Zoya's SAS Blog

This was our final project. When we first got it I sketched out some ideas on the page, I wanted to take some influence from the Celtic and Egyptian projects because of how the shapes are very geometric. For the surface, I used the cutout idea but made it more of an amoeba shape. For volume, I used the one hoke design at the top that you can see in the first photo. I ended up needing to reduce the sculpture a bit more but it has the overall shape that I wanted to go for. I also changed the color scheme to gold and silver after hearing that it looked like an award. I think that if I had some more time then I could have refined it more and made it somewhat better. I do like how the top part of the piece ended up turning out.  

This is the acrylic painting, the last project in the painting unit. The process started with laying a base coat and my base coat was an hombre of yellow to red since that was the basis of my painting. Then I went over and painted my hills and then my tree. I used 7 art techniques on this piece. You cant see it very clearly but the two hills on the bottom have been sponged, the darker line on the other one was made using impasto, I did some pallete knife painting on the tree as well as taping to get some straight lines, I did some scumbling in the background and I also used glazing for the paint I used for scumbling and you can see the scragraffito on the tree. I ended up liking the way the packground turned out although I wish that I had used that for the entire thing instead of only the back. I thought of this painting as a less complicated amature version of the reference piece. 

This was our second water color project and it was to use a photo of the school and convert it into a water color painting. Before even starting that we had to make a table of the different techniques that can be used in water color. After that we started painting based off of a picture that we chose. I used a blending wash for the building and then used wet on wet for the geometric shapes and I used tape for the green square and I used dry brush for the red streaks and then I used salt on the building as well. I used masking fluid between the shapes and I used feathering on the shapes too. That is a total of eight techniques. It turned out okay I think but I would have prefferec spending a little more time on it so that maybe I could fill in the blank spaces better.