In the last few days of art class, we are working on our final projects. For my project, I’ve chosen to do biggest fear as my theme. My biggest fear is something bad happening to my little sister, so I’ve chosen her as the central figure for my drawings. I also decided that I wanted to use collage in my drawings. When I went to get inspiration from real artists, I found an issue of the Contemporary Art Issue that featured twenty-five artists that have used collage.
After doing this, I started to think about which fear surrounding my sister I wanted to showcase in my three pieces. The three I chose were gun violence, the affects of social media/too much technology use, and climate change. I began to compile pictures and inspiration images to help me through my process.
I chose gun violence as this one hits close to home right now with the recent shooting in Nashville that occurred not too far from where my sister currently goes to middle school. I really focused on the collage for this piece and wanted to newspaper headlines to be central. I am not entirely happy with the final product, so if there if time I will most likely go back and re-do or just add to it.
The second piece that I am still working on is the one focused on technology. I am using stippling to get the tv/hypnosis affect. The iPad was done in vine charcoal. The collage piece is with the apps and messages seen on the image. I am definitely happier with this one so far, but it still needs some work.
Finally, I just started working on the third piece that is going to be focused on climate change. I haven’t figure out the entire composition of the piece yet, but I did start sketching and gathering more images for it last class. I want the focus of that piece to be a gas mask, but possibly with a utopia in the eyes of the gas mask. I think either this or the background is where the collage aspect will come into play.
Overall, I think I am in a good place with my project and am excited to continue to work on it during the last two weeks of class.
