EGGstravaganza

Our EGGstravaganza was a success!! 

The best part about our project was having everyone looking for actual Easter eggs, it gave us quite a laugh until we finally told them the inflatables were the eggs! 

Art Survey

Komar and Melamid's Survey

What is your favorite color?

- Red

How important is the appearance or design f the following products in your decision to purchase the product?

new car: somewhat

underwear: very

tv set: somewhat

winter coat: somewhat

What is your 2nd favorite color?

- Yellow

"When you select pictures, photographs, or other pieces of art for your home, do you find you lean more toward modern or more toward traditional styles?"

- traditional

"If you had to choose from the following list, which type of art would you say you prefer?"

- American

Which of the following statements applies to you more?

-"When choosing picture, photographs, or other art for my home, i focus on whether or not I like the piece"

Would you say you prefer older objects or newer objects to collect or decorate you home? 

- older objects

"Would you say that you prefer seeing paintings of wild animals, like lions, giraffes, or deer, or that you prefer seeing paintings of domestic animals, like dogs, cats or other pets?

- domestic animals

"In general, would you rather see paintings of outdoor scenes or would you rather see paintings of indoor scenes?"

- outdoor

Which of the following outdoor scenes appeals to you the most?

Paintings of:

- city

Which season would you most like to see depicted in a painting?

- fall

Which of the types of indoor scenes appeals to you most?

still life paintings of/domestic scenes with:

- flowers

Do you tend to prefer paintings that are related to religion or those that are not related to religion?

- that are related to religion

Which of the following statements is closest to your view?

- "Paintings don't necessarily have to teach us any lesson, but can just be something a person likes to look at."

Which of the following statements is closest to your view?

"I prefer paintings that are realistic-looking: the more they resemble a photograph the better"

"Do you prefer paintings that exaggerate the dimensions or reality of objects we already know, or ones that feature imaginary objects which have no connection to everyday life?"

- exaggerate the dimensions or reality of objects we already know

"Do you prefer seeing bold, stark designs or more playful, whimsical designs?"

- playful, whimsical designs

Do you tend to favor paintings with sharp angles or ones with soft curves?

- soft curves

"Which patterns do you like better: geometric patterns or more random uneven patterns?"

- more random uneven patterns

"Do you like to see expressive brush-strokes on the canvas, or do you prefer that the surface of the canvas be smooth, more like photograph?"

- expressive brush-strokes

Do you like to see colors blend into each other or do you like it when different colors are kept apart?

- colors blend into each other

"Every color has a wide range of shades. Take the color blue, for example. An artist can use a bright, vibrant shade of blue, like a royal blue, a pale, muted shade of blue, like light blue, or a darker tone of blue, like dark or midnight blue. In general, which would you say that you prefer? when the artist uses more vibrant shades, paler shades or darker shades of color?"

- vibrant shades

"In general, do you enjoy paintings that have a more serious or a more festive mood?"

- festive

"And how about the painting itself- do you like it to be busy and contain lots of people or objects, or do you like it to be as simple as possible?"

- as simple as possible

How about the size of paintings: do you prefer larger paintings or smaller paintings?

- larger

full-size refrigerator

"Some paintings are of famous historical figures and others are of more ordinary people. Do you generally prefer paintings of famous people, or ones of more ordinary paintings."

-  more ordinary paintings

"If you prefer famous people, do you prefer figures from a long time ago, like Lincoln or Jesus, or more recent figures, like John F. Kennedy or Elvis Presley?"

- more recent figures

"Do you prefer paintings which are predominantly of children, of women, or of men, or doesn't it mater?"

- it doesn't matter

"Thinking back to the paintings of people that you have like in the past, for them sot part were the figure working, at leisure, or were they posted portraits?"

- posted portraits

"Which do you think you like better, a painting of one person or of a group of people?"

- group of people

"And from what you've seen, would you say that you prefer paintings in which the person or people are nude, partially clothed or fully clothed?"

