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SI Question: My artwork uses flowers as a metaphor to explore the concept of taking advantage of life and not wasting opportunities.

Strengths:

photos of flowers!! take more and look for photos of wilted/ seeds growing/ plant shops/ nurseries/ leaves on ground/ empty flower beds

contour line drawing skills - keep pushing line weight - can you use odd materials for line? string? vine?

color - can you code warm and cool colors to represent waste and taking advantage (cool tones with wilting - wasting VS. warm tones with blooming - taking advantage)

Materials/Processes:

flowers, fake flowers, petals, leaves, stems, soil, pots, vases, seeds, garden beds, seed packets

can you paint on a leaf/ seed packet/ pot.. what if a painting on a pot is then broken into shards (take a before and after photo and submit side by side)

can you grow seeds in wet paper towels?

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Overall Score: 3 :(

My artwork explores the idea of taking advantage of opportunities while they last. I used floral imagery to represent lost or seized moments, calling on color saturation and the flower’s life cycle as metaphors (1-6,11,15). I investigated how to convey the message of taking advantage of life by altering and reassembling these images (2, 3, 10-15). In my exploration I looked at the tension between thriving and disintegrating states (1, 4-7, 11). My focus shifted to explore abundance and expansion through radiating and repeated images (2, 3, 8, 12-15).

I experimented with blending, layering, saturating and contrasting elements to show seizing vs. wasting opportunities (1, 3, 4). I practiced using warm and cool colors to represent bloom vs. withering. (1, 4, 6, 8) I included parts of the main flower, and manipulated some parts to create the effect of withering/disintegrating. (2, 3, 13) I experimented w/material such as lawn, soil, flowers, leaves and left scatters as a disintegration symbol. (2, 5, 7, 10). I revised my work to contrast between two states. (1, 5, 7, 9, 12).

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Flower gradually shrinking and fading away—when the moral is not being followed

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Omg I think this turned out brilliant even though I rushed

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I don’t know how I'll follow the societal theme with this one

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Complete drawing and one half with a different saturation which represents advantage vs waste

Pixlr (for contrast), Prismacolor Colored Pencils, Drawing Pencil

Drew the main flower w/ colored pencils and added a contrasting filter (bloom vs. wilt)

3.86, 5.29

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Help I don't want to be suspicious of plagiarism

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https://youtu.be/iMLCveoaSBA Unconventional Flower Painting: 7 Different Acrylic Pouring Techniques ~ Fluid Art Compilation

A transition from taking advantage (warm), abundant vs wasted opportunities (cool)

Pixlr (Effects and Design)

Created marks with digital paint, used tools to distort the shapes and contrast with background

Digital drawing inspired by fluid pouring by Fiona Cajkovska

5.29, 5.29

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Create disintegration on a once in-full-bloom flower to show wasted opportunity

Petals floating away to represent wasted opportunities

Pixlr, Prismacolor Colored Pencils, Drawing Pencil

Outline, colored, upload, final effects (draw the main flower and create dissolving effects)

5.82, 4.88

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Pixlr (contrast), Prismacolor Colored Pencils, Drawing Pencil (For drawing and creating effects)

Drew main flower, created contrasting color schemes and effects (seizing vs. missed opportunities)

5.36, 5.29

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Flower Photo (duplicated to create abundance), Pixlr (to make the edits - brush strokes)

Duplicated flower to created abundance, then used the brush tools to create lawn and soil contrast

5.29, 5.29

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Drawing Pencil, Prismacolor, Pixlr (Effects)

Drew the main vibrant flower and used tools to create molten leaves underneath to represent wilt

4.54, 5.21

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Fake flowers, paint, Pixlr, gel roller

Prints with fake flowers, paint, and roller, final effects in photoshop

6.8, 5.11

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Drawing Pencil, Krita, Pixlr

Drew main flower. Duplicated and created colored rising swirls (taking advantage)

7.76, 5.29

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Maybe I will create unusual color schemes?

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Acrylic Pouring String Pull Abstract Floral Painting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=758gmyYliy8

Paint (Life, Vibrance), string, dead leaves (wasted opportunities), Pixlr

Print pattern with string and paint, glued leaves, final edits/effects (advantage vs. missed)

6.6, 4.91

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Drew complete and incomplete flowers and cut apart to represent wasted opportunities

Pixlr, Prismacolor Colored Pencils, Drawing Pencil

Put incomplete vs complete drawing side by side to represent contrast

10.2, 10.6

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Layered and separated fragments to show lost opportunity on bed of grass representing potential

Sketch (Drawing and Prismacolor Colored Pencil), Grass (significant background) Pixlr (duplication)

Outline, colored, upload, final effects, spread grass, tore up the piece to create shards effect

7.29, 5.92

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To represent taking advantage of life, included a glowing & colorful radial effect, expanding flower

Drawing Pencil, Oil Pastels, Pixlr

Drew the main flower, created many outlines and hypersaturated (taking advantage)

4.42, 3.97

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Help I don't want to be suspicious of plagiarism

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https://youtu.be/iMLCveoaSBA Unconventional Flower Painting: 7 Different Acrylic Pouring Techniques ~ Fluid Art Compilation

Created marks with digital paint, created a bleeding effect with background

(Digital drawing inspired by fluid pouring by Fiona Cajkovska)

5.29, 5.29

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Pixlr, Prismacolor Colored Pencils, Drawing Pencil (For drawing and creating effects)

Drew two individual flower species and stacked them on top of each other (giving back)

10.4, 10.4

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Krita, Pixlr, Drawing Pencil (For drawing and creating effects)

Drew 2 flower species & connected, repeated & saturated them to represent giving back

7.02, 5.5

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Decided to add a black silhouette with software for contrast

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I am skeptical about the simplicity in this one

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Really running out of ideas

Implementing the part of "giving back"?

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https://youtu.be/KsivUvnC5k4

Abstract Flower (Inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe) Watercolor Painting by Sarah Cray of Let's Make Art