Overarching Artist Statement I tried my best to make every piece of artwork with different materials and I think I succeed in doing this. Techniques and tools I used ranged from two-dimensional to three-dimensional with different mediums ranging from paper and pen to soft pastels to clay to even digital formats. This was done in order to give a different experience for each piece and to let me mess with all the different mediums to see what worked best and what I enjoyed working with best. If I was to continue in these classes I would probably explore even more art mediums. One of the questions I always try to avoid answering for whatever reason is the question of inspiration. In my previous blog posts, I've chalked up my inspiration to be more random and spontaneous without any real focus. Some like to bring light to an issue and others like to express themselves. Neither of those types of people really describe me and I think that's why I have such a hard time pinpointing my inspiration as my subconscious doesn't want to let me know. I do think that most of the time my pieces are inspired a little bit by my childhood. I don't have any evidence to back this up but I do think this is a starting point for something. Most of my art was more or less done in order to fulfill a deadline and I think if I had more time to work on some projects like my cup or my goat mask sculpture I could have looked at them more positively than I do now. Other projects made later in the class I think I look more positively at. These mostly include the animal sculptures and the digital poster. I think at this point in the class I had a much more reasonable outlook at my current skills and how I should limit myself rather than going all out like I did at the beginning of the class. All in all I think my experience has not only been helpful from an educational standpoint but also from a personal one too. I now know the limits I have (at least for the time being) for my own personal projects and when to stop. I think the biggest lesson to be learned from this experience, at least for me, is that you need to start with smaller projects and then work to bigger once. How are you supposed to know how to run if you can't even crawl? Final Thoughts/Reflections1. Do over - what was a project this semester you would change if you could? Describe the project and your work, including what you didn’t like about the work, then explain what you could have done differently to improve the result. Would responding all of them be cheating? Anyway, I think I were to redo a project it would probably be the three-dimensional goat poster... thing. I think the biggest reason I would like to redo this project is because of how creepy it looks. The other contender for a "do-over" would probably be the cup project. However with this, the unprofessional quality could be seen as charming. With the goat poster the feelings are borderline creepy. I think it's in the eyes. So, how would I improve the project? For one thing, scrap the border. I spent so much time on making the border look good that I didn't have time to focus on what really mattered, the goat! Next I would try to actually achieve the papers-stacked-on-each-other effect I was trying to go for instead of just folding the piece of paper. I think this would improve the project immensely. 2. What was your most successful project this semester? Describe the project and your work, then explain why this particular project was successful for you. To me, the most successful project is the one that most resembles the vision in your head. In line with this reasoning, I think that my interactive space poster is the most successful project. One might think that this is because this is my last project. The problem with this argument is that I made the interactive poster in a completely different medium than the other projects. Either way, the project was successful... but why? I think the reason why the poster was more successful than something like my goat mask is that I was able to correct the mistakes I made rather than being forced to incorporate them into the bigger picture. If something didn't look right I could tweak it until it did. I think this is why the interactive poster was more successful than any of my other projects- even more so than my clay animals which I think was my second most successful project. 3. What is a media that you enjoyed working with this semester? Write about what the media was, explain why you liked it and give examples of work you created with it.
Though I only got to work with this media once, I would have to say that my favorite media was clay. Even though this was the first time I worked in a three-dimensional space in a very long time I still had lots of fun working on making my clay animals. As previously stated, I wasn't really able to continue working with clay as I had prided myself on working on a different media for every art project. The actual color (or glazing would be the proper term) of the sculptures was a lot easier than I first thought and I had ideas of how to use the color glazes more creatively. The main work with this medium was with the clay animals. Though I don't think the goat turned out that well I think the elephant and the sheep look spectacular. I think if I was to continue in this class I would of continued in this media in some extreme degree with probably basing most of my projects around clay. Because clay is awesome.
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