Project 10 (more to be added)

 For my last project I wanted to go back to using Photoshop. I loved the Photoshop class I took last semester and I wanted to take a brake from the canvas. As everyone knows, I am a swimmer and my whole life revolves around the sport. I eat, sleep, and plan studies around practice times and goals I have for college swimming.  A old summer league and high school coach took pictures of me at my last apex meet that I used in this project. I really enjoyed this project because it brought back many skills in Photoshop I had not used in a while and I got to express some of my athletic life in my art life. I love combining my interest.

Images taken by Catherine Grimes

My Photoshop edits:

More will be added to this piece soon. :) Stay tuned!!

Artwork for Portfolio

These are some of the pieces I have done in the past. The first image is made with all wallpaper and the second image is made with all watercolors.

The following pictures are all made with acrylic paint.  I plan to use acrylic on all of my concentration pieces.  I will add in techniques to the pieces, however.  I have learned how to use oils on top of acrylic and how to use a pallet knife (like the flower picture here) and other mediams to make my pieces really pop.

 

Petals of Seasons Changing

For my second to last project I needed to let my creative, spontaneous side show. I wanted to just let my hands create without my mind having plans and ideas. I had a basic goal of having the four seasons combine with petals, that also change throughout the flowers life, but, other than that, my creativity was free to run wild. 
My project started out looking like this:

The background is all wallpaper. I loved the look of it being similar on each petal but not completely the same.  A flower changes through its life but not so much to the point that you cannot tell it is the same type of flower. The leaves may wilt and turn brown or darker but it does not change too drastically. I chose petals of flowers because leaves of trees are a whole nother story. Trees change colors regularly.

The final product:

 Petals of Seasons Changing

Allie Snyder

 December 2013

Medium: Wallpaper, water solublie colored pencils, water color, sharpie 

Throughout creating this pieces, I had to take many peers opinions on what to add. I added a border to the piece and placed purple strategically throughout the piece to make it look like one unit. The boarder looked too bold so I used sharpies to tie in the wallpaper on the boarder to the wallpaper on the petals' background.

I enjoyed this project. Sometimes you just have to let your creative juices flow to see what cool and new ideas you can add to future pieces. THis project was a perfect turning page to next semester in AP art.

Imagine the Impossible

The theme I chose to run with was imagine the impossible. My whole life revolves around speed and times in the water. I thought it would come in handy to be faster than the speed of light. This piece was very out of my comfort zone because it dealt with motion and capturing a story instead of just scenery. This skill will come in very handy when I create my concentration pieces on national parks and their history. Capturing stories in pieces is challenging at first, like every other skill, but is one I must learn to portray before starting on my concentration pieces.

I decided to work with line in this piece  because part of speed is getting from one point to another as fast as possible. A line is the shortest route between two points.

Acrylic is the medium I will be working with in my concentration pieces so I will continue to practice withit in the future.

I enjoyed this project and got much positive feedback on the final outcome. I had no idea what the piece was going to turn out to be. I was very happy with the final piece.

Imagine the Impossible

Allie Snyder

Medium: Acrylic and Medium

November 2013

Breaking Down

For my sixth project in Art IV, I used a theme I created, breaking down. I pondered through ideas for this piece and wanted to put a spin on its negative meaning to most people. My list started out with ideas that reflected heartache and depressing topics. When you think of breaking it usually brings negative thoughts to mind. How was I going to change this outlook? I began to look into Picasso and his breaking down of detailed works into shapes. I loved this idea and knew water color would give me the effect I wanted.

I wish I had more time to spend on this project but I had one weekend to complete the assignment. I worked really hard on my Over the Edge project and ran out of time for this.  I love how well the final looks being this was my first time working with this medium, watercolor. Once the piece was created I felt something was missing. The rocks were just not enough to give the piece natural beauty. I added a lighthouse that was very bold and drew the eye in. This gave the piece a clear topic of emphasis. The boldness and royal blue color attracts the eye.

I really enjoyed water color. I wonder if water color could be put ith acrylic somehow..? This will be something to experient on future projects. 

My Plan:

My References:

My final :) The photograph doesn't capture its real beauty. To me, the colors are a lot bolder in person.

Breaking Down

Allie Snyder

Medium: Watercolor

November 2, 2013

Over the Edge

For this project I had planned on painting a bridge for the theme over the edge. I drew out a couple sitting on a bridge with an emphasis on them.

Emphasis was going to be my topic using the people in bright colors. In the end, emphasis was still the theme but using rocks. After exploring the skill of palate knife painting, I discovered a talent in it. I love the way the knife made the rocks seem so realistic.

My media was acrylic. I love acrylic painting. It is something I have been working with for many years. I love painting sunsets so painting the water and sunset int he background was very natural for me. After seeing how good the painting turned out before the bridge was painting in, I decided to save that idea for project six and complete the painting with an extra layer of mountains faded in the background.

The theme would still fit and I could work with adding to the background easily. I used medium to dull out the mountains and make them appear to be in the distance behind the previously painted mountains. I really enjoyed this project and working with the acrylic medium.

 I can not wait to start project six and go with my plan of a couple on the bridge.

The following pictures map out the processes and steps I took to complete this project:

Over the Edge

Allie Snyder

Medium: Acrylic and medium

October 24, 2013

Class Comments :)

Homework piece: 2D to 3D art

I love doing this art. Seeing ordinary objects in  a completely different way lets your imagination run wild.

Tea Kite
Medium: Pen, Tea bag and folder
Allie Snyder
October 7, 2013