Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Project 6: Stop Motion

I wanted to play around with how pigments are made for this last project. The red pigment is made from a raspberry, yellow from turmeric powder, blue from indigo leaf, white from chalk, and black from charcoal. It's so odd that paint pigments come from natural substances but they get turned into these crazy artificial things, like nail polish.

Here's the YouTube link for it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cByoklHkJG8

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Project 5: Flag


I chose this peachy color because it is one of my favorite shades of pink, which is one of my favorite colors. I chose the dark grey because I used to hate black and white when I was little. I have slowly come to like both of those colors, and since both of them mixed together makes grey, I thought I would use that on my flag. I used a light-ish blue because it's similar to the color of my eyes and I've always worn blue dresses to any formal event I've ever gone to. I used a minty color because I'm Irish and for my love of the Muppets. Finally, I picked the red because I always joke that when you wear red, you exude an "I'm the boss" kind of presence.

In the middle of the flag is an abstracted hams hand. I chose to use this symbol because it is a universal sign of good luck. The pointed rectangles on the right side of the flag are abstracted pencils, because I love to draw.