Print Portfolio

For my Print Portfolio I had multiple prints. One of the things I did was make a print and use water and markers to make a water coloring out of it. For this project, I started out with my blue print on a piece of paper and colored the background with blue marker, then went over it with a wet paintbrush to make it look like a watercolor. After that I colored the fins with a brown marker and drew them outside the boundaries of the print and extended them until they went off of the paper. Then I colored in the spaces on the shell pink and expanded his shell and the coral onto the rest of the paper. I made one print on vanilla paper. Another on was a textured piece of paper, and for that one I used two colors, blue and green. On one print, I drew cross contour lines on it using blue and green ink and another I made by putting blue and green ink onto a table, drawing a design in it, and pressing paper against it.

Pastel Still Life Project

  I planned my composition by gathering five objects that represent me and setting them up, then I used a view finder to find a view that I liked. I used my viewfinder to find a perspective of the objects that I liked, then I made a thumbnail sketch. A thumbnail sketch is a small-scaled sketch that shouldn't take long to make. It gives a general idea of how your bigger piece will be drawn. I made my items appear three dimensional by using value. I did this by using a variety of tints, shades, and colors in each object. My light source was created by shining a light on my objects to create shadows and highlights.

Acrylic Landscape Painting

  For my Acrylic Landscape Painting, I used a complimentary color scheme. The colors that I used were orange and blue. The first thing that I did for my painting was find four drawings that I was going to use; one for the sky, one for the hills, one for the water and one for the tree. Then I taped my paper to a piece of cardboard, and after that, I started with my sky by painting it a few different shades of light blue. Then I put in clouds and started painting the hills with different greens, tans, and browns. When I was done with that I started on the ocean with a darker, grayer blue and when that was dry, I painted the island and the boat on top of it. The last thing I did was paint my tree with greens and yellows and browns and add more detail onto my boat. For my light source, I decided that it would be coming from the upper left corner of my painting. I used different types of brush strokes as well. For the water I made my brush strokes more wavy, for the hills they were sloping down, and for the island and the sky they were straighter. I used a fan brush for the tree and just dabbed the paint on with it, and for the clouds I used a sponge. I also used a toothbrush to add speckles of rocks to the hills. I created value by adding different shades of color to my project. I added shadows to my boat and the tree and I put in different shades for the sky and the water. Atmospheric perspective as when the saturation of an object lessens as it gets further and further away. I created this by making the colors of my further objects a little more dull.

Ceramics Project

  For my Ceramics Project, I made a square bowl out of clay. My bowl is 3 in. tall and 4.5 in. wide on all four sides. The design element that was most stressed during the construction of my project was form. The techniques I used were slabs, pinching, modeling, and slumping. The function of my bowl is to hold food and/or miscellaneous items. I created my design by drawing what I wanted on a piece of paper then shaping it with clay. By doing this project, I learned that it's very important to smooth your edges and that I should go more slowly with some of my artwork. If I were to repeat this project, I would make sure that I smoothed the edges more thoroughly and I would paint my red clay on more carefully.