Sophia+Moreno

=QUARTER 4=

The last quarter was separated into 2 projects. The first one was the tiniest of the pieces I've done, but my favorite. Its a mini painting of a creepy, skeletal woman with large hair. I really wanted to play with paint texture. The second half of the unit I used for a movie, which is still art. The painting is really about the size of a large index card. I bought the texture "goo" stuff from the art store, and mixed it with regular acrylic paint to get the spiky background, and elevated hair. The lady was supposed to look a little scary and unrealistically styled, so I made her super thin and zombie-esque. My favorite part is the face and hair. There are aspects that could have turned out better, but I still really like it. If I could redo it, I would. I would actually like to create many copies of the same piece, to see which one turns out the best. Then I could play around with different techniques or mediums.

=QUARTER 3=





After spending 2 semesters working on the same painting, I figured I should just move on to something different. I did finish it eventually, but the surreal painting wasn't my chosen project. This quarter I decided to work with a combination of painting and photography. I originally wanted to paint different images and scenes on numerous people's backs, photograph them, and then piece the photos together into one cohesive "person." It didn't work like that. I only used one person, Devon.

The first day didn't begin with a set goal. I hadn't decided on one specific theme of images to paint, but just picked the first thing that would look interesting, bruises. I must have done at least three sets of bruises. I mixed colors together and basically finger painted bruises onto Devon's back. One day I tried q-tips, but it didn't make much of a difference. Apart from bruises, I tried to paint a metallic cable/wire bending through her back. That one wasn't as interesting as I had hoped in the end. The last part was the German words "es tut mir weh," meaning "it hurts me." I figured the other images had to do with pain; it seemed fitting. The "Germaness" was entirely unrelated and simply due to the fact that I like the language. Finally, I selected from each set, a grouping of four photos, and put them together.

I wish I could have made more varieties of images. It would have been a much better collection with more types. There weren't any ideas that came to mind, but I'm sure I could have thought of something to add. I should have tried different materials as well, like charcoal. The bruises did turn out fairly well though as paint. = = =**QUARTER 2**=

__**Almost complete **__

This quarter project was again left open for free interpretation and artistic whim. I however, still had my old painting from the first quarter to complete. I began with what was originally a creepy drawing of an eyeball. That eventually was transformed into a slightly surreal, but still unfinished painting. What can I say? I'm just slow.

I began the second quarter with a half filled in canvas, so it was easy to pick up where I left off. Not wanting to rush, every single part seemed to take forever to complete. Most of the painting has been gone over and re-layered at least twice, but is still not god enough. I think the last part to do is the rest of the nose and then it will be done.

The parts I'm most proud of would have to be the water, the mouth and the eyeball. The rest doesn't seem quite as nice. I most regret not using more texture. I wish I had gone out and bought pastes or flakes to make everything stand out more like the leaves or waves. Like I said before, this piece isn't quite done, but is very close. I still won't rush, but its honestly about time to finish and move on.

=**QUARTER 1**= __**half****-Complete Final Painting**__ All things aside, I'm a perfectionist when it comes to my art, so I work slow. I'm usually happy with what is turned out but it just means it takes me longer. I'd say I got about half way done with the final painting. It still needs to be filled in and gone over again with a lot more detail. Even still it doesn't look at all how I wanted. First I had to choose what to do. The project was very open ended, so it took a while for me to decide what do do: a painting, a drawing, photography? On the first day of art, we had to sketch something, anything that came to mind. I drew a really cool eyeball that morphed into a bunch of coils-like things. i decided I really liked that image and wanted to find a way to incorporate it into my final piece. The next step was just sketching and doodling different parts I thought might go together. The final sketch was supposed to be something semi-abstract/surreal. Once I had a rough sketch and a general idea of what I wanted to do, I bought a small canvas and transferred the sketch onto it. The next class periods were spent on painting, until I ran out of time.