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For this piece I tried to experiment with transparency which did not work well but I learned about the materials that I was using and how I can use them simulary to achieve the effects I did or in a new way to get a different look.

Making transparency : Acrylic - water it down, Tissue paper - use light colors (also cool - lay tissue paper on canvas with glue then rip off before dry), Image tape transfer - use magazines because ink is cheap and will be completely transparent, Wire - maybe make shadow boxes of sorts

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For this project, I started out by painting freely on the canvas with red and green which I thought would compliment the green black and cyan piece. Something I regret about this project is I wish I saved more of the background. I thought that layering in the textured canvas would pop more than it did. If I try doing something like this again, I would water down the acrylic paint much more so the background would show through. I layed down black tissue paper on the piece in attempt to create a dark foggy layer to also soften the background. When the paper wasn’t transparent, I was suggested to ip off the paper which created a messy torn look. I really liked the effect this gave and may want to use this technique in a future project. For my collage element, I took a book filled with pieces made by M. C. Esher, a favorite artist of mine, and wanted to make the images translucent to layer over the background. When the images did not turn out right with the translucence I was hoping for, I thought I would make the collage element a more dominant feature and this inspired me to play around with placement and how I would fit the pieces together. Sadly it turned into a bit of a mish mosh but my favorite part about making art is how a piece never needs to be finished and the ideas I anticipate to incorporate after it comes down from hanging in the hall.

I think the Initials were the strongest compositional elements. The large wire A is placed on top of a piece of collage that I traced over with red paint to make it look like a S. On the A I taped on more translucent images to fill in the letter but after I get the piece pack, I want to glue on white stripes of paper and paste scraps of green and red paper around the A. I might even cover the white on the image transfer tape with red and green sharpie. Right now the letters blend in with the background but I like how they trick the eye.

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Complete cut outs

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Final Piece

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I have played around with acrylic a few times before but had never painted on clothing before. After adding the solution to the paint, it applied to the fabric really smoothly so was easy to paint with. It was interesting thinking about placement of detail and how that would look when the garment is worn. This was interesting but challenging. When adding detail to the back, I planned on painting the pockets but instead painted around the pockets because I thought that was more unique. Since the placement is a little bit awkward, in the future, I want to add thick blue lines to wrap around the leg, top to bottom.

With and unconventionally shaped canvas, I had to adjust how I was going to consider the composition of the piece. Creating “Leg Deep” with a consistent amount of detail from bottom to top evened out the composition and flattened the design which I thought would be best for a pant leg given, when worn, the images will be slightly distorted. The views shift from the bottom of the pant leg to the top. First is underground view, ocean view, surface view, mountains, space and then there is a large candle coming out from behind the mountains to contrast the perspective. This is an abstraction of the world down to it’s core. The imagery was bold and used block shapes, filled in with minimal to no shading, they are carefully defined and I limited my color palate in order to make a coherent design that wouldn’t be too busy for my closet. Usually I use color heavily and have a larger variety but for this piece I only used 5 different paint colors including black and white.

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3 layers of music...
The song "Cold Summers" has a joyful beat but the lyrics are more somber so I chose colors that would have a heavy contrast like tho over all tone of the song. The black waves in the background resemble the guitar and how it's notes very in length and flow into each other. The figure is inspired by the lyrics. Crepes is singing about how things feel like a dream, a change of fate and, reflects on knowing this girl.

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Title: Wave on

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Medium used
1. pencil
2. marker
3. charcol

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Still life

Medium used

1. Marker
2. Acrylic
3. colored pencils
4. String
5. Cardboard
6. ink

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Ink

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Pencil

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My piece was inspired by an activity that I had done in my psychology class. The teacher asked us to take out a piece of paper and write down everything that we are conscious of. The end result would exemplify a stream of consciousness and no one’s documentation would be like anyone else's regardless of some minor sensory details. I loved the thoughts that I had written out given how well I felt it resembled how my mind bounces around. I like to make the joke that I’m like a goldfish bc of my attention span and on my sheet I had bunch of arrows pointing from one strange though that then led to another. I had been focusing on stimuli like the sound of my pencil scratching the paper and then this would lead to me contemplating weird questions like how can anyone write and listen closely to their surroundings when my pencil is so already so loud? Weird thoughts like this are what inspired the text aspect of my piece, to exploring creative thoughts from my stream of consciousness. The visuals in the piece are doodles, unplanned automatic art. Each day I would approach the piece with fresh eyes and unplanned inclination. I chose a long one so that my starting point could start at the bottom and let the doodles travel up the canvas which would allow doodles to inspire other drawings like how thoughts flow from one to the other. When making decisions based on what I would draw, I would roll with whatever idea came to mind. If I looked in the paint cabinet and my eye was drawn to a pretty pink, I wouldn’t question what I likes because whatever decisions that would be made in the moment would exemplify my thoughts and feelings in that moment. To be true to the exploration I would mindlessly make impulsive decisions based on emotion, not logic, composition, or fear of making mistakes in order to produce an expression of stream of consciousness. The end result is a mental self portrait of my personal subconscious. I feel that anyone who takes part in a similar artistic experiment will learn about themselves and their unique mental processes. It was also purely relaxing and inspired a personal series for the future.

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Medium used

1. Acrylic
2. Pen
3. Marker
4. Pencil