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.