Florida story

When I was about 13 I went to Florida for the first time ever. I went with my best friend at the time and it was one of the best experiences of my life. Being from a small town in New Jersey I never really traveled or saw anything else other than tall buildings and streets. We drove all the way to Florida, yes, I was in a car for 18 hours. I can remember the feeling and how happy I was when I looked out the window and saw miles and miles of sand and ocean. My first step out of the car was on the hot Daytona beach, the first thing I thought of doing was running into that blue sparkling water, and that's what I did. 

 While sitting on the beach I looked down and noticed these beautiful seashells. They were like people, all different and unique in their own ways. I immediately thought I absolutely needed to collect as many shells as I could stuff in a glass jar. The air felt so much more fresh and clean than the air in Jersey, I wanted to bottle it up and take it home with me. While we were touring the beautiful city of Orlando we walked pass a bench with maybe 10 huge pure white parrots. They were just perched on a bench waiting for attention, they were absolutely incredible to look at just because of their amazing size and pure color. As I got closer to one of them it suddenly flew on my shoulder! Than one by one each parrot found a spot on me to perch and I was holding all ten of them. I still have the picture with all the birds and it's still funny to this day. 

That was one thing I will always remember from my trip. I will also never forget everyday, seeing the sun shine it's brightest for everyone. There never seemed to be a dark day in Florida. 

Fortune Cookie

I had a lot of fun creating this fortune cookie inspired book page. Right from the beginning I had a good grasp of the idea I wanted to portray. My fortune was "Cultured and artistic people will be invited into your home", I painted 6 different streaks of paint sort of coming together in the middle of the paper, that was to symbolize the people being invited into your home. My work represents the idea that you need to be willing to interact and learn from different and new people to he able to really find yourself. 

Art x 3

The experience I had with the Art x 3 was an interesting and frustrating project for me. I didn't really connect with any of drawings I received and sort of had a mental block with ideas to put on my paper. I received a picture with cats on it and it really got me stuck, it took me awhile to make it my own because I had to basically redo everything because I felt like I couldn't do anything with the original. I life lesson maybe is to learn to let go of something that you created or something that's yours. 

Pop Print

The process of creating the pop prints was so fun and creative. I liked how you could be creative and not have to make your print a perfect drawing, you could have fun with it. I chose to reproduce a perfume bottle, I picked this because I thought the word "PINK" on the bottle would look cool on the print because of the font of the letters and the style, it looked bold and popped. Printing in mass was the most fun part because you  could experiment with many different colors and blends and patterns, they all turned out awesome and were sort of a surprise when you lifted up the stamp from the paper. 

In our art class we were asked to bring in 2 blue objects that we could find in our house. It was surprising how many different  shades of blue there are and all the different kinds of stuff people brought in! Some of the collections did catch my interest, like the perfume bottles! I think the perfume bottles look awesome on print and i just like the look of them drawn in pop art. The inspiration to this project was Portia Munson, we collects all different kinds of junk and random things in a color scheme. Her work is so fun to look at!

There are many people around the world who collect many unusual   things but there also are people who don't even realize they collect stuff. Portia Munson is one of those people who like to collect household items,toys, even trash and sort them by a specific color to make a huge overflowing mountain of eye catching items. I think the reason why she does this is to make people notice the items, so she makes them all the same color so your eye doesn't focus on it. Some people may say her artwork is hoarding but I think there is a huge difference between her art and a big pile of junk somebody just can't throw out. Hoarding is ugly and compulsive, art has reason and meaning to it's items. This is one of Portia Munson's pieces.

The candy jar drawing was  definitely  a lot more fun to draw than the bike drawing but however, the bike drawing was  definitely easier for me. Using all of the different colors and different candies in the jar drawing was so much more entertaining but the detailing of the candy was really difficult. Drawing just with pencils on the bike drawing was sort of dragging and not fun to me but i believe it came out better than the candy jar because it was easier to draw the big proportions  rather than little details.