Duncan

The reason why I made this was because I like looking at realistic and unrealistic things aligned next to each other. It places your imagination, which is whatever you think of, next to something that you know is true making your dreams seem more attainable. That is the reason why I used people's faces from SLA instead of random faces that you see in the street because since our school is so small these are faces that we see everyday. The two bombs are there for two reasons; one is for the explosion of culture, life, and people. People are fascinating and life is spontaneous and messy and that's the bomb made of pastels and the bomb made of acrylic paint is to portray that sort of Tom and Jerry cartoon thing going on. For example no matter how many times Jerry got blown up, he always bounced back and that's to show everyone's persistence and resilience for chasing their dreams no matter what they are.

The process that I went through was pretty simple but went through a lot of changes and dead ends, at first I was going to draw out the faces of the different people, so I had started and it proved to be to long and tedious, also there was the issue that it took away fro the realistic portion of the piece. So after that I decided to go around and take pictures of each person. I took enough pictures to fill up a much larger canvas but I had to sift through the pictures for the ones with good quality and I made them all black and white so that the colors from the bomb would contrast. I cut out each photograph and glued them down to the paper and then drew the two big circles on each corner. I used bold summer colors so the heat would come through the paper, and then when using the pastels when I was coloring I moved he ash that came from the piece i moved around on the paper to make it a tad more messy.

My piece was made of paper, cardboard, paint, and pastels. When I was making it I was trying to figure out what it meant to me and I really couldn't figure it out. I went into why I made it previously but I was trying to figure out why it held importance. I really just like looking at it and seeing all of the different people. That was my favorite part.

**Why did you make this art piece? I made this piece because I was inspired by the Van Gogh painting, Starry night. The way he did his brush strokes kind of reminded me of string, which is the material that I used to make this piece. I thought the original painting was gorgeous and potrayed a different kind of nighttime beauty than what is displayed today. The town, not being light up by buildings and houses, but solely from the stars and the moon which casts beautiful golden shadows on the rest of the sky. ****How did you make this art piece? The way that I made this piece was more fun than the actually product for me. I made a mixture out of the different colors of paint and glue, which was fairly harder because after I had made my the mixture of colors with the paint the glue wold add white causing it to become a lighter hue. I learned to add the glue first while mixing to work around the situations. Then I cut different lengths of string and completely submerged them in the concoction and then laid them down on the paper in the way that would represent the bigger shape that I was trying to portray. What is this art piece made out of? This art piece is made out of a cardboard background, different colors of tempera paint, glue, and string. What does this art piece mean to you? This piece of art means a lotto me. I spent a lot of time on it and by the end of every art class I was covered in paint. I had so much fun making it, I think thats what I hold most important, it was the process. ** **Why did you make this art piece? The day that I came into art class, I had English previously and we were talking about media and the standards that they put on women. For example, weight, hair, make-up etc. and throughout the years those standards have changed dramatically. I had personally come to the conclusion that the medias influence on the population will never change, but the standards has. I went through some old 70's and 60's magazines and looked through some of the older standards which seemed more attainable and a lot of it focused on inner beauty. I tried to show it as a beaming light of hope for female empowerment. I am not saying in any way that becoming slaves to the media is a good thing, but sometimes the media can feed out some good messages. How did you make this art piece? The way I made this piece was by cutting out of females in old magazines and arranging them on a cardboard paper. Then I used Sharpie marker to outline the outer part of the collage and write girl in five different languages circling around the outline. Then mixed paint to be lighter and lighter so that it look like rays of a sun. I guess it's just my own portrayl of women in our society and their potiental to grow and blossom into something really beautiful. Like rays of sunlight, puppy-dogs and rainbows etc. ** **Why did you make this art piece? This was sort of like a part two out of the first one made of glue paint and string. I usually use tempera paint in all the artwork that I did but I wanted to make this one look a little bit lighter. In this one I added a tree instead of the sun, because I still wanted to keep the same theme but experiment with something different. Just like the last one though I got stuck in deciding what to do in the middle. How did you make this art piece? The way that I made this piece as well as the materials where very simple. Just, paintbrushes and paper. The only thing that I tried to do was to make very light delicate strokes to symbolize the waves as well as different hints of darker in between to accent out the colors. I really don't know what this piece means to me,I feel as though it would be part of a collection of swirly water paintings, i would put it more eloquently if I could. I don't know, it's something about the way the water looks it's just calming. ** **Why did you make this art piece? I made this piece with Mary Altamuro because we came into art right after a physics class on collisions and the effect that it has on force. "Every action has an opposite and equal reaction" so Mary made a joke and said, "we should make a force diagram of a shaft doing it." I thought it was funny, actually hilarious so we borrowed some clay from ceramics and worked on it. Half way through making the "shaft" we figured we would need way more materials than we had and so we had a change of plans, just to create the force diagram of the penis, and THEN it got to vulgar. So we made it abstract covering it with candy wrappers and string trying to make it more "people-friendly." How did you make this art piece? Pretty much we just used clay, lollipop wrappers, and string. **
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