Kelley

Concentration 3: __**Ambition**__: Due at the beginning of class, Thursday, April 7th.

In the final quarter you will be focusing primarily of making sure everything gets done. This quarter may be your last chance to really push your understannding of your project. You now know what you are doing and have developed some expertise in materials, techniques, and ideas. What are you attempting that is more ambitious than anything else you have completed thus far? Is it more intricate, larger scale, more images, deeper idea, etc. How have you pushed your project beyond its current state?

In this last quarter I have really played with the materials and have sketched up a few houses that were made of materials completely new to architecture. An example of this is the bowl made into a house which is posted below. The bowl is the house and the columns coming out are the most extreme I have gotten with the idea of showing what is unimpossible via architecture. At this point I am currently working on two pieces which are shown as unfinished below. The middle image is a building which I am still trying to figure out what exactly to add to it while the bottom image is a log cabin that I am planning on adding a unique roof and several balconies and staircases which seem to lead to no where. I am also planning on adding very sophisticated additions to the cabin which normally do not belong on that type of building. This quarter I have pushed myself to really come up with unique ideas for crazy additions to the houses. I am always looking around, whereever I am located, to find insperation for the additions.







Concentration 2: __**Evolution**__: Due at the end of class, Friday, March 4th.

How has your project evolved from its beginning stages? What did you change deliberately? What has changed naturally as you got a better understanding of what you are trying to accomplish? This project has greatly evolved from the beginning. At first I decided to mix classical and modern architecture by mashing up pictures of old buildings and drawing on top of them. I havent competely abandoned that idea but I have moved on to other ideas on how to make my pieces. Now I am creating my own unique with a mixture of modern and classical influences. The buildings are becoming rediculous and impossible because some of the added features. I have deliberately changed my style because I realized that it was taking too long and that I needed to work quicker. The natural change has been my creation of more interesting designs as I realize that I am adding in impossible additions to the buildings.

Concentration 1: __**Generation**__:

Generating something is different from creating it out of thin air. It implies that something needs to be built up over time in order to reach a certain level. How have you gone about generating this project ? What has proved challenging about your materials/ idea/ sources that you had not anticipated? What have you learned that you will take with you into the second Quarter? my generating for this project is a combinations of my thoughts about architecture I have acquired over my entire life and through recent readings i have done in various books and on websites. The greatest challenge is coming up with unique ways to get my ideas across in the pieces. I had a few ideas when I first began but I didn't realize how alike all my ideas were and now I am struggling to come up with different ideas. Through this first quarter I have learned that I need to spend more time planning and experimenting in my sketchbook and spend less time working on the actual piece so I am more productive.

Digital Project:

I found that the magic wand tool was the most helpful tool when working on this project. Physical materials are easier to control than on the photoshop programing because I am so use to making projects wit my own two hands. the programing can help my concentration by being able to copy patterns and work with different colors and saturations to make the images look different.

How would you describe the purpose of this project? What could you take from it to help you with future work? How would you describe what happened on your individual piece throughout the stages, and what enabled you to bring it all together in the end?



CHAOS PIECE:

The purpose of this project is to teach us how to deal with anything thrown at us. To look at a bunch of random designs and fabriacte them in a way that creates a very interesting piece. For the future I can work with any mistakes I might make and any array of objects thrown my way. At the beginnig I tried to separate my two objects (a pinecone and a birdcage) and make them visually interesting on the board. The I added a variety of colors to the birdcage to make it seem like a variety of layers and pop on the checkered backgroud. Then I decided to add the silouettes of the two birds to be a break from the constant patterns and colors. I then went over two sides of the piece with two different colored washes to create different layers and even block out some of the pattern. The last thing i did was to create several white spaces and splatter little bits of different colored paints on them to bring out the other colors used in the pinecone and birdcage. I feel like the washes and the white boxes with splattered colors in the end really brought the entiere piece together in the end.



3 LAYER PROJECT: The strategy used for this project is perspective. It was important to have the objects line up together to make it look as if one object is clearly the furthest back and another is clearly the closest. This strategy helped me to set an order for the three layers which I wouldnt have been able to come up with if I had not planned out my piece before. The figures in the foreground and simple because they are just silouettes but the clouds of smoke and the building in the background are more complex. Strategy is helpful when planning your concentration because it keeps you from doing the same specific idea over and over again. Strategy also helps to make sure that I use different techniques and ideas for the pieces. Some strategies I could come up with are layering, porportions, and using colors to make specific objects stand out. All of these techniques should prove useful when creating my concentration pieces.



PROJECT 3: In the photo my self portrait is based off of I am wearing sunglasses and giving an exagerated smile to the camera. The light that shines on my face could represent my friends and the light they bring into my life. They always make me smile and laugh which helps make senior year less stressful. The expression I am making with my face is playful, which is how I act around my friends. I feel like the expression made with the face is funny and unique, which I hope translates into the personality of the character in the picture. For the photoshoot I think the sunglasses help to make this specific image better it creates unique shadows on the face and in the hair. This project has taught me that for my concentration that I should probably not do large scale faces because they are extremely difficult for me. I also learned that black pencil is hard to blend on the kind of paper we used, so I will need to put aside alot of time to do that if it comes up in a project again.



PROJECT 2: For my project I explored the idea of communication through a telephone. I imagine phones being used as a direct link between you and the person you are talking to. For my piece I displayed this idea by placing individual people inside the telephone. Each person represents the people in your everyday life that you call. This idea came from several sketch book drawings I did which built off of each other. The piece was painted with acrylic paints which created bright and vibrant colors against the black background. I decided to use the bright colors because they go well together but at the same time each of the three colors are unique. At first I wanted to have the phone and base on the same plane but through thought and research I decided to have the phone coming toward the viewer and the base at a slight angle to make the piece more interesting. The word "Hello?" in the piece is there not only to make it more visually interesting but to also draw the readers eye to the people inside the telephone because it is the same color. The repetition of colors is important through the piece because it relates objects to one another.