This was my first ever batik! Before this project I had never heard of it before, and I love the look of them. My only complaint with them was that the colors aren't as vibrant as I had hoped, the oil from the wax has left marks, and I wish I had put some pore time into my design. Although I didn't like the design I created original art.I also developed a new skill. I learned that by using the dye, the muslin cloth absorbs the dye. Then anywhere that you but the wax, it resists the dye from soaking into the cloth in that area. I learned that you need to make sure that the wax is really hot when you are putting it on or else it won't go all the way through to both sides of the cloth. I also have a global awareness of art-making. I know that this technique is used in many different countries, and I believe it was originally from Egypt.
This pear was one of my favorite paintings of mine. I really loved the coloring and shadows that I was able to do. As a class we collaborated and helped give each other ideas. I asked for help on my background and what I should do for it. I don't like how I left the back just plain red, but it does make it different from others paintings. I took chances by not looking at the pear to much and just going off of what I thought a pear should look like; shape, colors etc. In the end I am really proud with how my piece came out because I also developed new skills to use in future artwork. Such as layering the paint and making I thicker in some areas.
This relief tile has taken me a very long time to do, and I'm still not done! I chose to do a setting on the waterfront in Italy. There is a lot of small houses and rocks and trees, which makes for a very detailed piece. I loved the idea of having three layers. One for the foreground, middle ground and the background. Cutting out the little houses and shaping everything was very difficult and tedious. But it has made for a piece that I am very proud of! I developed my art making skills by using clay like this for the first time. I had used it before to make pottery, but never to carve out a entire scene. I created original art as well. Although this wasn't a picture that I took I was able to use it to make something completely different out of it. I solved a problem during the process too. When I was first carving it, m clay was too wet, which made it really hard to get certain things the way that I wanted them to be. To solve this I put the clay in a bag that would allow more air in to dry it out a little bit.
This piece was an abstract piece. I really enjoyed it because you could let your mind and hands do what you want and it would still look like good artwork. The one on the left has a little bit of a theme to it. When I look at it, I see a underwater image, maybe at the bottom of the ocean. The dark blue is the water, and the green is some seaweed. In this piece I developed my art making skills by trying this really abstract piece. I had never tried something like this before and it was a lot of fun to experiment with it. I also communicated trough my artwork. I love the beach and the ocean so much, and this was a good reminder of the ocean in the dead of the winter. The second piece didn't come out how I wanted it to. I don't like the splatter on it, I wish I had done less splatter, and instead did more concentrated small dots around the larger splatters. I reflected on my work by looking back on it and realizing that I don't like the way that it turned out.
This was my identity piece. This was the first drawing that I'd ever tried that was realistic. These were the three largest steps that is took me to finish. I took risks while creating this piece by trying something new. I also collaborated with a friend. She helped to describe what I should change to the piece before I had finished. Although I'm not entirely sure that this piece is finished, I want to add some more features and shading to it to make it look even more realistic.