This week I did some more experimenting for my poster project with water colors and which type of pencils I would like to draw the hearts with (color, crayon, etc). I also found some political posters rooted in graphic design that I liked to get me more inspired. I know this next week I will be working hard on this outside of class so it's done by Friday. I drew over a photograph from a concert I went to this weekend from another photo of hands and people roughly.
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I planned on working on my current project from class over the weekend but I wasn't on school on Friday so I didn't have it with me. Instead, I gathered some string to sew with for Monday. I also saw this really really cool photo on instagram and it inspired me to plan another project which I'll probably start outside of class for sketchbook but it could be a concentration project or even a breadth. I plan on writing something across my face with pen or something like that on the photo I posted or one from that shoot.
This week, I continued with my sewing project/seamstress i dont even know what to call it, project. I've just been working on gluing pieces onto the page which is pretty mundane, however, I realized that when you put the matte medium on top of some of the paper, especially the blue kind, it makes it look even more old and worn, which I like. So i've been experimenting with that. I know that after I'm done with that I'll cut the paper down most likely, or maybe not, I'm not sure. But I want the paper to look even more tattered and old so I may burn the edges. I want to also glue on (loosely) the skirt stencil above all of the photos and the sew with red thread into the lines of the stencil. I found a lot of inspiration for this art, some of which I had already pinned. For observation I did some cross hatching.
This week for sketchbook, I edited the photos I took for my last project. I ended up editing around 6 I think and only chose 3 for the series, but it was difficult for me to pick which ones I thought felt best together. I posted a few of the edited vs edited above. I also drew for observation, a picture of me drawing a picture of me.
I worked on a few different shots from one project I had an idea for. I'm not sure how successful it is in craft or concept but I am trying to be less literal in my work. I think after I edit the photos I want they will be strong. Some shots I think are a lot better than others but all three different ideas dont have photos that I think would go together so it might not necessarily be a series like I intended.
This week, I spent a lot of time learning my moms Photoshop and finishing my collage piece. This was one of the hardest pieces I've ever done because I felt like it was hard to be unexpected and unique. It didn't end up at all how I would've imagined but I am still content with how it ended up once I followed another idea. I had this same kind of concept in my head when I first started with this concentration way back for a summer assignment but I finally did it and in a very different way than I would've. For observation I just drew a power strip in the art room.
This week, I finished my art club portrait. I was really bad at taking in progress photos so I only have a few. I did the whole think with Adobe Draw. I didn't end up drawing her headdress I just cropped it onto her face. I also edited on the ipad and drew on another portrait of a kid for art club.
I worked a ton on my child's portrait for art club. It needs to be finished by Thursday so that´ll most likely be the bulk of my sketchbook for next week too. I had started it in studio but realized how much I like drawing with adobe draw on my phone, and soon on the iPad, so I thought it would be a cool challenge. I have been struggling with inspiration for my other collage project which will be due soon. I don´t want to be cliche with it and I think a lot of times, using newspaper clipping in art is. I wanted to do something unique but at the same time portray the same message as a literal piece would. So, I found some really beautiful deconstructed multi media pieces on pinterest that I love and I think I could do something similar but with my clippings and obviously make it my own. I will take these as inspiration and so now I´m getting a lot more excited. I need to start planning out how to encouragement all of my clippings and plan some more.
This week I did even more playing with adobe draw and I really love it. I struggled with ideas and inspiration to draw on photos a lot of it was drawing over for no reason but when I started drawing over the photos to then remove the image layer, that´s when I started having fun. I think I´ll continue the photo of the eye each week and just keep building on it. I really love how you can change the opacity and color so easy to match the skin tones. I kinda wish I got an ipad now. I also messed around with blending modes. The one blending mode I have pictured here is multiply. Soft light with the drawing on top actually just really enhanced my features and I liked that too.
This week I was really inspired by drawing over photographs and drawing using my phone through apps. I played around with a bunch of apps but Ms. Stratton got me on Adobe Draw and that´s what I used to make all of the experiements shown above. I also did some research on Pinterest of ways I could make this into a concentration piece but I don´t think I will end up making a project with my sustained investigation like this. I think it will be a more breadth piece. For observation, I drew my lunch box with Adobe Draw as well.
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