I would consider my pop art project to be my most successful of the year. Through this project, I developed my craft by delving into a deeper understand of the juxtaposition of various colors and what makes each color work. I was able to obtain a more vast comprehension of line quality through the working with various brush strokes. The tools that were essential to the success of this project was paint, a brush, creativity, and and understanding of color combinations and how each color works with one another. I felt that the roundness of the binoculars gave off a relaxed state, which is why I chose to primarily work with cooler colors, and a relaxed state is what I wanted my project to express. I also worked with rounded brush stroked to give a sense of depth and 3-dimensional figurative shape.
Which project was the most challenging? Look at your brainstorming or original intentions for this project. How does the final work(s) resemble your preliminary sketches or plans? What changed? Why did you make the changes that you did? What problems emerged in the creation of this project? How did you solve the problems?
I found the plaster sculptures to be the most difficult because my original intentions for the project proved too hard to sculpt, so I was forced to create another figure from scratch. This figure resembled my original figure, but was altered in certain areas. I found my end result to be much bulkier than my original intentions with much more area to create a lerger sense of directional movement. I made the changes that I did because my original clay scultpure proved to be too difficult tto sculpt in such a limited amount of time, but I fixed those by creating a figure that resembled that of the original with stronger line quality and directional movement.
Please discuss three new strengths you've discovered or deepened this year. One formal strength (your ability to work with things like composition, balance, rhythm et cetera), one technical or media-specific strength (working in a specific medium or honing a specific skill) and one conceptual strength (your idea development in the specific project).
Three new strengths that I have developed over the year was the conceptualization of figures, the representation of line quality, and the juxtaposition of certain colors with one another. One formal strength that I have developed over the year, was balance. Working with Ms. Seal gave me a much deeper understanding of balance, which I have learned to incorporate into my works such as painting, drawing, photography, etc. One technical strength that I have formed over the course of this year, was working with nature in photography. I have recently been able to work in natural environments and have found it to be intriguing, making for very interesting pictures. And finally, one conceptual strength I have developed was the ability to visualize what areas of my project need to be strengthened, and what each area of a project represents and how it does so.