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. 

So this was the first of our painting unit and the first of our watercolor as well. We took reference photos of maps and collaged them into a piece with three sections and in each section we had to use water color pencils to create some kind of color scheme. For my first section I did a monochromatic one in blue, for the second section I did an analogous color scheme with red, red orange and orange and for the last one I did a complementary color scheme with yellow and purple. I enjoyed making this since I was able to use watercolor pencils and make something that I think looks really nice. 

This was our last print project and this time we used screen printing. Before using the screen at all we had to prepare the backgrounds. The first stemp was to put ink on to a palate and use different tools to make places where there would be no color and designs, this would become the first layer. The second one was where we put a stencil on styrofoam, traced out what we wanted and then used that as our second layer after printing. After that, we had to make a stencil for the animal that we wanted to show on our project. I decided to make a squid and so cut it out of some butcher paper. I then had one cut out that would produce an image where the print would only show inside and where the print would show outside. That's where the screen comes in. We placed our prints on the paper and laid the screen over top. We put a row of ink at the top of the screen and then dragged the ink across it to lay it on the paper. Once you lifted the screen voila! Your print was done. Then I...

1. Which photo from your photo essay was the best?    I really liked this photo because the colours really came out and there was no part of the photo that was devoid of some tint. It also focused really well on Ria as well as making the background stand out. You can also clearly see the depth of the road and the building in the distance and the photo looks very cool in that way.  2. What is a Photo Journalist?      A Photo Journalist is someone who takes photos and uses them to convey a message about something that they want to show,  3. If you could do one category of your essay again which one would you re-do and why?      I would want to re-do the people specifically this photo:   I wanted to re-do this photo because even though I like how the photo turned out it could have had better lighting and a background that really made Michelle pop out rather than the things behind her.  4. What is exposure?  ...

What was the most enjoyable aspect of this assignment and what was the most challenging?  The most enjoyable part was probably the end of the project and finally being able to see my completed work and the most challenging was coming up with designs. Thinking of 12 separate designs in short amount of time is not all that easy and I really have a new respect for fashion designers.   How can colour effect the interpretation of an artwork?  If this was in black and white your eye wouldn't be as drawn to it as it is now. People can also draw symbolism from the shades of colour an artist uses. 

1. If I could do this assignment again I would improve on the shading of the inside of the shoes. It looks like the inside of the shoe but if I added more detail from the photo rather than simplifying it, it could look a little better. 2. With contrast a pencil drawing stands out more and instead of the colors blending together because they are so close together in shade. You can see details and the actual figure of the drawing. 3. I  learned a lot about how much I really hate values. (Just kidding!) I learned how to creat a light value while blending and how shadows play from a photo to drawing. Value scale: Picture: Rough Draft: Final Copy:

For this project in Art we created four simplified SAS Eagles with different designs, including one that was personalized. This was my final piece: This was my personalized eagle. On the inside is the sheet music to one of my favourite songs and on the outside are runes from one of my favourite books series.  It's black and white to contrast the rainbow and color of the other eagles and because the way those two colors play against each other is one of my favourites. I left in pencil because the sheen looked nice and slight smudging gives it an imperfection that I really like about it.  For a while I was stuck on what to do. I knew that I wanted to do a black background and a colored eagle but the problem was that I didn't know what I wanted to do. At first I wanted the inside to be rainbow but at the same time I was doubting the rainbow. Then for some reason Ria and I were talking about fire and I had the idea to do a red, orange and yellow ombre. But thi...