Rhythm Sculpture

Creating a rhythm sculpture was exciting. To create a rhythm pattern, it needed to repeat colors, shapes, lines or textures to create movement in the art piece. It was interesting in class to clap out the rhythm to our own sculpture. In my art piece, I had three different rhythms layered on top of each other. I made sure that each rhythm had a different direction, and I kept with an alternating triangle and square theme. By having alternate patterns, I believe that it makes the art piece more interesting to look at because it is easy to see where I have created rhythm and beat in the art piece.

Internal Texture - Watercolor Technique

This art project was one of my favorites because it involved eating food. As we ate food, we had to pay attention to our senses. Once we had an idea of what to paint, we sectioned off six areas that represented the food we ate. Starting from the top left, I painted how a potato chip tasted. I even added salt to give the effect of how salty a potato chip is. The bottom left corner, I painted salsa from the way it looked instead of how It tasted. Next to the salsa, I painted the crunchy texture of a carrot. Above the carrot painting, I expressed how a pickle tastes. Since they were delicious homemade pickles, they had a certain flair to their flavor, and what better way to paint a pickle than in a bursting pattern? In the middle on the right, I painted the texture of frosting from a cupcake. Frosting is definitely a smooth and creamy texture. On the bottom left, I painted gummy worms and decided to use a rubbing alcohol technique to create splatters that disperses the colors. This project certainly took food to another level on how I interact with food with all my senses.

Color Assignment

With the first color assignment, we were told to paint with only black and white, and to paint to the music we were listening to. This was to help us gain control of our paintbrush. Next, we chose complementary colors to paint with, but we also had to mix the colors with white or black to create more colors. We also needed to choose a shape to paint with, so I chose triangles because they always look fun when they are layered or overlapped with each other. By learning how to mix colors, it taught me how many colors I really can make with only a few hues on my palate.

Georgia O'Keefe Flowers

Georgia O’Keefe “made large-format paintings of enlarged blossoms, presenting them close up as if seen through a magnifying lens.” How I created this painting is by creating a focal point by looking through a mini window from a piece of paper. At first, it was a little difficult for me to magnify the part of the flower I was drawing, but I got the hang of it. I decided to draw the side of the flower with its petals and stem with a small leaf attached to the stem. I liked experiencing watercolor, even though I had hard time with the shading on some parts of the flower.

Passacaglia

In a small group, we were all given simple algebraic problems to solve, then plot ad connect on graphing paper.  As everyone created their points, we started connecting them through mathematical transformations on the graph by shifting some points a certain amount of units and reflecting one design across the y-axis. Overall, we created a cityscape on both sides with the night sky and constellations in the middle of the graph. This art project is perfect for students learning how to graph and plot points in math.