I'm taking an art class this semester and thought I'd share some of the projects we've done so far in class. I know I'm not as talented as some of you are here when it comes to art but I try. C&C would be appreciated.


This is our book. I had to carry that to almost every class. Our final project was to make the cover (which is shown in the last picture) and I chose photography as my theme.





Inside the book

Introduction

• Piet Mondrian Assignment. We had to make our own version of Mondrian's work.
  http://i44.tinypic.com/11tqsfb.png

Drawing

• Contour Drawing: Cell Phone. The definition of contour drawing. This is my cell phone.
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• Contour Drawing: Nike Shoe. Same as the cell phone but with a twist. ;)
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• Crazy Creatures. We had to color the ones in the upper left and bottom right corners and draw three of our own.
  http://i39.tinypic.com/4uawwx.png
• Lineman City. We had to draw 13 buildings and emphasize three of them.
  http://i43.tinypic.com/2nt9sa1.png
• Rooster. We just had to copy the steps (My drawings are hard to see. I know).
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• Lion. Same as the rooster (My drawings are hard to see. I know).
  http://i43.tinypic.com/avg29x.png
• Name in 3D. That's a zebra pattern.
  http://i39.tinypic.com/3136hif.png
• The Starting Point. Pretty self explanatory.
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• Limitation. We had to use one shape and draw three pictures using only that shape.
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Painting

• Watercolor Techniques: Wet-in-Wet. We painted the paper and then applied water to it.
  http://i39.tinypic.com/nckyf9.png
• Watercolor Techniques: Dry Brush. Got some paper towels, drabbed them into the paint, and brushed it on to the paper.
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• Watercolor Techniques: Kosher Salt. Painted the paper and added kosher salt right after. It makes the colors more vibrant.
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• Watercolor Techniques: Resist. We wrote our initials with oil pastels and then painted over it.
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• Watercolor Techniques: Blotting. I forgot how we did this one. "/
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• Jackson Pollock. We did our own Jackson Pollock. Some of the paint cracked. :(
  http://i44.tinypic.com/a1258l.png
• Sticks: Primary and Secondary Colors. Just painted some sticks.
  http://i43.tinypic.com/10p8tqd.png
• Sticks: Warm and Cool Colors. Just painted some sticks.
  http://i44.tinypic.com/2m6oggh.png
• Sticks: Neutral Colors. Just painted some sticks.
  http://i41.tinypic.com/2j1ocjb.png
• Sticks: Complimentary Colors. Just painted some sticks.
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• Sticks: Values of Gray. Went from black to white.
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• Sticks: Tints. Went from white to pink.
  http://i44.tinypic.com/2gt0tb8.png
• Sticks: Shades. Went from black to orange.
  http://i42.tinypic.com/zugkd1.png
• Pablo Picasso. We had to finish the other side.
  http://i44.tinypic.com/343t07q.png
• Optical Art Tube Sculpture. We cut up some paper, rolled them, and then glued them together.
  http://i43.tinypic.com/dmzgg8.jpg
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• Picasso's African Mask. Freehanded all the patterns.
  http://i39.tinypic.com/296kz94.png
• Georgia O'Keeffe's Torn Flowers. We used the "watercolor techniques" and then torn the paper to make a vase and flowers.
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• Keith Haring Subway Pyramid. Just colored some pages out of his coloring book and made it into a pyramid.
  http://i43.tinypic.com/bhf8n6.jpg
  http://i44.tinypic.com/dw74fr.jpg
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Crafts

• Tessellations. All we did was color 10 of them. *shrug
  http://i40.tinypic.com/2ep54l3.png
• M.C.Escher's Tessellations. We used 60 post-its. My scanner sucks so the colors aren't as vibrant. I used purple, light purple, pink, & neon orange.
  http://i41.tinypic.com/8voeu8.png
• Mondrian Accordian Book. Looks like a flat book but when you open it, it turns into an accordion.
  http://i39.tinypic.com/2an989.jpg
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• Diego Velazquez's Daughter. We had to finish the bottom half of the picture. I made her eat sushi.
  http://i43.tinypic.com/2wn76vs.png

