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. 

Ball Point Project

Hello💟! 

          This was first time doing a process such as using only a ballpoint pen and also my first blog ever!  This process was giving me some anxiety issues. I never enjoyed drawing with pens because most of the time you if you make a mistake you can't take it back. I like pencils just go to be safe and go the easy route. I will say that at first I was very cautious with how heavy I held the pen to the paper after some mistakes of pressing down with too much pressure. Overtime I did like the challenge. One thing I just wish is that I could have used a pink pen😅

  I would say the most challenging part of this project was showing movement of the water from the bottom of the sea going up to space. At first I had the water lightly shaded to show the marks of waves but then it was too light and my outer space didn't have a relationship with any other section of the drawing besides the mermaids hair. When I made the water darker it put the piece in more perspective to me and became pleasing to my eyes. I was really getting tired of shading and pressing hard with my pen so to see it was coming put pretty nicely I was happy.  

My initial thoughts for the overall theme was to incorporate some of my own dreams from over time and things I like. For one this is like a girl's dream world. Roses, petals, oceans, castles, mermaids, pearls, and a beautiful night sky to look at? Which one out of those doesn't a woman appreciate? I love the ocean and astrology I have become fascinated with galaxies and astronomy such as different constellations. Also I don't know a female who claimed they didn't like "The Little Mermaid" or if they never wanted to be a mermaid even become one now if they could. I have always had an interest in mystical things and celestial beauty and beings so this a mix of underwater fantasy world meeting a celestial world. For the hour glass it symbolizes a balance between the two worlds and also gives a metaphor of other things. This article I read spoke the most to me and sums up exactly how i felt about the hour glass.(http://www.sunsigns.org/)

"The curvaceousness of the shape directly references the female and the specific cycles that she experiences in her life. As it is fully developed, the hourglass symbolizes a woman who has gone through the cycle of maiden to mother to crone. This spirit symbol shows that she has both learned and grown."

 Indeed I wanted to incorporate all these things without adding so much. For one I'm a Pisces I felt as if I'm the mermaid in which I always wanted to be, I'm delicate, sensitive yet beautiful like a rose even with my fallen petals, overtime I have learned a lot of lessons and grown from them and finally I know I'm a queen, a go-getter and I will build my empire.