3/11/19
Project:Self Run Medium: Graphic design Objective: Recently I just got illustrator and have been inspired to draw with it!The other day I saw these beautiful cranes, and wanted to draw them in a sunset setting. This was a really good project to learn the tools of illustrator and practice my skills. I am really proud of how this turned out, and excited to make more. With that I also included four different color ways. I wanted to experiment with different color palettes so I included some of my favorite variations. |
2/13/19
Project:Class assignment Class:IB Art Objective: This piece was created in response to my Comparative study in IB art. A comparative study is where I take 2 artists, 3 pieces of work and compare them visually and also culturally. For mine I chose Kehinde Wiley and Tawny Chatmon to study. I created my piece based off that, and my own vision for the project. Artist Statement:I want this piece to represent the women who are coming out against sexual assault as apart of the Me Too movement. So many felt they couldn't speak out against horrendous acts that happened to them, but of this past year and currently so many have found the strength to stand up and speak out .It saddens me so much how women have been scared or ashamed to speak out, many being threatened if they do. This is to celebrate the Me Too movement, and the amazing people who are working to change rape culture in the United States. This movement has empowered women to speak out, and come forward.I think it would be really cool to have this piece represent that, show faces of those who felt like they didn’t have a place to hear their voice. Who were once in hiding (Camo) but then spoke out and gave power to so many women to speak out and challenge how our society handles sexual assault. |
Size:40cmX30.5cm
Medium: Acrylic on canvas, with Oil based paint pen |
Artist Statement
My piece for the 21 Helmets art show explores the use of color and graphic. I recently was in California seeing the beautiful palm trees that encompass it. I wanted to create a graphic of the palms with the use of colors I typically don’t see on motorcycle helmets. While developing this graphic, much of the helmet was created through experimentation. I played around with the shapes on the helmet, seeing how the flow of the palms were. I got reminded of older movies in California, with people cruising along the coast. After many trial and errors, I found a pattern that I feel reflects the movement I see in palms. I watched some older footage of surfing in California, with surfers doing insane tricks in the bright blue sea, inspiring the use of blue for the palm leaves. I further created wave like shapes within some of the palms. |
Artist Statement: With how this reflects my self identity, I wanted this piece to be a multi colored reversed picture of myself because I always pride myself in being very original in my work/style. When one person tells me to act/look a certain way I typically go the opposite/reverse route, following my heart and allowing myself to be who I am, and not what other people tell me who I should be. I grew up with a lot of that, I would color and cut my hair in crazy ways and always get told that it was wrong.
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9/4/18
Project:Class assignment Class:Ceramics/Sculptures Objective: In my sculptures and ceramics class, my teacher wanted us to create a piece using oil pastels. As this is not sculptures like the class is named after, the next step with this is to take the picture we drew, then create it into some type of sculpture. I have worked with oil pastels before, but it was a bit ago. I had so much fun creating this toucan. Toucans are such beautiful birds, and I thought it would be perfect for this project. I got real into making this piece, and really like how it turned out. |
While going through my cupboard/closet, I found this perfect un-used mask form. I thought its shape was almost perfect. But it didn't have that winged look of a butterfly that I wanted. So using it as a blank canvas I decided to modify it for my needs. To do that I grabbed my tinfoil in the kitchen to make its shape. I molded it with my hands, cutting it to its shape, and also making sure that the other side was symmetrical. I hot glued every layer so that it would stay put, and be strong for the next step in its process.
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This was one of my favorite parts to make. I learned this trick where if you put hot glue on parchment paper you are able to make shapes or anything you want. Instead of using felt to make the pattern butterflies have, I wanted to use this technique. So I drew the pattern I wanted on the parchment paper, then created it with hot glue. I made 1 for each side of the mask
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For my final step, and sorta a cherry on top, I wanted to create butterflies for each end of the mask. Like I mentioned previously how I wanted the mask to look like it resembled these butterflies, I painted them the color of the mask. I thought these were a really nice touch and brought the piece in together. I was going to do my hot glue pattern over them, but I am happy that I didn't because I feel it would distract the eye and be a little much.
