Independent Project 

Summer Phone Case

clear phone case and acrylic paint

strawberry hat 

hat, red/green fabric, thread, and needle  

Vase Of Purple Lupines

12" x  12" 

canvas and acrylic paint

The main idea that guided my idea for the phone case was just cute little things that remind me of summer. I also just wanted to bring something special that I created to my rather plain clear phone case and I think I definitely did that. The main idea that guided my idea for sawing fabric onto my green hat to make a strawberry came first from my love for strawberries and secondly because in the summer and it has already started throught the past month, I love to eat fresh cut up strawberries with Nutella. Additionally, I just wanted to add something special to my hat to make it less boring than just a plain greed hat and add the red pop of color and I will definitely wear the hat way more now than I did before. The main idea that guided my idea for my biggest piece the acrylic painting of a vase of purple lupines was inspired by the number of lupins that have started blooming in my yard, they are also one of my favorite flowers, and when I was little there was a children's book about lupines that I loved so the flower has always held a place in my heart.

For the “Summer Phone Case,” I used my own clear phone case that had already been on my phone and used acrylic paint to paint little summer doodles. For the “Strawberry hat,” I used pieces of fabric I cut out of some napkins I found in my house and a needle and thread to sew them on. For the “Vase Of Purple Lupines,” I used a canvas with a hardback, paint brushes, and of course acrylic paint.

Going into doing my final project for Foundations of Art I was very unsure of what I was going to do. I was also limited to specific materials because most of the cabinets in the art room were locked because Mrs. Medsker had left, so I looked at what was available to me and used what I could. Out of the three pieces of art I made for this final project the first one I made was the “Summer Phone Case.” I used acrylic paint and thought of the things that came to mind when I think of summer and painted just that. Shortly after I started painting though I realized that I needed to paint white paint under any paint that I used because the paint wasn't thick enough so I began to do that from that moment on. The second part of the project I made was the “strawberry Hat” before I decided that I would be doing a strawberry I thought of maybe doing a sunflower but decided on a strawberry at the end. The final and biggest part of the project I did was the “Vase Of Purple Lupines” before I decided on painting flowers I thought that I might do a sunset, then I thought I was going to do pink lilacs because those are also growing in my yard but I settled on purple lupins because they are my favorites.