- fully clothed

If you were given the choice of a gift - a sum of money or a piece of art that you genuinely like and which was of equal value to the money, which would you choose? 

- a sum of money

Which one of the following would be most important to you in deciding how much money you would spend on a painting?

- the degree to which you like the painting

What is the most amount of money you would consider spending on a piece of art you really like?

- not much b/c I don't have much money, even $100 sounds like a lot to me. Maybe in the future but never thousands of dollars.

"For each of the following names, indicate if your impressions of that artist's work are very favorable, favorable, or very unfavorable. Some of these artists are not very well known, so if you have never heard of someone, or don't know enough about their work to have an opinion, just say so."

Pablo Picasso- unfavorable

Norman Rockwell- don't know enough about their work

Jackson Pollock- favorable

Salvador Dali- don't know enough about their work

Leroy Neiman- don't know enough about their work

Claude Monet- favorable

Rembrandt- favorable

Andy Warhol- favorable

Georgia O' Keefe- unfavorable

"If you could pick one type of person you'd most enjoy having with, would you choose an artist, a television or movie actor, an author, or sports star?"

- movie actor

"How often, on average, would you say that you got o art museums - more than two times a ear, one or two times a year, less than once a year, or not at all?

- one or two times a year

The following are some reasons people have given in the past as to why they do not go to art museums more often. For each reason, please tell whether it is a major reason why you do not go to museums more often, a minor reason, or not a reason at all:

1. There is not a museum an art museum in my area: not a reason

2. I do not have enough spare time: minor

3. I don't feel comfortable in art museums because I don't know a lot about art: major

4. The cost of admission is too expensive: minor

5. I simply don't enjoy looking at art: major

Would you favor or oppose spending more money in federal taxes than we do on the arts?

- oppose

Some works of art are displayed in public places. Do you think that average citizens should or should not have a say in determining which works of art are appropriate to be displayed in public?

- should

"When it comes to most political issues, do you think of yourself as a liberal, a conservative, or a moderate? If moderate, do you think of yourself as being closer to being liberal or being conservative?"

- closer to liberal

Which of the following income categories includes your total family income in 1992 before taxes?

-

What is your gender?

- female

making progress...

Our main Easter Egg is alive!

BIG IDEA...ideas

1. Photo Collage
- Little pictures making up one big picture.

2. Ripped Paper
- either re-create a personal photo or a drawing of a drum set.

3. Cross
- made out of wood covered with blessings in my life ( pictures of family & friends, Bible verses & quotes)

4. Re-do Bio Map
- use personal items this time and make it huge.

5. Painting

6. Camera
- Build a giant camera (possibly out of cardboard) and when you look in through the lens you will be able to see a picture inside.

7. Photography

Inflatopia Sneak Peek

Just a little sneak peek of what my group is doing for Inflatopia.

Bio-Map

I chose to make my Bio-Map on a t-shirt because it's laid back like me. I chose white for purity since I focused on my life in Christ. I started with the day I was born followed by events that were important to me, like my little brothers being born and giving my life to Christ. On the back I put my name, the year I was born and a Bible verse to sum it up. 

111/33

Metaphor

I chose to make a "tiny dancer" as metaphor project because when I think of my childhood, the main thing I think of are the years I did dance.

COLORS!!!!

Phase 2: Torn paper 

Phase 1: Dots

Phase 3: Tracing paper

Identity Essentials

the body as a "container"

role of age

the essence of gender

the body as a site of loss and remembrance

the body as a landscape

Exquisite Corpse

Go pretty Mexico flexes crazy

Gorgeous puppy filtered slimy squirrel

Color Possibilities

Bio-Map Outline

a.  Path of locations [birth to current]

- Houston, TX, first house

- 1998 second house Cypress area

- 2010 Huntsville, TX

b. Relational path of those lived with for each location

i. The nature of the relationship

1. Physical

2. Emotional

3. Spiritual

ii. How those relationships changed from location to location and as you aged

iii. Significant things said to you that you can almost still ear in your head. Both p/n 

c. Educational path--schools and for each list (be specific)

