This is a drawing of two hands connecting and begging to change into one another. I chose to do this for my choice project because I saw a drawing similar to this one in a lot of ways that just spoke volumes to me. As being someone who suffered from severe depression, I think that this is a really important representation of how when you're caught in the darkness all it takes is for one person to love you and show that they care for it all to start changing. This to me was someone being the light for someone else and helping them out of their darkness. I also see this as two people changing for each other. Whether we do it intentionally or not, we change in so many ways for the person we love. They become such a big part of us that we begin to see parts of them within ourselves. We become who and what we surround ourselves with. Proportion was something that was crucial in this drawing. I also had to pay really close attention to the lines and shapes of my hands when drawing this so as to make them actually look like hands. The combination of these things was something that took so long to accomplish even though they sound like such small things. The proportions of the hands was something that my grandmother actually complimented me on which means so much coming from her because I have always envied her artistic ability. While I am not as satisfied as I could be with this (because regardless of what anyone says I'm always really critical of my work), I'm actually extremely proud because I honestly didn't think that I would ever be able to create something like this.
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This is a painting of objects of my choosing. We were supposed to choose objects that represented us. I chose the turtle because sometimes I try to put out this hard exterior and act as if I'm strong and/or don't care, but really I'm extremely soft in the sense that I'm very emotional and sentimental. There's a candle on the turtles back because people have often told me I am a ray of sunshine in darkness. I always try to stay positive and shed light on a situation. Also, I have this deep passion to help people. I like to try tone their beacon of light in their time of darkness. There is an open book because I am always eager to gain knowledge and see hinge from other's perspective. In the same sense though, a book will always remain the same in its information, much as regardless of how much new information I obtain I keep my morals about me. The book also symbolizes how I am quite literally an open book. I am extremely straight forward and honest so it's never hard to read me. The vase in the background was just to help add perspective, but it's a nice vase and just as important as the other objects. I worked a lot with hues and shading in this project. It was really hard for me to use the right shades of paint to make the painting look realistic. I typically have a hard time with painting because my hands are really shaky so I can never seem to make a straight line. Please keep that in mind when evaluating this piece. Overall though, I am actually really proud of myself and the finished product because it's by far the best work I have ever done with paint. Sooo I didn't ever finish it because this was the biggest pain in my butt ever. I definitely will never pursue sculpting or carving as a career. We took these rubber type blocks and carved a design in them. Sounds simple enough but you first had to come up with the design on paper, then transfer that design onto the block (hoping you don't move so you don't totally screw it up), and then you didn't carve out what you wanted to be there but what you didn't want in there. This also may seem fairly straight forward but this was extremely different than anything else we have done because with everything else we were just focusing on the design and putting that on paper. We now had to focus on getting rid of all the excess in order for the design to show. Me being me and always somehow making my life harder on myself, I didn't choose the simplest design. This caused it to be EXTREMELY difficult to carve out, which is why I never actually got around to the printing part. I would carve my little heart out everyday in class but i still never seemed to finish. Quite frustrating actually. If I were able to finish it though, I would have been able to put paint on my block and make prints of my beautiful design. I'd say that accuracy and detail were more important in this specific project than any other project we have done yet, because once you carved something you couldn't put it back so you had to be absolutely sure about what you were taking out. This is a really cool idea in theory but I don't think that I will go out of my way to make a block print ever again. I think that the most important thing I got out of this project was that sometimes simplicity really is best. (Sorry there's no picture of my disaster-piece, but as I said earlier... It never got finished :( )
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January 2016
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