Midterm Circles Project

This piece was created for the midterm circles prompt, where we were instructed to create any piece of art that we wanted to and could use any mediums and surface we wanted. The catch though was that we had to incorporate five by 4 circles that had to be in order and all the same shape. For my first attempt, I was also inspired a little but by the idea of mondolas but I wanted to do a simpler version. For my final piece, I was guided a little bit about the idea that I had recently watched the movie “Titanic” and I remembered how cool the many circular windows had looked on that ship so I took my own spin on it and did a sailboat, instead and the orientation of the circles that was required for the assignment. 

For my first attempt at this project, I used a circle stencil to create my circle format and then I used charpie, and colored markers to create my colorful design, and I used whatever color was across from the color I was using on a color circle to add contrats to my design. For my final project, when I started over and made the sailboat, I used a black ballpoint pen, a white gel pen for the ocean, and watercolor paints for the majority of the piece.  

My mind at first went to plastic that holds cans or bottles but I didn't really know what I would do with that. Then I thought about doing like random objects in each of the circles such as an 8 ball, a CD, a vinyl record, an evil eye, etc… then I was told that I couldn't do that because it qualifies as copying other activist designs so then I thought about doing something with lots of colors so I thought of a mandala so I went with something like that. After the midterm period ended though I looked at what I had created and I wasn't such a big fan of it so I decided that I would start over because I had a new idea. My new idea was to paint a sailboat and make the windows on the boat the circle format that we had to do, I also didn't Like how I had used markers so I switched to using watercolor paints. I then developed my new design.