Transparent

When we got the assignment for transparent, I immediately thought of glass. On my walk home that day I happened to find a string of Christmas lights on the ground and decided to snag a few of the bulbs. This is the piece that I then created using those bulbs. I think it looks like some sort of shrine or something. I used super glue, tape, balsa wood, paper, cardboard and guache. It was a lot of fun to make.

 

 

My next piece was using a bottle. I wrote out the word "Perception" on a paper and then burned the edges of it to make it look old and pirate-like. Perception is supposed to indicate that the idea of treasure is all in the eyes of the beholder. I then put the paper in the bottle like a message in a bottle. Lastly I painted the rim of the bottle as if a gold liquid was dripping out of it.

 

 

 

This third piece is a casette tape case that I put a photograph of a painting that I did in high school into. It is of  monochromatic yellow man with a purple checker background. I then painted a monochromatic yellow woman on the surface of the case looking the opposite direction as the man. It almost appears as though they could be looking at eachother.

 

This next piece I made is a flip book-ish type thing. I traced line drawings of women and placed each drawing in its own baggie. I then placed a piece of colorful striped paper between each girl and bound them all together and covered the top with orange construction paper. The idea is to flip through the pictures and be able to move around the images and stripes.

 

 This next piece is a wind chime made from shards of glass taped to thread with a transparent button at the top.

 

My next piece I painted on a piece of glass. I painted it to look like feathers. You can put it in the window and have the light shine through to make the colors extra vibrant. Pretty fun. I then covered the edges in white tape so that no one will cut themself. Safety is important.

 

 Like the last one this one was painted on glass as well. This one I decided to paint verticle lines in different shades of blue, some gray, and black. I left the space in between the lines blank so you can see through the glass. I then wrapped the edges of this piece in black tape.

 

Throwing the safety aspect out the window for this piece I broke my piece of glass. I then took the shards and spaced them out to recreate the rectangle. Then I taped the pieces in place. I then painted this aquatic scene on tracing paper and mounted it to the back of the glass shards. The light illuminates the image quite nicely.

 



Sand Paper



My first idea for sand paper was to make a sculpture out of paper on the beach. Here is what I did for that. It is supposed to resemble a river. I think it almost ended up looking fabric-like though.

 

 

I then had the idea to make a stack of paper in the sand, therefore it is "sand-paper." The shadow in the photo is pretty interesting I think.

 

My third piece was using that same stack of paper. I taped the stack in half and then used sand paper to scrape away a hole in the middle. After that I dripped glue in the hole and dropped sand over the glue. Then I spray painted the whole piece using yellow, green and brown.

 

 

Idea number four was a sandpiper on sandpaper! I painted an image onto sand paper using guache.

 

After that I decided to do another painting on sand paper. This one was just of a mountain, sky and abstract lines going off into the distance.

 

The sixth piece is a pastel drawing on sand paper of my bedroom door. 

 

The seventh piece is a paper written about sand, making it a "sand paper."

 

Lastly, my eighth piece is sand portraits of the four Beatles band members. I just drew out their faces with glue and then dropped sand over the glue.

 

Thread

Here are two pieces I did with paper towell used as a painting rag and sewn onto construction paper of similar color using monochromatic thread.

 

 This one is a small scrap of denim with thread sewn into it in somewhat random fashion and a hole cut into it and then mounted on a white tag board.

 

 Yarn standing in for thread. Glued in a zig-zag fashion with the center cut and hanging loose on a black background with a white border.

 

 A tiny little book bound with thread. It's a Good Book.

 

As I was working on the thread mini project, I decided to sew my finger. Here is the photo to show this event. Enjoy! And yes the thread goes under the skin.



Wood

Here is a close up of a tree. Wood comes from trees and tree bark is aesthetically pleasing. Enjoy!

 

For this one I took 5 pieces of balsa wood and I painted on them. Some I painted yellow and put green finger prints over and the others I painted green and brown stripes on. Then I mounted them on black paper and painted a white stripe across all five pieces to unify them.

 

This next piece I built a box structure out of balsa wood with the sides left emty. Then I painted the whole thing with bright colors. I then painted a leaf on paper and placed the leaf into the cube.

 

 This piece I painted a self portrait in pirate garb and made a frame for it all with balsa wood. Oh, and it is roughly the size of a quarter.

 

 I liked the idea of miniature, and I took a wood chip and some scrap wood which I cut and sanded down and built a tiny coffee table.

 

 Going along with the wood chip idea I mounted another one on block of scrap wood and then dripped brightly colored paint over it. It somewhat resembles a fin of some kind.

