creative marks

For this creative works piece I was really excited but then when the project actually came I thought "What the heck am I going to do?" With me trying to prepare for an important conference and go back and forth with my classes I kind of was all over the place. My first attempt was an idea I thought would work perfectly. I mixed paint and water in a perfume bottle and sprayed my paper so that the actual mist would be the creative mark, but that was a bust. This project was challenging to me because I'm not an abstract person nor do I care for it, so I felt as if my heart wasn't in this in the beginning. I kept trying different things wondering if they;d make some cool marks but I just was lost. It got frustrating. But i'm kind of a science nerd so I wanted to construct something simple that would actually work with gravity/ momentum to get the creative mark.

 I then made a little contraption that would rotate the piece of paper balancing on a Styrofoam ball and candle holder. At first I had a nail pushed in the middle of the Styrofoam ball and the center of the paper and had it rotate. I would drop paint and ink in the middle and spin the paper so the ink made a vein like effect. This got very messy. For my other attempt that I used on the final piece was that I didn't use a nail but i just rotated the paper and place my paintbrush anywhere and didn't look as i did it i would spin the paper 3 times and then switch paint colors. I added ink after I felt there was enough colors. Overall I think it was interesting and if I didn't go out of town or had spring break right after I think i could have put more time in the piece. 

Exquisite

From the beginning of starting this project it was like I was stuck for days. I would research many different weird things just to get a feel of what I could do. Seeing that I did this project on my own it was more challenging that what I thought because I would have to try my hardest to make it look like I didn't go solo on this one. But it was hard because you know exactly where you mark things to connect them as such with the same value even though I covered up some panels. I tried to incorporate different art styles and different materials but it honestly just didn't look right to me just because this was out of my comfort zone. I would say I'm a girly girl that likes bright and pretty things and I stay far away from creepy and scary things. So ideally I just thought of something that was still weird and messed up yet classy and pretty in a sense. 

Composition wise I thought well hey since I don't have a partner I have creative control over everything and just thought to put my exquisite body in her own environment to just give a little more to the project. The most challenging to this project was actually trying to figure out what I could do with the negative space. I never used this paper so I was hesitant on getting darker on it and actually using the shade as a natural color but as I got more material on it and got darker I started to like it better. Another tricky thing yet fun was drawing upside down I would flip throughout each panel to challenge myself some more and it's interesting that the parts I did flip actually work with the piece. I did aim to draw a couple things with my left hand and it worked but was really weird. So I would say bottom line drawing this piece all together was weird rather than the actual piece its' self.