this is why i changed majors...

so, a semester full of time consuming projects and the end result is a bunch of pictures showing them to you! enjoy! i enjoyed making them, for the most part...mainly the satisfaction of making something creative, not so much the stress and stuff. here they are!

PROJECT #1: Gestalt Principles (this one sucked balllllllsssss!!!)
for this one, we had to cut black construction paper with an xacto knife and glue it to white pieces of paper, shaped in circles and rectangles. i don't know where my notebook went of the other 36 of them, but we had to make 48, 12 on the computer and 36 by hand. we chose our 12 best to display and these were mine. this is one of the projects that got chosen as 8 best out of the entire class. i'm proud of myself. i thought it looked like crap, but whatever. my teacher liked it and i guess that's all that matters. one of my labels fell off, but that one represents an anomaly. anyways...

PROJECT #2: Personality Diptych
this one was my favorite. we had to xerox a body part to represent a part of our external self in one panel and for the other, we had to create a collage of our internal self. this was awesome. i scanned my fists, in order to show my facade of strength and on the second panel, i had the negative image of my fists, with the work "weak" in the negative space to show my lack of strength on the inside. it's really more of a piece of all people, because we all sort of do this, but i do it too, so i thought it was pretty applicable. i titled it "strong enough to break" after a hanson song. i explained it in my paper, which i got a 50 on because it was a long paragraph and apparently they had warned us to not just have one paragraph. it was longer than a page, but whatever, a grade's a grade and it was stupid that i got half off simply because it was just a paragraph, didn't matter how well written it was or anything. whatever. here's this one...

PROJECT #3: Contour Drawing
i absolutely hated this project! it took forever and every night of homework, we were required to spend at least two hours on, so it was dumb. i got a C on it because i refused to do the homework...probably not the best decision, but oh well. i can't rewind and do it over, so i'll just agree to that grade, even though i think i did a heck of a job drawing it...

PROJECT #4: 3-D Foam Board Sculpture
it's odd to think that in the whole semester i was in art, we only did 5 projects...oh well. anyways, for this one, we had to create a sculpture to commemorate an event. i chose to commemorate the december 26, 2004 tsunami that hit the indian coast. over 180,000 people died. so for them, i drew tallies, with a silver pen all over every wave i had. i had 28 total waves lined up next to each other, and it took me 9 hours to draw the tallies on them. i almost got carpel tunnel and a mental disorder doing this, so appreciate it! we had to use symbolism and create an abstract monument. this would, if i made it into a monument, stand to be about 36-40 feet tall with the smallest part inside the tunnel being 7-8 feet so people could walk around in it. i thought it was a cool idea, it just didn't turn out perfect enough for me...but that's because i'm a perfectionist and am never satisfied with anything i create. it's sad...if you look closely, there would be a sign or something inside the tunnel telling what it commemorates. that part was hard to do.
PROJECT #5: Color Analysis
this one, we had to use color pencils and create different non-objective images with different color schemes. it was our last one, so they made it pain-free and simple, which i loved. it was a good ending to a loooong semester!