Texture Sculpture Project

Texture Sculpture Reflection

Throughout this project I worked hard to bring together a collection of different, interesting, and exciting textures. In my sculpture I had three main textures which I created out of wood, wire, sand, and plaster. I focused on keeping clear lines, and putting all of my attention towards texture rather than colors, which meant that I would have to make my entire sculpture one color, a variation of white, black, and mostly gray. I wanted to immerse myself in texture, which is why I experimented with many different mediums of creating texture and In the preparation of creating my sculpture I immediately knew what i wanted to do to create texture, and, although it was an extreme amount of work, I worked through it and came out with a sculpture that clearly shows experimentation with texture. Throughout the entire texture project I have learned to look closer at things and to imagine the texture of something when I look at it. I worked hard throughout this entire unit to get down to the bare texture of something, and showing the simplicity and intricacy of different textures. In my process of collaging I made many efforts to organize the collection of texture on paper, to see what these textures would look like interacting together later in a sculpture. i designed my sculpture around my photoshop collage, which I worked on for a long time to perfect the placement of each texture, and each textures interaction with other textures. I believe that all of my final product collages were free of technical difficulties, and that they were all fairly easy to create. The main difficulty that I encountered with my final product was that at the beginning I put too much work on my plate. I planned to drill large holes in wood, to create a net of wire, to plaster, and to make a sandpaper texture out of sand and paint. Although it was an extreme amount of work, I succeeded and finished all the aspects of my project on time. Overall, I am proud of my work throughout this unit and successfully attempted to portray texture in many ways.

3 Texture Collages

10 Texture Photographs

Texture Project Part 1 Reflection Questions

1. What was most interesting to you about part one of the texture project? Why?


One aspect of the project that was interesting to me was being thoughtful and simple about where to put texture and where the line between too simple and too chaotic is in collage.

2. Of the 10 photographs you took, which image best communicates the essence or "feel" of a texture? Why was that photograph so successful?


I think my photograph of the circles with mesh inside them was most successful because this photograph conveys the simple texture of scattered circles surrounded by smooth metal, and it also shows the small texture of the mesh inside of the circles, a smaller, more intricate texture.

3. Which of your three collages is most successful? What makes that collage the most successful?

My electronic collage is most successful because it has a fluidity in transitions between images. The photographs used clearly show interesting textures and blend together into a smooth, clean collage.

4. Using specific detail, describe your favorite collage.


My favorite collage shows stainless steel with a sandpapery texture in the bottom right corner and circles with mesh inside them in the bottom left corner. Across the top half of my favorite collage is plastic bups with smaller bumps around it.

5. Thinking back to Mr. O's demonstration in class on Friday, how might you use the techniques he showed you to create a 3-d representation of your 2-d collage? 

I am definitely going to use Mr. O's plaster technique with some of my textures. It is going to be difficult to make a 3-D representation of my 2-D collage because my transitions between textures are more fluid, and thus I would need all the 3-D textures to blend together in a smooth way, without harsh lines. It is going to be difficult but I am sure I will solve this dilemma.

Pop Art Color Schemes

Color Project Reflection Questions

Painting:
For this project the three tools I used were acrylic paint, paper, and a paintbrush. In this project I used many different painting strategies, which included dabbing the paper with paint, brushing the paper with a brush with nearly no paint, and using smooth, clean lines.

The steps I took to develop my craft are:

1. Take a picture of what I would like to paint 

2. Do contour drawings of the picture

3. Trace the drawing onto four different pieces of paper

4. Paint all of the papers

5. Take pictures of each painting individually

6. Combine all of the pictures on Photoshop

Observation was a key factor of this project because we needed to observe the shading of the picture to allow us to paint an accurate replica. We have learned to use color in different ways to show warmth, coolness, light, and shade. We have learned to interpret color's relationship to its surrounding colors and to show the relationship in our paintings.

Color Dyptychs:
For this project I took pictures of different color schemes around campus. I used a camera, the app Colormixer, and Ms. Seals scarf. The main method i used was to zoom very close to the object I am photographing to capture the small details in the texture and color.

I used my skills of observation with this project by going around campus extremely aware of the colors of my surroundings and imagining how different things would look in relation to other colors in the picture. I also used exploration in this project because I had to crawl into unusual places to take interesting photos. This project really made me understand the interaction of color between different color schemes.