1. Carmichael Elementary

i. Significant peers - Brooke Kotch and Silver Criswell

ii. Significant adults - Kindergarten teacher

iii. Significant things said to you that you can almost still hear in your head. Both p/n

- When my mom was pregnant w/ my little brother my teacher would always ask "Do you have a brother yet?"

iv. Significant objects - 

v. Significant cause - 

vi. Experiences of loss or absence - I got really sick once and a friends mom had to pick me up early.

vii. Experiences of joy or belonging - 

2. Hancock Elementary

i. Maddi Meeks, Destinee Burden, Caitlin Womack, and Christy Cloud

ii. Ms. Gacke my 5th grade teacher

iii. when my cousin told me that girls couldn't play basketball, then I played for 6 years and was one of the best players on my team.

3. Bleyl Middle School

i. Hannah Ortiz and Becky Mortlock

ii. my 8th grade science teacher Mr. Morton

iii. when i was accused for starting a rumor about my best friend and she stopped speaking to me

vi. I got mono in the sixth grade from sharing drinks at lunch and missed the last three weeks of school.

4. Cypress Creek High School

i. softball team, Lauren Cavazos, Nayelli Martinez

ii. Ms. Young, Ms. Patty, Coach Ramsey and Coach Kight

iii. Girls on the softball made fun of me for not drinking or cussing, but I was proud of it so they had to deal with it.

5. LoneStar College

i. Jeanette Montes, Vanessa Flores 

ii. Sunnye Pruden

iii. An adult at my church told me I wasn't responsible and was not a good leader for the younger girls I taught.

6. Sam Houston State

i. Katy Bridges, Michaela Green, small group, Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship

ii. Eli Stewart, Eli Gautreaux

iii. My friends now always tell me what a great friend I am and how much they love me.

d. Career path

i. Answer iii. 1-3

e. Spiritual path

i. Changes over time?

- accepted Christ into my life senior year of high school, got baptized 2/10/2008. Growing in my life faith more and more everyday.

f. Sexuality or gender evolution/path or relationship to the body

g. Pathway of achievements

h. Pathways of pain or crisis or loss

i. April 27, 2010 my grandpa passed away

ii. my cousin who is more like a brother to me went to prison

i. Pathway of dreams or desires

i. Hope to one day have my own photo studio or take photos for a magazine

j. Other threads to possibly follow

i. Character - love to laugh, silly, kind, selfless

ii. Limitations - shy

iii. Passion - photography, Christ, friendships

iv. Strengths - good listener

v. Abilities and competencies

vi. Fears - getting cancer

vii. Hopes - married and mother

viii. Calling -

ix. Understanding of people -

x. Understand of culture -

xi. Understanding of heritage -

xii. Materialism - not very materialistic, grateful for the things I have

xiii. Goals - live life to the fullest

xiv. Why do you want to be an artist, animator, designer? (when did that desire begin; what fanned the flame and kept it going) - because I like to be creative

xv. With those three fields what specific things are interested in? - Photography b/c took it senior year of high school and I fell in love with the dark room.

xvi. Are these changing? How so? - A little bit b/c no one really uses a dark room anymore but thats what I liked most. I'm not very good at digital stuff like photoshop.

xvii. Personal narrative, quotes, journal entries, poetry, song lyrics, etc. - bible verses

k. Show for relationships and connections; cause and effect

l. Consider chronological, geographical vs topical or some hybrid

Photos

1. This is a photo I took myself of my little brother
a. I took this photo because I thought it would be cool to capture him running through the water. I keep it because I use it as one of my photography pieces for my portfolio. I chose it for this assignment because it is one of my favorite pictures and it's significant to me because it is of my little brother and this was a fun day at the beach with my family.
b. The relationship between me and him is that he is my little brother and I wanted to capture a happy moment of him smiling, running through the water and having a great time.
c. I think this photo is intended to be viewed with joy because you can actually picture yourself there with him in the photo and I will definitely remember this photo in 10 years because it is one of my favorite photos of my little brother.

