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Copy of 2nd Semester AP Exam Final Reflection

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Copy of 2nd Semester AP Exam Final Reflection

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Copy of 2nd Semester AP Exam Final Reflection

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Copy of 2nd Semester AP Exam Final Reflection

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For this piece I wanted to represent acceptance once again. The landscape in the background serves at a representation of healing, the bright colors in the sky show new beginnings and better days while the darker parts of the grass represents the hurt. The sun glossing over some dark parts shows the start of healing and acceptance. The face in the sky looking at the sun represents me looking at the healing and accepting its okay to heal and learn.

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Liza Hansen - Piece 4 (experiment with material)

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Liza Hansen - Piece 4 (experiment with material)

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Liza Hansen - Piece 8 ("re-do" of piece 3, don't mind orientation)

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Liza Hansen - Piece 8 ("re-do" of piece 3, don't mind orientation)

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For this piece, I really wanted to show my relationship with piano and how it helps me to relieve my anger/frustration. So for this piece I took a cut out of piano I made and a picture of a match and created this piece in photoshop. 

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For this, I wanted to show how piano has healed my relationship with music/singing. So I decided to cut up my piece number four and physically sew the pieces together to show how the broken pieces are being put back together again. I then add the hand on top of the piano and put an actual needle on the paper for the picture. Finally, for the background, I chose to use an image I took of a starry sky. I then used Photoshop to add more stars and add music notes in the sky, which all blend.

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My repeting factor is the honeycomb in the background as well as the multiple bees that surround me. I used a combination of acrylic paint and oil pastel to create the creamy texture of honey. While sweet is in the name, this piece demonstrates how i have to hold myself together to fit that standard as the rest of me drips away.

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This piece is mainly composed of oil pastel. I wanted to mimic smeared makeup by useing this softer medium. I followed golden ratio for this piece with the spiral landing near my eye. This piece represents a self of self concious with camera flashes being reflected in my glasses, representing a sense of embarrassment as the world watches.

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I wanted to lean into my comic style of sketches and did so in order to convey how my friends are represented in my mind, each drawing is a memory made with or by friends. The main figure is wearing darker clothes, and it contrasts with the energetic, colorful splats of color by her head, this is to show the light that friends bring to my life

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This piece is meant to show evolution of one piece, I edited all of the pieces I started with, and edited, copied, and adjusted each part. The piece represents how my friends are a part of me, in my memories, feelings, and decisions I make, much like ones metaphorical angel and devil on their shoulders

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Due to my skin condition, i have had stretch marks covering my body from a very young age. I have struggled for a long time to accept them but finally find them beautiful. A common nickname for stretch marks is Tiger Stripes. Additionally, Tigers are often associated with powerful, regal beauty. This is what i have learned to associate my stripes with. However, I did end up rushing a bit for this piece and later revised it.

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A Tiger Can't Change Its Stripes- Lil Wagie

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A Tiger Can't Change Its Stripes- Lil Wagie

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For this piece i wanted to captivate the viewer better. I cut out the original figure as well as the stretch marks to allow for the background to shine through. I experimented with color and texture in thr background, utilizing a tooth brush and plastic. Finally, when I thought of both my stretch marks and tigers, I thought of a regal beauty which I associate with the color gold, thus, I created a new foreground with homemade gold flakes.

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A Tiger Can't Change Its Stripes V.2 - Lil Wagie

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A Tiger Can't Change Its Stripes V.2 - Lil Wagie

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The reason why I revised my first piece was to see my improvement with the use of watercolor, and overall, I wanted to make my piece fit with my idea of using watercolor for all of my pieces 

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Confession and Absolution- Lilly Thompson

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Confession and Absolution- Lilly Thompson

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The painting is a revision of the painting of me as a kid with my mom. I wanted to go back to this concept and apply compositional and color techniques I have developed since making that first piece. The concept is still the same , acting as a good representation of my theme because it portrays the perspective of the maternal connection between a girl and her mom, as well as the childhood and young girl lens of womanhood. I am still using strong, vibrant colors to depict the loving connection that is unique to a mother/daughter relationship. I am copying my own reference picture like I did in the first one, and I will be using a monochromatic color scheme because the picture was originally in black and white and I like how that highlights the contrast in values.

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The subject matter for my compositional piece is about one of the unfortunate realities of growing up and maturing into womanhood: infertility. Infertility affects women of all ages and although it doesn’t affect me specifically, I wanted to portray the intense emotion associated with this problem. I wanted the theme of infertility to be well incorporated into the the mind of the figure and I landed on reflection, which I think best depicts the deeply personal and intimate nature of this sadness. Although the emotions being portrayed are sadness and disappointment, I still wanted to use vibrant colors to bring the intensity of the moment to life, and I wanted the reflection in the eye to contrast with the colors and values of the skin. I attempted to incorporate dynamic symmetry with and abisc, leading the viewer’s eye to the center of the iris and the pregnancy test in the middle. 

