LAYERZ.

1. What where some of your ideas for Layers? 

Well I think basically for a change, I had a ton of ideas for this one. I started with this idea to do a print over and over again with words and stuff in the background. It would be a print of Plexiglas  and I even cut into the Plexiglas and everything. And then you like, put ink on it and wipe off all the stuff that's extra. But then I forgot how to do it, so I had to change.
I know I had another idea before this but I don't remember it, and I'm not good at like writing it down and stuff so....

2. Layering has several meanings. Some view it as the bottom layer having no more valuable than the top. What is your interpretation of Layering and how did you show Layering in your project? 

The layering project I did was mostly like layering colors over each other and it was in the same shape so it was a little repetitive and that added more to the Layering  I think. It was just layers on top of layers, but only overlapping a little, to show layers.

3. What medium did you decide to use and why did you choose this medium over the others? 
I used like heavy paper, like mat board and then magazine cutouts. I really like cutting out of magazines and there's so many different color choices in magazines of different colors and textures so that's why I chose it- to add like, variety.
4. What issues did you have creating this work? We encourage risk taking in art. Risk taking can be as simple as trying a new technique or learning about a new medium to as complex as trying something totally new. What risks did you take creating this project? 
The first issue was what to do- and I guess that was my risk too. The fact that I couldn't do it because it was such a risk that I couldn't remember how to do it so I think that's very risky actually. 

5. Of the 5 characteristics of great art (technique, concept, emotion, new, medium) which did you include in your art?
I like medium for this. The more I look at it, the more I like the way that the colors in the raindrops look. It took forever to organize them all by color and shade and whatnot  and I think it adds to the layered look it has. There was some magazine cutouts in other people's art, but none quite like this and so I like that.

Time as A Element

1. What where some of your ideas for Time as an Element?
Um for time as an element I wanted to do a bunch of watches or clocks and that's all I wanted to do. The decision came up between rather doing a colored pencil drawing or like, a painting using a heavier-duty paint than watercolor. Rather than do something that showed the progression of time in a creative way, I really wanted to do something more literally, like a literally showing of time.
2. Which solution did you chose and why? 
I chose this because I had the idea for this and it was stuck in my head and I could not think about doing anything else. I thought that the watercolor underneath would pop some of the darker black areas, and that cutting the rough draft of the clocks up showed a distortion of time.
3. How did you demonstrate Time in your work? 
It's a bunch of clocks with all the same time, 12:30. The clocks are cut up and not complete like, all over the paper... Which sort of shows a distortion of time, how they;'re not in order or convalescent  they're messy and scattered and to the point where they hardly even look like clocks.
4. What medium did you decide to use and why did you choose this medium over the others? 
I decided to use pen and ink over watercolor. I liked the idea of this in my head, and to be honest, I thought it would look better than it does.
5. What techniques did you use to create this work? 
I used watercolor underneath, trying to do a darker wash. Then I drew a rough draft of the clocks on newsprint, and used some cubist techniques to make the clocks cut up, which is when you cut the paper and slide the pieces around. Then I used pen and ink to go over it.
6. We encourage risk taking in art. Risk taking can be as simple as trying a new technique or learning about a new medium to as complex as trying something totally new. Did you take any risks with this project? 
Well since I suck at watercolor, I used that fact to improve on my skills. And I think the general idea of the piece went over a lot of people's heads- like, why is there all chopped up clocks all over the place? it just looks like messy scribbles... I can tell you that there were some people in the class who didn't really think this was good or a good show of time.

 7. Of the 5 characteristics of great art (technique, concept, emotion, new, medium) which did you include in your art?
I think that concept would go the best with this. I didn't see any other art in the room when we were doing our time project that showed time as literally as this. Most were time in action, or the effects of time. This was more like showing time and distortion of time, physically. 

Merry. Christmas.

1. What where some of your ideas for Intertextuality?
Um I wanted to do a spoof on the Boondock Saints picture (here) but instead of having the guns as actual guns, I was gonna do water guns or flowers or something. Basically, that was the only idea I had besides the one that I did.
2. Which solution did you chose and why? 
I chose the one I came up with over the weekend, like it was 3am and I had like, an epiphany and the basically I knew that this idea is what I wanted to do. It seemed like a good idea, and the general idea of it seemed like it was what we were going for in this project.
3. How did you demonstrate Intertextuality in your work?
Well instead of doing like Christmas like peace on earth love your neighbor and all that crap, I was like well, having hand grenades instead of ornaments sounds pretty hardcore and like, the opposite of what Christmas means. 
4. What medium did you decide to use and why did you choose this medium over the others? 
I used spraypaint on wood. When I came up with the idea, I wanted it to look like a stencil  in the lettering and in the white -breaks in the tree. I chose this because I thought the grenade would look chill in spraypaint, and I think it does.
5. What techniques did you use to create this work? We encourage risk taking in art. Risk taking can be as simple as trying a new technique or learning about a new medium to as complex as trying something totally new. 
I used the X-Acto knife, paint and spraypaint. I think they're all general skills separately  but when you put them together, it shows a lot of technique


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6. Did you take any risks with this project? 
I think I did. I've never been good at spray paint or stencil, the ones I made in Art One sucked. So I knew I wanted to do it in spraypaint, but I wasn't sure of how it'd turn out because I'm not really the best at it. 
 7. Of the 5 characteristics of great art (technique, concept, emotion, new, medium) which did you include in your art?

I think the medium was what I included into this. The fact that it's basically a sign/post thing is different from anything I've ever done in art before, and I like the idea of it being a sign, stick it in your yard around Christmas sorta thing.

Culture through Text.

I thought pretty hard about this project, only because "culture" is a really vague and broad subject to pick from. You've got language, religion, clothing, food, all different for every country or ethnic area, and on top of that, you have tons of sub-cultures! I chose this because I think that the four monuments I chose are easily recognisable and are the focal points of the specific country or city. I tried to make it so that the text of the country or city filled the monument- so that it was written within the boarders of the monument. I chose to use paint on canvas mostly because I wanted the look of colors popping on a clean white background


 

 and I'm not very good at keeping in the lines of canvas, so I wanted to work on my canvas skill. I guess that could count as a risk- the fact that I'm not that great with paint on canvass and not spreading it all over the place, which I used to do all the time. Other than that, it's a pretty small risk project. I like the way that the writing was the darker color of the background of the actual monument- and I like how clean it looks on the white. It's a nice contrast.