For this mixed media project, I went in with a certain color scheme and overall theme that I wanted to use. As you can see, I chose a lot of neutral tones and natural blues. I wanted to have a sort of natural theme and vibe to my piece. All the photographs I used were of things in nature; some were from underwater pictures, others were of wood, and one was even a picture of lightning (which corresponded to some of the text I used as well). I also wanted to have a certain "flow" to my piece, and really relied on movement. It's pretty obvious, but there is definitely a diagonal flow from left to right. I didn't want it to feel totally random, even though it was a mixed media collage. I had a hard time at first with trying to figure out what to put on this piece, since I'm not used to doing abstract pieces. I also thought of this as more of one big composition, and then I still went through and found smaller ones within that big composition. The pictures above are three different compositions that i found in my mixed media piece. It's always really cool to me to see what I can find in one abstract piece. I find it really fun to go around with the mats and see what I can find. My favorite of these three compositions is probably the middle one. I really like the variety of textures I used in this section. You can really see contrast in the different text sizes and fonts, which was one of the main things I was trying to incorporate into this piece. In the far left composition, I like the uniformity of the text size and direction. It has a sort of toned down vibe in comparison to the middle piece. I also really liked the colors in this section and how monochromatic they were. The composition on the right I chose because of the colors and movement. This one had elements of the whole piece in it: the tissue paper, text, painted circles, photographs, and even parts of the cards. I really like the way they all came together and made a cohesive mini compostiton.
I liked doing this piece because it was sort of a break from the structured projects I had been doing. It was nice to make an abstract piece of art that didn't necessarily have to have this huge amount of work and time put into it. That being said, it's not like I just threw things on a board, I still had to think about composition and how all my elements fit together, but it was still nice to sort of "let go" a little with my art.
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A Little InfoThis page is all of my art from Art Four, which I took my junior year of high school. The main goal of this class was to begin collecting pieces that I can potentially add to my AP Portfolio at the end of Senior year. During this class I created some of my favorite pieces, and also one of my least favorite (I'm looking at you, adirondack chair painting). I'll be retaking this class in the fall of senior year to add more pieces to learn and grow even more, and create more potential portfolio pieces. Archives
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