Appropriation

Appropriation

1) Artists create original art.
    
      In the appropriation project I spent some time racking my brain for a good idea, trying to find words that fit together in a creative idea, even resorting to word puns. It eventually entered my mind how tired I was, and that's when I followed the idea of using something to do with a bed. Sheep are known to be figures representing napping and bedtime, so I eventually came up with The Bedsheep.

Word Art

Word Art

      Our second project was to draw a sketch of what we would do for a large-scale project if given

the resources. The theme was making words out of objects. For my sketch, I made the word "peace"

out of puzzle pieces of many different colors on a wall. To make it interesting, the word is the only

thing colored. I also added a human silhouette for scale.

Tension

Tension

     For our first project, we were told to find something that represents tension in any interpretation

we could think of. I outlined a picture of a person on a tightrope, specifically a close up of their foot,

and went over it in watercolor, which created a very nice effect. The theme of tension can be obvious

when focusing on the tension in the rope when a person steps on it, but one could also find a sort of

tension in the pressure placed on the performer not to fall.