So Spring semester of 2009 I needed a class that was only offered during the day. I made the arrangements at work to go to the class, but here's the kicker I get counted as a Day student and not a Night student and all of a sudden they are asking for an extra 7K in tuition... Well i did get a scholarship and additional grant money and a couple extra loans but decided that I ought to get my money's worth and added an Art class, nothing difficult ARTS 100, Intro to Studio Arts.The class ended up being as easy and enjoyable as expected and I got an A despite skipping both of the papers. The first project was a collage, with the theme, "A Sense of Place," I hadn't really done any collage type work since a Design class I took that I like to call "Intro to Cut and Paste" followed by "Advanced Sharp Objects" I didn't do as well in "Advanced Sharp Object, but I still have all my fingers and the scars are almost gone. My idea for this project was the idea of a river that comes through all the parts of life. Not only is on the river somewhere that I've spent a measurable portion of my life but the river is also symbolic as a source of life. There are five sections that are represented. I will refer to them (top to bottom) as Sky, Mountains, Forest, Desert, and Grassland. 
Overall I think it was pretty successful, nothing to write home about, but successful. I may have to do a blog on the word successful in art. I like the way the grassland and desert areas turned out, along with the contrast between the flat and textured areas. I could have done more in the forest and sky areas and I wish I'd found more texture pieces for the mountain area, or maybe done what I did with the grasslands and made some with paint. The areas I like the most all had repeated shapes in the textures, with the grassland area i even stenciled in the shape a few times with paint which looks really neat. |