Process Photos - Collage

Process Photo 1

Completed

Cornell Box Theme One and Two

Theme One Topic: City

What will you express through your art?
Through my art, I would like to express how cities [are?] downtown. I would like to show all of the shops and buildings because even though they are not very nice looking individually, I think that they look very cool as one object.

How will you accomplish this in your piece?
I will (try) to accomplish this by using interesting colours along with the greys of the city. I might also cut srips of magazine material with scissors to make straight linesfor the buildings.

Resources Needed:
For this piece, I will need lots of magazines to make a collage background and maybe some extra paper to make some 3-D objects in the foreground.

Theme Two Topic: Nature

What will you express through your art?
I would like to express through my art a strange side of nature through the collage. Because nature is not perfect, I would rip the colours out of the magazine as opposed to cutting them as I mentioned above.

How will you accomplish this in your piece?
I would like to accomplish this in my piece by ripping as I mentioned above and by using greens, reds, oranges and blues (and a lot of white in one particular piece) because I think that those are the most natural colours.

Resources Needed:
For this piece, I would like some fishing wire and paper to make .some snowflakes out of, and a lot of magazine material for the colours. For my other idea, I could use some sand for a beach.

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Art Summative Evaluation 1

Art Summative Evaluation 1

1. Write a minimum of a paragraph explaining your interpretation of the music and lyrics. Explain how you used certain elements or principles of design to describe the selected piece of music.

My interpretation of the music and lyrics is that the song “Airplanes” is a fairly slow song so it made me slow down while I painted and think a bit more about exactly what I painted. I suppose this could have been bad and good because you usually learn from your mistakes. From slowing down I found that I only made two complete mistakes throughout the entire painting. I definitely tried to use many layers of paint because first of all, I like to paint thickly and I don’t really like thin washes of paint. But second, the slow music of the song got me into a sort of rhythm where I painted over and over and the painting got really thick.

What discoveries or techniques did you find helpful through the process?

Some techniques that I found really helpful through the process of painting my painting (?) were layering the paint a lot to make it look really thick. I especially think that this was useful because I wanted my painting to be very dark and by painting over and over, it gave the illusion of foreverness until you got to my city skyline.

Another technique (not really a technique but a tool almost) that I found useful was using painters tape to give myself crisp lines. Now that I look back, I could have use it more than on a park bench (didn’t work out) on shooting stars (also didn’t work out) and the borders (I think they look great). I could have used it to create more of a crisp walkway so that it would not get confused with and a river and maybe just to limit the space that some objects in my painting took up.

What are two skills that you learnt and what is one area that you feel you work on to improve your skills?

I feel that I improved a lot in painting straighter lines because I always find myself painting curvy. (New paintbrushes helped a lot) That isn’t really too much of an accomplishment but straight as opposed to wavy looks much more sharp. I also think that I improved at making colours to paint with. Usually when I mix colours I find I have not found the right colour but I guess just from experience I became better at gauging how much of each colour to mix.

One thing that I would like to improve on is giving my painting more texture. Usually my paintings ulook flat and this one especially (except for the dotted stars does).