Transition

Please critique your finished artwork.  How well did you express your "word?" 

Animation is basically a series of transition frames so I think this fit the word pretty well-that, and it's an excuse to animate something. The animation is of parkour/free run which is basically moving or transitioning through a space in whatever way you want.

What was successful about your piece and what needed work?

I think the frames could've been slowed down just a tad. I also don't know what I feel about it looping. It takes forever to export as a gif though so I didn't want to go through the hassle of making those small adjustments. It was a lot of fun to do. I like how the shading turned out and the overall motion.

Please explain one alternate idea you had for your word?

I kinda already had it in mind that I wanted to do another animation so it was basically deciding what to animate. I was also thinking about doing an animation with someone with like elemental superpowers-like go from water to wind to earth to fire. Somehow, I ended up deciding on this instead. Maybe it fits the word Transition more?

Book Sculpture

 How does looking at the work of other artists help you develop ideas?  How do you make sure you are being inspired but NOT copying another artist's work?

It's kinda helpful to see how other artists put their sculptures together or played with the medium to gain my own idea of how to construct mine or get inspiration. I liked how one sculpture I saw didn't use any straight edges of the paper so I decided to use paper that was torn for the deer and tree but use straight edges for the leaves and grass. 

Why is craftsmanship so important in creating a work of art?

Things can get sloppy real fast when doing sculptures, especially hot glue guns and those glue strings. And to achieve certain shapes, textures, or anything you need to be careful. It's also important you are carefully when considering how and where you are going to fasten pieces together so its sticks and stays neat (and it actually possible to do).

Critique your sculpture and tell me what worked, what was a struggle and the grade you feel you deserve?

Look at my lil deer! I like how the little deer turned out and it stands by itself which I'm happy about too. I like the grass and leaves and tree branches, too. Basically, I like how this project turned out. The tree kinda looks like it could use more branches but I didn't know where to add them that it wouldn't looked cluttered after I added leaves to it.

Choice Word: Bountiful

Please critique your finished artwork.  How well did you express your "word?"
I really like how it turned. . . Not quite sure what it is but it actually turned out how I was planning and I'm surprised. Especially since clay can be frustrating to work with sometimes. I'm really curious how it'll looked glazed though.
I broke a small corner off of it when I was moving it to take a picture, which is fine. It kinda fits in with the rest of it still and the break is at the front so I guess I can just pretend I meant to do that.

What was successful about your piece and what needed work?

I like the pieces being separate. Somehow it makes it seem more dynamic. The I-beam for the center piece really worked well-I wouldn't have been able to do the project the way I did if I hadn't done that. I really love the textures and tried to make them fit a 'theme'. Swirls on the middle piece for air. And then the others to represent 'layers' in nature.

Please explain one alternate idea you had for your word?

A couple ideas I had were kinda just variations on this or maybe doing a drawing or painting of a field. This felt more original and I felt it was a more interesting way to represent the word bountiful. Ending up choosing this version though since it kept the factors I liked and wasn't too cluttered or anything.

Wood Burning: Crane

While wood burning is very different from other forms of artwork, in what ways is it similar? What medium(s) has similar issues to which you need to pay attention?

Wood burning is pretty different to work with. Kinda like painting in the sense it's a little harder to control where you leave marks than it is with something like a pencil. Even more like pen and ink. It's harder to go certain directions due to the natural wood grain like you can't do certain strokes because of the pen nib. It's also permanent(unless maybe you sanded it away) like ink is so, if you do make a mistake, you have to work around it and incorporate it into the artwork. It's challenging to get smooth  shading and I think that's pretty unique to wood burning but the strokes/marks can probably be pretty comparable to paint or pen and ink.

Triumph Animation

Please critique your finished artwork.  How well did you express your "word?"  What was successful about your piece and what needed work? Please explain one alternate idea you had for your word?

I'm really happy with it! I think the movement is pretty 'fluid' and realistic. I also like the sketchy look-it seems like it gives it more movement and action. I'm surprised by how fun the animation was and pretty excited when I finally scanned them and put all the frames in GIMP to finally see how they looked animated.

I think the doggo in the animation looks pretty happy and pleased with himself so that could count as triumph along with the fact that it's an animation itself and I didn't know how the frames would like animated until I was completely finished.

 I would've loved to have it continuously loop, I think that would've been really neat but I didn't even think about it until last night so that didn't give me any time to add some additional frames to put in between frames 1 and 20 so that they would flow together. I think it'd be fun to try more complex animations sometime. They are time consuming though, especially the scanning all the frames part.

I had some other ideas for the animation but they would've taken too long and I don't know how well GIMP would appreciate any larger/longer animations. Most of them involved the same character(the Irish wolfhound named Fission) so none of the ideas strayed to far from what it ended up as.

Creative Canvas: Boots

 Describe your chosen paint tool or canvas and how you adapted to it's unique features.

What did you like and not like about this tool or canvas compared to regular art supplies?

Critique your work, using the Design Elements and Principles. 

I chose to paint on a pair of boots, which was a challenge. It is a three dimensional surface. The flowers were really difficult since it was on a curved surface and I don't paint very often.  The rest of the boots were fun to paint on to try and create a 'mood' or scene on it. I like the contrast between the purple and blue background and bright orange, yellow, and red of the flowers and design. And the texture on the back with the greens that look leafy and how the designs/flowers look more smooth. 

Juicy

 Please critique your finished artwork.  How well did you express your "word?"  What was successful about your piece and what needed work? Please explain one alternate idea you had for your word?

I really like the colours, brushstrokes, and thick paint. I think it does express the word very well although I believe that some of my colours could've been brighter though. It wash't exactly what I had in mind starting the project but I definitely like the way it went. It was originally going to be an abstract painting of colour, sand, water, and a bright pattern to use as a background for other things but I ended up falling in love with this and I don't think I could cover it up-it can stand as it own finished art work.