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Maddie S. - In the Eye of Disappointment

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Maddie S. - In the Eye of Disappointment

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This painting is about embracing the natural state of femininity and nit viewing body hair as something disgusting that is involved with maturity, but rather beautiful and natural growth. Similar to my commentary on menstruation with my oil painting, my goal with this piece and how it relates to my sustained investigation is the breaking of stigma regarding body hair and not only the start of puberty but all throughout the stages of womanhood. I wanted to take the things like leg and armpit hair and emphasize their natural occurrence by placing the figure in a whimsical river with exaggerated warm light and flowers.

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“Over the rainbow” - revision of piece 4

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“Over the rainbow” - revision of piece 4

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Representing acceptance, this photo is from a time of healing after the passing of my friend. The tree of life beside me and rooting into my hair and skin is to represent and sybolize growth, acceptance, and healing. The final stage of grief

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Depression, during loss how your heart feels so much heavier than your mind. The heart is heavy, pulling the brain up to the clouds, representing  brain fog because of the pain. The single eye on the top of the scale represents how when it comes to pain I am able to focus on one, not both at the same time. Either what my brain thinks and wants or what my heart does. 

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my SI has been narrowed and now i am very focused on drawing pieces of how my friends affect my environments. in this piece i focused on lighting and symbolism. using the dice used in games to show high scores paralleling how i am feeling. i also emphasized on the lighting and how i am basking in the light when around my friends, the world behind me seems to e fading back, with is a continues idea i have used in my other pieces.

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My symbolism piece is supposed to show that in life sometimes we have to take the hardest path to attain our goal a lot better and this is shown in my piece through the cross roads having three paths, two (paths easy, clear and looks safe), are better and will take you to you goal, but it will take longer and be more work to get to your goal. While the middle path is the most dangerous, it is the shortest one to get you to your goal.  Alos the shadow or black construction paper cutouts are supposed to represent the paths the character has, could and will take in their journey to the  docs.Overall, my piece is supposed to show that in life, in order to obtain something, you need to take risks and work hard, because hard work will lead to success more often than taking the easy route will. Overall I wanted this piece to represent how I took the scary path, benign going on a plane to a different country, in order to get and achieve my goal of seeing the world before I no longer have time to see it.

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For this piece I really wanted to capture that red, blinking light from the cell tower in the distance. That light is significant to me because when I was younger and would stare out at the field at night, that was all I was able to see. It would be pitch black but I had that blinking light, however because it was so ominous, it did give the whole thing an unsettling vibe.

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For this piece, I took a more positive route. I wanted to demonstrate my connection to my parents. My family and I often use the saying ¨I love you to the moon and back¨ which is the inspiration for this piece. I am the moon and my parents are my stars, the people who light up my world and watch over me. My material element was puffy paints. I used these paints to add texture to my piece. The thought process behind this is that I didn't want the viewer to just see my connection to my parents, but also feel our connection if they were to run their hands over the piece, almost like braille.

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My idea for my project or sustained investigation was to show the journey of a person who is leaving a world he knows and is going out into an unknown world he knows nothing about to explore and find a place where he belongs. My sixth piece is taking place before my sixth piece where my main character meets his soon  companion the dog and they both continue forth and they are now walking throughout the city to the docs in order to get a boat to pass the lake ( that we see in piece 5) this scene takes place when they are still walking throughout the city, and soon they pass by a building where they stop and observe the nature that has taken over the building from the giant tree sprouting from the middle of the building, the giant towering gras, the giant squirrel though the opiced, the long vines trenching all over the building and the giant horned giraffe and then they continue walking undisturbed by what they see.. The idea that I had for this piece was to show that having a friend or a companion with you on a journey in a new place can make the experience less scary and more enjoyable. I wanted this to represent how, during my trips, I started to enjoy them after joining a group, how the fear I had about being somewhere new disappeared, and how I enjoyed the rest of the trip without a worry in the world about where I was.

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For this piece, I used parts of different music sheets, which I cut up and stained with coffee.

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This piece shows a little girl playing the piano. The little girl/child symbolized purity (which relates to the sound of the piano) and new beginnings. I also used the repetition of flowers to symbolize growth/new beginnings. Lastly, I tried my best to contrast the piano and the background.

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this piece is meant to represent the experience of sharing dreams and long term goals with close friends. i used nostalgic fabrics to give the setting a dream-like look, and utilized the scale of the moon to make the dreams more grand. this is all meant to romanticize the future and how that shared outlook will effect everything.

