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The Reilly Center on Game Day

For my final part of my final assignment, I chose to paint the Reilly center during a basketball game. Obviously it’s not exactly what it looks like but it was important for me painting this because going to games as a student has meant a lot to me. I have shared some great experiences with friends and it’s something that I will always cherish. I can’t wait to go to many more in the future but these games really show what it means to be a Bonnie and it’s great to see a community come together towards something like they do on game days.

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During finals week, I put sticky notes in the bathroom closest to the RC cafe to try to encourage students and offer some positivity toward them during the stressful week. Hopefully someone was able to see it and I was able to positively effect someone. I felt those 4 notes would be what someone may need during a rough time.

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For the first part of my final, I decided to do the outdoor artwork with rocks. I wanted to make something that would reflect myself graduating in a few days and tried to resemble that with putting SBU 23 as my design for this portion of the final. I feel that it allows me to reflect on my time here and this university and the change that I am about to go through in my life.

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Peter the Polar Bear is a very shy bear. He doesn’t like to be around too many people and keeps away from most. He’s not a big fan of dancing but said he would do it this one time. He said hopefully his dancing is good enough.

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For this weeks assignment, I chose to make shoes out of plastic grocery bags and I was able to have my dad model for over break as well. And they are waterproof!

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I chose to do a futuristic car for this assignment on futurism. I wanted to make something that looked similar to something that you would see in cartoons when they portray the future. It is a flying car that doesn’t rely on wings and doesn’t have wheels. It’s pretty much like a hover spacecraft that has legs itself that would allow the car to be parked in place.

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My list of trash items that I found was from my house here at college. They are all pretty self explanatory and I added a little art design on the paper towel that I used to add a little bit of creativity that went along with the color scheme of the items. The mtn dew wrapper was a little bit of an outlier but I figured I would add it to include another color.

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When looking for something to do with my midterm assignment, I wanted it to be with someone in sports. I thought this was particularly interesting to use as an example mental health and beauty standards for people who like to view these types of magazines. The photo does seem to be photoshopped, obviously, but this is much deeper than just photoshopping a picture.

When people look at these magazines, they want to see motivation and tips on how to improve their fitness. They want to live a healthier lifestyle. Andy Roddick was never mentioned in the cover of the magazine, but he was photoshopped on the cover so someone who is seen as a good looking athlete could represent what they are trying to push to their audience. If you follow their tips in the magazine, you will look like that. And that just isn’t true. I tried to capture an unrealistic picture in my painting because someone to look like what I depicted could never happen. I feel like you can be much happier in life and improve you mental heal a lot easier with being yourself and setting small goals than listening to a lot of unrealistic tips in a magazine that has someone photoshopped on the cover.

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The Symbolism of my Life

I chose to make a star with a pinecone in the middle because of what they stand for. The star is a symbolism for the stages of my life. It symbolizes your birth, your life, and your ultimate death. It shows you that everything must come to an end one day and you should make the most of your opportunities that you get in your life, no matter how long or short it may be. The pinecone represents the uniqueness of life and how everyone is different. I feel that I am unique in my interests and have a very unique way about doing some things so I tried to tie both the star and the pinecone together showing that during my life, I was myself and didn’t try to change just for possibility acceptance from others

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Sunday at the Course!

I chose this picture that my mom had on her phone of me playing in my for golf tournament with St. Bonaventure. She didn’t have the actual photo but she actually had a picture of the photo that she painted on her painting app funny enough. I tried to put my own spin on it by not including myself or my teammate. Didn’t also want to include the flagpole because I felt that would take away from the backdrop.

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I chose to leave my card at a student house in Allegany. I wanted my card to be a sign of encouragement to the people living in the house for finals week.

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When looking at the different examples, I thought the one that was the most interesting was Matisse’s example and I tried to replicate myself in that form from a picture of myself from two summers ago. I liked the different color aspect of it and it not being a traditional picture. It was interesting mixing and matching the colors to make up an image of myself!

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My spirit animal is the wolf. I am currently at Baltimore airport and I was walking around and I noticed a picture of a wolf on an advertisement on the wall. I thought this was the perfect to use because I felt it was meant to be that I saw it while I was about to start my drawing of a wolf. I connect with the wolf because of its strong family ties, good understanding of itself and things around it, and it’s communication with those around it. I feel all those attributes make up myself.

When researching the mythology of the wolf, I learned that the wolf was associated with warriors and was seen as a loyal companion to some people in mythology. I am a person who is very loyal to those around me. I like to always be in strong communication to those who I care about as well. I see the warrior side of the wolf in myself, especially when I am competing on the golf course. You have to have a confidence about you when you play golf and you have to be aggressive and attack each course you play to be successful.

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The Nightmare of Dev

I took this picture because I felt this was a very central part of campus. It looks like pictures you would see in a yearbook from the 50s. I thought this looked like a great picture to use because it features Dev and all of its ivy. Dev has had numerous stories told over the years of ghosts living on the 5th floor. I wanted to incorporate it in this post because of that.

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The fright of Halloweekend

For my skull, I wanted to try to make a design of a Halloween featured poster. I wanted it to resemble something that you would see outside of a haunted house. My artistic abilities aren’t great but I tried my best!