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.