The Fall Portfolio (So Far...)
Disclaimer: This article was originally published in the previous host, GoDaddy on November 15, 2024, and has been transferred for preservation.
Students must wrap up everything before final exams, essays, and critiques around November and December. Although I feel a bit behind this semester, I’m trying to finish as much work as possible before Thanksgiving and Christmas break. I have a handful of completed artwork to showcase, which will be listed and described below!
The Bauhaus Blocks
- Medium: Wood and Acrylic Paint
- Class: Beginning Sculpture
A series of towers consisting of wooden blocks cut from sawblades, smoothed from sanding machines and painted with acrylic paint. These abstracted blocks were inspired by the aesthetics of the Bauhaus but with some distorted twists.
Charcoal Cat
- Medium: Charcoal on Paper
- Class: Painting Club
Recently, I signed up for a painting club, where we demonstrated various art techniques. Although charcoal is not a painting medium, we did learn how a charcoal drawing can be as complex as an actual painting.
The Bell, the Bottle, and the Painting Can
- Medium: Oil Paint on Canvas
- Class: Painting Club
Here is another composition from the painting club! This one, in particular, is a monochrome still life. The objects assigned for this painting are a brass bell, an empty glass bottle, and a silver-colored paint bucket. This painting helped me demonstrate how to paint textures made of reflective material.
The Byzantine Bracelet
- Medium: Copper and Glass Beads
- Class: Beginning Jewelrymaking and Metalsmithing
This braclet was built in the style of a Byzantine chain and decorated with tiny glass beads I brought from a coffee shop during a youth group meeting (we were doing a little craft session that evening).
The Rainbow Rail
- Medium: Steel
- Class: Beginning Sculpture
A sculpture made of thick metal bars welded together, resembling rainbow arches. The model's name comes from welding the rail using a blowtorch and thin wire rod.
Rigid Panels
- Medium: Digital Prints
- Class: Story Development for Animation
A personal little comic strip where I introduce myself and how I want to become my artist and create a strong portfolio that others can appreciate in the future.
Star Charm
- Medium: Brass
- Class: Beginning Jewelrymaking and Metalsmithing
A simple eight-pointed star cut from a sheet of brass is used to demonstrate how to create charms by cutting off various shapes. A drill made a while on the highest point of the star to hook the ring, thus making it perfect for a necklace.
Yin-Yang Pin
- Medium: Brass and Copper
- Class: Beginning Jewelrymaking and Metalsmithing
A pin resembling the yin-yang fish in geometric style. With one fish cut from a brass sheet and another from copper, these two were to be soldered (similar to “gluing” pieces of metal together, but with pieces of solder wire and a blow torch) to form the complete design of the pin.
As I said earlier, I will work hard to finish all my other compositions before the semester ends. Therefore, this article will be continued with another list of recently completed artwork for the same three classes.