Portfolio

Bird:

Onesie Line:

 

Poetry Bag:

 

Sunflower:

 

Art Education:

 

Conservation Poster:

 

Advice Poster:

 

 

6x6:

 

 

 

 

Conservation Poster

I chose what is likely the most obvious conservation topic for my poster. Recycling. One of my biggest pet peeves is people throwing paper in a garbage can, especially when the recycle bin is a few feet away.

I was not sure wether to just say recycle, or Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. I chose what I do because I allowed me to fill up more boring empty space, and get more creative with the text by using a consistant color theme with the lighter colored "RE". I crumpled up a piece of paper and scanned it to use for the background. I also considered using cardboard or newspaper, but the paper just seems like a better choice to me. I will still fine tune this over the next day or two.

Bird

For my bird, I chose a Blue Jay. It has engaging shapes, patterns, and colors.

I used numerous individual gradients and shadows, particularly on the wings, to make them more engaging and add depth. This was the first time I got to use my Bamboo tablet a lot on an assignment and it helps by adding variety to the lines. In an earlier version of this, the eye and beak were both together in one frame, but I need another good focus point and so split the image and reversed the beak. I attempted to make a foot, but it turned out to be too difficult and blue jay feet are rather ugly looking. I think this is one of the best pieces of art I have created so far.

Sunflower Progress

Here are some stages my sunflower went through so far. I will probably make a few more adjustments still.

This is the sharpie drawing, I had began to fill in the background petals with circles but didn't like it. I removed them once it was in illustrator.

One night I spent a lot of time cleaning up the edges of the sunflower, and added some texture. The title was a rush just to get my idea down.

I changed all the colors somewhat, and added another texture and darkened the color in the center of the flower. I adjusted the wood texture in the background. The most significant change was I completed the title. I have been on the fence between having "sunflower as it is or fully lowercase. Uppercase was too much to look at. 

Poem

I thought I would post pictures I took as I made my Poem/Paper bag, so here they are:

 

 I wish I knew we were going to paint over this sooner, I wouldn't have spent so much time on this.

 After the painting was done. At the bottom there are stamps I made with an X-acto knife.

 Music notes and some sponge texture.

 The bird was made with Sharpie, Prismacolor pencils, and paint.

 I cut out letters and painted over them.

 Added lines under the text, and used silver sharpie to make the bars. I also added some texture with oil pastels.

Last, I covered most of it in wax, which blended the oil pastels.

 

 

 

The poem I used is I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou.

6x6

For my 6x6's, I am making pictures of food out of pixel art. So far I have completed four of them. Here they are:

The first I did was a cup of tea(or coffee, who cares).

 

 For the second, I made a pear. Apples are overrated.

Third is a hamburger. This one was probably the most difficult to make so far, since I'm limited to a 32x32 pixel grad in black and white. I tried using grey also, but it actually turned out looking bad.

 An ice cream cone. This turned out to be the most difficult to do because balancing the left and right sides of the ice cream is difficult since this is far from symmetrical.

Pizza. Yum.

 

Bacon. Enough said.

Blog Updated!

I have updated the layout of my blog to a different template and added links to all my AP Studio Art work in the sidebar to make it easier to find. I will post my completed work at these links, as well as in progress assignments(they will be marked to make sure its clear they are not complete).