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Camouflage/dissolve. For my project I used acrylic paints. To make the rock formations I used a wide brush and did a circle than filled it up. I chose this formation because I felt it was the most interesting, but I forgot how challenging it’d be to draw so many different rocks. I also had trouble matching the colors, since I used far too much blue, and it was too late when I noticed it. I think if not for all the blue I used I would’ve been more successful in camouflaging my cereal box. Or if the rocks were blue, because I feel that the overall shapes of the rocks I painted were quite accurate. I put the photo in gray scale and it matched up pretty well. I’m not too disappointed since I’m not the best painter especially at acrylics.

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Everyday Monuments.

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10 in between spaces:

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Assignment #1 QCQ

1. “Color names are marketing tools, meaning they help sell paint,” “said Lyne Castonguay, merchandising vice president for paint at The Home Depot.”

2. I selected this quote because I find it intriguing that the names of colors can be used as a way to market and sell more paint. My opinion is that this is very true and that color names can play a huge part in selling. I can say this from experience, since honestly, it has worked on me. I remember buying a certain type of pink marker just cause I liked the name over the other one more. I feel like this happens because most people would go for the more aesthetically pleasing name if they can’t decide between a color. Or if they see the name of a certain color it may make them curious about it and they may decide to check the color and in the end they buy it. Speaking from my own experience that’s why I complete agree with the quote I chose.

3. Have you ever bought a certain color of marker, paint, pencil etc, just because you found the name aesthetically pleasing? I certainly have, multiple times. I’ve done for the paint for my room, markers I use, as well as even my desk and chair. I was wondering if this is more common than I thought or if I just really like aesthetically pleasing names.

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Assignment #4 single color swatch

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Index

1. DO IT! I was not a part of this class when this was done.

2. LINESCAPES I was not a part of this class when this was done.

3. NATURAL:OBJECTS

4. BOTANICAL RHYTHMS

5. DECODE FRACTALS

6. NATURE OF SURFACES

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In order to waste the pens ink, I decided to draw on shoes. I’m used to sketching with pens or pencils so this was nice. I started by sketching my idea on paper and than doing it on the shoes. Once I finished, I wasted the rest of the ink by just going over it many times especially the darker areas to ensure it was pitch black. Also to make sure the pens ink would be wasted easily. I spent around 5 hours wasting ink.

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P8 Campuflage. For this I decided to mainly focus on the color green. I decided to use my hood in order to cover up my hair so that it’d fit in more with my environment. I wanted to take many types of pics. Ones where I stood out and ones where I could hide with the green. I tried to take photos with complementary colors in order to stand out a little more in some of them in order to further emphasize my green outfit. I didn’t have any green shoes but I don’t think it’s that noticeable.

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For the NATURE OF SURFACES PROJECT I decided to do what one of the artists the professor showed us did. Unfortunately I forgot their name. But they used shapes and than isolated the charcoal into the shape with various textures. For my pieces I used a piece of wood I had, my curtain, my mousepad, a yarn plushie, and my wall. As the textures I wanted to show off. To be honest I strongly dislike charcoal so it didn’t come out how I expected, but for what it is I guess it’s ok.

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For this piece I attempted to use wood cutting knives to make something similar to that of a feather. I used the wood as a way to create deep cuts that could resemble a feather. I traced over the wood’s structure to use it as the structure for the feathers. I slowly scraped the wood of to give more sorta depth. After I used markers to add a bit of color to emphasize that they are supposed to be feathers.

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Process pics

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Process pics

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My intent was to show how nature shows a cycle of life and death. I put photos of snapdragons to emphasize how pretty they were alive, and than I showed their husks. These husks resemble a human skull which kinda shows how everything including things in nature will fade off eventually. As well as possibly even representing people in general. Maybe living a great life but at some point but eventually things end, and no one not even nature can stop the cycle. So like I posted the bugs and insects as well to show how when one journey ends a new one begins. I wanted the living creature photos to represent a new era or generation. Sort of like things fading out, but others coming. I wanted represent certain ideas of how one thing could die but something even better might come after. I put pics of eerie gardens and webs to show how whether we like it or not things in nature end just like everything else, eventually becoming unrecognizable.