Drawing with lines? Awesome!!

For this project we got to experiment with lines, Contour lines, Cross Contour Lines and Line as Value (Not Pictured) 3 drawings in total. (I gave away My Line as Value drawing to a dear friend as a Christmas present but it was 3 elephants. It starts off with a small elephant facing to the right and it grows larger and larger the last elephant is facing to the left looking at the smaller elephants. The way I incorporated line to this project was to add a wooden texture to the first elephant and once it reaches the trunk it faded into stippling and the middle elephant was done with stippling as well and then it faded into the wooden texture again and then came the last elephant which is made with the wooden texture as well.)

 This was a contour line drawing of a watch I have.

Problem: Create a contour line drawing with marker or pen using thick and thin lines to add value.

Solution: Watch contour line drawing with marker and ballpoint pen.

Problem: Create a Cross Contour line drawing that has value.

Solution: Cross Contour line drawing of my shoes with micron and ballpoint pen.

Look Ma I'm in College!

So now that you've seen all my early work things are about to get more serious because it's college time! By this point I had changed my major from Bio-medical Sciences to Art Education, what a big leap right? I'm currently enrolled at St. Cloud State University and I am finishing my first year of college, but lets back up and rewind to Fall 2014 my First Semester of college and my first Drawing class ever, Foundation Drawing 1

 This was the first drawing we made in this class and it was based on a still life because we all know how exciting they are (cough cough not really cough cough) but it was a good starting point since the majority of my class had never even touched charcoal.

Problem: Cover a sheet of drawing paper completely in charcoal and draw with an eraser, but you can't add any charcoal.





Solution: I used a variety of erasers ranging from the eraser of a basic school pencil to a giant pink eraser and a kneaded eraser, and as for erasing mistakes I would just rub of some charcoal from a different spot and transfer it to the area I wanted to fix.

 This was a project further down this class and it was when we were experimenting with space. I decided to create my own space for this project and it was on a staircase.

Problem: Create a drawing with charcoal that creates space.

Solution: I made my own space and used a a white conte crayon to highlight and create more constrast.

Pop Quiz!! Yes, in art pop quizzes are drawings not fill in the blank questions.

Problem: Draw 1/3 of the still life with either, pen, pencil, or charcoal with in 1 1/2 hours.

Solution: Still life in charcoal, and pencil.

Oh look it's a Head Bust, Wait is...is that Josh Hutcherson?

In Advanced Ceramics I got to create a head bust out of clay and I decided to create Josh Hutcherson's Head. This was a long and tricky process because you start off with a whole bag of clay and you start forming the head shape, the jaw, and all the other facial features. The tricky part was to keeping it wet for a month, but everytime I added something I made sure I soaked it with water and wrapped it all up with paper towels and put 2 bags over it to lock in the moisture, but I learned that if there are other parts that are wetter than others they will take longer to dry and you want it to dry altogether (his chin was still a little wet and when it went in the kiln it came off). The funnest part of this assignment was splitting it in half (Vertical way) and hollowing it out.

 Problem: Create a Ceramic Bust, hollow it out and glaze it.
Solution: Josh Hutcherson Ceramic Bust

 This is what it looks like on the inside, I used a fork to create those holes so it could dry faster.

Down by the River

Problem: None
Solution: "Elephant by the River in Color" Techniques: Salt, Wet on Wet, Dripping, Scratching, Splatter, Blowing paint.

Oh the Wonderful World of Watercolor

Problem: None
Solution: Recreation of "The Fault in our Stars" movie poster for fun. Scratching technique, wet on wet, wet on dry, dry brush.

























Problem: Create a Juxtaposed picture with Photoshop and then paint it using watercolor.

Solution: Spiderman+ Beach+City = Juxtaposed picture. Watercolor Techniques: Drybrush, Scratching, Gradient, wet on wet, wet on dry.

Problem: Find a portrait of someone and paint it with ink

      Solution: Shailene Woodley Portrait in black ink.

Painting with water

In my painting class one day we experimented with watercolor and as you can see I liked it alot! I did my final project with watercolor (Which was based off the painting from Pierre Renoir called "Discarded Roses") I also did a "The Fault in our Stars" movie poster in watercolor, a Juxtaposition of Spiderman, and an Ink Drawing of Shailene Woodley, and in my free time I painted a silhouette of  an elephant by the river.

Original by Pierre Renoir

Repainted in watercolor

Problem: Research and Artist and take a look at his or her work, paint in the style of the artist or repaint one of his/her works.

Solution: A repaint of "Discarded Roses" in watercolor using wet on wet, wet on dry, scratching, dropping color on wet, and dry brush techniques.

Let's Get Serious (Suicide Prevention)

My final project for Sculpture class was on a more serious topic. It had to do with suicide (More specifically suicide prevention). I choose to do this topic for this project because I know a few people that were considering suicide and that used to physically harm themselves. Part of the project was also to use plaster and cast your hand in a position that reflected your topic.

Overall Project

Problem: Create sculpture that today's society faces problems with.

Solution: Suicide and preventing it. The top half has encouraging quotes and words, the bottom half has words that real live people that suffer from suicidal thoughts and self harming have used to describe what they think of themselves. The hands represent recovery because they are putting band-aids over the cuts and therefore are choosing to continue on and live life.

   
                                                                           

This is the hand gesture I choose which is putting band-aids on cuts or scars which symbolizes that "Wounds will heal and so will you."