Sustained Investigation #14

Under the Sea

11 x 4

College

I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do for this project so I took some inspiration for our class bell ringer, which focused on colleges and using other materials to create art. I liked this idea because It was something that I hadn't really played with this year. looking at the idea of a college for some reason I wanted to do something with vegetables and fruit, I began looking and pulled some images together that I really liked but I ended up destroying it because I covered it with a glossy cover and then didnt allow me to draw on-top of it. After this I was really super frustrated and discouraged; I tried to fix it but only made things worse and ended up trashing the whole thing in frustration. I decided to go a different direction, I looked through a bunch of magazines and found some cool images of animals and it got me thinking that about how fascinating the under sea world was a kid. This is where I got my idea.

I began this project by cutting out images from a few different magazines I liked the one of the fish and this crocodile, then I cut out the images and put them on the paper, then I decided to follow the path of my other work this year so I added some cool lines moving around to help show the creativeness of small children and the imagination of children. I left the crocodile whole because I wanted it to stay as the focus of the image, then I worked on adding color to the lines. I wanted to use marker because I felt that it worked closely with my ideas. As I continuedI wanted to bring in some more fish and wildlife animals so I decided to break up the fish by using the lines.

Overall, I dont think this was my strongest image, I was super disappointed that I my original image with fruits and vegetables. That image was way more creative and in depth and having it not work out was super frustrating and I didnt really want to do anything else since I spent so much time working to try and fix it. I think I will work to add on to this image because I think it has some potential but I dont think its finished yet.