Illuminated Manuscript

Before coloring

After coloring

Media: Pencil, Colored pencil, ruler, pictures from internet

Process: Find examples online to get an idea and then come up with a theme you would like to do, in my case it was medieval/Skyrim. Use the letter of your first or last name and then come up with little designs do draw around it, I put symbols that are in the game Skyrim and wrote words in Dovahzul, the language in the game, around the outside.

Daniel Kyre Tribute Drawings

First tribute drawing

Second tribute drawing

These drawings were made for Daniel Lee Kyre, a YouTuber I watched and an idol of mine. Daniel was found on September 16th 2015 in critical condition after a suicide attempt. He suffered irreversible brain damage and would not survive, being pulled off of life support on September 18th 2015, dying while surrounded by friends and family at age 21. I drew these in tribute to the man who inspired me and put a smile on my face with ever video. Fly high, Daniel Kyre, we will never forget all the things you have done to try and make our lives brighter.

Mandala

Finished Product

Media: Online design ideas, paint, triangles/section dividers, tracing paper, pencils

Process: Look online at mandalas to have an idea of what to do, then come up with your own designs for it. Use tracing paper to trace one of the designs you made onto the mandala paper/board. Continue using the tracing paper to flip and trace until the design is all the way around the circle outline. Afterwards paint the designs you made with a group color of your choice, in which I chose green. 

Monster Pot

For this project we created pots and chose a design of a monster to create. Mine was based on a robot/steampunk style monster with a top hat which had goggles, a nose, gears on the side, gears for eyes, and a weird sort of mouth. You could have created anything, and there were many different styles that were created. I cannot seem to load the picture of my pot onto google, I do not know why.

Greek Pot

The Greek pot was to make a pot based on Black Figure, Red Figure, oriental, and geometric. I chose Black Figure, painting the background red and then painting on black figures of Theseus and the Minotaur, painting the names on the handle with greek-style writing and doing a pattern at the top of the pot.

Coil Pot

The coil pot was made by rolling up pieces of clay and stacking them on top of each other. You created details with the coils or blended them together and then used rollers to put details on the side. Once it was fired you glazed it and used a shiny glaze. It was fired again, and then finished.

Pinch Pot

My Pinch Pot was of a turtle, in which I cannot find to take a picture of. Basically we made a pinch pot, a pot made with your hands, and then chose an animal to make the pot of. I chose a turtle, creating a head, legs, and a tail from separate pieces of clay. I then created detailed and scored on the parts. After it was detailed and fired I used black so paint it and then washed it off, the black remained in the lines. I then painted it green, it was fired again, and done.

Batik Painting

For this project we were to get a piece of paper and draw an amphibious animal, along with making some details. After this we outline it with sharpie and put a piece of fabric over it. We then used wax to outline the sharpie on the fabric. After this we used fabric dye and colored the animals. We then used other wax to 'save' the color, and created more layers of color. We 'saved' colors as much as we needed until the project was finished.

My batik painting was of a snake climbing up a tree, the snake was a blue color with black stripes on it, the log was brown with different details that were green, to signify moss, and there were some leaves. The background was a mix of brown green and other colors, I didn't have a process for that, I just kind of randomly did colors.

Like other projects I do not have a photo of this, but I described the process for an idea.

Landscape Box

To create the landscape box we were to pick a theme- whether garden, mountain, plains, graveyard, etc. We created a box and dried it some, and then we drew/designed whatever theme we wanted onto the side. Then we cut out those designs from another slab of clay, and scored it into place. We then cut off a top and fired the boxes. After that we were to paint the sides.

I do not have a picture, but I described the entire process so you have an idea of what it was to be.

Minnie Evans art project

I can't take a photo of this; my grandmother wanted it and she took it home with her to Wilson (which is 2 hours away) and she has a flip phone, which she is unable to send photos with, as well as she is not familiar with how technology works, The Minnie Evans project was of pop art (I believe) and symmetry.

My Minnie Evans style drawing was of a tree in a forest, a monkey, owl, deer, and bird in it. The bird was red, the monkey was lime green, the own was purple, and the deer was blue. The ground was red and the tree was yellow, the swing in which attached to the tree was a tan-ish color. The background was split into four parts, the red ground, a section that had column-like shapes side by side with rounded tops, each a different height, and were green. The next had swirls, each in the color of a rainbow. The top had wave-like shapes, the background blue, and the shapes each a different shade of blue.

Half-face drawing (Extra Credit)

Start of the drawing/outline

Finished Drawing

Media: Picture from internet, scissors, pencil, glue, paper

Process: Find picture from a magazine (in my case from my laptop) and cut it down the middle. Draw what you see on one side on the other (in my case some things would have to be like the other side because of hat and bow tie). Shade according to what you see and make the picture look more life-like and try to get it as accurate to the other side as you can.

Learned: Drawing what you see rather than what you think you see

Value Scale

Value Scale project

Media: Pencil, paper, colored pencil 

Process: Draw circles with the compass then draw ribbons to connect the circles together. Shade the circles to look like light is hitting certain places on the circles. After shade the ribbons to look like light is being blocked by the circles and that the ribbons are going underneath the circles/spheres.

Learned: Shading to make shapes look 3D and have light hitting them.

Chop

Chinese Name Chop

Symbols: Name, Virtue, and Dream

Media: Chop, carving tools, internet, paint/ink

Process: Look online for Chinese symbols of things that represent you. Create one of your name, and two of different symbols. Must have at least three Chinese symbols on the chop. Then draw your symbols onto a piece of paper in a square the size of your chop. Trace it with an ebony pencil on a tracing paper and then trace onto your chop. Use a carving tool to carve the symbols into the chop and then use the red paint/ink to test the chop.

Learned: Chinese chops can be used as a signature rather than signing by hand.

Self Portrait

Self Portrait finish

Media: Pencil, paper, picture of self, ruler

Process: Take the picture that was given of yourself and create blocks on it, take the bigger paper and create blocks as well, bigger size but same amount. Draw the picture as you see it block by block on the paper. Once finished, create different shading and what not to make it more life-like.

Learned: Shading to make drawings look more realistic.

Clay Fish

Clay Fish finish

Media: Clay, tutorial video, paints

Process: Create a pinch pot and then other little designs such as fins and anything you want to make the fish to be. You could create a sailor, pirate, scuba diver, etc. I created a singer fish.

Learned: How to create pinch pots.

Wayne Thiebaud Art

Wayne Thiebaud cake design start

Wayne Thiebaud cake design finish

Media: Pencil, paper, pastels, online image

Process: Create your own baked good design from ideas online. Color the picture with different colors, making shadows where they should be. Use colors other than black to make the art stand out.

Learned: Shading and shadows using colors other than black.

Oil Pastel Abstract Composition

Half-way done with oil pastels

Finished Product

Media: Paper, pencil, Oil pastels

Process: Create lines and designs with your pencil, crossing lines over others and creating some curves. Color in the different sections with different colors, making the inside lighter and getting darker when moving to the outside.

Learned: different shades and getting darker to lighter.

African Mask

African Mask Start of painting details

African Mask finished product

Media: Clay, paint, beads, string

Process: Create an African Mask out of clay in your own design. Once fired, paint to look like rusted copper/metal, then paint designs and symbols onto it. Create beads out of clay that was fired with the mask to go on the string, then create a pattern with the beads.

Learned: African masks and African symbols and designs.