The lines in my first drawing represent ‘intense.’ I wanted the lines to be sharp-edged and no curves to give this effect. I thought the thick bold lines and the sharp edges would give off an intense feeling. The lines have an uneven thickness to show it going from not so intense to very intense.

The lines in the second drawing represent’ calm.’ I wanted the lines to be thin and wavy to give a calm and relaxed feeling. The lines are all the same thickness because when you are calm you are not all over the place. When you look at the lines you feel relaxed. 

The cubist style basically breaks up the space into sections, abstracting, and geometrizing. It also shows the image from different viewpoints, this is done by shifting the lines in the individual sections. Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Braquewas the reason Cubism started. 

My work uses the Cubist style because I broke up the space which was the tiger. I geometrized the shapes and made them more abstract. It is different from my own art style because I tend to draw more realistic things rather than abstract.

I don’t think this assignment was difficult since I have done this before. I think I was successful at fading two different colors together. 

Relief Print

The purpose of this project was to create texture. Create texture using a printmaking process. Taking more and more off of the carving block. I showed texture in the fur and the little details. I was able to show this texture by using smaller carving tools to get finer details. I chose this texture because I like to do fur texture. 

It is a reduction print because I carved away from the block every time I used a new color. It is a relief print because my image area was raised and it picked up the ink from the brayer, and the blank areas were carved away so it does not pick up ink from the brayer. Registration is prepper positioning of colors when printing one color on top of another

I learned that printing ink is harder than it looks. Printing the ink and putting enough pressure for me was challenging. I think I succeded at carving away from the block. 

Family Sculpture

There are 3 people in my family. Me and my parents have different morals and see life differently. I am more free-spirited and non-religious. On the other hand, my parents have stricter morals more on the conservative side, old-fashioned you could say. My parents are both religious and have a set way they view life. I don’t believe the same things they do, my parents have gotten more relaxed over the years. My parents raised me differently than other kids I was always a little different. I don’t think it has negatively affected me but it has affected me. 

My shape has no sharp edges and is organic. I am a very “go with the flow” type of person. Very fluid and my shape represents the fluidity of my personality. My dad's shape is the stabilizing shape. It has sharp edges because he is very particular about the way he does things. He is very straight and narrow. My mom's shape is inside of my dad's shape because she relies a lot on my dad for things. Her shape has half of a heart to show her loving and motherly personality. And the other half is a cross to show her religious side. 

My craftsmanship was the best part of my project. I think my expressive qualities were shown in my project. Since I had already done this project it was straightforward to do. The easiest part was painting. I made it and gave it more of a wider base than I originally sketched. I wouldn’t do anything else and I had time left over so I think I would leave it how it is. Compared to the last time I did this project, my craftsmanship has improved. I do not particularly like making sculptures but I was pretty good from my second time doing it. 

The movie Finding Nemo directed by Andrew Stanton is the same in the fact that the theme is about family, but communicate it in different ways. The movie is about a journey for a father to find his son. His son gets too close to the surface to prove himself and gets caught by a diver. Then his dad goes on a mission to find him. In the end, they find each other and reunite. Both my sculpture and the movie Finding Nemo show relationships through family members. The sculpture I did uses the expressive properties of organic and geometric shapes to show the personality and position of each form. The movie shows that Nemo doesn’t really listen to his father and that costs him. That relates to me and my mom. I feel like it’s different because in the movie they are separated for most of the movie, me and my mom are not really that separated from each other on a day-to-day basis.