Expressionism Self Portrait

This project was to create a self portrait after another artists style and art period. I choose Marc Franz Expressionist piece "Piggies" (bottom picture). The idea of expressionism was to blend the foreground and background together on the same plain yet still be distinguishable. Expressionism is also known for having many vibrant colors.

Shine: Literary Illustration

This is a recreation of the painting "Shine" I did earlier this year. This project was to create a literary illustration. We were to take a piece of text from a book or poem we have read and create an illustration that expresses the content of the words. Since I do not read many fiction books I resorted to what I do read, my Bible. This illustrates Matthew 5:16:

"In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven."

Larger Than Life: Dream BIG, Aim small

This project was during the study of scale. We were required as a group to recreate an everyday object only MUCH bigger then the normal size. As a group we chose to do a dart because we did not have the money to spend on creating something that required more then cheap or found objects. In fact we only spent $11 on this project as many other groups would spend $50-$150. The tip of the dart is a metal spike, the gold grip part is an aquafina bottle, soup cans, texture plastic wrap and gold spray paint. The black stem of the dart is a plastic baseball bat, plastic piping and a plastic mountain dew cup all covered in black spray paint. Finally, the fins are cardboard that was spray painted red and I hand painted the logo on each side. We also build a stand for our dart board and nailed the dart into it.

What a stellar group!

Balanced Ink

This was a study on balance. We were required to create four compositions, one with symmetrical, asymmetrical, radial balance and crystallographic.

Texture Project

This was a project in which we had to choose a piece of art from an artist and recreate it using a variety of textures. I choose to do David Hollenbach's painting "American Prospect." No worries this piece does not mean I hate America, haha. Hollenbach was making a statement about the American justice system. I think it has to do with slavery in the past but I'm not one hundred percent sure.

I created this piece using found objects such as: a cd, cardboard, canadian tire money, shoes laces, small rope, foam board, coffee filter, cling wrap, pencil case material, elastics, dryer sheets, piece of a towel, newspaper, sandpaper, toothpaste bottle, card stock, fudge-o packaging, epson ink cartridges and much more! We also had to have visual textures (can see but not touch, 2D) I have a couple of those to. For example, the face is drawn and not actually a texture, some of the stripes are just print outs of wood and metal textures.

(if you click on it you will be able to see the textures much better)

This is the original piece by David Hollenbach:

Coca-Color

This project was on the study of color. We were to create 6 small compositions, each displaying a different color scheme. One of each of the following schemes were required:

Primary

Secondary

Intermediate

Monochromatic

Analogous

Complementary

Photo Realism: Gillette

 This project was to buy a product and take a picture of it. Then we had to draw this picture identically to the photograph. At first glance you should not be able to tell the difference between the two images. However, up close the drawn piece is more clear because was created in a vector based program so it was created without pixels. The top image is my illustration and the bottom image is my photograph reference.

Big Bad Wolf: Group Perspective

This is only one fifth of a project that we did as a group. The assignment was to create a series of five compositions in ink that had a consistent intellectual theme. Each composition had to exemplify one type of perspective. We chose to do the three little pigs. This piece has a linear perspective.

Road Signs

This is a project where we were required to create road signs to match the description given below each sign. We were given The yellow sign background and we were only allowed to use black for the graphic. Each sign was to be created in a unique and creative way that would get the message across clearly.