Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Semester Reflection

 Reflection 

    As a broad reflection I would say I really enjoyed this class. Although I found the outlines for projects could be a little vague at times, I appreciated the freedom it gave me to just create. None of the materials I used were out of my comfort zone so I wouldn't say that aspect of the class was very challenging, I loved painting with acrylics and collaging the pieces onto other pieces. Maybe I could have made more of an effort there to push myself out of my box, but overall though I was relatively happy with my works for the class. The most trouble the materials gave me was that my paper kept warping, so I just got thicker paper meant for paint. The biggest thing I got from the class was learning how to better use themes in my work and making sure my themes are ones that an audience can read as well. I think the cold reads really helped with that as it gave others the opportunity to tell you what they thought of my work without me having to explain everything. I learned a lot and I'll be sure to take what I've learned from the course into future courses. 

Thursday, October 23, 2025

Project 2 - Tonal Portraits (Hue & Meaning)

 

Final Product 

Three Thumbnail Studies 


Artist Statement
For this project I was given Cienna as a subject. The color for the piece was a difficult one to pick out, but ultimately I settled on a wine red color. Red is a color for passion, strength, and more specifically wine red can be shown as a sign of luxury. I thought this color would be fitting as Cienna always has a lot of gold jewelry on, which typically would make one think of luxury. In addition to the color, I added cheetah print and hibiscus flowers to the piece. Both of these elements I pulled from her instagram, as she can be seen wearing leopard print on multiple occasions and seems to love going to the beach hence the tropical flower. To further add to the underlying beach vibe, I added hot glue dots around the piece to mimic water to give a hint at the ocean. My goal with the piece was to ger across Cienna’s chill and go with the flow energy. 




Semester Reflection

 Reflection       As a broad reflection I would say I really enjoyed this class. Although I found the outlines for projects could be a littl...