Since the majority of us haven't finished our projects for this project yet, Sands told us to post a blog explaining our idea for it. I came up with a lot of different ideas for this project, but wasn't sure how to make them into a piece. Eventually I came upon the quote, "do you suppose she's a wildflower?" from Alice in Wonderland. This quote really caught my attention, and since I love Alice in Wonderland so much I thought it would be a really interesting metaphor to use in my art. I began researching different ways to use flowers in portraits, and found some really beautiful, inspirational pieces. I also decided to use watercolors and india ink, since I recently got some really nice watercolors and pens. All though I only have a sketch of what I want to do right now, I'm really excited to see how this project turns out!
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For this project we were given a sheet of paper with information about an unknown person's likes, dislikes, strengths, and weaknesses. I had zero clue what to do for a good 5 days before I started this painting. I mostly brainstormed and sketched, but nothing I came up with was something I felt like I'd be proud of. I went back to the original sheet and wrote down a bunch of adjectives that came to mind when I read the person's interests. They struck me as someone very kind, happy, confident, and approachable. I tried to portray this in my artwork. The person also had a lot of interests that struck me as very colorful and vibrant, such as art, music, culture and imagination. This all gave me an idea to paint a stylized portrait of a woman who was colorful, happy and confident. I am definitely more pleased with this piece than I would've been with a collage, which was my first idea. It was really nice to paint something more freeform and abstract, instead of something realistic.
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A Lil InfoThis is all of my art from Art Three, which I took second semester of my second year of high school. In this class I had the most laid back art teacher I've ever had before, and I really took that opportunity to explore different styles, subjects, and mediums. When my teacher moved mid-semester and we got a substitute who has been through art school and worked as an illustrator, it was a really awesome learning experience, and I found myself growing as an artist even more. Archives
May 2016
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