Social Response Paper ( Emotional Portrait - Overwhelmed)

“Overwhelmed” is the most meaningful piece I’ve made so far and also the one with most use of elements of design. This piece describes how I feel towards my life at the moment with use of symbolism and emphasis. It symbolizes fear, anxiety, and anger from past experiences. I named it overwhelming because of life events (wanting to quit my job, trying to save money for a car, where I plan to transfer to for other 2 years of college, my love life, etc.).  I realize there is more emotion to this piece than I made it to seem. I used harmony, line, and a color scheme based off emotion color wheel.  For harmony, I split the portrait in half to see what I was thinking in the mist of this anger and fear.    Line was used by the separation of art work, on the figures’ face, within the words symbolized as eyes, and dripping of color and water.   

Overall, the piece was my best representation of my emotions that are direct opposite from happiness and show some of my best use of elements of design.

Pattern Portrait

Pattern Portrait - Katy Perry Logo

This piece is my pattern portrait and I chose Katy Perry's logo because this is a musical artist that stands out to me and her music has so much meaning to me. The font her name is the same bubble font just in  different color schemes.

Emotional Portrait

Emotional Portrait - Overwhelmed 

This emotional piece I created was meant to feel deep emotion of what I've been going throughout the entire semester. I have been overwhelmed with money ( getting better job), where to transfer ( ACU is where I plan to go) , heartbreak , and going through process to get a car and my license. All those things can become overwhelming and I had anxiety and fear over these things which is expressed in my art piece.

Metamorphic Series

Metamorphic Series - Clock To Music Listening Penguin

This painting was the most relaxing and non-complex i've done in this class besides my first painting in this class ( line painting). I loved that we used all the colors on the color wheel to create this piece. I used all the three colors in each color and then used black and gray paint to make the clock transition into a cute penguin listening to music on his headphones. This is a part of my final projects/ exam for this class. I can't wait to show you my last two pieces of this design/painting class. 

Element Series Part Two

Element Series - Beach house view 

This is part two of my element series and it is a interesting idea on how I came up with this piece . I was thinking about another daydreaming series of where or what I would want to see in a happy place of my mind. I am not depressed or any of that sort I just am juggling school and work so like to come 2 art classes and explore my mind to other aspects of my life that make me happy. So I was thinking of a beach house or at least the theme of this painting. It all started with the copper piece in the middle the flower placement gave me the idea to a sea or beach house theme to represent peace and the flow of colors in the background to bring harmony into my painting. I also used colors of blue , red, and yellow to the requirements of triadic colors on the color wheel. 

Element Series Part One

Element Series -Spiritual Elephant 

This painting is apart of the element series in this project. It is called spiritual elephant because I personally love elephants and they have a special meaning that I looked up on google on random night . The spiritual meaning of elephant ( my spirt animal ) is strength, honor, stability and patience.   Those are characteristics that represent me as person so I want to create a piece that symbolized me but also met the requirement to the assignment and project/series. 

Texture Painting

Texture Painting - Sunshine Daydreaming 
This painting is to represent texture of wave movements in off sea and this painting is to picture what i daydream about when I am not in the best mood where I would picture myself to be.  I used colors of yellow-orange , orange , and red-orange which is the requirements need for this assignment where to use analogous colors on the color wheel. I like how this piece and few other pieces came together on emotions of how I felt throughout this semester and particularly this class.

Overall Overview of Drawing I & Design I Classes

This is my overall overview for my drawing I and design I classes. I have learned terminology and practiced units of work to get to the point where I feel more informed over both art classes. For my drawing I class , I have learned to keep a good composition, value , shading , and many other terms to be more successful in this class. I will be posting pictures of the work I have done for this class in a separate blog. For my design I class, I have learned about space , unity , variety , line , and many more elements of design. My first initial thought of this class is wow we have to paint our designs ?! That's crazy! But then as i got to get to know my professor more and understanding why we would paint our designs it made more since. 
Now as I am getting to the end of the semester , I am realizing I'm exiling in these classes more than I thought I would due to me never taken art classes in high school except a intro to interior design class. My major is interior design so I will be taking design II and drawing II on second semester with a lighter course load. This semester I took on 5 classes two of them being this art class and taking them back to back. 
I just wanted to make this post to look back on as I go further into my career and maybe for future schools to look at my portfolio and say hey she went through things that came out through her artwork. 

Critique : Medium Key - Fruit Still Life

A Ray of Fruit 

For this fruit still life , my inspiration was off of photo of orange , kiwi and blackberries. I did a gray scale background and some of the fruit . I added color to some of fruit and left some on gray or dark gray scale to give it balance and depth of overlapping. 

Critique : Space Design ( Prismatic Desert)

Prismatic Desert 
My description for this piece is the theme and space of this design. I picked a themed picture that would capture the geometric design of triangles and prisms. The smaller image is not exactly what I had in mind at first but once i adjusted some ideas in my head I found the design I wanted to create.
I love Prism due to one of my favorite musical artist, Katy Perry ,  her album cover and other photos within this album is what started off my inspiration to this piece. The space in this design was used in variety of ways . Adding sand at the bottom , blue and white waters , and the colors of black and white dotting method made this piece really come together.

Critique: Space Design (Colorful and Patterned Illusion)

Colorful and Patterned Illusion 
My description of this piece is to give a illusion of darker colors and adding a sense of light color to bring this piece together. I add colors of dark blue , purple and red to give more depth in the foreground of this piece. Then i matched those colors with the geometric triangles to then center your eyes to this white circle which to me is almost like a shape of person's head.

Design (Line and Value)

Clover (Sample Post)