Design Your Own Art Project
Artist Statement:
For our project, we decided to do a hangout spot. We did some landscaping and decorated some. We hung up some tulle, beaded necklaces, and string in a piece of wire connected to three trees. We draped the tulle across the middle of the wire, making a roof type thing to hang above us as we lay under it in our hammock. We then modified our project plan, and decided to make one large hammock on the outward side of the triangle shaped trees. We also made a path with logs and sticks leading you to the spot down that path. Lastly, we played around with spray paint and Sprayed some of the natural features. We created this hangout spot in hopes of making the area behind the school look nicer and have a nice spot for people to sit, eat, talk, and just hangout.
For our project, we decided to do a hangout spot. We did some landscaping and decorated some. We hung up some tulle, beaded necklaces, and string in a piece of wire connected to three trees. We draped the tulle across the middle of the wire, making a roof type thing to hang above us as we lay under it in our hammock. We then modified our project plan, and decided to make one large hammock on the outward side of the triangle shaped trees. We also made a path with logs and sticks leading you to the spot down that path. Lastly, we played around with spray paint and Sprayed some of the natural features. We created this hangout spot in hopes of making the area behind the school look nicer and have a nice spot for people to sit, eat, talk, and just hangout.
Design Your Own Art Project Pre Assessment
For this design your own art project where I plan to, with the help of some friends, fix up an old area into a fun hangout spot. Before this project I have helped fix up some houses, spray paint, and design a room. These skills could help while cleaning up the area we plan to fix and while adding decorations and possibly some spray paint to help give it color.
Environmental Documentary Project
Project Description:
When starting this project off we first came up with the idea or topic of our video. Once we had a topic we did some research on the topic and on people we might be able to interview, and we sent out emails to them. Once we had some people agree to interviewing with us we set dates and places to have the interview. We got the footage from the interviews and went out to get some B-roll of a creek and also had B-roll from videos on the internet that we got permission to use. Then we made stop motion animations to add into the documentary. Once we had all of this footage we started editing the interviews and B-roll. Once the individual footage was edited as necessary we started to piece it together. After this we made a prezi presentation on prezi.com. We then added the prezi with informational facts about rainwater harvesting and information on how people could help the cause. Once our footage was pieced together we added background music and titled it “Just a Drop in the Sky”.
When starting this project off we first came up with the idea or topic of our video. Once we had a topic we did some research on the topic and on people we might be able to interview, and we sent out emails to them. Once we had some people agree to interviewing with us we set dates and places to have the interview. We got the footage from the interviews and went out to get some B-roll of a creek and also had B-roll from videos on the internet that we got permission to use. Then we made stop motion animations to add into the documentary. Once we had all of this footage we started editing the interviews and B-roll. Once the individual footage was edited as necessary we started to piece it together. After this we made a prezi presentation on prezi.com. We then added the prezi with informational facts about rainwater harvesting and information on how people could help the cause. Once our footage was pieced together we added background music and titled it “Just a Drop in the Sky”.
What problem-solving skills (21st Century) are employed in making works of art?
I believe that the 21st century skills used in making art are all of them. Although, I believe that the most important one is refinement. I believe that this is important because if an artist just goes for their first draft, then it isn't up to it's full potential. When artists refine their work, it gets better and better and rounds up to a total project of beautiful work.
Why do Artists Produce Preliminary Plans? (sketches, brainstorms, storyboards, etc?)
I believe that artists make preliminary sketches because they need to get their ideas down on paper before making the complete project. When an artist does pre-sketches, the artist can pick out of them and choose the best one in their opinion. They can also take steps back and see if the idea they chose was actually the best choice. They can look back and remember their ideas so that they don’t forget the old ideas that have a possibility of being beautiful work.
How and why is art used as a vehicle for communication?
As people say, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” That is true, when people look at an image, they have all these words going through their minds. All the different questions, all the details they notice, everything in the picture. People can look at a picture and understand what the artist is trying to get across right away, whereas if they are just saying it, they might need to use more words to explain it
I believe that the 21st century skills used in making art are all of them. Although, I believe that the most important one is refinement. I believe that this is important because if an artist just goes for their first draft, then it isn't up to it's full potential. When artists refine their work, it gets better and better and rounds up to a total project of beautiful work.
Why do Artists Produce Preliminary Plans? (sketches, brainstorms, storyboards, etc?)
I believe that artists make preliminary sketches because they need to get their ideas down on paper before making the complete project. When an artist does pre-sketches, the artist can pick out of them and choose the best one in their opinion. They can also take steps back and see if the idea they chose was actually the best choice. They can look back and remember their ideas so that they don’t forget the old ideas that have a possibility of being beautiful work.
How and why is art used as a vehicle for communication?
As people say, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” That is true, when people look at an image, they have all these words going through their minds. All the different questions, all the details they notice, everything in the picture. People can look at a picture and understand what the artist is trying to get across right away, whereas if they are just saying it, they might need to use more words to explain it
Stop Motion Mini Project
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This stop motion mini project will help me with a documentary that I am working on in Physics. With this new skill I will be able to take time lapse pictures of nature for the documentary. I could also make a stop motion to show how something works. I could possibly do a drawing for the documentary showing how rainwater harvesting works since our question is about harvesting rainwater.
