When Mr. Sands told us what our next theme would be, I was not sure on what to do. He showed our class some examples and then I got the idea of superman holding the world. It shows scale and proportion because superman body is bigger in scale than the world. For this project, I decided to use clay because I thought it would be easy to use and it wouldn't take that much time. I began with creating the world and then I started making superman. The one problem I had was that Superman's arms kept falling off and it wouldn't hold the world. After I finally finished my clay sculpture, it was time to put it in the kiln. I was hoping that all I had to do left was paint it but I was wrong, the world had exploded and Superman's arms fell off in the kiln. So when I got back the pieces, I had to superglue them together. This was like solving a really hard and long puzzle. A few hours after I super glued the pieces, I realized part of the world must have burned off in the kiln so it looks broken. In my opinion, I actually think it looks cooler and adds more question to it.
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Monday, January 13, 2014
Superman and the broken world
When Mr. Sands told us what our next theme would be, I was not sure on what to do. He showed our class some examples and then I got the idea of superman holding the world. It shows scale and proportion because superman body is bigger in scale than the world. For this project, I decided to use clay because I thought it would be easy to use and it wouldn't take that much time. I began with creating the world and then I started making superman. The one problem I had was that Superman's arms kept falling off and it wouldn't hold the world. After I finally finished my clay sculpture, it was time to put it in the kiln. I was hoping that all I had to do left was paint it but I was wrong, the world had exploded and Superman's arms fell off in the kiln. So when I got back the pieces, I had to superglue them together. This was like solving a really hard and long puzzle. A few hours after I super glued the pieces, I realized part of the world must have burned off in the kiln so it looks broken. In my opinion, I actually think it looks cooler and adds more question to it.
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Eminem out of M&Ms

As we begin our next project we were told to create a portrait using a medium we have never used before (ex. coffee beans, toast, apple juice). It took me a whole day to think of 3 ideas which were Obama made out of beans, my cousin out of old dresses, or Eminem out of M&Ms. I really liked my last idea the best, although I knew it was going to be hard. I had asked my friend Rocio if she wanted to work with me for this project and she said no....just kidding! After we decided we were partners, I still was not sure if the M&M




Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Sticky Gum Situation
As we begin our
third project for Visual Arts 3, we were told to create a art painting that is
a sticky situation and has repetition. Some of my ideas for this
were honey, gum stuck on a shoe, and later I thought of doing the evil
witch in Snow White (shown below) which was more outside the box because it
wasn't actually a sticky object.
It is funny how I came up with the idea because when I was reading Snow White
to my little cousin I wasn't really thinking about my art project until a few
days later when I was trying to come with ideas my cousin brought it up again.
I had decided
to go with the gum idea because I thought it would be easier. To show that I
had repetition for my gum idea I had to put more gum on the ground and on
the shoe. I also had decided to go with acrylic paint because it seemed
to be easier to me than water color paint. At first, the gum was just not
looking realistic and it was challenging for me to find the right color I had
used before so I just repainted the gum and added value to it
during the process. I thought I was successful with the shoe because
of the value in it and how I angled it.
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Upclose and Personal Project
After we were assigned the "Whats the Point?" Project we had to come up with ideas for an Upclose and Personal theme but we also had to use emphasis. Some of my ideas were like a butterfly sitting on flowers (the butterfly would have been blue to show emphasis), an old playground that everyone seems to forget, and of course a frog in the grass. When I was just sketching my idea in my sketchbook it took me a while to find the right medium and my emphasis. Eventually, I thought that I could show my emphasis by making the frog's eyes red and everything else would be green so the eyes would pop out. At first I thought I would use oil pastels as my medium but after I used it I did not like it. So I ended up using chalk for my medium which became REALLY messy. After I finished my frog picture I was told by Mr. Sands that I needed to get the frog to be more up close. So I did another drawing with the frog closer up and afterwards Mr. Sands thought that I could use both of the pictures that I had drawn to be my final project, as if the frog was getting closer, but it needed one more picture. So I spent some time drawing the last picture which was of the frog really far away in the grass. After I finished my 3 drawings it needed a background so I had chosen black to be my background so I had put a black background into every picture which took a lot of time and got really messy.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
What's the point?

In class the other day, we were given a theme and a topic to draw for our first class assignment. The theme of the project was "Whats the Point?" and our topic was Contrast. Some of my solutions for the project were a question mark with arrows pointing to it, a person pointing, a bumble bee with a kind of pointy stinger, and a sword. In the end, of course, I chose the bumble bee mainly because I thought it would be intresting to draw and I really didn't like my other ideas. I used contrast with the bee and the flowers so it would also be easier to see the bee. I had put a lot of darker value on the bee to make it pop out more and I put lighter value on the flowers, grass, and clouds. I decided to use the charcoal pencils for my project. I chose the charcoal pencils over the charcoal because it helped create thin lines that I probably would not be able to do with just charcoal. I chose the charcoal pencils over the pen because I wanted to use more value and it would be hard for me to incorporate value with a pen. There was one main technique that I used through my drawing which was value. Value had really helped me bring the objects into a more 3D shape.
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