Taylor

Concentration 3

For this section I am working on a series of paintings that are views of different scenes through glasses from different eras. The one that I am working on now is a painting of a concert that would be like one that would happen now and then the part of the painting that is seen through the 70s type glasses is in black and white and is a concert that would be from the 70s. I am being more ambitious with this quarter by working on larger pieces and more detailed pieces. I am trying my hardest to catch up and get on track but the timing is difficult. I think after I finish this series of three paintings I am going to work on some smaller pieces or maybe move into some photography. ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Concentration 2

I have changed my first project immensely. Initially I planned to cut up the skeleton of the sabertooth cat into different geometric shapes to make a kaleidoscope pattern on a different sheet, but I have moved from that type of thing that alters what we see to an infrared image. I also have colored the background black because the neon colors pop more against the darker color as opposed to the white. I'm also planning on adding the other types of information that would be found on an infrared chart of an animal, like an image that shows the gradients found in the skeleton. During this time, I have also completed another project. I have made a piece of an eye that has been enlarged by a magnifying glass to compare the eye, which we use to see images to a magnifying glass that we use to alter the image that we are seeing.



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Concentration 1

It took me a really long time to come up with the concept for my concentration, but I finally came up with the idea that when you look at an object through something else, the object becomes distorted and changes completely and takes on a new identity. Before I started I created a list of different things that are used to transform other objects completely like an x-ray, magnifying glass, kaleidoscope, binoculars, water bottles etc. I have struggled with time management in this first stage of our concentration because my ideas can sometimes be very intense and be composed of many little steps. For my first piece I recreated a skeleton of a sabertooth cat and then I colored in the bones with different neon colors. Next, I cut the paper into different geometric shapes and placed them on a different sheet of paper in order to create a kaleidoscope-looking pattern. I have learned to scale down some of the size of the piece and the number of detailed steps so I will be able to finish all 12 pieces by the time that they are due.

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Digital Imaging Project I thought that all of the different types of distortion tools along with the ability to copy the image a lot of times were aspects that were really helpful in completing my two pieces. Also, I felt like I had the ability to try anything because I knew that I could easily undo a certain layer if it ended up being something that I didn't like. I felt like I had a lot of freedom. I think that Photoshop could be helpful for me in my concentration because I can use it to create that sense of looking at an object through something else to create a whole new perspective, and I could use the magic wand tool to create that in one of my concentration pieces.

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Chaos Project

This was most def my favorite project. So I chose two different fabrics to start with, and I chose them because they not only had two completely different patterns but they were made out of different material. My two objects were a "Moose Crossing" sign and an ant. The hardest part of this was to try to bring the piece, which contained so many different elements, together, and I tried to do that by painting certain spaces to connect the two objects together and to block out certain areas to complicate the figure/ground balance in the piece. I wanted it to be difficult to tell which object or fabric was in the foreground.

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Layer Project

For this project, I wanted to have this suspenseful piece of a man who is silhouetted looking out the window of a house. He is just a flat black color because of his darkness, and he doesn't have any detail to him because his darkness over came his whole body to where he couldn't be seen as an actual person anymore. This person could be a convict running from prison or just a regular man who has been so overcome with darkness that he is watchful for everything and paranoid about everything. The red in the background possibly represents a police light that has come to arrest the runaway convict or it could just represent the looming presence of punishment that someone feels after committing a crime.

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Self-Portrait Project

My self-portrait shows the two sides of my life since picture has such a strong division of black and white in the middle of my face. The lighter and the darker side both represent my reponses to the restrictions and boundaries set by school, which are resprented in the wire that emprisions my face and essentially my life. In high school, especially this year with the increase of workload, my life has been defined by school and the activities that are with it. So with the lighter side, that half of my face represents the things of school that I really enjoy, like seeing my friends every day and pretty much the non-academic aspects of school. the darker side, that half represents all the tough work and deadlines that I have to make to be successful in school. Both the lighter and darker sides present in my portrait shows how I have been able to find a balance in responding to my life in school.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Object Project

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">I chose a tree as my object. My piece resembles a puddle of water that is reflecting three trees, and I wanted it to have more of an abstract feel of a tree by not using atypical colors and striking curved lines. I glazed over the whole piece to give it more of a puddle look and to unify the piece. Our goal was to portray our object in a way that it normally isn't portrayed, so the warped lines of the typically straight and stoic trees and the almost of the sky show how the reflection of objects can alter the reality. The puddles also allow the viewer to use their imagination to decide what it is actually reflecting because the water distorts the object to where the reflection could potentially be anything. I used my imagination to paint what I saw when looking at a reflection of a tree.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Card Project