The first piece of art we made during this lesson is a remixed character. This is where we took two different cartoon characters of our choice and combined them into one. I chose to do Pumba from Lion King and one of the minions from Despicable Me. I learned a lot of having to mix different elements to show the different characters, such as adding more detail to the minion and not putting the tail on Pumba. I also learned that little paint goes a long way and to always add the dark colors to the light when mixing. This piece was successful in the way that you could easily tell the different cartoons and there weren't a bunch of weird paint streaks (the painting lines were pretty much smooth.) Somethings that I might consider changing next time would be the way I combined them. I added Pumba's head to the minions body and I wish I combined them more.
The second mini lesson we did was monster ink drawings. What you do is put a dot of ink on your paper and then blow the ink into whatever you want and then turn it into a monster by using sharpie/pen/pencil. What I learned from this, is it isn't as easy as it would be thought to be. I had to analyze the image and look at the image in many different ways to try to figure out what I should do to form the monster. The mediums I used was pen and sharpie, where I used some cross hatching to give the effect. The piece was successful in the final product looked like a monster and was somewhat creative. If I did the project again I would change how I did it. I think I would try to blow the ink into some specific shape or way where I can still be creative with it, but the overall image would fit together.
The last thing we did was create a stencil that we spray painted. The image I chose to draw was a funny image of my friends face, where in the end, it looks like a good picture or her. We each brought in thin cardboard and then drew the image on there and cut it out to be spray painted. In this lesson I learned that it is necessary to tape down each small or thin pieces of the cardboard, otherwise the spray paint will leak through. Also in order to have the images inside of another part you have to cutout, you have to make a bridge or a small line of cardboard to connect that piece to another piece that isn't being cut out. The piece was successful because I was able to properly use the bridges and cut each piece out. Also, in the final product, the spray paint didn't bleed through much.