Over the past few weeks I’ve been working on several different embroidery projects. I had never done embroidery before but I really wanted to try it so I’m glad I was able to develop a new skill and create original pieces. My first piece was a pizza patch that I made. First I sketched out what I was going to make on my fabric, tightened it into the hoop, chose the different colors of embroidery floss, and started. I soon realized that the fabric was stretching too much, so to fix that problem I folded the fabric so I had two layers on my next patch.
Over the past month, I have been working on a portrait of my brother. I had never worked on masonite board, especially at the size that I chose so I was challenging myself. I also wanted to develop my painting skills because my most of my work has been in pencil and pen, so using acrylic was somewhat new to me. I wanted this painting to be special because it was based off of a photo I took of my brother and I wanted to express the joy he shows in the photo. When I started my portrait, I sketched out the whole scene with pencil to make sure I got the proportions right. After, I went in and began painting the background with an oil based acrylic paint. I haven't yet finished the painting but I am close to moving on to painting the foreground. Over the past few weeks, we worked on several different projects. The first project was a piece inspired by the Guerilla Girls’ inspiring complaint pieces. For my complaint piece I wanted to make something original that was something specific to my ideas. The complaint behind my piece was the lack of motivation that people have. I wanted to express that even if it is difficult to reach success, you will always learn things on the the way to it; but if you don’t try, you will never learn and never succeed. I used a maze to represent the journey to success and paved the way with words that you would understand if you tried. My second project was a piece inspired by David Brook’s “Never see, Never Will” artwork. For this project I wanted to take a risk and try drawing something I didn’t have any practice doing. I decided to choose volcanoes as my subject, but I put my own twist on they work. Inside of the volcano, I drew a sick dragon which was to show why volcanoes spit lava and smoke. After this project, I worked on my skill building with pen and ink work. In this bootcamp, I learned how to dilute the ink to get a range of value and how to change the thickness of my line with the pressure I used on the pen. During our task party, the task of creating three yellow things was bestowed upon me. I completed this task by creating three unique pieces. My first creation was a a vibrant yellow paper crane; I chose to make a crane because I have always loved making paper cranes and spending time making sure my folds are sharp and straight. I like that it requires attention. I then moved on to make a yellow tissue paper flower. I chose to make a flower because I wanted an aspect of softness among my pieces. My final piece was a watercolor painting of a sunflower. I like to use watercolors because I can get a great range of value by just adding water. I also like the fluidity that it gives my work. For my summer work, I experimented with different media types. I tried photography, pointillism, and ink work. I enjoy expressing natural and organic things in my work as well as contrasting textures and, in my photography, colors. |
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June 2018
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