Watercolor circle

Spin Art

Flowers

Palate Knife

Final Project

Done with Watercolors and red acrylic

Cardboard

We found a photograph of something we liked then drew over it and made it our own and then had cardboard we decorated then placed our picture on

Portrait - Photograph

We took pictures of ourself then had to edit it in photoshop and then glue it on a box which we painted before with acrylic paint

Baby Photograph

I used acrylic paint to make the background by mixing red and white then used more white and black at the top to add some more texture

Oil and Acrylic Paint

Gradation in Art

Wire Art

This is a wire chicken I made by bending wires and using pliers.

Botanical Garden Photo Transfer

We had to print out one of the pictures we took at the botanical gardens and transfer it on glass. I took sharpie and drew flowers and leaves on the side and to enhance the flowers I painted 2 on top of the glass.

Glass Mosaic

We were given a wood board and had to use glass pieces to cover the board. I put 2 big mirrors on then put glass around it. 

In between the glass

We were given 2 pieces of glass and had to lay them on top of eachother in whatever way we wanted to and put something "In between the glass". I put feathers and paper then glued the pieces of glass on top one another. In the upper right corners, they are covered in glitter and the one with silver glitter has pieces of broken glass glued on it. On the bottom I used stencils to trace butterflies and made blobs of glue with glitter sprinkled over it. In the top left corner I used purple, pink and black sharpies to doodle various designs.

Glass Plate

We got a piece of flat glass and painted it in whatever color we wanted and I chose to do blue and light blue. I went over it and glued down the green and yellow pieces of glass around the edges. 

collage with spray painted pieces

We were told to make a collage with the remnants of our spray painted pieces and could go in any direction we wanted to with it. I wanted to continue the flower theme of my spray painted piece so I used stencils to trace them with white pencil onto the black paper. I liked how this piece was made with left over scraps and it just shows that art can be created with anything even if it may look like trash.

Sacred Vessel

The sacred vessel I chose was the transformation from a callipiter to a butterfly and the process it has to go through. The callipiter starts out as a normal looking bug who doesnt look to important and special but goes through the process of going into a cocoon for a very long time to develop into a beautiful butterfly. Once it emerges from the cocoon into a butterfly, it has a very short life span and doesn't live any longer than a few days. I thought this was very interesting because a callipiter spends so much time becoming beautiful and transforming and ends up dying.

This series was all free hand painted with acrylic paints and water color on the background. I didn't trace anything or draw anything before. I got the leaves from outside and rolled paint on it and pressed it on the page.

spray paint

We were given a black board and were told to cut out shapes to spray paint. I started out with tracing the quote "Life is hard but so very beautiful" on a piece of large white paper in bubble letters. I used an exacto knife to cut the letters out leaving a stencil of the words. I then used another sheet of white paper and cut out stems for 3 different lengths of flowers and cut out the petals by cutting out one for each flower and then tracing it many times to make it the same shape and size. I spray painted the flowers on first and made sure to tape it down to the board well so that the design that i wanted would come out correct and used blue and green spray paint. for the letters, I took the flowers off and then taped down the letters over the board wherever i wanted it and sprayed very closely to the letters with pink and orange. 

circles

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This was created on illustrator CS6 which took a hard time to understand i labeled which one i made first second and third, and as you can see my skill improved each time personally. It was very different than anything I have done in art but I enjoyed it and am thankful that I know how to use illustrator for future references.