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Photograph illustration inverse6/8/18
Project:Self run Objective: Celebrating the last day of school I decided to do a little illustration over some pictures I just took. I created one image with yellow writing, then thought it would be fun to inverse the image in different colors. I feel this came out very successful being able to work with many different inverted colors. I used Sketchbook pro and created the writing around the picture. I loved being able to practice this style and hope to evolve its look with more projects like this. |
Communication Magazine3/8/18
Project: Class assignment Class: IB German 5-6 Objective: Today we were assigned to create a writing piece to showcase our new knowledge on the topic of internet and modern day communication in German class. This project was a open project, allowing us to write in any form we want, so I chose to do a magazine! It was great getting to mix my creativity with also my German skills. I chose to discuss what Instagram is, and to tell why it is a form of communication. I have added my magazine into slideshow form like you are flipping through a magazine. |
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C.H.S logo2/6/18
Project: Class assignment Class: Graphic design Objective: Today we were assigned a project created by an administrator at school to create a logo that would represent CHS. Compassion, Honor, and Scholarship. This phrase is affiliated with our school because our school initials are also CHS. The goal of this project was to create a logo that would be on the posters and other print ads to represent the CHS acronym so when people see the logo, they immediately think of Compassion, Honor, and Scholarship. For this, I created a logo that has each of those elements. The hands and the heart being Compassion, the graduation cap being Scholarship and the star on the tassels representing Honor. I am really happy with how it turned out an to see what how this logo can be used in school marketing. |
Photoshop doodles2/6/18
Project: Self run/ Experimental Objective: This project was completed just playing around. I would get the Eclipse tool and fill circles with the two colors to make a fancy pattern. I did all types of circles and ovals, making two mega shapes. Overall I enjoyed being able to make my own print and having fun with Photoshop. |
Versus T-Shirt Flyers2/3/18
Project: Class assignment Class: Leadership Objective: For the t-shirts that I designed, I wanted to make a poster that would represent and also present the shirts well. The flyers will be hung up around the school, posted on social media and any other way of advertisement to get the word about the shirts, and hype them up. |
2018 Versus T-Shirts2/1/18
Project: Class assignment Class: Leadership Objective: On March 14th, 2018 we will have our annual Cleveland High School Versus assembly. The biggest assembly of the year! It is a huge event where the Underclass (9th and 10th grade) is Vs. Upperclass (11th and 12th grade) and Vs the staff in a series of mini games. I was so excited to get asked by our student body president to create the shirts this year. I wanted to make these special, giving every shirt a different pattern. These successfully got voted by the Leadership class, and will be official shirts. |
1/31/18
Project: Class assignment Class: Digital Media Objective: Today was the first class learning Adobe Photoshop!I have some previous knowledge of the program, but in class, we watched some tutorials and I learned some new features just by trial and error. We were tasked to create a flyer/poster for our upcoming school auction. As the name is called "Camp Cleveland" so for one of my posters I wanted to incorporate some camp vibes. Such as the stars on one of my posters, and a cool effect on another where I layer an image I have when I go to camp with a smoke effect. Overall it was a lot of fun to make these posters, I kept coming up with more and more designs and I wanted to create what I was imagining to represent this event, and to also give our client many options to choose from. Honors: I am so excited to say that my sunset poster got picked by the Auction planners! It got printed out, and posted throughout the school. |
11/28/17
Project: Self run Artist statement:I had another inspiration to create an outfit drawing today. I matched all the colors from the original image I used to make the drawing as similar as possible. The program I used to draw this was sketchbook Pro, using a Cintiq tablet to recreate the picture. |
11/26/17
Project: Self run/experiment Artist statement: For this project, I decided to create Instagram grid art. I used an image that I took, and created a background. The background I made was a horizontal line pattern. This helps connect the image from the view of the Instagram feed. It is kinda like a puzzle, with all the pieces making one larger image. When you look at the individual images it focuses on those particular ones, but when you look at the full picture it directs you to the grand total. |
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