These were the materials we used for our first in class project.

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This was one of my  first in-class projects. The assignment was to pick a random color from a pile of various colors and tones, mix our acrylic paint to the exact color value we selected, and paint a smaller square perfectly of a bigger square. I learned black acrylic is hard to mix and to always tape your border to avoid any blemishes or stray lines.

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Our first in class project was sort of practice for our next two projects, the grayscale and RGBYVO Geometric and Organic shapes. The grayscale was really hard for me. Increasing and decreasing color value isn't as easy as it looks especially when you get to the dark grey values. It's definetly a skill you have to practice.

This was the RGBYVO geometric and organic shapes. We had to cut and paint 42 different color values on 42 different sized shapes. At that moment I knew what my teacher meant by, "the begining of the class will be clalled Boot Camp" This was not as hard as the gray scale but I did have similar problems with the darker color vaules of blue, red, and purple. I learned that I should use more on my paint brush, watch out for smudges and you only need a little bit of black acrylic paint to make a darker color value. 

This was our Blind Fold project and I really loved doing it. We had to blind fold ourselves and paste different sized strips of black or white paper on a big peice of black or white paper. I thought finding my glue was the hardest part. The craziest thing was removing the blindfold and seeing what you actually created. After the first part of  the project we had to create depth perception and grayscale with strategically placed pieces of paper and tracing papper. I thought my project was pretty succesful. I created grayscale and depth. 

After seeing my other classmates blind fold projects, I would go back and add more color to my project maybe to create more depth or different vallues of red.

This was our Letter Project that focused on implied direction/movement and using foreground/background. I chose the first letter of my last name and painted it sky-blue. I thought of grass when I painted the K sky blue so I painted the square a dark green. I was really hard to figure out what I want to do with the cut shapes so I thought of implied direction. I wanted the my shapes to gradually incline vertically and horizontally. I think I should of done a better job mixing the green because when I ran out the mixed green I didnt get the exact match after mixing more.

This was our Ink Board project and it was foccused on patterns, textures, and the use of your ink pin. I personally thought the ink pen was extremely hard to fill in vast amounts of black space as well as doing small lines or circles. After seeing other classmates projects I thought I could of been more careful with smudging and taping off my border. I definetly learned after the first 8 squares. 

This was our collage project and it focussed on minimalist and maximalist effects, placement, and creativity. We were able to choose 2 of 3 projects and I chose The Giant and Dreamlike State. I thought I did really well however I did not know how to use the medium matte correctly and it ripped some of the color of my image in the Giant collage. 

This was our SELFIE project, hicnce the selfie at the top. We had to use photoshop and it focussed on painting skills, tracing skills, and mixing ink(which was very knew to me) I really liked this project it was fun and relaxing. We had a choice of doinga border or not and chose to have a border to practice centering my pieces. I also created texture on the left side of my bristol board which I thought added a lot of flow to my piece. 

These are my projects from Boot Camp and myself.

Overall I think I was sucessful, but I need to learn how to manage my art project time because I was a late for couple deadlines. However, I am very pleased with skills I've learned so far this semester.