3KathleenD



Reflective writing- Kathleen denslow

I chose the theme of where is the peace. Or where is the love, from the song. I heard it the day we were assigned this project and it got me thinking that it would be a good idea because things are kind of confusing in that area right now for me. I had a few problems mostly in the beginning and the end. At first everything was going good, until I went to paint it! I messed up on the paint and when I went to go over it in black when it was dry the black smeared with the other color and made a huge mess! So I took a small piece of paper and glued it over the mess and re-did that part. Then at the end I was painting the other side and I got some paint on the desk and it got on the side that was done and almost ruined the whole thing. So with that I just decided to do dots all over so it would blend in. This is successful because it has a “peace” idea and I personally think it looks great! I don’t think I would change anything. I really like how I made it look and how I solved the problems. I believe that everything it working!



I chose this piece because I thought it was a reasonably emotional piece. I saw his hair blown back and thought is was creative. Since it was orginally a photograph it was very precise and perfect. I didn’t really want to mess it up or make it look horrible so I tried my best to make it look like the original. I ran into a lot of problems. The background was hard to get perfect with the powder stuff, to get it to go where I wanted it to. The glass was difficult because once again I wanted it to be perfect. I couldn’t get it at first but once I kind of stopped caring it came out close. The hair I saved for last and it turned out just how it should of after I ran into the problems of getting the shades right. Personally I think it is a successful work of art because art is meant to just be about your personality and your creativity. I was creative and got personal with this piece and learned a lot from the process.



before!!



after!!!!

So the process of making this was really difficult. I tried aviary, and qeeuky paint but those didn’t really do what I wanted them to so I just stuck with fotoflexer and that worked. I cut out the guy first and added his hat, sunglasses and the band aid. Ha ha. Then I set the western background in there because he had a sort of western look to him. Then I set him in there and decided he needed to face off with someone. I took his and flipped him and that was it. Overall this was really fun to do and I cant wait to see the look on this kids face when they see it!!!



I chose this idea because I can relate to it. I love to snowboarding and have been for a while. When I started thinking about what I wanted to do for this project, I tried to think of what I liked. Yes, I only picked snowboarding because I thought it would be easy but it wasn’t. when I got thinking about what I wanted the idea to be I wanted it to be unique and creative. I wanted it to be colorful and 3D. as well as capturing a persons imagination. Whether the snowboarder is advertising, just standing there, or whatever, I wanted a person to think about what this was. I thought it would be a good project to show a person that snowboarding isn’t centered around the clothes the board or the mountain. It’s the person! When you snowboard its you, not a machine or something, that’s why it’s figurative. I wouldn’t change a thing. I like this a lot, its my best work so far! Some problems came up, like when I was making my person, the legs were really short. After a few people told me to fix it I did and it looks much better. I also wanted to incorporate the colors I used for the cut outs, into the person. They were tricky to cut because the tissue paper was fragile but overall it came out pretty good.



**__Social issue__**
 * __Kathleen Denslow__**

I chose to do my social issue project on adoption. I chose this issue because I think it is a real and wonderful thing. When I was around three years old I was placed into social services and then later foster homes. Most adopted children, like myself would only want a loving family and a home. The idea of having a family, a real one unlike foster homes, is very important to a foster child. I know when I was that age, and when I look back, I always wanted a family and a home where I could feel safe and secure. Adoption gives a child chances at a life foster care cant give them. I had a couple problems with my figure and the box (house). At first I wanted a house, a child, and a man. I wanted to set them cross -legged on the floor, and pictures of families all around. I started to run out of time and the adult figure wasn’t working out so I decided to have a child sitting in an empty house with pictures of families around him. Like he was staring and hoping to have them both (a family and a home). Since I was so behind the child didn’t come out smooth or anything like I wished it had. It hadn’t dried that much when it was fired and I was afraid that it would blow up! I got very lucky and there was only a very minor crack where the leg attached to the body. I wanted the child to seem bright and I wanted it to be a bright orange, but there was only a dull orange so I went with yellow, which turned out good. I wasn’t sure what my environment was going to be made out of. I knew I wanted to do a house, but what would be the house was a hard decision. I was running out of time so I grabbed an old shoebox and took it with me, hoping it would work. I ended p make a sort of “ lean two” house cutting out one end so you could see in it and having the cover be the top of the house. I used Popsicle sticks to make it so you could see inside of the box. Then I painted the top of the box top and the sides white and brown. The interior was tricky. I wanted the floor to be dark. Representing the child who wanted to be happy with a family and a home. And the insides of the sides of the box yellow with pictures of happy families around it. I wanted the idea to be him overcoming the longingness and moving on. I painted the floor blue, and the sides yellow but somehow the paints mixed. It turned out horrible so I had to think of an alternative. I ended up using some “wallpaper” as the floor and sides and when I was finished with that I liked it. I was told that the message was unclear and that I would need words or facts to help people so I glued some more pictures inside glued some facts to the sides of the box and wrote some things that an adoptive child wants. It turned out pretty good and I liked the finish product. I do think this is a successful piece of art. I think I didn’t make it too science related and made it more me than most people would make a social issue. They base it on other people, feeling something, but not incorporating themselves and I think that’s why I think mine is unique and special. I would change only the house, not necessarily the things in it, more like how the house was structured. I would diffidently make it more real, so people knew it was a house. I would also add maybe a second person, I don’t know why. I just think it would make it seem like there was more going on. I do love this piece, it’s not my best, but I can relate to it in a very honest way.