Q1 Artist's Statement and Slideshow

Final Artist’s Statement

I made three art pieces this quarter. The first one was a ceiling tile painting. I used acrylic paint to create it and a number of different brushes. My final product was an image of a lizard and croissants. The process for the ceiling tile was long and stretched over a bunch of class periods. First, I sketched out a bunch of ideas on paper, making sure they were to scale. In order to reach my final design, combined two of my initial ideas into one. I chose the lizard and croissant design because I draw lizards a lot and I wanted to do one large scale, and because croissants are one of my favorite things to eat. Then I prepped my tile with a background, a pink and blue gradient. Now I had my final design, I opted to use that as a guide but draw the sketch directly on the panel in pencil without using the projector. This was partly because I was a little short on time. Then I completed the painting over two class periods. I really had to squeeze it in, unfortunately, and I feel like I could’ve done a lot better.  Overall, I really like working with acrylics because they paint on quite smooth but they’re not thin either, and they’re really nice for mixing.

My second piece was my fall wall hanging, and I made a bunch of paper characters hanging from a metal rod. We had about two weeks to do it, and I really feel like I maximized that time. When we got the assignment, I knew immediately what I wanted to do. I started up drawing my characters with pencil, inked that in with pen, and finally colored with markers. Then I cut them out, glued them to construction paper backing, taped them to string, and tied the string around a painted dowel. I really love halloween so my characters were all spooky creatures. I really liked this assignment because I could incorporate my drawing style and the sort of thing I like to draw. It was also done in one of my favorite mediums, marker. If I had more time I would’ve put the drawings on both sides so when the strings made them spin around it wouldn’t be a problem.  

My third piece was my self portrait. We had a lot of time for this but I’m not sure I really maximized it. I made a couple of little sketches  based on photos of me to get what I wanted it to look like, and then began to draw in pencil on the big paper. Pencil’s not my favorite medium because I feel like it is pretty annoying to get a dramatic difference in value out of it. My portrait includes a bunch of plants to really fill up the paper, and I really like the look of it. If I had given myself  more time, I would’ve made the portrait more accurate, it looks more like my mom more than it does me.