Geometric line drawing

This was my geometric line drawing, which uses circles and lines of various shapes and colors to create a sort of whimsical looking lollipop scene. It was done using a program called Decosketch on my iPad, and uses pinks and purples, and then the rainbow speckling in the background. This was mostly just me experimenting with the program to see what I could do, but I think it looks alright.

Design and stamp project

This was a sadly incomplete project, but I wanted to post what I DID get finished of it. This was a project that involved cutting out a stamp to make prints with, and then taking the prints into the program Wishboard, on the iPad, and making a series of directional pieces with it by repeating it several times. I chose to do a cat paw shape for mine because I love cats, and I thought it would be really cute to have a stamp that looked like one stepped on your paper! I joked about using this to put cat paw stamps in random places.

The last image was just an experiment in the Popart program on the tablet, changing the color and adding comic book effects to make it look very grainy, I think it had interesting results, so I wanted to go ahead and post it!

Scratchboard piece

I really really enjoyed this project, and fully intend to do scratchboards again in the future. The process of this medium is tedious like the pointillism, but it was very enjoyable to work on it and to see the image coming out through the black board. I especially enjoyed trying to figure out how to do the fur, the direction and the depth of it to make it look believable. I think this came out the best around the tummy and facial regions, where the shapes really shine through.

The scratchboaring process is basically taking a white board coated in a black coloring, and using special tools to scrape away the black to form an image out of the white underneath. There were a lot of interesting tools that came in the kit I got, one for tiny details, one for fur or hair, and even one that resembled an eraser for more smooth areas. Overall this was an incredibly enjoyable process and I really am eager to do it again in the future.

Organic design project

This piece was the very first project I did in this class, and it was incredibly interesting! The first stage of it was using organic methods to spread paint over the surface of a few Styrofoam plates, using water, paint and a clear base that allowed the paint to spread. After spreading the paint I topped it off with some golden powder to make it shiny(maybe a little too much gold but I really like shinies). After the plates dried, I picked out the ones that I enjoyed the most and cut them out in the shapes seen here, I chose some rectangular shapes, and then the shape of a more abstract looking cat.

The plate pieces themselves were glued down onto a board painted to sort of resemble space, using water and acryllics to get the right effect. The last thing I did to the board was use gold paint to put a shiny border around it, and then I dabbed the same gold powder used on the cat, into the still slightly wet paint so it would stick. Overall I think the whole effect carried really nicely, and I'm happy with how my first project turned out!