The Best of Two Years Past...

As I gather up my strongest pieces from my last two years of art classes here at AU for my sophomore portfolio, I thought it would be really special to post those for you, my very valuable reader, to see. So, here is what I've been doing for the past two years in my art world:

Art 105 (Foundations) - Fall '08

Contour Project: assigned a still life to draw using contours (no shading!)




The Abstract Sculpture: This project required us to develop a sculpture from mostly foam board that would convey a social issue or issue that is relevant to many people. I chose to capture the continuing genocide in Africa due to the AIDS epidemic.

Art 106 (Foundations 2) - Spring '09

Pointillism Project: We were to create an conceptual composition using several images and render them using only dots of cyan, magenta, yellow and black. This is called "Meaning the Escape"

The Non-objective Project: For this project I chose one non-objective painting and had to interpret it and create a three dimensional sculpture to represent it. It was quite fun to do - note that this sculpture is completely free standing.

Painting I - Fall '09

Photorealism Project: For this project we were to make our painting as closely identical to our chosen image as possible. I did a posterized self-portrait with a palette knife and was quite surprised how well it turned out. This is 30x36"

Graphic Design I - Fall '09

A type self portrait. This is made completely of song lyrics and is sized at about 11x17".

Well, that's not the entire portfolio, but it's the best of it and the pieces I'm most proud of. Hope you enjoy

Caryn