Chocolate any one?

this project has been the most fun in this class. It has also been the messiest. Using flour, water and chocolate to cover ourselves and make shapes was harder then it looked yet still fun. Now as we discovered in the beginning stage flour doesn't just stick to you, you must add water to make it stick to your skin or else it will fall off. The chocolate part was the hardest. We knew how we were going to put it on just not how we were going to make all the squares work. It is much harder to make squares on you then it is circles. You have to get them precise and chocolate is not a very precise substance. But in the end this project turned out to be amazingly fun and i had a blast doing it.

The Exquisite Corpse 2

The Exquisite Corpse

This is a project we had in lecture class. We had to come up with a sentence in our table groups. Mine is: An iridescent puppy green a sloppy white. Now given there is only one noun and no verb or second noun, I managed to come up with my inspiration. I thought about the main focus which I believed was the puppy part. I used the colors as props thinking of toys for dogs and such. The white was more for the color of the dog. And when I think of iridescent, I think of light bulbs. So I used lighting also as part of the picture.

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lecture

Today's lecture was so interesting. I learned a lot that iI never really thought about. Now at first I thought this is silly and weird, but as we were doing all these different activities I got the point of it. Taking your mind off of what you are trying to do helps you. Playing a game with friends can help generate fresh, new ideas. This gives you the chance to broaden the ideas. You can think of how to enlarge it or minimize it, how to make it different, or just how to place it together. These activities really help. Now we were asked where we come up with ideas. They strike me at the most random times. Like, for instance, over the summer I was washing dishes with my sister and had a great idea. As soon as I was done I sketched it out and then begin to figure out how I wanted to execute it. Ideas come to me when I go for my runs at night, while I am in the shower, while I am cleaning, or just when I am doing nothing. It is when I am not thinking about anything that ideas flow better. That was also explained in class today. These new techniques we were shown in class today are really good ways to clear your head and come up with really good ideas.

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Readings 2

While reading the readings I learned a few things: that creative people tend to possess certain traits about them. These traits are:
     1) Sensitivity: it gives a person heightened awareness of the senses mainly the vision, hearing, and touching.
     2) Flexibility: this allows people to adapt to new situations.
     3) Originality: is uncommon responses to something.
     4) Playfulness: this gives the person a sense of humor and an ability to work freely.
     5) Productivity: to come up with ideas and follow through with them.
     6) Fluency: being ready for ideas.
     7) Analytical Skills: the ability to look at something, take it apart, and see how it works.
     8) Organizational Skills: ability to put things back in order.

I have also learned that what we, as people, think of art, we think it has to be beautiful. Well not all art is beautiful to everyone. Some people can find they don't like a certain style or just a certain painting. But to each their own, we all see art differently.

Also looking at art you see different styles and different types of art. Representational, naturalism, abstract, and stylistic are some. These words each place a piece of art into what it fits under.

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Squares

The square project is much more interesting then the dot one. Now the dot one was harder because you had  more words to portray, but the square one gives you more leeway. While I was coming up with my sketches, I thought not how many I can put on there, but how to place them on the page. Having squares falling off the page and all over the place is much more entertaining to look at to me. It gives it more character and fun to create.

Now I started on my sketches last Friday while I had nothing to do. So Wednesday in class I was already working on drawing out the 6x6 models and coloring them in. I enjoyed this project more then circle one because you got to do more with it. To me it was easier.

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Dot dot dot

This project is interesting. It makes you think when you are coming up with the designs. There are so many ways to put dots on a page, but when told to represent words it makes it more difficult. While I was coming up with my ideas it took some time because when I first came up with some ideas they looked like they could represent another word. But of course you are going to get that. It is hard to get one design to just represent one word if it is complex. Of course during critique only some of mine were critiqued because I was not finished, but some of the feedback I got was good. My group really liked my ideas. They thought that they were well thought out. I can say this, most of my ideas came from me just drawing. I came up with some really cool ones, but it was from me just sitting there not really thinking, but more doodling. Well when I was narrowing it down to the 16 it was hard, but I looked for differences in shape in the circles and different patterns. I looked for distinct attributes about each idea. Then when I was looking those 16 over I saw that so many of them could represent another word and I didn't want that, but like I said before it is hard to only represent one word. Picking the final 4 for me was difficult. I wanted each idea to represent that specific word well. So I analyzed each idea over and over again until I was sure on one idea for each word.

Readings

What is a painting?

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface (support base).

In the readings it talks about painting and what it is. The definition says it is to apply pigment, color or anything else to a surface. This is true an artist can use anything to make a button. Buttons, string, other paper, etc can make up a painting. You shouldn't be limited to the paint and canvas to let your work be called a painting.

The readings go into detail about how a painting is more than a painting. Line, composition, color, fields, scale, edges, and format all help create what a painting is. Each play an important role in making a painting. The readings go on to say that even surface, gesture, and process make up a painting. Like Van Gogh's paintings. He showed every brush stroke in his paintings to show more gesture.

But with all this process in painting comes the ability to tell where you messed up, hesitated, or just where you changed your process of painting. The surface of a painting can be read by anyone. When you really look at the painting and study it you can find every little detail in it.