Ink Project

Another piece I did this year that I really like. For this project we were introduced to using ink and though I've never used it before, I really think i did a good job with it. It was fun playing around with it and seeing that it sort of works just like watercolor, as adding water would lighten the ink. I used a separate paper to test out the values of the ink before i got started, going from pitch blacks to feather light grays and just seeing how the ink worked. I would like to re-do this piece one day and make it better, but for now, i'm satisfied with this. 

Still Life

I think this was one of my best pieces of the whole year. I used objects given to me by my teacher and took my time sketching them out and shading and adding highlights using a white pastel. I used watercolor to bring focus to the flowers. It was hard to work with the perspective but it was a good challenge.

Album Cover

Last project of the school year and another one of my favorites. We had to design an album cover for one of our favorite artists and mine is the Weeknd! He's such a talented singer and I immediately knew that I wanted to do an album with him on it. I used the name of his most current song for the title, and then chose a picture of him and got started. I used a tutorial to turn the picture of him into a watercolor like painting, then I erased half his face and used a water color brush to make it look like he was fading away. I then added crows because in the video for the song there was crows.

Close Up Photography

For this project we had to take up close pictures of whatever we chose to. This was really enjoyable to do, and i think upclose might be my favorite form of photography. I took a picture of a red berry in a cluster of green ones, a dew drop from a honeysuckle, a dandelion, a purple flower, and a baseball from the baseball field.

Junk and Death

An extension of our still life project, we had to create a still life scene from scratch using Photoshop. I of course used food because I love to eat, but I actually decided to put a message behind this. I put all the typical junk food that my generation eats, and then a bowl with a skull next to it to show that in the end we all die, so just eat what you want because you only live one life. I also put a garnish on top of the skull to symbolize that being vegan or vegetarian or whatever won't stop people from dying either. It's a path we're all going down, so let's just let people enjoy whatever food they please

Food Portrait

For this project we had to take a picture of someone or ourselves and use food to recreate the subject of the picture. This project was inspired by a Renaissance painter. This is a photo of my friend Veronica, I used tortillas to make her skin, a churro for her nose, crow feathers for her hair because that's her favorite animal, cherries to make her shirts, and chili peppers for her arms.

Mood and Message

Another fun project, we had to find a picture and edit it in 4 different ways in order to convey a particular mood. I took a picture of the side of my school and then edited it in Photoshop. I created one where it looked like a watercolor painting, then one where it was at night and I added a mysterious fog and little sparkles to represent fairies because I wanted the scene to magical. Then for the last two I created a scene that looked like a storm was coming and then a beautiful sunset.