Fortune Cookie Assignment

Each student in my class chose a few random fortune cookies from a bag. The majority of the fortunes I chose had to do with success. I wanted to add the words on the back of the fortunes and how to say them in Chinese, so the base of my piece is all the words in English that were on the fortunes. The whole point of the messy work that I did underneath was so show that no matter how messy anything gets, you can still be successful. I also put the words in different areas and in different ways to symbolize how no matter how messed up or how scrambled something is, you can always pick yourself back up. The staircase is suppose to represent the steps to success. I really had a hard time with this project at first, but the more I did to it, the more it came together. 

Art x 3

The assignment that we had was to create a collage based on celebrities. Not only was that a challenge, but a twist was thrown it. Each student had two days to start a collage, then it was passed on to another person. After that, each student had two days to continue an already started collage, then we switched one last time. The collage I started with looked really great and within the first two days I became attracted and didn't want to let it go. After that, I saved some of the ideas that I had for my final piece. The last collage that I had that is now my final piece was the sample that my teacher was doing, that didn't have much to do with celebrities so I had to make it my own. More into the celebrity theme, I think that being a celebrity is about money. Being someone who is famous and well known, you are always around people with money and you may even have a lot of money yourself. Some celebrities are actors, actresses, or musicians, but some people just become famous for random reasons and they instantly have the fame and fortune that not many people have. Another thing that makes you a celebrity is the paparazzi and the names and stories that come out about you. Whether it's good or bad, you become more recognized and make a name for yourself. A lot of people look up to celebrities, thinking that they are perfect when they really are just normal people, which is symbolized at the top middle of my collage with the words and money signs around it. It is also symbolized with the words underneath the faces in the middle to the left. I had a good experience with this project and I enjoyed the creativeness of switching papers every few days. It taught me that I can make something into my own even if I don't have any idea what I'm starting with. I think my collage came out nice and was very good and symbolizing what I think a celebrity is like.

Pop Print

One of my favorite things we've done this year was the pop print. My class was instructed to pick an object that we would like to trace onto a stamp. The first object I chose was from our collection of blue things. I drew and transferred the picture of the now onto a stamp and cut it out. After producing many pieces with my bow stamp, I decided to make another one. My second stamp was a sun with a ying-yang in the center, simply because at the time I was doodling suns all over my paper. After I created both the stamps and printed with each, I decided to create a few pictures with both. I loved printing with all the different colors of ink and all the different ways I could use my stamp. I mostly used layering to make my combined pictures. I chose these two pictures to be my favorite for completely opposite reasons. The first picture was one of my favorites because I like all the colors and as soon as you look at it, you are unsure what it's suppose to be. You need to look more into it to be able to see the sun and ying-yanga underwear yellow bows. I loved the way the colors worked together. The second picture was one of my favorites because you can see everything that was printed. Originally it was just the pink suns with the black bows. I knew I wanted to color in the ying-yangs and I chose the color green because I thought it was the color that was the most different from black and pink. Overall, I really enjoyed making the stamps and printing many pictures on many different ways and colors.