Self Assessments

Self Assessment- Remix Project

My idea for this project of what material to print on was guided by the image that I was given by Anuli. It was a picture of her that had been digitally altered using some filter probably on Photoshop. I thought that her brown skin would look good on a brown piece of wood. After I decided to print on wood, my next decision- that being the composition of the project- was determined by the piece of wood that I selected. It was about the size of a playing card relative to Anuli's image if she were a figure on a face card. So my plan was to mirror her image to make 2 of them and then put them on opposite sides of the piece of wood and make it into a playing card. 

As I've learned from previous experiences, the vision that you have in your mind is rarely what your finished project turns out to be. This can be a bad thing or a good thing, depending on how your original idea changes on the way. When I put down the image on the super sauce, a little bit didn't stick. Also, I miscalculated how long the piece of wood was and where I would need to place the image to make it look like a playing card. So after drawing out what I thought a playing card would look like with chalk, I decided to erase it and do something else.

I decided to go in a more abstract direction. While I was in the sculpture studio waiting for my image to dry I was flipping through my notebook for another class. In this class I tend to do a lot of doodling and scribbling on the margins of the pages. So I thought it might be a cool idea to incorporate some of these doodles into my project. I used a piece of chalk to sketch out what I wanted before I drew it with ink. Then I found a box of markers in the painting studio and used those to color in the lines.

My piece is meant to convey disorder, eccentricity and unorthodoxy. The image that Anuli gave me is of herself posing as Rosie the Riveter which in itself was an image that was meant to betray the norm and be an icon for the championing of women in the workplace. Then I flipped it and changed her facial expression, which is another deviation from the original image. The art on the rest of the piece of wood was taken from my sketches and represents my failure to pay attention in class. This to me is a physical manifestation of the disorder that goes on in my head while I'm trying to take notes. And from an aesthetic standpoint it shows eccentricity in its wild swings in color, shape, and subject matter.

I like the way the piece came out considering that I've never done anything like this before- this was my first work with transferring with super sauce. If I could change anything I would probably have used a different medium than chalk for the color white because I feel like it doesn't match up with the rest of the piece which is in ink. I think if I had used white paint it would look a lot cleaner and there wouldn't be chalk dust covering some of my marker lines. It would just have been easier to draw. Overall it was a good experience, I have no problems with super sauce transfer and would definitely be open to using it again in the future.

Self Assessment- Remix Project

My idea for this project of what material to print on was guided by the image that I was given by Anuli. It was a picture of her that had been digitally altered using some filter probably on Photoshop. I thought that her brown skin would look good on a brown piece of wood. After I decided to print on wood, my next decision- that being the composition of the project- was determined by the piece of wood that I selected. It was about the size of a playing card relative to Anuli's image if she were a figure on a face card. So my plan was to mirror her image to make 2 of them and then put them on opposite sides of the piece of wood and make it into a playing card. 

As I've learned from previous experiences, the vision that you have in your mind is rarely what your finished project turns out to be. This can be a bad thing or a good thing, depending on how your original idea changes on the way. When I put down the image on the super sauce, a little bit didn't stick. Also, I miscalculated how long the piece of wood was and where I would need to place the image to make it look like a playing card. So after drawing out what I thought a playing card would look like with chalk, I decided to erase it and do something else.

I decided to go in a more abstract direction. While I was in the sculpture studio waiting for my image to dry I was flipping through my notebook for another class. In this class I tend to do a lot of doodling and scribbling on the margins of the pages. So I thought it might be a cool idea to incorporate some of these doodles into my project. I used a piece of chalk to sketch out what I wanted before I drew it with ink. Then I found a box of markers in the painting studio and used those to color in the lines.

My piece is meant to convey disorder, eccentricity and unorthodoxy. The image that Anuli gave me is of herself posing as Rosie the Riveter which in itself was an image that was meant to betray the norm and be an icon for the championing of women in the workplace. Then I flipped it and changed her facial expression, which is another deviation from the original image. The art on the rest of the piece of wood was taken from my sketches and represents my failure to pay attention in class. This to me is a physical manifestation of the disorder that goes on in my head while I'm trying to take notes. And from an aesthetic standpoint it shows eccentricity in its wild swings in color, shape, and subject matter.

I like the way the piece came out considering that I've never done anything like this before- this was my first work with transferring with super sauce. If I could change anything I would probably have used a different medium than chalk for the color white because I feel like it doesn't match up with the rest of the piece which is in ink. I think if I had used white paint it would look a lot cleaner and there wouldn't be chalk dust covering some of my marker lines. It would just have been easier to draw. Overall it was a good experience, I have no problems with super sauce transfer and would definitely be open to using it again in the future.