Weekly Challenge #9-Weather and Favorite Work

So, there are my final weekly challenge photos! I chose to do a photo inspired the weather, in the sense that when it is cold I want to curl up with a good book and tea by the fireplace! My second photo I love!!

Finished Concentration :)

Concentration Photos in Progress

All you really need is the right pair of shoes. ~Cinderella

For my concentration, I chose to look at how throughout our lives, we try on different shoes, and learn how to tie our shoes, in order to become who we are later in life. In order to portray this theme, I used girls and there shoes throughout elementary, middle and high school. I feel like shoes are an item of someone's outfit that is often overlooked but can say a lot about someone.

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Weekly Challenge #8-Opposite

I really enjoyed the opposite challenge. It took me while to figure out how I wanted to approach this, but once I did, it was really easy! I enjoyed the initial stretch to think outside the box and learn a new technique. I had no idea how to take an HDR photo, so I looked it up online and looked at tons of examples. Then when I was taking photos with Sadie for my concentration, I saw this building and decided to use it as my opposite. ENJOY :)

Silk Painting

My silk painting, I am really proud of how it turned out. This is like the first fine art thing I am proud of this year. :) 

Based on the AP Rubric I would give myself a 4 because of

4.A The work shows a good investigation of a variety of 2-D design principles

4.D The work shows a variety of intentions and purposes, although they may not be clearly 

articulated.

4.I There may be uneven levels of accomplishment among the works, but overall the work is of 

good breadth and quality.

Weekly Challenge #7-Choice

Over the past few weeks I have been photographing Collin's Haunted House. I have found it challenging to actually capture all the details and emotions that are in his Haunted House. I find it easier to capture the feeling when there was a person in the photo. But, overall, I have enjoyed photographing and new media. 

Weekly Challenge #6-Illustrator

My word was ability

I wish I would have had more time to finish it. I think I finally figured out some things in Illustrator so now I can go back and do a better job. 

Weekly Challenge #5-On Raglan Road

I really like how this weekly challenge turned out. Some of the photos are more literal representations of the poem, but others to me represent the feelings of the poem, or at least the way the poem makes me feel. I enjoyed the models I worked with, my sister and her friend Melissa.

Narrative Project

 These series of photos are about my grandma. My grandam passed away last Friday night, and these photos are in memory of her. She was always cooking and had tons of recipes. The recipes behind each photo are her recipes, a few months ago my mom scanned them all in so I thought I would put them to good use with this project. I am really happy with how the first 3 turned out but I am not as happy with the fourth one.

Weekly Challenge #4-Portraiture

For this weekly challenge I drew Portraiture. I wasn't too thrilled, because I generally like photographing objects more than people, but once I was out shooting, I LOVED this weekly challenge. Some of the photos I am more proud of then others, but I wanted to showcase the variety of photos I took. I played with different angles and where the sun hit my model, Kayla.

 I like how the sun washes out the bottom right corner, so your attention is drawn to Kayla's face.

 I love the sun rays coming through the top right corner.

 For this photo, I thought turning it black and white made the eye focus more one the patterns and shape and less on the fall colors.

I love Katie and Kayla's expression and joy in this photo, I feel like this photo captured their friendship perfectly.

Project 2: 20 Layers

I really pushed myself with the 20 layers project. I am proud of what came out of the project, but I also don't love the project.

"Strength is being brave enough to take the first step of your journey... While leaving your destination to destiny." 

Weekly Challenge #3

For my third weekly challenge, I drew create an artwork using 2 non digital mediums. I was initially disappointed because I believe that my photography, and digital skills are much better than my fine art skills. However, I embraced this challenge, and I am proud of the art piece I created.

For this project, I used a combination of sharpies, colored pencils, and graphite. For this project I decided to draw a puzzle, with a bunch of different puzzles pieces. I like to think of puzzles as a way to represent our life, that we all fit in somewhere. I chose to blend the color with black and white because I feel that life can be full of color, but also has some darker areas that may not always be acknowledged. Finally I chose to put a quote on top of the puzzle because I feel it represents the art piece very well. We try to find the pieces that correctly balance the light and the dark aspects of our life, and sometimes we are successful and make a complete puzzle.

 

"Life is a giant puzzle. Everyday we struggle to find it's pieces to make it into a complete picture."

Weekly Challenge #2

For my second weekly challenge, I chose to do redo any project from a previous art class. I chose to redo Decisive Moment. I didn't like this project when I did it before. I wasn't as successful as I would have liked. 

When I redid this project, I focused on one subject, water and rocks. When I did this project before we had to also do a person and choice. So, because I was only focusing on one subject, it allowed me to take so many more photos and not worry about the requirements. 

Once I had taken all my photos, I decided I wanted to play with B&W and high contrast. So here are the three photos this weekly challenge resulted in:

I really enjoyed this weekly challenge. I was expecting it to take me only a few minutes to get all the photos I would need for decisive moment, because waves are always hitting the rocks. But, this took me a lot longer, because I quickly realized I wanted the waves to hit the rocks in a certain way.