Carlos B Final Post

Picasso Inspired Color Wheel:

When I first heard that our final project would be to make a piece of art that was inspired by a real artist and included the color wheel, I was very excited and immediately knew I wanted to use Picasso's style. He is my favorite artist, and I enjoy his abstract and creative style. I knew I could incorporate the words fair play like I did with my sign into a Picasso-like design of mine. I began sketching out my design that used the letters, lines, and colors that I knew could look cool with the mixing of all the colors.

After sketching, I realized I wanted to utilize the positive and negative space to created an outline that I could laser cut out with my design. I took an 11x11 piece of paper, and I copied down my sketch design to fit the sheet because 11x11 were the dimensions we were given to work with. After drawing out my design to fit the paper, I had to go over every single line in a thick sharpie because I planned to use bitmap to transfer my design from paper to the computer. By thickening the lines, they would show on a bitmap when I imported a picture of the design to InkScape.

When I imported the image and made the bitmap, the design was ready to laser cut out. I first cut it out in paper which was very cool because I totally thought it would burn and not work with how intricate the lines were. The paper prototype showed me of how I could fix some parts like the pieces not connected to anything in the a and l. After fixing them, I cut out the final which took forever.

Collecting all the pieces of the final was very difficult, but once I did, I had to paint them all the different colors on the color wheel so that they would work together in the piece. After painting the pieces one by one and placing them back in the outline, I painted the outline black so the colors would pop. I then put all the pieces back together in the outline and taped the back so no pieces would fall out. All I had left to do was put it in the frame, and it was then done!