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How did you use your own unique ideas in your work? I decided to create something using a load of different bunch of materials and thought of ideas that would work best together.

Did you use a source for inspiration, then combine it with your own ideas to make it original?

I used my knowledge of multi-medium pieces to help myself compile an idea and use that to complete my project. 

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What is this artwork intended to say? It's suppose to show who I am through a reflection of a mirror and show what I love by having art materials and different materials make up the whole piece.

How is this artwork about who you are or what you like? It shows that I love art and that I love different types of mediums and materials that you can use to create all sorts of pieces. It's also a reflection so it shows my outside appearance as well and what I look like.

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Did you try something that you weren't sure about as part of this project? Yes, I mixed a bunch of different types of styles and colors into this piece, hoping to find a middle ground that reflects everything.

Did you pick a material or technique that was new or different over something that was familiar?I picked a bunch of familiar materials and used them in unfamiliar ways, hoping to get creative and create something visually pleasing and thought provoking.

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When did you step back and analyze you work during this project? Every time I added something new I analyzed my piece to make sure it was turning out how I wanted it to. If it was I continued on piecing together my project bit by bit changing my idea along the way.

Did you consider how ideas would work before you tried them? Yes, and no. I like experimenting and especially with this type of piece I wanted to take things step by step and see where they ended up. So I had some sort of idea of what I wanted I just tried everything until I found my happy medium.

Origami Project~

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How did you use your own unique ideas in your work? I used my own ideas in this piece by creating a uniquely shaped box heart and painting and adding things you don't think would work together but they seemed right to me.
Did you use a source for inspiration, then combine it with your own ideas to make it original? I got my own inspiration from pondering on how hearts worked. Then I thought that maybe I could make a heart that pumps diesel instead of blood and worked using gears. 

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What is this artwork intended to say? My art is intended to say that most things are not what they seem because the gears are sewn inside the heart and that life leaves you broken and scarred (hence the scar shaped paper running up and down the sides) but you can handle it.

What issues are you examining through your artwork? I think the paint consistency isn't the best but I think it adds to the roughness look :o

How is this artwork about who you are or what you like? It shows my love for how things work or how they seem and takes them into a new thought process.  It also shows how I was able to use many different and fun materials and shapes together in one piece which I find in itself is an accomplishment.

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Did you learn new techniques or processes as part of the work for this project? I learned new techniques on this origami piece by making a 3D shape out of cardboard, which is something I'd never actually done. I also learned how to use paper and paint is a way that blends well across the piece.

Did you gain skill with familiar materials? Yes, I'd used paper before but I enhanced my skills by creating them into new shapes and using them in different ways instead of as the plain old canvas, they're normally used for.

Vessel Project~

Questions

Did you try something that you weren't sure about as part of this project?  Yes, I tried to created my elephants ears around the body making sure it would slide out so that the opening of my vessel would be locked and secure. Sadly, it shrank in the kiln and the ears do not work as they intended to, but hopefully I can apply this knowledge to my future projects~

Did you pick a material or technique that was new or different over something that was familiar? I picked a material that I felt was familiar to me, because I remember I love working with clay, but I hadn't used it in such a long time that It was like a whole new material. I'm glad I got to work with it again and became a little less rusty.

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How did you use your own unique ideas in your work? I tried to create something I didn't think I'd ever seen before, which was making an elephant into a sleek shaped kettle, and I just tried to imagine what kinds of things I could add to it to make it even more interesting.

Did you use a source for inspiration, then combine it with your own ideas to make it original? After I finishing sculpting my piece and had it fired I realized it I could make it fun by taking some inspiration from the elephants in Dumbo because it would be much more interesting than having a plain old elephant. i would get to create the lil hat and frills and add extra colors and shades.

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When did you step back and analyze you work during this project? Yes, I tried my best to monitor the progress of my piece and make sure it was coming along how I wanted it. It actually did most times except when the top shrank in the kiln, which I suppose couldn't be helped u x u"

Did you consider how ideas would work before you tried them? Yes I, carefully planned the design of my elephant before forming it because I had a specific idea about how I wanted it to look and made sure my ideas matched my vision.

Visiting Artist~

Bryant Holsenbeck is an environmental artist who uses trash that would otherwise have been thrown out to create artworks that people can come to enjoy.I'm hoping to be able to learn how to reuse unwanted materials to create lively pieces that will reduce the waste that concentrates into a eye pleasing.I think the project will be very helpful and thought provoking, but I probably wouldn't get better until a couple tries and pieces 

I plan to create a colorful frog for the project~

After~
It was as fun and a great learning experience.
I had a hard time deciding the color for my frog, but tat was really the only struggle I had.
I think the shape of the frog was successful, being able to create the legs and form the body helped alot with the filling and wrapping~

Book Carving

I wanted my book carving to have meaning and show many different emotions in one piece. I thought that although it was important to have a very clear idea of what you wanted to do, you cannot plan everything because then there would be no emotion in the art whatsoever. I realized as I was cutting that my design was extremely intricate and I also realized the book was a little too thick, which caused some problems. In order to overcome these problems I adjusted my design slightly to make it simpler and then I added more things to be cut in my design to help get deeper into the book. I wanted my design to be symbolic in a variety of different ways. First the eagle carrying a watch is mean to represent American life draining the time we want to spend on ourselves and the eagle chasing after the butterflies shows how life hunts down the free-spirited people who are still trying to chase their dreams and forces them into the reality. Yes, I used acrylic paint which would cover the words and I wasn't sure if I wanted to take that much of the book away but I watered some of it down so that it is visible and I also created minuscule figures of butterflies which were terrible to cut out. I feel this project was overall successful because I'd never worked with books before and my designs were trickier than they needed to be.

Amusement

For our amusement project I decided to create a world of dream and fantasy, since many find comfort and amusement in world of myth and wonder. I incorporated variety in my piece by adding multiple characters both good and bad and then created an atmosphere that shaped their personality. I wanted soft materials and dark rigid shapes as well as smooth light colors. In my piece I used a little bit of everything from watercolor to fabric and colored pencils. At first I was confused on how to put this all together, but I knew I wanted there to be a splice of everything in it. In order to make it work I had to spread the different mediums all over the page to get everything to blend smoothly. Our time spend on our visual journal gave us a chance to be creative and test out new materials as well as help us to decide which ones we liked best. I found out that gluing things on top of fabric comes off easily. Some challenges I faced are determining where to place certain mediums and how to mix specific themes together in a way that makes them belong.

Non Traditional Portrait

After deep consideration and thought I chose myself, because even though I have many people that I love I wanted others to see me in a different way.I spent an eternity, digging through the depths of my brain, trying to uncover the things that make me who I am. When I had found a sufficient supply of ideas, I began to eliminate them by efficiency and methodically. Finally, I came across 3 ideas 2 of which seemed impossible. The third was excruciatingly time consuming, but I had found it to be the one with most rewards. I had decided on compiling my piece with the medium of...The Apex High School Marching Band. This material proved to be difficult, but in the end it helped to show how much of an impact marching band has made on me in the past two years. I feel it is important to create the person you chose out of something that defines them, because it helps you to see their personality as well as their looks. I took a risk when I chose the difficult medium of The Marching Band. I had to draw the layout and place everyone, while finding a time for them to all meet me, and didn't interfere with practice. My choices made the picture feel personal. I used the band that I'm in and the field that we practice on, which made the photo special to me.