Cardboard Sculpture New Questions

1. The past is worth perserving because it shows how far we have come and where we can go. It is also very important because we can learn from it and not make past mistakes repeat.

2.  Everyone can do something to help. Wether it be not littering, using less gas, etc. As an artist you can make a concious effort to not waste materials and reuse as much as possible. Like we did in this project.

3. The rights and responsibilities of an artist are unlimited. We pretty much have the right to do anything within the law. As for the responsibilities, we have one in my opinion which is to be true to ourselves.

Cardboard Animal Sculpture

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Questions

1. I really had a hard time choosing what to do in this project. I was perplexed as to which kind of animal to choose and wether to do a head or a full body. I decided to do a lemur and only the head. I then drew the head from the side cut it out twice and began work. It was then just a matter of putting in the slots, ears and eyed. Figuring out the shape was the hardest part (especially because there were not many pictures of a side view lemur). The skill I really developed was my cutting. Before this project I was a mess with scissors, after practice and learning that doing it over twice is better than jabbing hard I improved.

2. My piece is attached to a back board which holds it up. I used different size slots to make the curve on a lemurs head, the form of the slots was key. The space between the two cut outs is what makes look 3D. Finally the lines throughout the piece define its shape. This is how I used line, form, and space to create my piece

Matisse Project

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1. I chose the colour scheme of blue and orange. I chose this because they both oppose each other and therefore make both stand out. It wasn't more dominant then any other colour because these were the only ones I used, but because of the the different hues are bold and stand out

2. I used the colours in the foreground and kept the background white. By making the background white it made the colours on the horse very vibrant and they popped out at the viewer. Again this also makes the different hues and tones mixed in stand out also.

3. I started out by tracing my original horse on the paper and pulling it apart and playing with the shapes. It was very difficult at the beginning to mess up my idea of what a horse should look like and make it abstract and like Matisse. After much sketching I finally came up with a final design. I painted various papers blue and orange and cut out my shapes and pasted them together. Overall the positives for me were that I was able to make a wavy like piece that to me has a resemblance of the Matisse style. The hard part was cutting the shapes and getting the abstract sketch.

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Picasso Assignment

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1.  I chose orange as my monochromatic and I had the analogous as my accent colour. I chose this because I wanted to make the colours pop out and look bright, orange is the best colour for that purpose. I used the outline to direct the attention of the viewer and make things pop out. Overall the main reason I chose orange is because you can tint it and make many different types of it.

2.  A lot of my shape was inspired from the horse in Guernica. The twisted head in my horse was the the major piece inspired from that painting. The major problem I encountered was the size of my horse. I chose to make a smaller horse from the beginning not knowing I would be painting it. I had trouble keeping the paint in the lines, but I used the outliner to cover up those mistakes. The second problem I encountered was the smudging of paint around the edges of the which is covered up by jagged edges.  What I was really pleases with was the improvement I made in mixing colours, I was able to make the colours I wanted. Overall I am very pleased with my final piece.

Final Photo