Artwork

1. Found and Altered

This piece was the first piece we did in my art class. We had to find something, and change it in some way. It was really interesting to see what everyone in my class decided to find and change. I found a slide of a piece of work (I don't who it was by or which piece it was). I then repeated the piece eight time (an "original" and seven other copies). My materials for this piece were paper, paint, pencil, marker, crayon, sharpie and colored pencil.


2. Urban and Industrial

This piece is one of my personal favorites. Our prompt for this piece was a series of four words: history, space, the overlooked, and pattern. Our class looked at those different aspects of architecture and industrial things. My piece is a ruined, old cityscape that came from my imagination. The size and material that were used in this piece were challenging at first, but they were really fun to work with. This is one of the biggest pieces I've done. My materials for this piece were pastels and colored pencil.


3. Utopia and Dystopia

In this piece, we were challenged to look at a perfect world or a destroyed world. I had originally planned on doing an installation or more 3D piece for this project, but I slowly moved into painting a picture that I found (and I altered it, of course). This is another one of my favorite pieces. I love the symmetry that it shows between the beautiful and the broken. The items from the Utopia side if from a life of ordinary, happy things that we made as a class before starting the project. Materials: canvas and paint.


4. Pattern In Nature

This piece was inspired by the patterns that are found everywhere in our world. We started this project by going on a mini-scavenger hunt and finding some interesting pieces in nature and figuring out what they could be in pattern formed. We drew them a few times before being inspired by nature to start out pieces. This piece was a struggle for me, and I can say it's my least favorite of the bunch. However, it was fun to find the patterns in nature (and seeing everyone else's piece was amazing). We were also encouraged to use a specific process in this piece: stencils! Materials: canvas and paint


5. I Remember Three

This collection of three pieces was from a list of prompts, and I combined two together: "I remember", and "3". I went on a trip this summer to The Morrill Farm, Concord, and Walden Pond. These three sign posts are from the three places that I went. I was really impacted by this trip, and it was fun to do a piece about it. Materials: canvas, oil pastels, sharpie.


6. V

After researching an artist named Joseph Kosuth, I was ready to take his lead in making simple art. One of his pieces is titled "Language Must Speak for Itself." Since I have a friend who is deaf, I've been learning sign language recently. Because of this transition, I've been learning that everything that your hands do means something. As a generation, it seems, we've been using our first two fingers out like the picture about as a symbol for "peace," but that is not what this piece is saying. In an actual language, american sign language, this is the sign for the letter "v," which really has nothing to do with peace. This just proves Kosuth's point of language speaking for itself. Materials: paper, pencil.


7. A Dart

In the first art class I took in high school, we had to draw a simple object in many different ways using the elements of design. I chose a red dart, which started off as a challenge. However, as I drew it more and more, I got better and better at drawing it. The final piece was a series of three, but this segment of the piece blows the other two out of the water (in my opinion). This piece is representing color and economy. Materials: paper, colored pencil, thin sharpie.


8. FEARLESS

This is one of the most recent pieces I've done. "Fearless" has became a mantra for my life, especially recently. It hangs in my room as a constant reminder to live my life fearlessly. It's a picture with many different materials, put in a frame with bible verses written on the glass. All of the bible verses that are listed talk about fear in some way. This piece is a great reminder to me that God has already overcome so much fear, and that I never have to be afraid. Materials: paper, paint, pencil, oil pastel, yarn, fabric, buttons, a google-y eye, marker, thin sharpie, a frame, and a whiteboard marker.


9. Sign On

This piece is just a simple little reminder to myself (reminders seem to be on the brain today...). I mentioned earlier that one of my friends is deaf, and I'm learning sign language. Well, nobody else in my family knows it, and sometimes it's hard to get the motivation to use sign and to practice and such. This little reminder that I made on a tiny canvas (it's 2.5 by 2.5 inches big) to remind myself to keep signing and to keep pushing forward. Materials: canvas, thin sharpie


10. Paint

Heh. These pictures weren't actually going to be a piece at all. But then I started to look at them, and I realized that these pictures of the ordinary artist are actually really interesting. This is what my pallet looked like after painting my Utopia/Dystopia piece. I think the globs of paint and the different colors that are everywhere is so interesting. Materials: paint, glass pallet, brushes, pencil, paint saver, and a pen.