Do 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.
The Area before we beautified it:
Pre-Assessment
The Documentary Project
This project was very exciting and daunting in the beginning, because we didn't know what environmental issue we wanted to address in our documentary. Our team was Chloe and Sareth and we adopted her topic of the environmental benefits of local food. We set up many different interviews, although only a few of them worked out, and even fewer found their way into the documentary. But our interviewee from James Ranch and the two chefs we talked to were very insightful and helpful in providing both evidence and a bit of pathos for our documentary. We took the science part of this project more into account than the videography aspects. We didn't experiment with camera angles very much and we don't have very good audio. We ended up using a lot of footage from the internet rather than original footage. Still, I think our documentary had a lot of evidence and a positive, clear message.
The Stop Motion Video Project
In this project we took about 40-100 photos of something, or some people, moving very slowly. We were given the option of different lighting techniques, from red light to green light, with stark contrast or reflected, gentle lighting. We were also taught how to resize images in large batches, rather than one by one, how to animate them, and how to change the frames per second. The video is below.
Logo Project
In this project we were supposed to make a logo for ourselves or a company. I chose to make a design for myself, which I think definitely shows the pristine professionalism of my character. I think that I learned that anything I set my mind to, I can complete. Something that I can take with me in life from this project is that whatever I need to do I can do. I can do anything. My connection with my logo is that it represents me. My professionalism, my precision, and the simplicity that my life consists of. I am very proud of this project.
Final Logo:
Logo on Clothing:
Logo Sketches. This is the preliminary sketch of my logo.
Self-Portrait Project
This project was the final project for my first semester of Digital Arts. It was an interesting freedom, to be able to do whatever I wanted, and I think I like the end result. In this project, I used different iris's for my eyes, just so they would be in color, but the rest was just completely unsaturated. To get the right color, I used several layers on the 'Soft Light' setting, so that I could make it whatever I wanted.
Teacher Creature Project
This was the most interesting project yet. I really enjoyed messing around with the different aspects of Photoshop; you really can make anything.
Digital Arts Tutorials
This was the day that Roxy was not in class. We were given several tutorials and told to complete as many as we could. These were my results. I am most proud of the Fiona like figure, as it needed many different layers to make it look at least semi-realistic. It took maybe three hours to change it from human to ogre. The cracked face I am least pleased with, because it doesn't look at all realistic. The eye color changing project was fun, just because I could make whatever I wanted. The car was the task I found most intriguing, because it wasn't a humanoid figure.
Landscape Mini Project
In this mini project, I learned what foreground, middle ground and background are. Foreground are objects that should be large and colorful, high in contrast, have sharp shadows and have crisp texture and details. Middleground has colors that are less vibrant, softer details, the objects are mid-sized and are seen individually, and the smaller details are lost. Background however, has the objects blurred together, the individual subjects become one and the colors blend. It’s very low in contrast, except in sunsets, and is less vibrant, more of a haze.
The tools that I found most useful in this project were lasso tool, magic wand, the move tool, and free transform. Free transform helped this project by changing the scale and proportion on the certain object that I wanted to change. The difference between a PSD document and a JPEG is that a JPEG is a standard format and it isn’t connected to any specific application, while PSD saves all of the information that you have and allows you to reopen it and work on it again.
The tools that I found most useful in this project were lasso tool, magic wand, the move tool, and free transform. Free transform helped this project by changing the scale and proportion on the certain object that I wanted to change. The difference between a PSD document and a JPEG is that a JPEG is a standard format and it isn’t connected to any specific application, while PSD saves all of the information that you have and allows you to reopen it and work on it again.