Assignment Drawings

Personal Project Assignment

For our Personal Project we were allowed to do whatever we wanted for this project. So I decided to experiment with Lights and glass. My goal for this project was to create something where you could see the light shinning through the glass.

As I started working on this piece,  it started to change before my eyes. I had originaly planned for it to be similar to a free standing light source that light up the room with bright colors of the glass. But from further discussion with you, you mentioned creating another light object and hanging it on the wall.   

 Thus as I continued to add to my work, I decided to decorate the background wall to help incorperate it into my artwork. That way my work didnt just look like a wall sconce.

I hid the wire for the lights in the tissue paper so that it was not visable, along with addint tin foil to the background wall so that it would reflect all of the colors of glass shinning through the light.

Thus I really enjoyed working on this piece, it reminded me of our deconstruct project, although I experimented more with the lights and the glass, and I think this piece came out Extreemly well.

Tool Collection Assignment

For this assignment, our goal was to make a tool that ether made a sound or a mark. So I decided to create tools that made marks. Throughout the process of creating these tools, I decided that they should all be UNIFIED through color so I painted the tools.

Than as I continued to work on these tools I addd a base for each tool so that each tool  had their own spot in the set. Than with further discussion I painted the base for the tools, and created these little structures by using the tools that I had created.

Thus in its own way, these tools now have a purpose, which is building structures out of foam. Because prior to creating these tools they were just designed to make a mark, but with more thought they now have a purpose.

Pinhole Assignment

 

Personally I really like how our insperation for this project, can be derived from a favorite novel, poem or song lyrics. I actually chose the Lyrics to the song "Yo Ho Yo Ho" from the movie Pirates of the Carabean. For this project I went all over searching for a treasure chest at the thrift shops, I couldnt find any choices until I found this chest.


Once I found this chest, I started comming up with a lot of crazy ideas for this project, such as portraying a scene, similar to Sara's Texas chain-saw Massacure. I chose maps and sand, and spray painted gold rocks, until we had our first cretique, than I realized that I may have to many visual details.



Than as I continued working on this piece, I tryed to figure out how to add more light inside of the chest so that the viewer could see. So I placed a spotlight in random places until I realized that you could see it through the back as a distant red. This helped accent the strobe light and running water , sounds comming from phone located in the work.



Than later I just added a touch light behind my piece, and covered it in red tissue paper to portray the same feeling. This now makes my work a mobile piece that can be taken anywhere. I really think all of these changes to my work have helped make it a stronger work of art.

Deconstruct Assignment

For this project I deconstructed 5 objects

• An Umbrella
• A Wood Box
• Game Cards
• Orange Toy Gun
• Green Toy Gun 

I really enjoyed creating this piece, In its own way I alwo reconstructed the way the game is played. Because this is a game that usually doesn't have a game board, it is usually played by stacking cards, so I think this work does a great job of deconstructing not only the objects, but also the game.

Tool Collection Assignment Response

When it comes to the tool making collection, this project sounds like fun.  We get to ceate a series of  tools that must “make a mark” or “make a sound”. Designing and constructing  the tools is a really inovative idea. I cant wait to start working on this project.

Consider: Will you design rudimentary tools? Or will the tools appear contemporary? Or perhaps another word to use is futuristic? A mixture? Who will be using your tools? Adults, children, a person with a disability? Or maybe you are designing for giants or lilliputians? Again, can be a mixture.

I thought it was interesting listening to (When Patents Attack!). It was  interesting to learn about how patents, which are designed to protect youe ideas and inventions, are now starting to hurt and cause more lawsuits now.  And learning about intelectual ventures (IV) which is a place that helps support inventors. Although listening to it was a little long I thought it was really interesting, and I felt like it gave me a lot of insight in the world of inventing.

As for listening to (Contents Unknown) I feel like a lot of the information was really different, but I found it interesting that i knew a lot of these interesting facts from watching media and keeping up with the world from time to time. But I feel like I learned a lot more about patent's that i didn't know before.

Vocab:

-Patent trolls- companies that amass huge troves of patents and make money by threatening lawsuits

 

Plaster Assignment Response

 

From looking at the blog , the image of Anne Mourier's work really seemed to speak to me. I feel like the expressions of emotion that she portrays is incredable. Its amazing how free flowing and elegant she makes the legs along with her choices of materials for the base. I really liked this plaster piece.

 

As for my own plaster pieces, I feel like this was a great learning experience to work with different materials and plaster. I really enjoyed creating free forms, I feel like there was no pressure, and it started to make art fun again. It was interesting to see how just working with the plaster and adding materials; you could come up with such a pretty piece.

I would have to say that working with the plaster and wire was my favorite combination, because every time I combined the two the wire would rust and turn the plaster a pretty  brownish color.  I feel that my strongest pieces were also constructed with the cheesecloth.

 

 

Vocab:

 

Expressive-  full of expression; meaningful: an expressive shrug.

                 -   (serving to express; indicative of power to express: a                         look expressive of gratitude. )