Nigro



For My third quarter benchmark I wanted to revisit a project that I have completed before in 9th grade. Frshman year we had to create a stamp of one of the elements on the periodic table. To create this stamp we used a piece of linoleum and a carving tool. For my project this year I wanted to do the same thing but something a little more complex. I found a picture of a sunflower nline and traced it onto paper. I then had to take my sketch and copy it on tracing paper so that I can draw the sunflower onto the lenoleum backwards. The hardest thing with creating my stamp was deciding which parts of the picture would be positive and which would be negative. What ever i decided to keep positive (not carved out) would be what showed up on the paper when i stamped it. When I finally came to my decission I was able to begin carving my stamp. it was fun to do but very tedious work, it takes patients.

(picture of stamp)

When I finished making the stamp I wanted to make my final product look abstract and full of color. I decided to print my stamp in four different vibrent colors and to have them side by side and on top of oneanother. I didn't have any other reason behind why I chose to print my stamp the way that I did I just figured that it would make it stand out. And that is exactly what it does.

(picture)



I created my art piece because I am inspired by all different kinds of landscapes. My favorite kind of landscapes are those of tropical scenery. Drawing any landscape is new to me and because art is learned by trial nad error I wanted see how I would do at this type of art. To create my landscape of a tropical scene I had to first draw multiple sketches of the scene. After drawing my final sketch I had to decide how I was going to color my art work. At first I wanted to color it in by using different colors of yarn but as time went on I changed my mind. I wanted to use water colors which meant I needed to play around with the colors to figure out how to use them properly because watercolors are hard to work with. After mixing colors and learning how adding sifferent amounts of water can change the texture of the paint I needed to put the colors into contex to see if it looked right with the drawing and the way I pictured it in my head. Although my piece isn't completely finished I worked very hard to get as far as I did. Watercolors aren't the easiest to work with. What took the longest was the learning process of how to mix colors and how to shade different objects and also had to add depth to the picture. My art work, to me, means that I worked hard to learn something new. I am proud of the progress that I have made and I am hoping that with future works of art I can show much improvement because I am a beginner artist.