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Design a Logo Project
Final Product and templates
Different Versions
Preliminary Sketch Project Reflection
After this project I learned more about Photoshop and Illustrator and what I can create. I also learned what I believe to represent me most in a small logo. I also now know that I can take a drawing I've done and scan it and edit it digitally. I believe after this project I will continue to scan artwork that I do after the drawing is done, and I may be able to scan and put my drawings on bigger paper or canvases. My logo connects to me because the logo is my initials. The A being a wave, the M being mountains, and the S underlining the A and M. This represents me because the wave is for the beach which is my favorite place to be. The M being mountains because I also love mountains. I like to hike, climb, and more. The S, it's not very easy to tell, but it's kind of a road because I love to travel.
Self Portrait
- To what extent does a work of art depend on the artist’s point of view?
- How are the characteristics and expressive features of art and design used to create a self-portrait?
Teacher Creature
Project Reflection
For this project, I sent out a survey to get some information about my teachers to help me decide how to Photoshop them into something else. After that, using the information I was given, I got large images from the internet to start changing how my teachers looked. Then I put those images into Photoshop and made the selections I needed,refined the edges, copied and pasted the images into my project, and combined those images with my teachers faces to give them a new body. I turned Aliza, my math teacher, into a dragon, Tina, my advisor, is also a dragon (the purple one), and Jenny, my Spanish teacher, into a dolphin. Then I added horns to all three of my teachers and wings to Tina and Jenny. My background is half outer space on top and half clouds on the bottom. I used these two images as my background because in my survey I got the information that my teachers wanted to live in the clouds or outer space. I placed them in a certain spot according to where they said they would want to live. Jenny and Tina wanted to be in the clouds while Aliza wanted to be in outer space. The last thing I did was sign my work in the outer space part of the project with a color and font that fit into the picture. The hardest part of this project was trying to refine the teachers faces and size them to fit them to their new bodies. I persevered through this problem with trial and error until I thought the faces looked good on the bodies. Through doing this project I have learned that if you persevere and refine your work you can make good artwork. Before this class i had never used Photoshop before and I believe I have learned a lot in this class and will continue to strengthen my skills. I believe that the outer space background is influenced by all the outer space decorated things now a days. I also do not know quite yet what my style is as an artist.
For this project, I sent out a survey to get some information about my teachers to help me decide how to Photoshop them into something else. After that, using the information I was given, I got large images from the internet to start changing how my teachers looked. Then I put those images into Photoshop and made the selections I needed,refined the edges, copied and pasted the images into my project, and combined those images with my teachers faces to give them a new body. I turned Aliza, my math teacher, into a dragon, Tina, my advisor, is also a dragon (the purple one), and Jenny, my Spanish teacher, into a dolphin. Then I added horns to all three of my teachers and wings to Tina and Jenny. My background is half outer space on top and half clouds on the bottom. I used these two images as my background because in my survey I got the information that my teachers wanted to live in the clouds or outer space. I placed them in a certain spot according to where they said they would want to live. Jenny and Tina wanted to be in the clouds while Aliza wanted to be in outer space. The last thing I did was sign my work in the outer space part of the project with a color and font that fit into the picture. The hardest part of this project was trying to refine the teachers faces and size them to fit them to their new bodies. I persevered through this problem with trial and error until I thought the faces looked good on the bodies. Through doing this project I have learned that if you persevere and refine your work you can make good artwork. Before this class i had never used Photoshop before and I believe I have learned a lot in this class and will continue to strengthen my skills. I believe that the outer space background is influenced by all the outer space decorated things now a days. I also do not know quite yet what my style is as an artist.
Helpful Resources:
- Photoshop CC Basics: http://jetsetcom.net/useful-resources/photoshop-cc-resources.html
- SHOW and TELL Photoshop Basics: http://simplephotoshop.com/photoshop_tools/index.htm
Photoshop Landscape
Photoshop Reflection
In this project we learned how to Photoshop a landscape. We learned how to use scale and proportion to make a landscape look realistic. We also learned what foreground, middle ground, and background are. Foreground is where objects are large, colorful, have high contrast, crisp texture, and a lot of details. Middle ground is where objects are less vibrant, they have softer details, they are mid-size, and smaller details are lost. Background is where objects blur together, individual objects become one, colors blend, there is low contrast, and there is a "haze". Tools in photo shop that are the most helpful are the quick selection tool, free transform, move tool, and the refine edge tool.
Photoshop Tutorials
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Original Image (before) Photoshop Image (after)
-I put a picture of cracked glass over the face and used the eraser to get rid of the cracks in her hair.
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Original Image (before) Photoshop Image (after)
-I used the pen tool to trace the eye and the used control u to change the hue of the eye.
-I used the pen tool to trace the eye and the used control u to change the hue of the eye.
Original Image (before)
-I did the same thing as before for the face and eyes and then used the brush tool to color her hair. |
Photoshop Image (after)
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