I have now completed my most recent in-class project and am pretty pleasantly surprised with how it turned out. I think all the parts really came together. Just to explain the layers of the piece, first there is board with the black circles and magazine cut outs on it. Then, only on part of the piece, there is a piece of textured paper. Next, there is a layer of embroidered tulle, which covers the entire piece, and lastly another layer of embroidered tulle that only partially covers the circle. The two layers of tulle have space between them, as well as space between them and the board, creating some depth. I feel satisfied with this piece and feel that I reached my goals of playing around with layering, and working 3-D. Although this piece is only about an inch deep, this 3-dimensional aspect allowed me to space out the layers, which allowed me to avoid some of the opaqueness that occurs when things are right on top of each other.
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Overall, I thought Helen did a great job with this interview, just as Mrs, Hall did a great job explaining her career in art and responding to the questions. The video started with a discussion of how Colleen Hall's art career started. I thought it was really interesting that she had never really thought that art would end up being her full time job, and that she had a background in a different field - marketing. Mrs. Hall then goes on to talk about where she started with art. At first, she did a lot of interior murals, which makes a lot of sense as a starting point cause often the client would tell her what they wanted and she would execute that. To me, that sounds like a lot of pressure, which Mrs. Hall actually mentioned. After doing murals for years, Mrs. Hall says that she started to want to put more of her own ideas into the art she was producing. One way she did this was by focusing on more community projects and having "paint parties". I think this is such a cool idea and something I had never really thought about until helping with the Maggie Walker mural.
I really appreciated what Mrs. Hall had to say about the importance of experimentation, specifically when she mentions the retreat in France, even after having had an art career for years. I think this really speaks to what she said throughout the video about frequently changing directions and the importance of being open to evolving as an artist. Lastly, I really appreciated her advice at the end of the video to continue to push your own creativity no matter what. Here is a link to an interview I recently did with a local art professional, Kelly Alder! This week I worked on the next two layers for my piece. They don't look like much now, but when both of them are fully stretched out and layered, they look much better. The tulle was definitely harder to work with than I had imagined, so this step took quite a while - but overall, I am pleased. Now I pretty much just have to put my layers together.
For this project I decided to not make a book, and instead make a more layered circular piece. This week, I worked on the first/back layer. I cut out my board into a circle that matched my wooden circle, drew some larger overlapping circles, gave them a more organic appearance with varying line quality, and lastly, added my small hole punched dots of varying sizes. My next step will be to work on the next layer, which will be tulle with embroidery.
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