Last Batch

12) This was my attempt at the whole "fire and ice" theme, so I tried doing an icy landscape with a frozen river or something with a strange looking moon/planet. Not my favorite

13) Look familiar? I thought it did too, when I was painting it, I had painted all these cards (can't remember if I did 12, though) outside my classroom at Alta, because I was running out of time and I decided I wouldn't waste a whole period just because I was doing spray paints, so I snuck them into school. There happened to be a sub that day, not that that would have allowed or prevented me from my plans, but I asked her if I could and I showed her the cards I had already finished, which impressed her to find that I had done them in spray paint (which is pretty darn sweet, I'll admit) and she let me leave the classroom and go outside to paint in the slightly rainy conditions, forcing me to paint underneath the classroom window because directly above was a slight overhanging roof that made a dry spot just big enough to place my styrofoam spray board with my cards to be painted. Anyway, when I came in and looked at the other cards I had done, I realized that I had done practically the exact same stinkin' card as this one, only the other one had a smaller moon/planet. I quickly traded one of them with the girl that wasn't there on trading day so no one else would see that I had made two very similar cards.

14) Cool color scheme, I guess, and nice triangular approach to composition. Triangle=dynamic.

15) I think either Eston or Bradley ended up with this one, if you knew either of them, you'd know that it certainly plays to their tastes.

16) I gave this one to Greta, my Italian exchange student as well as some others because I ended up with extras after trading day--the procrastinators didn't get them all finished, so I didn't get to trade with everyone I wanted to.

17) My last one. Good thing, too, because I was runnin' out of ideas.

Continuing On With Artist Trading Cards

#7. Funny thing about this one, I did this one and I did another one (see number 13. [coming soon]) and once you see it, you'll understand. It was purely accident, so I quickly got rid of one of 'em to a girl that was gone on trading day so that no one else would realize what I had done. To fully understand, just remember to look for #13 when I post it in the future.

#8. I don't remember anything significant about this one.

#9. This one was modelled after a bunch of the ones on youtube with the whole grid thing. The city didn't turn out so great, but I did realize that I had a whole complimentary-color scheme goin' on, so that pleased me.

#10. All I can say is that I hate it.

#11. This once actually was the first one I did, but I originally painted it with acrylics, because I had a whole class to figure out what to do, and I obviously didn't have my spray paint with me because I think that it was the day we actually got the assignment. So I painted it first, then went back and spraypainted over it.

More Artist Trading Cards

#3. I realized later why the pyramids didn't look as good as they should have--I sprayed the shade up and down instead of at an angle. Oh well, I actually redid this one for Hill, because she really wanted it, but I had to trade it in class. Kirk Logan (who I had known since 4th grade) now has it.

#4. This was one of my other favorites--I loved the texture because I did a lot of layering and scraping (with a palette knife) and in the end the spray of the water could be felt, as could the grooves making the highlights of the rocks.

#5. The shading on this planet was awesome, though I ruined it with a terrible background--I was trying to make a few comets, but that backfired and it now looks like a spaceship/UFO or something. It's harder than I thought to keep clarity with spray paint on such small dimensions. Seth Crandall, Mr. Sterling Scholar, ended up with this one.

#6. I tried to recreate the amazing shading effect of the planet above and failed miserably, not to mention the atrocious composition. Two subjects=bad, (generally) three=great.

Artist Trading Card #2

This one is my absolute favorite card, so it gets it's own personal post all to itself. My teacher took this one, so it made me both mad and happy because I lost my favorite card, but I was also wise in my choice of favorite, because my teacher had to have the best--meaning I'm getting better with knowing what is good.

Artist Trading Cards

Artist Trading Cards were the last assignments for the year in AP Art. I realy liked this assignment--we were supposed to create 17 pieces (2 1/2" X 3 1/2") that were in our own "style." I decided to do spray paint, this is number 1