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This piece represents the uncanny feel that the fields at my grandparent's house brought me. Along with the eerie feeling it represents my childhood and the sickening nostalgia it brings me knowing I can't go back to being a little kid playing in those fields again. To sum it up, this photo represents the "death of my childhood" and how I'm left with this reminder that makes me replay all those strange memories from when I was little. - this was what was put in the scholastic submission

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My idea for my project or sustained investigation was to show the journey of a person who is leaving a world he knows and is going out into an unknown world he knows nothing about to explore and find a place where he belongs. My fifth piece is later down in the timeline of the piece, but in this scene it shows our character with with their new complain ( the not so very detailed dog on the boat ) taking a boat across a giant lake during the night where they are now observing and are in awe with the jain flying jellyfish flying in and around the northern lights ( the background). The idea i had for this piece was to own have the jellyfish in in different parts of my piece since the theme for this piece was to have reception so i used the jellyfish as my repetative element and second I wanted this piece to show that when exploring a new place or going someplace new you are going to see and experience sights that you have never seen before and they are going to be amazing and make you say that I am happy to be where I am now. Overall, I wanted this piece to represent myself when I started to slow down, relax, and admire the beauty and awe of the site I saw during my trip on the other side of the world, and how I started to enjoy where I was at the moment, and not be as homesick. 

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Repetition to show beauty and awe in seeing and experiencing something new - Cole Sullivan

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Repetition to show beauty and awe in seeing and experiencing something new - Cole Sullivan

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The concept for this painting is plastic surgery and how women are made to feel insecure and chase a level of unnatural beauty only attainable by cosmetic surgery. I think the frequent normalizing of plastic surgery pushes unrealistic standards for women and I wanted to show that in the tormented and troubled expression in my face. I am trying to incorporate some harsher angles in the composition of the piece like the sinister diagonal in order to convey uneasiness which I was pushing by using different shapes, sizes, and placements of the scars.

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Maddie S. - Fix My Face - material exploration

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Maddie S. - Fix My Face - material exploration

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The concept for this painting is feeling objectified and under a watchful eye. It follows the theme of maturity and as you grow up you are more observed and over-sexualized, and how girls are told to just deal with the wandering eyes or to cover up more to subvert attention. This painting shows the feeling of being overwhelmed by objectification and feeling very vulnerable and exposed because of this objectification. 

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I used to draw Jesus on the bathroom tiles before going to sleep.

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the meaning of this piece is the idea of sharing goals and dreams with your friends. i used fabrics that were nastolgic to me to emphasize the child-like wonder and frolic that comes with imagining a future with people you love. it creates a sense of possibility and romanticizes that.

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Representing bargaining, how i negotiated with myself day after day trying to make up a new outcome and ignore the truth. The blue in this painting adds the ache that comes with loss which is pushed down or in the background as a person in the bargaining stage tries to create a different outcome. The different medias in each face is representing the what ifs (top face), making deals with God (second face), self blame (third face), and praying for a different reality (last face). These are all represented in the faces by the colors used, the media, and how dark or light the saturation is in the face. 

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Copy of Revised Guided Peer Review Worksheet/Reflection

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-Blue yellow and light green to create lighting and shadows which creates a really nice depth that conects all the charecters                                                           - They used a rule of thirds with the leaves in the fore grouned to create an illusion of movement                                                                                                      -Frieren is the focal point and it leads the piece really well. makes you follow the charecters into the back of the piece

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Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair 1940

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This piece represents anger to me because of how anger is like a flame, once its ignited it's hard to stomp it out. It continues to grow and creep up my body until i'm engulfed in it. My face represents the pain that anger brings, the tears represent not knowing, unfairness, and pain that is caused by death.

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My idea for my project or sustain investigation was to show  journey of a person who is leaving a world he knows and is going out into an unknown world he knows nothing about to explore and find a place that he belongs. My fourth piece now shows our character after looting heading into a giant abandoned city to see a relic of the old world, where humanity both prospered and died out. The idea i had for this was to show when exploring approaching your first stop in some place new how it can be both interesting and mysterious ( seen with the giant birds and the abandoned cars leaving the city), and also a sense of intimidation, with the height and sky dominations buildings and the overgrown areas around it. Overall to me I wanted the piece to represent the mixed emotions that a person can have when they see something new and mesmerizing vs a feeling of suspension and . Overall I wanted to reflect how i felt when I first my group was slowly coming upon our first stop, seeing and ancient monument of greece, the pantheon, and i wanted to reflect the feeling of amazement,a dn hestiancance i had when i was coming upon a interesting site, and i believe I have done that somewhat well with my paintings. Made the wrong piece, peice number 4 will number 6

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Cole Sullivan - (place holder for peice #4)

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Cole Sullivan - (place holder for peice #4)