Group Project: Nail and String Art
Prompt: Work with your group to develop a scene or design using nails and black string and yarn.
We titled our piece “Capsized”, and experimented with how we could communicate movement of water and a threatening scene on a flat surface without color. Our mural depicted a scene of two people struggling to get above the water, grasping onto the boat and fighting the water.
Cyanotypes
Prompt: Use UV-reactive fabric to create an image and a design from natural resources.
I used elm seed pods to create the butterflies and worked with debris like leaves and grasses to create the design.
Prompt: Create a collage using only grey scale. Use paint to create different shades, textures, and designs, and then cut your paint samples into various shapes to create the pieces for your collage.
I created a dualistic piece of a woman being lifted by another, and vice versa. I wanted to portray different styles of thinking and the idea of yin and yang-overall, harmony between different ideas which here is the smooth, flowing side of paint, and the geometric, sharp side of the collage pieces.
Collage
Prompt: Dye fabrics using only two to three colors, but unlimited shades within those. Create a scene that is sentimental/significant to your life, specifically from the past. Use glue netting to iron the scene together.
I created my scene based on the walk I would take to class daily when I was attending CU Boulder for my freshman year of college. The campus was beautiful but felt very empty not because of lack of people, but because of the lack of connection and community. I wanted to portray the barren feeling of the campus. I used red and blue as my two colors.
Fabric Dye
Final Project: Patterns
Prompt: Create anything you’d like; a collage, a painting, drawing, video, sculpture… etc. using whatever medium you’d like. The only requirement is to utilize pattern somehow within the project.
I knew that I wanted to create a sculpture, and immediately thought about nature with this one. I recently had lost my grandma who read with me often, and thought about the book “The Giving Tree”. I decided to build a tree from copper, and for the pattern I created leaves from plastic. I used plastic sheets referred to as shrinky dinks, to draw 10 different patterns with green Sharpies. I then cut the leaves, and baked them to take them from a flexible plastic to a hard, thick, shrunk plastic. While smaller than I imagined it to be, the final product was a success.
