Photoshop

For this project we had to do a "guess what happens next" picture using photoshop. I really enjoyed this project because we could do whatever we wanted and be as creative as photoshop would allow us to be. what i chose to do is a cheerleader tumbling into a hole in the mat that she didnt see. What i did is i used a reguar picture of a cheer gym then i took a picture of a girl doing a full and cropped it to just her and did the same with the hole and put them together and tada! A cheerleader about to fall in a hole. Also with photoshop we made two other pictures as a group. I really enjoyed working with photoshop becuase its a different style of art and we got to work with new materials and such. I didnt get to work out the final details with the frog tounge and the rhebra but

Pastels

I really enjoyed this pastel project but there were certain things about it that i didnt like. One thing i loved is that i love to work with pastels, because you can mix the colors and blend them into gorgeous colors like my blue background. My favorite object in my picutre is the flowers, i deffinitly worked the longest and hardest on those. One thing i didnt like is that we had to draw what was displayed on the table in front of us. I would have rather been able to do something of our choosing. If I could do this over i would have worked a little harder on it. I know i deffinitly could have put more details and such into this pastel drawing. Despite these drawbacks, I still really enjoyed this project.

Monsters

This project was hands down one of my very favorites. What we did is we all got a monster that was drawn by a kindergarten class and  we made it out of clay then once it was fired we got to paint it with acryllic paint to look like the child imagined it. Also the computer art class made us backgrounds to put our monsters with so it seems like a real action figure. I wish i could be able to see the kids faces when they get these but unfortunately i cant. If I was to do this project i wouldnt change a single thing. Overall i think my project turned out very well. Though the box doesnt really match his cute look and colors im still pleased and i think my monster looks very similar to the drawing by the kindergartener.

Gesture Painting

For this project i got to be the model, while Abbey and Jakob painted me. But after we did a realistic drawing of the person, Mr.Sands told us to make it look like a monster. I got to help out with this part and my personal favorite touch was the pink hair. But we never really got to get around to completing the background. If i was to do this project again i wouldve made it more neat.

Forced Perspective

Doing forced perspective was a very interesting project. I didn`t really enjoy this project as much as others only due to the fact that my group was having a hard time getting it just right. Some of our pictures turned out very well and the picture I put in here was one of the better ones. As you can see i am supposedly holding Sophia in the palm of my hand. Something that would have made it easier is the shadows not being there because they make it kinda hard to picture.

Perspective Drawings

For this project what we did is take a cut out picture from a magazine, find the vanishing points and horizon line and added on to it. What I did is I finished my building just made it a little bigger and then made a city around it. I enjoyed this project because it was something different and it was fun to have something to base it off of and add on to. The one and two point perspective is hard to understand sometimes but i think you end up with really good results.

Skittle Art: In Progress!

For this project what we did is take expressive pictures, and then use photo shop to make them pixelated and the colors of skittles. Then we counted and measured and counted some more to cut out boxes, they were much larger then i expected. Now what were doing is glueing a skittle for each pixle in the picture. Its a LONG process but i think results are gonna be worth it.

Shadow Art

I really enjoyed this shadow art project that we did. It gave us the opportunity to be extrememly creative.

We started with a bunch of junk, a slide projector, and our imaginations. We had to pick a theme and use junk to make a shadow and show it.

Our group had some problems picking an idea of what to do.

We started with the idea of a park...

Then a big city at night..

And we finally decided on an underwater theme.

Since it took us so long to decide we really didnt have much time to make it very detailed. What we did was use a blue camelback waterbottle and put it in front of the slide projecter. We turned it on its side so we could have a water line and a boat. For the wave we bent a ruler and held it up. On the bottom we used random things to make coral and a starfish. If i could change one thing about this project i would give more time to plan and execute this project. But i really enjoyed doing this project.

Value Portrait

At first I thought I was really going to hate this project. I`m not the best drawer and i died a little inside when he introduced this project to us. But once he explained that we were not exactly drawing it but more so shading it i was okay. We took the black and white picutres of them and put tracing paper over it and traced all the shapes we saw, then transfered it to paper, not much drawing at all! Then we shaded them according to the picture. We also used this little paper tool to blend the shading together. I never really noticed how much effect shading can have on things untill now. This project was difficult at certain points but overall i was happy with the results and suprised with myself.

Masking Tape

My groups theme for our masking tape mural was sports.We each contributed something from our favorite sports. I did the hockey stick, the puck, and the megaphone, for hockey and cheerleading (the two best sports).We all got along very well and agreed on basically everything. I think this project was very succesful especially due to the fact that we had one day to practice on our tables and one day to start and finish it. Which was plenty of time. The hardest part of this project was making curved lines with the tape. Because obviously in sports utilities theres lots of different shapes and such, we had to make it work. Overall, i think our project turned out very well and i enjoyed it.