self portrait

So far of all of the projects I would have to say this one was my favorite. Instead off all the technical concrete rules this project gave us a chance to be a little more creative and artsy it allowed us to just have fun by being able to portray ourselves in whatever way we wanted. In all 8 of my portraits I carried out a constant color scheme of blues, greens,black and I pulled in copper. I really enjoyed making the stand for these to sit on because I got to learn something new. I had never worked with wood before and was oblivious to anything that even related to wood. I went to Lowe's home improvement with a sketch in my hand and explained to the guy what I was making and what I thought I needed he was very helpful, and he made my experience more enjoyable, I thought it would be very hard and what not but, for me personally nailing wood together or putting clamps on is a lot easier than trying to glue some matte board or foam board together.

Shading

Shading tends to be very difficult for me because I've never really been taught how to, I had ever even heard of shading by doing crazy lines for shading before the only thing I've ever kind of done was shading by smudging which I find to be the easiest

pre-metamorphosis sketches

These are some sketches I did before the meta-morpho-sis project, I believe I used 2 ideas that I had from this sheet but, probably should have made more to get better ideas because I was not happy with the results. This was the least favorite project I have done so far, I just wasn't really getting ideas

metamorphosis

In this metamorphosis project I morphed from Kevin Lahti's creation (Below) to Keith Burns Flower (above). It was pretty difficult I must say, going from a pointy triangle figure to a flower that held an egg, two different objects with two different purposes combinding together was quite a challenge and a bit of a struggle for me.In Kevin's I tried to focus mainly on the triangles that he used while making something slightly different to show that the morphing started from his, then I went and did the middle one (above) and it was a mixture of both the bottom pieces representing the things coming out of Keith's flower and then the strong structural lines and edges for the base that were influenced by Kevin's design. As I moved on a morphed more into Keith's flower I made more of a flower shaped top to emphasize and focus the flower that he made and added a little touch again of the strong structure that held up the triangles of Kevin's

parasailing

These are my 3 different tries at making my project complete, and my projects along the way. The most difficult was trying to glue the pieces of plastic together along the way before I knew what do to I probably bought 10 different types of glue, all saying that they would work on " most " plastics but, not one worked, I got frustrated and gave up on using the plastic so, I thought about it and with the help of Tommy got a slightly different idea and made it out of paper and matte board. This was suppose to appear like you were being embodied in the great carribean ocean with all the beautiful colors, that is what I remebered most about my memory so I tried to emphazise on the diffrent shades of blues and greens I saw while Parasailing over the Bahamas.

My Zine on buildings and stuctures:
images were borrowed from Architectural Digest July 2001
- pgs. 71,74,76,77,113 & 142
Other images were borrowed from Architectural Digest May 2001
-pg.133
I enjoyed this project but, wish I had more time to perfect it and use in-design to make it look more neat.