My Personal Artistic Achievements
FRESHMAN YEAR
2012 Freshman Year : Shadows of the Sea
This painting was something that I had done
my Freshman year in Art 1. Unfortunately it
was unable to be entered into an Art
competition because it was done by viewing
other peoples pictures, but I still consider t
his the best painting that I've ever done.
This painting was something that I had done
my Freshman year in Art 1. Unfortunately it
was unable to be entered into an Art
competition because it was done by viewing
other peoples pictures, but I still consider t
his the best painting that I've ever done.
2013 Sophomore Year: Edgar Allan Poe Star Book
This was a fun project to make. We could make a book about anyone and I picked Edgar Allan Poe. I love his work and have for a long time. The front pattern was fun to make,. It;s a process, called marbling. I made the book about different poems or stories that he has done and made the page about them. I also burned the edges of the pages and the writing to make it look old and worn as well as tea painting the pages to make them also look old and brown. |
SOPHOMORE YEAR
2013 Sophomore Year: Butler Park
This picture was coincidentally taken on the same day as the previous project. It was at the Butler Park Water fountain in Austin, Texas. I went there one day with my sister and the little boy that she used to nanny for, and we all had a lot of fun together. We watched the little boy play in the fountains that I used as my project for this project, although it's hard to make out what it is. It's just a side shot of the fountains with the same image on the bottom, just flipped upside down. This project was a messy one. It was made with a solar plate. The idea is really cool. Basically transferring an exact image onto a plate. We used oil-based inks for this which only came of with baby oil which is where the messy part comes into play, but this medium of printmaking is definitely one of my favorites. The detail that the plate can retail is what I love about it unlike my other works that are drawings of the pictures that I have taken. I entered this piece into the 2013 Visual Art Scholastic Event.
This picture was coincidentally taken on the same day as the previous project. It was at the Butler Park Water fountain in Austin, Texas. I went there one day with my sister and the little boy that she used to nanny for, and we all had a lot of fun together. We watched the little boy play in the fountains that I used as my project for this project, although it's hard to make out what it is. It's just a side shot of the fountains with the same image on the bottom, just flipped upside down. This project was a messy one. It was made with a solar plate. The idea is really cool. Basically transferring an exact image onto a plate. We used oil-based inks for this which only came of with baby oil which is where the messy part comes into play, but this medium of printmaking is definitely one of my favorites. The detail that the plate can retail is what I love about it unlike my other works that are drawings of the pictures that I have taken. I entered this piece into the 2013 Visual Art Scholastic Event.
2013 Sophomore Year : Hysteria
This was the final project of the year my sophomore year. The project was to think of an emotion and to draw something that makes the artist think of that emotion, and I chose Hysteria. The image is of a melting woman in the fetal position. I liked this project in particular because the medium that we used was a sheet of linoleum that we carved into, and I'm more of a surrealist, so this image was very appealing to me. |
JUNIOR YEAR
2013 Junior Year : Lunar Knots
This was the same medium that I used in the Counting Crows piece. I scratched away at the sheet of plastic from an image that was underneath the plastic so I knew where to scratch away. The objective for this project was to basically just draw an image or take a picture of something and use it for the project much like the first time. I was coming up with ideas for this project and thought that something like this would be cool, and this was the end result that I came up with.
This was the same medium that I used in the Counting Crows piece. I scratched away at the sheet of plastic from an image that was underneath the plastic so I knew where to scratch away. The objective for this project was to basically just draw an image or take a picture of something and use it for the project much like the first time. I was coming up with ideas for this project and thought that something like this would be cool, and this was the end result that I came up with.
2014 Junior Year : Reminiscent Teardrops
At the end of my sophomore year, I aided for my art teacher and watched Art 1 make drawings of Mandalas while I was making my Hysteria linoleum project, and I thought that It would be cool to do a combination of both, so at the beginning of junior year, I asked if I could do one, and when the linoleum project rolled around in the spring, I made one. |
SENIOR YEAR
2014 Senior Year : Nameless
For the first project of the year in Printmaking, we made another linoleum plate. The assignment was again not reflected based upon what I made, but I asked my teacher if I could make another Mandala after showing her my previous one and came up with this new one. At first, I wanted to gouge out the little ovals in each corner, but then I thought about how it would look if two of the corners would have the space around the ovals gouged out, so I tried it on a practice piece of linoleum and liked how it looked in the end. |