For my boundaries piece I was inspired by personal boundaries. Though I thought of it as physical and personal boundaries instead of emotional or social. When you touch someone, there is always a barrier of atoms between you and them. So, even though it feel like you’re touching, you never really are. My piece was two hands clenched together, showing an emphasis on the clenching of the knuckles. I’m trying to convey that no matter how tight you’re holding on to someone you’re never actually touching. I think that this conveys a boundary that no one really thinks about day to day, and it interests me alot. I did the piece in colored pencil (prismacolor), which I have never used for an actual piece before. So, I was breaking one of my own boundaries by taking a risk. I really wanted to use color in this piece because of the contrasting colors in her fingers. There was representation of almost every color and I thought that black and white wouldn’t really convey the same liveliness that color would for this piece. I think that medium is extremely important in the perception of artwork; medium can change the tone and message of the piece. I like the tone that I set for this piece, I feels softer and more subtle than if I were to use paint or markers. I am overall pleased with the piece and hope to use it in my college portfolio possibly. This piece is also not completely finished
Learning pen and ink skills was fun for me. The basics of using a calligraphy pen and ink was fairly simple and I enjoyed doing it. The only hard part for me was figuring out how much ink was enough or too much to put in the pen. I really liked the concept bloom where you are planted. I usually try to look a little deeper into the themes, so I stayed away from anything plant related. For my piece I chose to use my quote from the inspiration board. I used purple ink and a standard sized tip and left the background blank. The quote, from Jimi Hendrix was “It all had to come from inside, though, I guess”.I felt this related because your personality is in your mind, everything that you are is inside you. You were planted in your body, in your mind, so that is the only place you can bloom. It all has to come from inside.
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August 2016
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