Animal Assemblage

The subject of my creation is a squid. I crumpled up newspaper and combined them to make the body of the squid, I then took a couple of pieced of construction paper and made the cone for the squid. I then rolled newspaper really tightly and curled them at the end to make the tentacles. I cut out pieces of cardboard to make the fins at the top of the squid. I then glued a ton of paint chips to the whole squid to make it colorful and painted the tentacles and fins purple.I chose to create this specific art work because originally I wanted to do a head but no matter what I tried it wasn't working out so then I wanted to do a tree frog but that wasn't working out either so then I decided to do a squid and it worked! Specific elements and principles I used in my artwork were, shape definitely throughout the piece because I used when cutting out paint chips and then I used it when shaping the squids body. I also used unity because I made the squid itself many different colors and when I was done I painted the fins and tentacles the same color so it all comes together as one forming unity.

Some composition ruled and techniques I used in the artwork was, rule of thirds, in the first third there is the purple fins, the the second third, there is a multicolored body, and then finally the third third, there is also purple tentacles. I also used informal balance as the proportions are a little messed up since my friend accidentally ruined the v=cone and the tentacles are a little too low. I revised the tentacles because if you look closely the first tentacle I made was really being but as I kept going the tentacles got smaller and they ended up looking better too.

The meaning behind the artwork is from the movie "Finding Dory," when dory is in destress and she just says "just keep swimming," this reminds you to just keep flowing through life when it gets difficult. This project relates to my life and mostly everyone else's as well because when you enter a hard to like everyone does its kind of hard to be optimistic but sometimes thats what you have to do, so you can tell yourself "to just keep swimming" and to look on the bright side. One thing I would change about my art work is the legs, they are very low on the squid and should be a little it higher up, so if used my time more wisely, I would move the tentacles higher up on the squid to make it took more realistic.