Melendez

=Quarter 1= Why did you make this art piece? What I did these art pieces is just be me and do what first came to my mind. I wanted to freely express myself and do something that would capture my creativity while still showing who i was and having a part of me. The pieces so not look complex or things much thoughts but they both equally took me some time to do while also challenging me. I went with a more free style style with these pieces because that is what I am strongest at. How did you make this art piece? The first piece I started off with a sketch in my sketch book and I was drawing squiggly line to get my thoughts then I wanted to draw something that could get tangled. Like a tangle of thoughts and such is what first came to mind. So what popped into my head next was flowers and there vines. So I went with that and started a whole new sketch. From there I went on to think of the colors that I could use and what I wanted it to represent. I came up with the vines, food, and light together being overpower by the water thats feeds them. The water was a last minute decision, I actually did all the hard work and all the lines then was stuck with a white background and wanted to make it blue so I had to go back and do that separately. But yea I chose to make the vines green, the food orange, the light yellow, and the water blue. So in the end I made the picture reflect flowers and their growth process, in my mind going back to us and how we function and all that we need to survive.

My second piece I wanted to always do a splatter piece with a bunch of colors but I didn't know how or what i wanted to use or how i wanted it to look. So in my sketch book I started to write color that i though would match in all when there being combined together. I got lost and started over again a lot because I got stuck many times in finding colors that would go together so I went back to the picture I already had done and looked at the colors there. I didn't want to copy because this was a new piece with new inspiration so I only took three colors and added three others. I started off with my first color and made that a big dot to make like my starting point then I just threw it as if i was washing the brush to get off the colors. Then I followed that step with all my other colors and then i decided to stop before the colors started to clash. The inspiration was the want to do this type of art and emotional stress. This got out emotions held in which i represented with colors all meaning a different emotion. What is this art piece made out of? Both art pieces are made out of just paper not thick not thin. I didn't really want to make them big and on professional products because they were just thoughts being brought out not extreme master pieces. There will be much more to come as time goes on. What does this art piece mean to you? They both means a lot to me because I've been wanting to draw and paint for awhile and I didn't have the chance and I was finally given the opportunity. They both got something out and although the look just simple have a lot more explanation behind them. Like emotions, thoughts and feelings.

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media type="custom" key="6362053" media type="custom" key="6362063" Why didi you make this art piece? If there is one thing that me and m mother share is our love for horses. I feel that horses are the prettiest strongest animals that I;m not afraid of that are out there. My mother is a drawler and I told her to teach me and these are pictures that we came up with. The first one is of a horse like running away and the other is a close up. If i could change one this is drawling with a pencil because it seems fake and using recycled paper. My mother is strong on recycling so you can see the background of what was printed or written previously. How did you make this art piece? I took drawling paper and a pencil with my moms outlines and just added to them and drew the effects an little details. What is this art piece made out of? Drawing paper and a pencil with instructions. What does this art piece mean to you? It means a lot to me actually. I mean i guess it's simply but me and my mom don't do a lot of any thing together so for us to be able to share a common like, and on top of that come out with something like this is just amazing. I really like it and only wish we could do more things together.

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Why did you make this art piece? This time my inspiration for my art project came from the Philadelphia Art Show. I went with my mother, aunt, and grandmother and I just felt like liveliness as soon as I walked in. What I did with a picture was just alter the picture that I took so that I can make the essential point it the picture stand out. I wanted to give credit to the people and organizations that made the plants and arrangements while at the same time add a little part different with my own twist. This is a picture that I took myself and I just wanted to edit it so that you can see the actual art with a background. How did you make this art piece? I did this piece by simply picking one that I liked and then learning about photo shop. Since my school gives us apple computer I can access Photoshop pretty easily. What took the longest with me was that i didn't know how to use photoshop so what took the longest was getting to understand and know how to make that. Once I got the hang of how to distort things and blur this and brighten that, it was over I got into it and did a my favorite picture. What is this art piece made out of? It is made out of pictures that I took on my trip to the Philadelphia Art Show. Then just picked my favorite and then photo shopped it. What does this art piece mean to you? It means a lot to me because the pictures is beautiful and for me to be able to just change the background and leaving the original art work to stay the same is awesome. Although it just looks like it was east, “oh I can do that I just have t go to___(insert site here)___, but it actually took time and required the choice to what effect you want to give that specific artwork. Why did you make this art piece? With this piece two other students and i wanted to create something multi cultural. The poster we wanted to be about stereotypes. This project was well brainstormed and we got together for several classes and tried to put it together. We feel as though many stereotypes come from many different cultures but yet //why,// are we not all equal. How did you make this art piece? We wanted this to be made in the form of a collage, with poster paper and cut outs. In addition to that we wanted to add visual representations of these stereotypes. At the top and the bottom of the poster is written a quote by Chinua Achebe. We then wanted the flag that represents our race/ethnicity. How did you make this art piece? We made this with paper the paper was black and we then put the quote up in white paint. Traced the united states on a another piece of paper and the were going to add the flag. One of my partners got there up. What does this art piece mean to you? What this art piece means to me is that we are all equal. The cut out of the United States in the center was put there just to prove that were all connected and all share something were human and like on the same continent just in different states. But for some reason we are stilled classified by stereotypes and things that "represent" where our ancestors came/come from. With this thought in our head we were trying to visually show this and bring agreement to the school. =Quarter 4=

media type="custom" key="6361791" Why did you make this art piece? My partner and I Roberto Albano want to make a big collage of work that we have done from the begging of the year. Kind of a new fresh start piece of work, “bringing in the new and out with the old.” Also we are doing videos of artwork serious that we have created and it is with me Mary, Roberto, Teila and a few others I believe. How did you make this art piece? We plan to just get a big piece of like tissue paper and get work from all of our classes and then just putting them together in a cute artistic way. We actually made Teila into a burrito and then want to make a series of artworks with people and then that is what inspired us from there. What is this art piece made out of? A big piece of paper, paint, work, and effort. For our video art creativity, paper, crayons, markers, people, camera and imagination. When you see what is being done you will see the idea and how it became what we wanted to make out art project. What does this art piece mean to you? Were doing it on non-healthy food and a new beginning so. It’s just to aware ourselves and friends while at the same time constructing art. It mean the freedom to be able to express what we feel in ways that other schools would not permit us to, and we love it.