Identity Collage
This identity collage project was a very fun project to complete. Piecing together my face bit by bit was cool to see and hard to put together. Overall at the start of this project I did not think it would come together, but by the end it all meshed together pretty well. These portraits can change the perception of others. It makes you take a second to see how that person is feeling and it shows what they think of themselves.
The collage gives you a chance to create an image of yourself and express what you think you look like to other people. It felt kinda weird to piece together my project and look at it and go, is this really what I look like? When making this portrait you can make the ideal you. You can make it what you ideally want to look like. That is why I really had a lot of fun with this project and it changed my perception of myself a little bit.
The collage gives you a chance to create an image of yourself and express what you think you look like to other people. It felt kinda weird to piece together my project and look at it and go, is this really what I look like? When making this portrait you can make the ideal you. You can make it what you ideally want to look like. That is why I really had a lot of fun with this project and it changed my perception of myself a little bit.
The Real Anatomy of Technology
The artwork above interprets how technology is so connected to us and how we are so close to technology. I started by drawing the hand and the TV. I then went from there and added controller parts on my hand. I drew the home screen of a ps4 and the ps4 itself. I drew wires from the hand to the ps4 to represent that the hand is the controller and that we are connected to technology and can not get away from it.
Patty Gratz, my mother, grew up in a time where communication and technology was very slow and hard to do. I am growing up in an age where everything is faster and everyone depends on technology. To my mom, technology means power, info, and communicating quickly. I think technology means to make something be done easier in your everyday lives. Technology enhances everything I do. Patty says that if technology went away that she would hate that and would hate not being able to communicate with her friends and family. I depend on it every day. If technology got taken away it would make things really hard and some things I would not get to do or experience. My mom also does not like when technology shares everything about herself because she thinks that people shouldn’t be knowing what you're doing at all times. One thing I don’t like about technology is how much information you can get about a person and how so many evil things can happen on technology. Technology is very useful and harmful at the same time. We just need to be careful how we use it and make sure it doesn’t consume our lives.
Patty Gratz, my mother, grew up in a time where communication and technology was very slow and hard to do. I am growing up in an age where everything is faster and everyone depends on technology. To my mom, technology means power, info, and communicating quickly. I think technology means to make something be done easier in your everyday lives. Technology enhances everything I do. Patty says that if technology went away that she would hate that and would hate not being able to communicate with her friends and family. I depend on it every day. If technology got taken away it would make things really hard and some things I would not get to do or experience. My mom also does not like when technology shares everything about herself because she thinks that people shouldn’t be knowing what you're doing at all times. One thing I don’t like about technology is how much information you can get about a person and how so many evil things can happen on technology. Technology is very useful and harmful at the same time. We just need to be careful how we use it and make sure it doesn’t consume our lives.
Value of Words
For my value of words project I decided to draw a duck in the pond. Hunting is a lot of fun and means a lot to me. For the outline of the mallard I put a ton of different names of ducks. The words I used for the reeds were from the songs The Duck Blind and Redneck Yacht Club. The sun and clouds had the words from the song Paint Me a Birmingham and the water had the song Huntin, Fishin, and Lovin Everyday. In art words can bring a whole other level of meaning to your art piece. When you draw a regular drawing It can still be very emotional and have a lot of power, but putting words in your drawing can put a new meaning in your art and add another dimension. In some cases you do not need a description of words in your artwork. It could hurt what you are trying to express in your artwork. In all, you can add a lot more meaning into your artwork if you use it right and at the right time.
Automatic Art
Automatic drawing is drawing with no conscious thought and just throwing out some lines. Automatic art gives you a chance to express yourself in your artwork without any repercussions. This project didn’t have a lot of pressure doing things for me. There weren't any strict guidelines and I could just draw without thinking if it was right or wrong. Right away I felt like I was just putting pointless lines down that had no right to be there, but once I kept putting lines down it started to take shape. Most of the lines I used were thicker lines that took more space on the page. This kind of art is not my favorite, because you just throw something on there and hope it works. If I was to give a name it would probably be called Hodge Podge.
Still Life
The three objects in my still life are a duck call, duck decoy, and a duck blind. The reason I chose these three objects was because I love hunting. Right away it was hard to know what three objects were important to me, but I saw these objects often and knew these were the right objects. I was not planning on adding reeds and water. I had to cover up for what I painted. Overall I think it turned out good and did the job that I wanted to show. Painting is a hard skill. You are constantly mixing and trying to blend everything together perfectly. It is also hard to stay inside the lines. This project by far was the hardest to complete and to execute.
Art For a Change
Cities keep growing and improving every day. As these cities keep growing more pollution and waste is thrown out into the environment. The pollution and waste is destroying habitats for animals and humans for that matter. I noticed this when I first began hunting and saw how much people just throw away the stuff they don’t want and never give it another thought. I think we should try to take care of our planet before it gets too polluted. In this artwork I tried to make people understand that trash can’t be taken lightly and the next time you throw something out think twice of what that trash can do to the environment and you.
Photo used under Creative Commons from Becky Matsubara