Texture

This texture project working with relief sculptures was harder for me. I think I was heavally influenced by the pressure of time and "pier pressure" (they were finishing faster than me). In my composition, there weren't too many specific textures but the ones that I have wound up working somewhat well. I got some great feedback from my friends who said that the barrier down the middle separated a more sharp and hard side of my sculpture from the softer, smoother side. I liked that I worked around with the color and tried not to think about anything and just go for it. I feel like this was a great experiment that may not have turned out exactly how I wanted, but it will serve as a good starting point for sculptures in the future.
In the pictures my jacket got in the way a little at the bottom...

1) I think that the most interesting part of the texture project was getting to experiment with photoshop. It was fun to go a little more in depth for the first time.
2) The best textural picture I took was probably the one of the shrub/wall. I is simply a picture of a wall covered in a shrub but it was a cool unique texture that worked really well when it came to photoshop.
3) My final collage was my most successful. My first two collages were a sort of experiment or "try" and it seemed like I used good information that I had learned to create one good complete collage.
4) My favorite collage was my best one. I cropped and blew up a small part of an old picture of a fire hydrant I had taken in the color unit. After that, I rubbed on some textures around the knob of the yellow fire hydrant. In the end it came out very well, focusing on the knob and then as you look around, the good textures.
5)Taking what I learned from Mr. O's demonstration, I think that I will go along the lines of trying to really bring out certain part of my sculpture, and let some fade to the background as a cool way for the viewer's eye to wander.
Here are some pictures of my three collages:

Diptics

Analogous color scheme

Triad color scheme

Complementary color scheme

Monocromatic color scheme





Color cup paintings:

In Developing these next four paintings, I used a few different tools, methods, and materials. I found my self to be subconsciously painting across from either left to right or right to left. I didn't use much water, but I did use a lot of paint and different size brushes. I really tried to use good paint mixtures. Also using different size brushes help me get either larger strokes where I wanted them and smaller ones when I needed finesse.
Using my skills of observation was very important here. I needed to know when I needed certain brush strokes or certain colors at the right time. This project has taught me to observe color by, seeing how colors fit together, how they differ, how you can combine them to make a great piece, how each color has a million different ways to change, and how to make a good painting.
Here are my paintings, and the last picture is the original object which I painted:

Rayograms

Similar to my collages, I found that in my rayograms there was a significant amount of randomness. I wasn't trying for something specific but just to experiment for the first time in the darkroom. Also I found it fun to mess around with the aperture to make the composition more grey or more black and white. Taking things like leaves, tape and common stuff, I was able to put together some great abstract compositions.

Working in the dark room was awesome. I found it to be a lot of fun. First, I would set up what I wanted my composition to look like, then I would grab some photo paper set it in the framer and turn on the light for around 7 to 8 seconds. When that was done, I put the paper in the developer for 1 to 2 minutes where my picture developed. Then for about 30 seconds I put my paper in the stopper to stop it from developing anymore than I wanted it to. After that I put the picture in the fixer for 2 to 5 minutes before finally putting it in normal water for 4 minutes. The whole process of getting to experiment for the first time was great.

Shape and Composition

Starting with my two collages, they were very different in style. My composition of white on black had more complete and abstract shapes. I used the soccer player outline as a central, more defined figure and put very abstract shapes to surround it. My black on white composition was made up of many different shapes coming together to create one big whole figure, in this case the moon. I think that I was very drawn to abstract shapes which is really the connector between my two compositions. Something about being able to put randomness together to make a cool composition inspired me.

Line

1. Three photos of my line drawings
2. Discussion of line drawings

I think that I grasped the idea of the line drawings well but it didn't correlate to actually drawing. I feel like my drawings seem rushed and that I didn't pay great attention to detail. I could have been a lot more careful and if I were to re-do the project today, I think they would turn out much much better. I think that my chosen objects could have also been better so it could give me a better way to grasp some of the drawings concepts.
3. Photos of wire sculpture
4. Discussion of sculpture

I thought that the Stretching and Exploring idea gave me some trouble. Although I loved the freedom of the wire project, it was difficult for me because I wasn't very good with working with wire. I struggled a lot and my finished project was not as "finished" as I thought it could have been. Overall I think it was a fun project, but wire being hard to manipulate I didn't quite turn out how I wanted.