Inked Birds

describe whch print you were most satisfied with, explain why:
I chose this because it diden't have any finger prints and the colours complimented each other (I thought).

What was the most difficult part of the assignment?:
the most difficult part of this assignment was the printing. I was afraid of smudging and once you printed more than three you could see paint coming through parts you diden't want it to. I didn't Enjoy the cleaning part though, haha it took so long to clean the ink off the boards and wash the tile and put away all the newsprint and paint, all in all about 10-20 minutes!

Describe what is strong about your design. Why is it a good design?
I honestly wanted to change my design because after looking at it, the print wasen't as big as the paper and made the print look cut off to early. My other idea was to make an owl.

Describe how you used the elements and principles of design in your prints:
I originally wanted it to be yellow and green but finishing it off I felt the green and red verison was better.we needed to carve 70% of the bird by the time we where done.

If you could change one thing about you artwork, what would it be and why?
If i could change one thing on my artwork it would be the sky.I would use diffrent colour paper instead of plain white, it would give the print a diffrent feel to it depending on the colour of paper.

Over all i enjoyed this assighnment and and i am looking forward to our next ones!

Typography: Isolation

So my tech Arts class was working on typography and talked a lot about the font type helvetica. I personally like the font, most likely because i'm still new to this world. So we were all assigned to choose a "exotic" word and give it emotion from the font, spacing and designs and such. I chose Isolation, it seems like a very dark and sad word so i chose it instead of something happy. I felt this project required a bit of hard thinking and a look at what you can do to give things emotion with out a face to express it. (click on Image to enlarge, if interested)

So this took about two days to complete. I didn't want to over do this word because it means alone and disliked, i also didn't want to make it too simple so i wanted appropriate unity. With this project we needed to go threw tons of different fonts, i tried out at least 20. So i found a font that looked like it was breaking, even dying slowly. Then i found a dark design to add to give a bit of space taken up so it wasn't too plain. I'm looking forward to future assignments and hope i find a field ill be better at. I will keep you up to date with my weekly blog posts.

Chinese Traditional Ink Painting

This was our first visual arts assignment. This is eastern traditional style chinese painting. This was my first time trying it so i didn't mean any disrespect. I enjoyed trying this new style of painting. We used three traditional brushes made with the from a goats fur, Chinese rice paper and black ink.


We tried to stay as traditional and eastern styled as possible because they tend to use a lot of open space to provide room for the energy to flow creating a positive mood. I learned if we blocked in any space it would be like keeping that energy upset and captive, which we don't want. We created three different types of paintings. We created bamboo, cherry blossoms and orchids. As we are beginners at this we didn't do any animals or scenes, honestly i think it may have been too complicated.

I think my favorite type of painting was the orchids flowers because they were so pretty and fun to use with the brush stroke. it felt very light and calming while creating them. We needed to hold our brush a certain way as well. it's sort of hard to explain but we needed to hold it perfectly upright and straight so that the strokes would not be bulky and heavy, rather light and flowing. I thought this assignment was very fun but you can't rest your arm on the table which was difficult for me since i always draw/paint in a western style.