Opacity drawing

For the opacity project I drew two glass vases, one with blue pebbles , and one empty one. I started by lightly outlining the first vase, the adding pebbles. Looking back, I probably should have made the pebbles lighter so it was easier to draw in the highlights later.

Next, I drew in the next glass and added some highlights and blue accents. 

Overall I'm happy with the end result. I used a few reference pictures to create an origional piece, and it was a good learning experience using Prisma colors for the first time. 

"Wow look at that view" point of view drawing

For this project I decided to draw the bakery in downtown Apex. I decided to make it as realistic as possible, so it isn't the most origional piece, but I'm happy with the finished drawing. It was difficult to be consistent with the shading and smoothness using pencils, but the most  difficult thing to do was keeping lines straight and neat. I didn't draw the rest of the buildings around the bakery, but I like how the negative space makes it look simple and neat. 

Prisma Color Candy

   To make the candy look like it was in a clear wrapper I used a white colored pencil on a black price of paper to show the highlights. I'm happy with the finished piece, but next time I would add more colors to the candy. 

Printmaking

    The goal of this project was to create a print by showing textures with ink and linoleum. To do so i started by finding reference pictures of deer and forests and created a sketch. Next I traced the sketch onto tracing paper to transfer it onto the linoleum. i colored in the parts of the picture i wanted paint to be and left the areas that I was going to cut out white. Then i cut the linoleum, rolled it with paint, and printed it onto a piece of paper. This project was difficult because it was hard to carve the linoleum, and I used too much paint.

Combining images in photoshop

   Using Phtoshop we combined a picture of a frog and a mouth to create a picture that looked like a frog tongue. To do this we removed the background of the frog image and placed it on top of the mouth image. Then, using the clone stamp tool, we made the frog look pink and fleshy like a tongue. Doing these projects has helped me realize how much easier Phtoshop is to use than I tught, and they were fun.

Angry Pancakes

   Using photoshop, i combined a picture of a fish and a picture of pancakes to make "angry pancakes". on one layer of photoshop i had a picture of a fish, and on the other i had the pancake picture. i made the fish smaller and removed the areas around the mouth. Then, using the liquify feature, i made the pancakes wide enough to fit the mouth. after putting the two pictured this was the result.

Stencil

    While doing this project we were to pick a picture and make a stencil out of it. first we picked a picture, and then we used photoshop to make the picure only three colors. After we projected our altered pictures onto the wall ant traced the different colors onto poster paper. our last step was to cut out the poster and spraypaint the stencil onto cardboard. The lesson i learned was that if you are not neat your artwork will not come out how it is supposed to look. My project was successful because it is neat and it looks like marlyn monroe.