Final Project

I am extremely happy with the way I was able to represent inti Raymi in my final project. I created five 4x8 compositions detailing the various steps of the harvest festival. I began with the progression of people to the main festival grounds. I created the background of the mountain landscape on illustrator to show the stableness of the natural land and the unchanging quality of it. I painted the people on with gauche paint and not too much detail, rather I emphasized specific characteristics of the Indigenous people as whole. I added further to this theme by not putting a face on each person. This helped take away the individualism of each person, and put more emphasis on the ritual. My final piece was brought together by the progression of the people out of the village at the end of the day. By including a large number of children in the final piece, I am hoping to show the hopeful future and sustenance of the festival. I matted the piece on bright red horizontal matt board to emphasize the vibrancy and life of the piece, as well as helping to the viewer see the finished work a s time line of sorts and a progression from left to right. I am hoping to display this piece in my house for a while because I really love it.

Modular 10: Advanced Color Modular

I was really excited about this initial piece. I chose the option dealing with a pointillism. it seemed like a daunting task at first, but I really liked the way that the finished products came out. I found a similar project on Google images that delt with an apple and lemon still life. I was thinking about doing an apple, however, I found a picture of 4 figs which I really enjoyed. I didn't want to do it at first just because that meant that I would have to do 4 pieces vs. the one that I had originally planed, but I set my mind to it, and after a lot of dot making with markers, I am thrilled at the results. I'm actually going to hinge mat this piece and use it in my drawing class as my favorite piece of art this year. I am also going to frame it and give it to my mom for Christmas.
I am inserting the original piece from which I did my pointillism project on.

Modular 9: emotinoal Word Modular

This modular was a lot of fun for me because I was able to come up with some really inventive thumbnails. I found it a lot easier to do depict words with a darker meaning behind them ,rather than a joyful one. A few of the first ideas that I had was to do the word pain in sharp, angular letter font. Or the word ghost fading into a grayish background. I finally settled on the word trapped. At first my idea was to have the word surrounded by cobwebs to make it look like the word itself was trapped. After talking to Adrienne, however, I decided to make the word part of the cobwebs, alluding even more to the emotion of being trapped. I painted the piece in grey and then pressed in the cobwebs using an unsharpened pencil. Finally I went back over the Trapped letters in white colored pencil so that the letters would stand out more. I am very satisfied the way that the piece turned out, especially after I mounted it on the black mat board, because that only added to the overall emotion of the piece. My inspiration for the trapped emotion was a cobweb, which is why I have I have included a cobweb for my final picture in theis modular.

Modular 8: Vibration Modular

I am a very hands- on person, so I was really excited about this modualr because we were going to be able to piant and collage our projects. I chose an organic shape with a raidiating center in medium chroma blue and pink tones. I think that this piece turned out successful, especially the longer that you look at it. If I could change anything about it, I would have chosen to maybe darken the pink tone and darken the blue tone to create an even greater contrast. I think that my second composition is very succesful. I chose a hue of orange- yellow with a tint of emerald. I used the whole 5x5 square painted in orange and then whole punched emerald circles and placed them throught the project to create a grid shape. The vibrance on this piece it horrible and hurts your eyes, therefore, it is highly successful. The following picture is very simliar to the one of the hole punches I did, minus the color change.

Modular 7: Color Collage

I chose yellow. I should not have chosen yellow becuase as I was doing my yellow collage every other color in every shade was more apparent to me than yellow. I had a very hard time with the middle tones as well as the very dark tones on theis collage. I spent a great deal of time on this piece and I really belive that it paid off. Although it was challenging- my final product works very well. I Chose to make all the pieces run either horizontally or vertically. I really enjoy the way the pieces fit together, although I wonder if were to put the pieces diffrently if the overall composition would have meshed better. The hardest part about putting together this modular was the dark and light tones. I think I got a very good grasp of the medium shades- just the dark ones- especially were rather challenging. rhte following picture is the gradient I used as a refrence.

Modular 6: structure

I found this modular extreemly constructive as it really helped me analyz as well as self critique my earlier works. I decided to recreate my first modular since it was my most immature example of Adobe. Even spread really attracts me fbecause of the compleity and the emotion transmited through even pread pieces. I love Jackson pollack and decided to recreate a symetrical even spread. My first attemp I piled on too many layers, but once I went back in with the transperacy tool as well as other effects, I was able to get a clearer picture of a symetrical even spread. The hardest part about creating this cpompoition was getting everything equally symetrical. Secondly, I decided to create a diagnality piece by using my original asymeterical piece. I copied the original asymetrical work various tymes and then warped each piece so that there was a varience in angel, size as well and motion. I added a few little circles to bring in the attention to the middle three circles of diffrent sizes which created the overall effect of asymetry. To bring the piece together, I added a gradient with a smaller white circle so that the emphasis of the sharp angels comming in from the sides would be predominant. Finally I recreated my radial piece with a circular structure. I mage the background completley back and the radial piece as well as the circles surrounding it white to cause a contrastvarrrience. I really enjoyed going back over my pieces and seeing just how far I've progressed.

Modular 5: Texture Modular 10/19/07

Working on this project has helped me see just how far I have come from the day that we did the symetry/ asymetry modular. I am very happy with the results of this modular, although it was a lot of work. I started off by picking my composition as my awesome cat, Garfunkel. I ended up using a picture of Garfunkel on the day that he caught his first mouse. Since he was laying outside I was able to chose many natural elements for my textures. I went to walmart and found a piece of furry leoprd print and used that as my background cat fur. The faux fur works very well in black and white, especially with the stripes that I drew on, accenting Garfunkel's actuall coat. I also scaned a plastic highlighter to use as his tag, an earing to use as the metal for his tag, mulch as the mulch and finally I scaned string for his wiskers. The mulch turned out really well. I chose smaller pieces of the natural elemnt so that when they were scanned -the looked a bit larger and I was able to apply a texture to them inorder to help them blend into the background. The White gravel in the back was difficult and I ended up applying about 4 or 5 diffrent textures/ artistic tools, and in the end it came out sucessfull. The hardest part about this modular was Garfunkel's face. Through the use of the feather and the blending tools I was able to achieve the furryness I wanted. Most of all this project helped me see the whole page as a composition instead of focusing on just one element ie; just a cat.