I were to change anything about my clay pizza project I would have made a few more slices of pizza. In my opinion one of the best touches to my project is the real pizza box with the grease spots, making it look much more real. Abstract Christmas Ornament I did not like this project. Because we had to balance our time with 2 projects I did not prioritize properly and I spent most of the time working on my clay pizza. I originally had the idea to draw a flower, but the more I thought about and looked at my sketches of the flower, the less I liked my idea. So I changed my mind and drew a more abstract picture of an ornament. If I had had more time I think I could have made this piece look much better. The ornament looks okay, you can see the lights and darks but the background did not look good at all. Overall I did not like my abstract project. I enjoyed using differnt mediums for these mini projects. Although I only liked doing the colored pencils it was still fun to try something new. I found the jolly rancher with oil pastels the most difficult project because it was hard to blend the oils to turn out the right color I wanted. It was difficult achieving the look that the jolly rancher was somewhat translucent. I loved drawing the dum dum most of all. It was easy to get into the tight edges with the colored pencils. And the prisma colors made it easy to achieve the perfect amount of blending. The thing I found most frustrating about the chalk pastels was trying to get into the edges with the chalk. It was somewhat easy to blend the chalks but difficult to get the right amount of pressure so you didn't over power the picture. If I had to pick a favorite, it would most definitely be colored pencils. I really like how my final project turned out. My painting was suppose to be like Frank Stella's painting style. He painted basic shapes with lots of color. When I saw his style I immediatly thought of the Epcot Ball in Disney World. I made the connection because the Epcot Ball has lots of small triangles and when it is light up at night it has lots of beautiful colors. It was very hard to have the patience to color each and every triangle. I also had to draw the lines for the triangles at least 5 times in pencil and once in black marker. This project was a huge pain and was a lot of work. Overall I think my project looked very nice. I added sparkle paint on top of my black paint for the stars in the dark night sky. I love painting and I think that this project helped me to learn patience and time management. I am very happy with how my project turned out. Overall I thought I did well with showing perspective. With the train tracks you can see the obvious perspective with the planks getting smaller the farther away they are. I wanted to add some more perspective so I added the telephone poles in. I used the same vanishing point for the entire piece except for when the tracks started to curve. I could have done better with this piece to make the sky look more realistic and give the trees in the background more shape than just circular blobs. Im happy with how my project turned out. Though I liked some aspects of my sketch better than my final project, it turned out well.
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Madison MarrottI am a junior at Apex High School. I enjoy painting and sculpting. |