Teens Inspired - Untitled Title

This is my most recent project. I completed this project after a trip to the NC Art Museum. I was inspired by a piece there that was extremely abstract but evoked strong emotion. This piece had some pattern to it with similar paint strokes all around, but did not resemble anything. This being said, the colors and the way it was arranged made the piece interesting and intriguing. It was by far my favorite piece in the museum.

Tree Burn

This is my second burning project. I had a different piece of wood that I thought would look great with a tree burnt in. I am happy with this piece because I got texture into the bark and leaves that any other medium could not. This was another fun piece that I thought came out very well. This is a free piece that is not necessarily in any category but I think that it could go somewhere in print-making.

Exploration & Experimenting

In this project, I did not do any introductions or digging deeper. This project was free-balled by yours truly and I am proud of this. I think it was a very interesting medium and I enjoyed doing this project. I am going to continue using this medium in the coming weeks.

Observational Art

For the my second project, I decided to try observational art. I found that this is hard when most of the time we are in a room where we can't be somewhere that would be more ideal for a nice painting. I liked the ideas that I got from Digging Deeper and my warm ups, but I soon wanted to go straight to my final. I drew my hands twice in charcoal. I have concluded that this was a failure. I don't like the outcome. As soon as I finished these drawings, I started something that I was thinking about before I started this project.

Text Art Final Project

     For my text art project, I decided to add to mediums to create a more dynamic product. I used acrylic paint to create an interesting and abstract background and magazine clippings to convey a message. These elements together create a questionable mood with unknown motives. Altogether it is a questionable piece but the background can be seen as water, or a sky, or an erupting volcano all in a monochromatic style that sets a blue mood. If I were top change something about this project I would make it brighter in the middle to show the importance of the middle-man (no pun intended) and do a better job of fading the lights into the darker colors.
    I plan on starting the observational unit. I have not started challenges but have looked through the dig deeper part and will continue that.
    In the next two weeks I plan on making a relatively large piece about one of my favorite things; football.

Text Art Project

Dig Deeper

I used Pinterest for my dig deeper. I had never used Pinterest and it allowed me to see a lot of different mediums and messages that art can send.
http://www.pinterest.com/kc3554/projects-to-try/

Challenges

These are my challenges for the text art project. I tried to different mediums to try two different things.

Final

For my final project, I am thinking of using newspaper as a medium to make a scene or doing a sort of self reflecting portrait thingy.