An Ode To Pop Art

1,020 flower petals later...

For my grid project, I decided to glue fake flower petals to a canvas, and paint a picture on these petals.

The first step for me was deciding what to do as my picture.  Last semester I enjoyed making my poster project, and even used the concept to create my final painting in my ART204 class, so I decided to give it another shot.  It;s something I enjoy, and I think it has turned out pretty good every time I've attempted it, so it only made sense.

To start, I took a picture of my face, because I knew I wanted to use a picture of me for this project.  The next step was easy.  Use the process I learned in ART210 with Santi and make a poster.  First, I converted the picture into black and white in Photoshop, adjusted the brightness and contrast, and used the dodge and burn tools to bring out more detail in certain areas, like my eyes and lips.  After I was finished with Photoshop,  I opened the new image in Illustrator and used the Image Trace tool to make the poster.

Next, I drew a grid on my Illustrator image, so that I would have a grid to work off of when making the real thing.

After a trip to Michael's to purchase the canvas and petals, I got to work.

My grid was required to be 30 units by 30 units, but mine ended up being 34 units by 30 units.  In my Illustrator grid, my project was originally supposed to be 34 units by 44 units, but after starting I realized that 44 petals would simply not fit down the side of my canvas without being even more on top of each other than they already were.  

While glueing the petals onto the canvas, my hot glue gun burned me more times than I would like to admit, and some not so nice words were yelled because of that.  After I finally glued all 1,020 petals onto the canvas (yes, there really is 1,020 of them), used black paint to create the image.  As you can see by my Illustrator file, I was originally going to write a quote at the bottom of the grid, but ended up liking the finished product more without it.

So, there you have it.  That is the story of my grid project.  The pictures below go in the order of the description above.

I put a lot of work into this, and hope you all like the final product as much as I do!

 

Electronics Paper

Attached here is my electronics paper.

For my paper, I decided to look at the past, present, and future of the television.  

While the future of television, in my example, led to a terrible world, please note that I do not have this terrible vision for the future of humanity.

I hope you enjoy my paper.

Again, the link to read it is above, or you can click the link below to be redirected to the paper:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rZbPWDgVXdZcF58rJaPJIRyIpwpnea0arDtPq-68JlY/edit

And since I don't have a picture or video to go along with this assignment, please enjoy this picture of some mini doughnuts I bought this weekend at the Mini Doughnut Factory.

Yes, they were delicious.

Flip Book Project

After a long weekend of coloring and creating, here is my completed flip book project.

This project was supposed to be at least 200 pages, and mine ended up being 217 pages total, so yay for over-achieving!  It was well worth it, even though at many points I thought my hand was going to fall off because it hurt so much from working non-stop.

As you can see, this flip book is a stick figure couple going about there day, starting off at a picnic and ending underneath the night sky.  Stretching all of this out over so many pages was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be, hence the spots where letters are being written out.
The music in the background was mostly for me, as I find it a bit uncomfortable watching a video without sound.  That's actually me playing "Can't Help Falling In Love" by Elvis Presley on my ukulele, and while I am aware that it isn't perfect, this was about the fifth take, and the first decent sounding one.  But like I said, that's more for me being uncomfortable watching a video with absolutely zero sound whatsoever, and was not actually a requirement of the project.

I really hope you all enjoy this video.  It may not look like much, but I put a lot of work into this, and I would like to think it turned out pretty good.

Enjoy!

Angel de Quinta’s STAGE DOOR Blog

You know what's hard?  Reading a blog that is written entirely in Spanish, when you speak no Spanish.  Yes, I took the required two years in high school, but let's not pretend that I remember any of that.

So right off the bat, when attempting to complete this assignment, there were some obvious challenges.  

Google Translate to the rescue..?  Not so much...

For those of you who don't know, Google Translate is pretty terrible, as there are conjugations (I think this is the correct word) and such, and the translator doesn't recognize that.  Spanish words are also gendered, which apparently makes a difference.  When I went and copy and pasted one of the blog posts into Google Translate, I read the first sentence and the thought that came to my mind was "What the f*** is this saying?  This makes no sense."

But I struggled through it.

I chose to simply read the most recent post on Angel de Quinta's Stage Door Blog, which is titled "Fifty Percent"

From what I got out of the poorly translated version of the post, the main point was how much a person gets when they only give fifty percent, which, if you ask me, isn't much.  The post goes on to describe a Broadway Play and the characters and plot, in which a woman decides she would rather have fifty percent of her love than nothing at all (I'm not really sure why she would only get fifty percent of him, but maybe if I invested more time into the translation or looked up a synopsis of the play, I would have a better understanding).

If you would like to struggle through the blog (assuming you are a non-Spanish speaker like me), click the link above in this post, or click here.

Also, because I always end posts with a video or image, and don't have one that pertains to this post, here is a picture of a doodle that I made over the summer.