Art 230 Project 4 Final Draft

These are the final draft images for my Project 4: Style Guides in Art230.

         
These are my options for headers:
1. Light gray for the navigation words, shown in my final draft above.

2. Brown for the navigation words. I used this in the header I turned in with last week's processbook.


3. White for the navigation words.

Shapes

This was my very first project in my graphic arts course. The assignment had stipulations that it needed to have at least 1 of each of these: circle, triangle, square, cross, plain line(not curved), and rectangle.

These were my final 3 variations:

This was the final variation that I chose to submit for my project.

Logos

This was for a logo project in my graphic arts course. We were supposed to make a logo for a fictitious company that combined a type of business and a theme. I had children's bookstore and constellations to work with. I came up with the name, Little Dipper Books.

These were my final 3 variations:

This was the final version that I chose as my favorite. I feel like it was a good call to change the words "Little Dipper" to lowercase. I liked the 3rd variation above almost as much as my final logo below, but my instructor had moved the logo to the left and did the font choices, size, placement during a live feedback. I felt like I shouldn't choose that one if it was mostly done by the instructor.

Posters

This is work that I did for my graphics art course that I just finished. We were assigned a modern graphic artist to research about, and had to make 3 posters (12"x 20") to advertise an art exhibit (including a theme): collage, typography, and photography. I was assigned Bradbury Thompson.

The fish, air bubbles, boat and fishing line with letter J hook were from an original piece the artist made. I photo-shopped out the fishing line made of words, added exhibit info and a highlighted background there instead. There used to be several rows of text in the original image between the boat and fish. I filled the space with artist name and two lines of a mini-tag line in green ("Experiment with everything"-a quote from him).

This was the original artwork from the artist, Bradbury Thompson.

This was loosely based off the artist's original work  He had made a face using only letters to mimic an African mask.  I tried to make a "face"  using letters, but also added overlapping and multiple angles to convey  movement, as if they were falling.

This was the original artwork from the artist, Bradbury Thompson, that I used for inspiration.The alphabetized face was based off the masks on the right.

This was completely my own idea. I had to take photos to use in the poster. I chose a slinky, since I felt it represented the word "motion" rather well.

This is one of the kids' slinky. I was laying on the floor, looking up, while the slinky was moving up and down. Somehow, I managed to get a photo of it on my phone, one-handed with the hand that wasn't holding the slinky. Coolest assignment ever. All the kids wanted to help that day, including a neighbor who was visiting.

This is a cropped version, modified to black and white. My final poster version used this image rotated 180°.

Sketchbook now digitized

My sketchbook has been scanned in and digitized for online viewing. I found out tonight when I was trying to check on something else. The link is: https://www.sketchbookproject.com/library/16030

Sketchbook Project Preview

My sketchbook is officially out in the mail. It will be a few weeks before it is digitized for online viewing. My title is "Remember When," and my theme is "Parts of the Whole."

I'm mostly satisfied on how it turned out. There's a few that I feel kind of indifferent towards, but time was ticking against me and no time to redo any of those pages in the past 24 hrs.

Here's a sneak peek at some of my favorites.

And so our story begins

Once upon a long time ago, I used to be an artist and loved every second of it. One day, all that went away. For the past 12.5 years, I have been a closet artist. I gave it up once my kids came along, figuring it would never work, since I am particular about what I use and my set up for working, I get really zoned in and tune everything else out, and most importantly, my work is very near and dear to me. Last fall, I signed up to participate in what is called The Sketchbook Project, hoping it would get my creative juices flowing again. It takes me awhile to come up with ideas, if I'm not being assigned or asked to make something specific. I was relieved when the deadline extended from January 31st to March 31st, since there are 32 pages in the sketchbook. Then it happened, in late December. I was trying to look thru old work for inspiration and my secret was out when my kids came to see what I was doing. There is no more being a closet artist. I feel added pressure that they will expect more of me in that respect. This blog will be a collection of past, present and future work of mine.