For Future Generations

We were given a word to work with (My word was Renew) and the whole idea of this project was to create a box that illustrated that concept. It took me a while to come up with an idea but I had some inspiration from the movie Cinderella (The 2015 version). In the movie she had a box that she kept hidden with all her most prized possessions and it almost looked like a time capsule. I had a box that I had stored in my closet for about 3 years that I couldn't thrown away because it was way too pretty and I knew I was going to find a good use for it someday because at the moment it was currently holding a bunch of my old drawings. So then I decided to put more things into it to pass down to future generations therefore I had renewed it's original purpose to a more useful and personal purpose. It contains some of my old drawings, some of my favorite quotes and songs, and a few small drawings as well as recipes and magazine clippings of fashion styles.

My Tropical Paradise in a Box

For this project we worked with texture, we had to construct a box that had texture and some drawings that went along with the theme. So I began thinking it's the middle of February and it's freezing cold outside, and I want it to be summer already. I thought of the beach and the sun and came up with a beach theme for my box and as for the invented and implied textures I decided to draw/paint what you would find at the beach or in the ocean.

The Depths of the Unknown

This drawing is meant to depict depth which you can accomplish with value. The task for this assignment was to create a composition with a limited amount of shapes and lines while trying to create depth. My solution I came up with to create depth was to make a vanishing point and have the shapes get larger and larger as they moved further away from the vanishing point. Something that I learned while creating this composition was that you can turn it any way and it will have a different picture everytime, so in other words there are multiple ways of looking a piece of art.

How many times do we have to use line?!

 These drawings are about line, one is an Ebb and Flow (Which creates depth with lines curving in a back and forth motion) and another one is supposed to describe the word tense. I used broken glass to represent tense because anything broken makes me think of sharp edges and it therefore makes me feel tense and uncomfortable, although strangely sometimes it looks cool.

"Coffee awakens the mind therefore it gives me energy for finals"...wait a minute hold that thought

"Bing" Light bulb goes of in head. I got an idea for my final project! Personalized coffee cups. Caribou coffee is known for their fun cups (as well as their coffee) that present a question and have other people answer them on a chalkboard and sometimes even print them on the cups! So I decided to follow a similar concept! The outer part is the chalkboard where people write their answer and for this I took to Facebook and asked them 3 Questions, "What is your favorite song?", "Who is your celebrity crush?", and "What do you stay awake for?" (The last question is Caribou's most famous question). The white is the chalkboard ripping open and revealing my answer on the coffee cup.

 Materials used:
-Charcoal
-Micron pen
-Coffee
- Blue watercolor
-White Conte Crayon

 Materials used:
-Charcoal
-Micron pen
-Graphite pencil
-Pencils 2H- 6B
-White Conte Crayon
-Blue Watercolor

Materials Used:
-Charcoal
- Micron and Ballpoint pen
- 2H, 2B and 4B pencils
-Blue Watercolor
-White Conte crayon

"Welcome to New York!" Wait! This is Minnesota!

1989 Taylor Swift's newest album, and what better way to celebrate than to create a drawing out of it? It's just what we artists do create drawings from things that mess with our emotions. Our task was to create a collage out of drawings or paintings out of Sumi Ink and so this was what I came up with.

 Problem: create a Collage out of drawings.
Solution: Taylor Swift and 1989 Album inspired collage.

*The album came with fake Polaroid pictures that she took that describe different songs and I decided to incorporate them to my collage as well as some of my own pictures that I soaked in coffee to make them look older.



This was a painting that I did with Sumi Ink that I thought about incorporating in the collage but then I realized that it didn't really fit the theme so I just kept it as a separate piece.

Wow that's an awesome eagle drawing, wait that's a sketch?!?

To answer that question, yes that is indeed a sketch for my texture drawing we had to make, but unfortunately for this blog, I too gave away this away as a Christmas present to my father, but here's a peek of what it looked like.