Watercolor

For the watercolor project, I decided to put my own spin on it. Originally I was going to do a landscape, but I just could not seem to get it the way I wanted it. Instead I did some watercolor blending and decided to do something with it afterwards. Since it was the day before Winter Break started, I was in the wintery mood, and decided to cut snowflakes out of the watercolored paper. The glitter on the snowflakes started as an accident, but I definitely think some of them turned out really well. I wish my cursive was better, though, because I feel like it would have made the entire project look better if I had better handwriting. All in all, I think it's a good message to send, and that the watercolored snowflakes fit really well.

Choose Your Genre Project

For this project, I did end up going along the lines of Roy Lichtenstein with the comic-y dot coloring. I feel like this could turn out a lot better if I take another go at it, mostly because I wasn't really sure how to do the dotting. The colors are a tad off in this picture, but I do really like it in real life. A lot of what I learned doing this was that sometimes your plans don't always work out and you need to be able to adapt to the situation. I really love the argyle-style background, but if I ever do it again, it will definitely be on a smaller scale.

Stamp Project

So, for my stamp project I decided to do two, because the bow stamp really didn't take that much effort. I was really excited to do the stamps because I never got to my sophomore year, and then screwy scheduling couldn't fit me into Art my junior year.

There isn't really much to learning how to stamp, although I did learn that sometimes a little really DOES go far, and it takes patience to get the stamp to fully transfer. I also learned how to mix colors to get the color that I wanted.