Final per.7

For my self portrait, I did added the 8 different symbols that represent my family and I. I made the background as a kitchen/dining room because that's where we spend most of our time. The fridge represents as our family being well fed. The different flowers represent my family because we're very different from other people. The tree in window is suppose to be like a family tree because even though half my family is in another country we still talk to them and see them. I made my eyes closed to show that in my family we don't judge eachother or others. The room is orange to show laughter and happiness because my family is always full of laughter. The vase on the table represent my mom and her love of flowers. The dots on my face are suppose to make me look odd because we're an odd family and not very traditional. The sloth is there to represent how relaxed my family is because we aren't loud and obnoxious.  

Pop art critique

1.  Pop art originated in the 1950's as an art based on modern popular culture. It includes diverse ways to represent minimalism such as illustrations of cans and bottles, as well as portraits of characters that are prominent in modern popular culture. Famous pop art artist Andy Warhol had an impact on the movement for creating the most famous pop art illustrations. He created portraits of famous pop icon like Marilyn Monroe and Michael Jackson, as well as illustrations of Coca Cola bottles and Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup cans. Pop Art celebrates everyday objects and using bright colors that usually complement each other. My art was a modern take on pop art because I used a portrait of a modern artist in today's culture. Alice glass was who I decided to use for the portrait because she is a popular artist in electronic music. I made a portrait of Alice Glass using bright complementary colors and not painting the specific details. Mainly painting the showdows and highlights of the portrait and using colorful vibrant colors because it is a popular thing to use in pop art.

 The successes in my project were that the art piece had good craftsmanship and the portrait looks very similar to he photograph I used to base the art piece on. My challenges were keeping up with the due date and finishing on time. This was a challenge because I like to spend a lot of time on my work so that it comes out be way I pictured it but it takes me a lot of art. If I could do anything differently I would makes the due date longer so that I could finish on time.

Val-I love the texture you implemented with acrylic. I also like how you presented it with such a abstract rasp and feel to it.

Jess- sandra I enjoy the colors that you used. Most of my extension is on her face and neck because of the bright yellow you used and the way the texture looks on her hair is phenomenal.

Jamie- I love the texture and the colors you used to show pop art. 

pop art

 Pop art originated in the 1950's as an art based on modern popular culture. It includes diverse ways to represent minimalism such as illustrations of cans and bottles, as well as portraits of characters that are prominent in modern popular culture. Famous pop art artist Andy Warhol had an impact on the movement for creating the most famous pop art illustrations. He created portraits of famous pop icon like Marilyn Monroe and Michael Jackson, as well as illustrations of Coca Cola bottles and Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup cans. Pop Art celebrates everyday objects and using bright colors that usually complement each other.

 For my own version of modern Pop Art, I created a clay over sized model of a mouth licking a lollipop. The lollipop is a Blow Pop, a modern and popular candy. There is a large amount of mouths, tongues, and lips used in Pop Art illustrations. that was my reasoning of making an over sized mouth, lips, and tongue. I used bright colors as well because it is what most Pop Art artists use for their art. The entire art piece is suppose to represent many parts of the Pop Art movement.It includes the modern candy Blow Pop as well as incorporating the bright colors and popular use of mouths, lips, and tongues in the movement.

 I had more challenges than successes during the process of making my Pop Art artwork. The art piece was very large and time consuming and i had a challenge with keeping up with the due date. My timing was not as good as I would've liked it to be. Using clay was also a challenge because it needed to be constantly moist so that it wouldn't dry up and be unusable. My last challenge was that I over estimated myself with the work i had to do. i did not finish half of the piece on time because of this. My main success was that the lips, mouth, and tongue turned out looking very well and i did not have to restart the process of clay shaping.

Furniture critique & artist statement

Vision

Process

Strengths and weaknesses

As I began to plan for the furniture project, my first thought was to use the resource less people were planning to use which was rope. My first vision was to create a chair using a tire and rope. When I didn't bring the supplies I needed, I changed my idea and used supplies given to me. The vision of this chair was for it to be a small art piece rather than a functioning piece of furniture. I wanted it to be a solid color to keep it simple and more modern looking. It did come out as planned.

 The process of making the chair was quick. The first thing I did was cover the inside of the crate with paper. I cut and added the legs to the crate using screws. Afterwards, I added two pieces of the end of a hockey stick for the back rest. The rope was installed last and glued in with hot glue. The final process was to spray paint the entire thing the color muted mint green. It took around 6 classes to finish it.

 The strongest part of my furniture project was how much work I got done before the due date. I was able to finish the project more than a week before the due date. Though I did struggle in the beginning to figure out what I wanted to do. I knew what I wanted to incorporate in my project. I struggled with my indecisiveness in what I wanted to create.

Color Wheel

I made a traditional color wheel. Before I started, I researched primary colors, secondary colors, and tertiary colors. Second, I researched tones, shades, and tints and how colors complement each other. In order to create the project I began outlining the circle of the wheel, and how many colors would go in the color wheel. Then labeled where the colors go and started painting and mixing the shades, tints, and tones of the color. The background was done at the end. The project seemed to be theory and design based bruise its technical and cannot change due to history or culture. If I could change one thing about the project it would be how simple it was and I enjoyed that we got to mix our shades and tints and tones.

Resolution

1/6/2015 My academic resolution is to keep my grades above a C-. My post secondary readiness resolution is to graduate on time in 2017.

Intention

1. I am thankful for the people who care about me and take time out of their lives to give me attention. I'm thankful for them because I know a lot of people don't truly care about other, they just want to hear your problems just for the fun of it. But there are people who don't even know me in person and still care more for me than people who do. I am also thankful for all the interesting people I've met and got to know. They've made me think about how every person has their own personality and likes and it's all really interesting to know why people like things and why people are the way that they are. I'm thankful for the people who talk to me at schoo because most of my friends are outside of my school. Iike that I have people here who don't leave me out and aren't quick to judge me. But I am also thankful for the friends that I have outside of school because they're the ones who invite me out and they're the ones who actually want to spend time with me. I'm thankful for everyone who has helped me in my life so far.

2. my intention for the time between now and winter break for school is to pass the two classes I am currently failing. I intend to turn in as much work as I can remebmber to turn in because that has been my struggle this school year. I forget to turn anything in and it makes me fail all of my classes. My intentions for outside of school is to work on making new friends. I started making more new friends outside of school this past month and I'd like to keep making more. Usually my social anxiety makes it hard for me to meet new people but recently I have pushed myself to do those things. So new friends that will last is my intention for this time period. 

One word: Push