This piece is about isolation, plain and simple. It was originally supposed to be about all of the things that represented me: the Maned Wolf is my favorite animal, Ultramarine is my favorite color blue, and I have a deep love of astronomy; also, "The Pigman" is the only book that has ever made me cry. It became less about me and more about the meaning and symbolism of isolation.
For my first piece(s), I didn't use any kind of reference and completely created my own idea by combining aspects of an angler fish and dragon. I made a forest spirit that is bioluminescent to attract prey, lives for thousands of years, and lives at the center of the forest where it is dark and damp; it is also blind for this reason because it doesn't need sight to move around in the dark, just developed hearing. I developed this all on my own. The first drawing is a male, and the second is a female (you can tell because females have tails - they aren't as muscularly developed as the males, so they need an extra line of defense). My next piece is an oil painting of a maned wolf on an acrylic background. It is also painted on pages of the book, "The Pigman". This painting wasn't intended to give a message, but as I showed it to more and more people, I got very inspiring responses, like, "Why is he so lonely?", and, "I love the peaceful solitude". I hadn't thought about the potential meaning of this art piece until I received the feedback, which caused me to think in a whole different way. I had subconsciously chosen to place one of the loneliest animals (the Maned Wolf isn't a wolf at all, it belongs to it's own category of species and is identified simply as a canine) on a patch of grass in the middle of space. Not only that, but "The Pigman" is also about a very lonely man who lost his wife and lived by himself for years. This gave my piece an entirely different and meaningful perspective. This piece is about isolation, plain and simple. It was originally supposed to be about all of the things that represented me: the Maned Wolf is my favorite animal, Ultramarine is my favorite color blue, and I have a deep love of astronomy; also, "The Pigman" is the only book that has ever made me cry. It became less about me and more about the meaning and symbolism of isolation. I don't think I would change any of my pieces, I love the way they turned out. I have no regrets about any of my artwork that I created in this class.
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For my Identity project, I chose a statue from the North Carolina Museum and added butterfly wings to her back. Her facelessness represents her lack of a defined personality or appearance. The cloth she holds represents a cocoon she is coming out of and transforming into a butterfly. I named it "Metamorphosis" for this reason. This project helped me extend my skills with realistic drawing (the wings) and use of ink and color. Another project I've been working on is below. I think this will be the main piece I choose for my final post. It's an oil painting self-portrait of me in a feather headdress I made over the weekend and tribal warpaint I created from ashes, oil, and cascarilla powder (ground egg shells); I just started it.
For my art project, I chose Artists Steal and made a bunch of collages with National Geographic magazines. For the collage above, I used a photograph of purple flowers to replace her jacket and add some color contrast between the green, peach, and violet.
Through these text art projects, I developed my skills with a gel pen and drawing detailed objects with ink. I learned how to use the gel pen to draw, not just to make highlights. Using black ink and white pen added contrast to my piece. Looking for images for the above drawing actually helped me with wing proportions and inspired me to do some other wing-related art. For this text piece, I used white pen to make the peachy yellow shade lighter and more realistic. I also used gray Prismacolor to shade in the moon and make it look punchier. The stars were gel pen and actually represent real constellations that you can see in the winter sky in the Northern Hemisphere.
Both of these projects encouraged me to continue doing poems in my book and to finish it. 1. What is art? Art is everything. Cloth, bones, computer code, glass, branches; art can be anything and can be formed with any material. Art doesn't have to be visual, either. Art can be a poem, an idea, or anything you can think up. Art can be alive or dead, new or old, real or imaginary. 3. Is copying always plagiarism or is there a grey area? I believe that tracing or directly copying art is plagiarism. However, being inspired by a piece of art isn't. Formulating an idea from a piece of art and creating your own art piece is inspiration. Tracing or directly copying someone else's work is plagiarism. 6. What kinds of problems might artists encounter as they plan, make, and share art? Oppression is a tremendous problem artists face. In certain parts of the world, genders and nationalities are discriminated against, making it difficult to make your art popular. Disabilities also make art difficult to create, but they didn't stop artists like Chuck Close. Economic and material limitations cause art to be difficult, if not impossible, to create. 7. What is the point of this class? What do you think you'll get out of it? My opinions about these questions haven't changed much since the beginning of this class because I already had this state of mind, but my expectation for this class has changed. At the beginning of the year, I answered "To show new ways of making art. I hope I will get to practice and open my mind more." My new answer was, "To learn artistic skill and expression, make friends, memories, and create a lot of full sketchbooks." My responses were similar to my previous responses, but I have learned a lot from this class. I collaborated in this mural by helping to pass CD's to be attached to the wall, outlining portions of the logo in sharpie, and painting the logo. We all asked for feedback as we were working, especially during the outlining process, though it was hard to communicate in the room because it was so loud. The laptop for projecting the logo actually broke at one point and we had to team up to figure out a solution. We all helped carry the ladder in and out of the band room and, when we got confused about which key unlocked the lock on the storage unit, I figured it out. When we needed glue stick refills or other materials, I ran all the way back to the art room to get them, sometimes even two or three more times. The whole process took a long time because the CD's for the mural had to arrive before we even started drawing on them, and after that we did several coats of paint. Overall, we collaborated as a team to create the band logo mural in the band room in about a month.
I took a risk in making this piece by using India Ink and coloring it with my non-dominant hand. I picked blue and purple ink to do my project with. For the lighter parts, I added water to the ink to thin it. I realized the risk and tried it anyway, adjusting my technique to adapt to the liquid ink. In the end, I learned a new medium and my project turned out well. My friend Nicole and I intend to make it into a t-shirt and distribute it on Etsy and Threadless.com. I haven't had a lot of experience with India Ink, especially not colored ink. I quickly learned how to lighten and darken the hues. The reason I chose a vampire skull was because of how near to Halloween it is. In this project, Meredith and I showed that people could change appearances very easily by just stealing the personality of others. We showed this by switching clothes for ten minutes and then switching them again. It's intended to show how simple it is for people to alter their images and how they appear to others. It relates to us because our personalities are very different, but by just modifying our mannerisms and outfits, we can appear as completely different people.
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