Collages

This assignment I had trouble with.  For some reason, I have a hard time understanding what exactly my professor means when an assignment is given.  For my first attempt at collages with composition, my pieces had little to do with composition.  I liked them well enough, but they were very simple, and didn't really dabble with the idea of composition.  When I better understood the assignment, I attempted one more.  I started by combining two of my first pieces and adding more depth to them.  As soon as I got the thumbs up, I had this cat in the bag.  After I found a subject or idea to focus on, the second two were not terribly hard.  I am such a perfectionist though, that finding the exact materials I wanted to work with were difficult at times, and getting it just so was even harder, I think all of my final pieces came out well.

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Line Contours

Drawing:  I've never been very good at it, at least in the sense of art.  I doodle and have a definite cartoonish  style when doing it.  It's nothing that has ever really interested me, but I gave it a shot.  In class, we were instructed to do blind contours of another classmate.  Though it was ridiculous to look at the creation, I really enjoyed this.  Because everyone's was so cartoonish, I was definitely less self conscious than usual.  Also - it certainly helped me become more aware of the space that you are dealing with when doing any art on a canvas of sorts.