 

 I found a big block in the scrap wood pile and I really liked it. I then took a really long vine that I found and broke it into small sticks. I put holes in the top of the block and glued the sticks into the holes creating some sort of forest.

 

 My final Wood piece I took a twig that I found, and liked the shape of it, and I mounted it onto a block of wood creating an interesting shape. I liked how it then was transformed from a meaningless twig into a work of art.

Erase

Erase had to of been the most challenging assignment for me. I really just could not think of any ideas. Here is what I finally did come up with:

 

First of all I made pencil marks across a large piece of white paper and then by erasing I drew out a stamp I have of a Philippino military member.

 

Next I cut out an old picture of five players who used to play for the Denver Nuggets but no longer do. I whited out their heads and their names below the picture. I then wrote out "The Game Goes On" meaning that even though the players on a team constantly change, the team, and even bigger the game still continues.

 

This one I traced over a picture of a girl running on tracing paper, and then glued three more pieces of tracing paper over the top of the drawing so when you flip backwards each piece of paper erases the image a little more than the last.

Going along with the idea of adding layers of tracing paper over an image to erase it I made this next piece. I drew an image of a lizard with a couple leaves on the ground and on top of it I placed four pieces of tracing paper and drew fewer and fewer lines of the image on the papers as they get toward the top. So the image erases with more paper over it.

 



My final piece I drew with colored pencils a flower/explosion shape and then tried erasing parts of it but found that colored pencils are difficult to erase so I took white paint and painted over parts and splattered paint over the top.

Fabric

The Fabric Tail Video

To make this video I cut three shirts into strips and tied the strips into a long rope. Then I attached the rope to my bicycle and placed my camera on the back of my bike. I then rode my bike around allowing the rope to drag behind me. This is my video.

 

From the scraps of shirts I then made a few different pieces. The first was a primary color three color bar piece.

 

 The second was similar to the first but on top of the primary colors I painted the secondary colors and rearranged the placement of each color.

 

 Next I took a couple pieces from each of the three primary colors and created some sort of rope. I glued the pieces of fabric together at the top which created a kind of flower type shape. I am not exactly sure of the purpose of this piece but it is interesting to look at and fun to hold.

 

My final Fabric piece was going to be a home made cat stuffed animal, but running extremely behind all that I finished were two of the legs. So now they can serve as some stylish finger gloves or pencil holders or whatever you can really think of.

Tape

My results for tape were mixed, some good some mediocre.

 

My first idea was to build a mountain out of tape and paper. I simply balled up paper and used tape to secure it down. This is the results.

My second idea was to build a creature out of only tape. I made a type of insect-like creature with long wings. He has a human-ish head and body and long antenna-like arms.

This piece is a casette tape cut in half and mounted on a frame backing. The tape was then pulled out of the shell and strung over the frame.

My final two Tape pieces were simple tape on black paper pieces using lines and contrast.

This one resembles waves or mountains.

This one resembles trees or bamboo.

Water

The water assignment was the first one that I started to feel comfortable on. I had some pieces that I spent a lot of time on and I am proud of what I came up with.

 

My first Idea was to create a wave out of paper. I dipped pieces of paper in water in order to make them plyable and then shaped them into waves and fastened them onto a piece of cardboard using tape. I then used thread to suspend the whole piece from the ceiling which allowed it to spin and show movement like a real wave.

 

My second piece was a wave drawn out with markers, and then made into a box and another wave was drawn on the back side using different colors. On the sides of the box was written "What if it's thicker than water?" which is a quote from a song featured in my favorite surf film. I then took the box and placed it in a plastic bag and filled the bag with water. It was intended to be able to be squeezed so you could feel the water inside.

 

This is the song that the quote is taken from:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPkvsw84tes

 

Similar to the last piece, I wanted to create another piece that was visible in water. I drew a wave on paper and placed it in a baggie. Fun stuff.

 

Nex I had the idea to use water as a medium to splash paint on a big sheet of paper. After the paint dried I cut the large paper into four pieces and wrote a word to describe water on each piece.

My first word was Fresh.

Next was Clean.

Followed by Pure.

And lastly Survival.

 

 My last and favorite piece was and island with a waterfall. To make this I used a base of balsa wood and taped a folded note card on top and then used Gel Medium Modeling Paste, tape, paper, glue and balsa wood to build up the island. After that I painted the whole surface to look like a real island. The final performance was water being poured into the top pool and having it overflow down to the bottom pool creating the waterfall.