2. This photo was taken of me and two of my friends by another friend, Maida, who is also a photography major.
a. She was taking pictures of us for practice so we went out to this huge field and took pictures. It is my favorite picture in the whole world, I keep it because these are two of my best friends and this photo pretty much sums up our friendship.
b. The photographer is a friend of ours and we were all just laughing having a good time which made the  picture turn out the way it did. Whenever I look at the photo it makes me smile and remember how much fun we had that day.
c. I think that when other people look at this photo it makes them smile, especially if they know us and I will always remember this picture because of the girls that are in it with me.

3. This was taken by someone I don't know of people I don't know
a. This picture looks like a married couple dressed up to go somewhere and when you get a chance to take a photo like this you usually keep it and put it in a frame.
b. I don't know who took this photo, but it looks like it is in their house so I am assuming that it is someone in their family. My attitude towards this photo is not very intimate because I don't know them and I feel like pictures are something personal and its better if you know the people in the photo.
c. This photo is probably viewed by family members mostly and since its an old photo its a memory that they get to look back on and I probably won't remember this photo because I don't know who they are.

YUM CEREAL!

I have had my fair share of cardboard now I think because technically cereal boxes are made out of cardboard. I figured that cereal boxes would be easy because I wouldn't have to buy anything and everyone has cereal. I didn't want to break the boxes down, I wanted to keep the box's shape so I tried many different approaches on what to build and finally I decided on this. I hot glued all of the tabs together, I really liked the design that it made so I figured that I would just keep building on it. So I got more boxes and added them in the empty spaces between the others. It made this sort of sun shape or a burst of color if you will. I did flatten out a few boxes to make a back so that the boxes would hold together better because my original plan was to hang it which now I think I should have stuck with that idea. But when I saw that it could stand on its own I didn't want to let that feature go to waste. Then then I trimmed off the extra on the edges and last minute I decided to put the circle in the middle to cover the flaps on the inside. In the end I was satisfied with my work and I haven't eaten cereal in days!

NO MORE CARDBOARD!!

Finally no more cardboard! This is my finished product of my cardboard pecan. I know it's not perfect but I think I did a pretty good job, but then again I'm not a perfectionist. This one does look a lot better than my first one though. I finally got all the edges together which was the hardest part and the corners met at the ends, not perfectly but I think it looks the way ends of pecans look. I know it is a little boxy but I tried as hard as I could to get it more rounded. Then finally I crinkled up craft paper and put over the top to give it a more pecan like texture. Overall I am proud of my work!

Safari

translation, rhythm

drinking glass in my kitchen, 5:30 pm Wednesday

rotation/translation, texture

my couch, 11:30 pm Wednesday

translation, rhythm

calinder, 7:45 pm Wednesday

reflection, pattern

sambrero, 12:00 pm Tuesday

translation, rhythm 

whicker basket, 9:00 pm Wednesday

translation, texture

blanket, 11:00 pm Wednesday

reflection, pattern

art piece in living room, 3:45 pm Wednesday

rotation/translation, pattern

decoration in living room, 4:00 pm Wednesday

Human Dots

For my human dot pictures I used two of my dot projects from the newspaper photos. I just cut out giant black dots with the same proportion as the little dots and taped them to my roommates hands. (can you tell they enjoyed having their pictures taken?)

Cardboard Cardboard and more Cardboard!

We were assigned to pick an object and make it completely out of cardboard. My object was a little pecan and you would think a pecan that's easy because that is what I thought...wrong! My original plan was to just take four pieces of cardboard and cut them into football shapes, then glue the sides and the end corners would just meet. I also though about making some sort of under structure so it would be stronger but I could not figure out how so it didn't happen. That failed because I could not quite get all my pieces the same size and the ends weren't long enough so I couldn't them to come together. So my solution was to extend the ends but the cardboard I chose was two thick and would not bend very well or glue very well. Long story short I'm starting over, I have a better idea of what to do this time so we will see how it turns out.