Printmaking

• Virgo: Linoleum Printing Plate. First we had to draw our zodiac sign, mine is Virgo, onto a linoleum block. This is my drawing.
  http://i43.tinypic.com/qnldsx.png
• Virgo: Linoleum Plate. Then we had to carve it.
  http://i42.tinypic.com/2e5muly.jpg
  http://i43.tinypic.com/24yagc4.jpg
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• Virgo: Single Color Print.
  http://i42.tinypic.com/2s76n8p.png
• Virgo: Chalk Print.
  http://i42.tinypic.com/n5q72t.png
• Virgo: Light Crayon.
  http://i40.tinypic.com/t02qhc.png
• Virgo: Heavy Crayon.
  http://i40.tinypic.com/2n6s11k.png
• Virgo: Marker Print.
  http://i44.tinypic.com/1607xi.png
• Virgo: Scribble Marker Print.
  http://i41.tinypic.com/otfaq1.png
• Virgo: Tissue Dye Print.
  http://i43.tinypic.com/ao3mdy.png
• Virgo: Tissue Print.
  http://i43.tinypic.com/214dc7.png
• Virgo: Frottage. We placed some paper over our plates and colored it using a crayon, I think.
  http://i40.tinypic.com/2l8k7sx.png

Clay

• Van Gogh's "Starry Night." We had to make our own version of "Starry Night" using modeling clay.
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Picture File

• Line: Broken.
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• Color: Intensity.
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• Shape/Form: Geometric.
  http://i41.tinypic.com/11biwzp.png
• Texture: Smooth.
  http://i43.tinypic.com/2pt5clv.png
• Value: Chiaroscuro.
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• Unity: Coherence.
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• Space: Background.
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• Contrast: Large/Small.
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• Repetition: Random Pattern.
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• Emphasis: Focal Point.
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• Balance: Formal (symmetrical) Balance.
  http://i43.tinypic.com/309t3rq.png
• Graphic Design: Got Milk?
  http://i42.tinypic.com/x5z2hx.png
• Graphic Design: Absolut Vodka.
  http://i44.tinypic.com/r23pky.png
• Graphic Design: Altoids.
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The rooster one is too hard to see for me but the lion looks good. The eyes remind me of the pink panther. I think #5 would be better if you showed it completed, but yeah. I like the Mondrian one + the accordion book. So cool.

I love accordion books, I always make mini scrap books out of them.

Thanks guys.


Yeah I'm having a hard time with drawing the camera. I started over like 10 times. But I'll post it when I'm done.

man i hateeeeeeee those color exercises having to mix shit. i've had to do that so much to make tints and gradients and stuff. i always end up adding too much black or something and then i have to add tons and tons of white to try to correct it. that stuff is frustrating

^

How do you do it? Because my teacher made us add our color, pink in my case, to the white, for the tints. And since we had to do 6 tints, she made us label each stick by number. And in order to get the tint to match the number, we had to add pink to white as many times as the number on the stick. If that makes sense.

that way sound simpler than how i did it. it was like trial and testing with mine. we just had a color swatch and she's like ok match that, good luck. also we had to mix a lot a lot of colors. like if i wanted orange or something i had to mix that color first, then use the orange to mix another color

Wow that really sucks.

i rike deez

I really love how the sticks turned out

I love doing gradient charts! gah they are so much fun haha

BUMP!

I edited my OP.

looks like some fun projects. more fun than my projects for some of my art classes. all i can say is, make ur lines more clean. be clean. i see some dried up glue, and some lines on that african mask are crooked. teachers love attn to details and love a student who works REALLY hard on their projects... well the ones i had.

^Yeah I know. I'm trying to work on that but I get so impatient sometimes.

We've done so many projects since I updated this last so I'll try & scan everything. I finally finished my "Velazquez's Daughter" piece.

These are really good mannn. keep it up and grow up.Best of luck in future.


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So I edited the OP again and included all of the projects we did this past semester. I left them as links because the scans were too big and it'd be a bitch to load. I doubt someone will look at all the links but if you're that bored, go for it. Enjoy!

wow. i wish my past highschool art classes had been more like yours. i lived in a rural community which funded sports but not the arts. the entire school shared a box of watercolour paints. :/
you ARE talented... i especially love your prints; they're absolutely lovely.

^Yeah I wish so too. I'm in college, btw lol.
Oh man shared a box of paints? Wow.
Aw thank you very much. :)

whoops, sorry. my bad :)

Hey, we have the same phone...

Anyway, these look really good. My favorite is the Georgia O'Keefe one. :D

The lion one is pretty damn good :)

It's alright; no worries.


Lol we do? You have the red one?

Thanks :D That was a fun project. Doing the deckled edges was kind of hard.


Aw thank you.

Oh my man its really awesome thanks for sharing with us,,,,