Symbolic Still Life

Opposite Project

End-of-term reflection

This course had many aspects to it that I enjoyed, but there were also some challenging projects. Although the still life assignment was the most difficult project for me, it taught me the most about myself as an artist. When I first began the project I did not believe in myself and did not think that I could create a good still life. I had some trouble in the beginning with drawing the simple outline of the dice, and was not looking forward to the project. Soon I was learning new techniques on how to draw lines and shade. Throughout this project I learned to push myself and take risks in my drawing. In the end, of was extremely proud of myself for the work I had accomplished. My biggest success this term was the opposites project. I love creating collages so I really enjoyed this project. In addition, I was able to come up with what I wanted the project to represent, and then execute it. Throughout this term I learned to take risks and do artwork in areas that I had previously struggled with, helping to change myself and grow as an artist. I opened up and became more adversed in other types of art that I had not previously been familiar with.

Language Project

My project is going to consist of text from songs covering all of the pages. They will be overlapping each other and will be in different fonts and colors. I will the paste movie covers and other well know images that represent community over the text. I am choosing text because I think I can create a sense of community through words, the pictures will symbolize this as well. Also with words, you can express many different aspects of community.

5/25
After completing one draft of this project, I decided to change my idea around a little. On the first attempt, the piece looked boring and you couldn't read any of the text. I then decided that I wanted to make the paper circular because that was the shape I thought related to community. I then wanted to cut the text so that viewers would be able to read it and I wanted the text the spiral in the same circular shape as the paper. Even though I was unable to finish the project it looks much better, and more interesting than my first attempt.