Project 6

River Flows In You 

Materials :

• At least three different colors of acrylic paint
• Chalk pastel (2-3 colors)
• Xacto knife
• Bristol board
• Artists Tape
• A song of your choice which you will be playing on the piano.
• Foam board

Instructions:

1. First practice the song you will be performing a couple times. Take the measurements of the piano and count all the white and black keys. Then cut out the keys from the Bristol board.
2. apply a piece of artists tape on the back of cut Bristol board pieces and tape them onto the piano. 
3. On a separate sheet of paper empty the chosen acrylic colors and dip each finger into a different color. Now play the song on the piano , and allow to dry overnight
4. The next day repeat the same process but this time you will take the pastel chalk sticks and powder them down with your xacto knife. 
5. Place your fingers in different colors and play the song again .
6. You now have your completed project. Gently remove the pieces of cut Bristol board and place them onto foam board. Any layout design would work with this project.

I Chose the song River Flows in You by Korean pianist and composer Yiruma. It is a song i have enjoyed listening to for a while. I also decided to change my color palette for this project and went with cooler tones.The blue colors i chose reminded me of water colors ,which i thought suited the title of the song.I also chose this layout design because i wanted the viewer to be able to see the original piece on a simple display.The black foam board was cut out in that pattern because I wanted it to resemble the keys of a piano. I really enjoyed working with this project because it creates a random outcome . It is interesting that each time a different song is played and different colors are used , a new  and original piece of art is being created. I have always wanted to visually interpret music and i think this project allowed me to do it beautifully.

Project 6-Colleen Rothe

Process:

Final Project:

Ft. my ugly and messy basement

Close Ups 

Materials:

• 24' 6" roll of white paper
• 24 washable markers in various colors

Process:

• Roll out the paper and markers
• As people pass by invite them to trace and decorate their hands

Reflection: 

For my project my friends and I went to Youmacon at the Ren Cen and Cobo Hall over the first weekend in November. I really wanted to involve other people with my project and I thought Youma was the perfect place because there's so many people and everyone is very friendly. I chose the Cobo center because it gets a lot of foot traffic and it has long halls that allowed me to roll out the paper as far as I needed to. Another good thing about the Cobo and choosing the day I did was there was a Red Wings game so people outside the con could participate too. I'm really glad people were so eager to trace their hands and decorate them or write funny things, it was a lot of fun watching people. There was some kids at the Cobo center too so they were very excited to draw on the paper. There was one boy dressed as Charazard (Pokemon, see pictures above) and he explained how he turned his hand into Charzard, it was very cute. Overall I really enjoyed this project, it was a lot of fun to make and it was cool to see everyones projects because they were so different and unique. I'm going to keep my project and I might even do it again at other conventions I go to (just for fun). 

Project 6 - Emilia Nawrocki

Materials

• makeup
• makeup wipes
• sewing needle
• white thread

Instructions

• apply makeup for the day
• at the end of the day, take off the makeup with a makeup wipe
• once you have a good amount of makeup wipes, choose the size of your groupings (I did groupings of four) and use your thread and needle to stitch the makeup wipes together
• you are done

Process and Results

 

Project 6 number two

Materials

• bristol board (size of your choice)
• ink pens
• desk
• things you frequently put on your desk

Instructions

• tape the piece of bristol board to an area of your desk
• whenever anything is placed on the bristol board, trace it with the ink pens
• art is made

Project 6

By Feza Ali

The instructions for the project is that any person I have a conversation with I would ask them to stamp their fingerprint. The palm of the hand would be placed in the middle of the page and would stamp the print wherever the finger would land.  For each day of the week was a finger of the right hand. The interaction has to be a conversation. After they put their fingerprint I would right their name next to it  with a black sharpie. I alternated colors and tried to not have a color repeat and I also told them that it was okay for them to overlap with someone else's fingerprint.

It was an interesting challenge. There were someday where I would forget to ask the person and then I would go find them and have them stamp it later. It was also an interesting experience, especially when I would have to explain to them as to why I am doing the project and what the purpose is for me to ask for their fingerprint. Some people were hesitant because they didn't want to get ink on their fingers, but overall, it was a fun and interactive project. 

Project 6 - Jessie Kim

"Mood Tracker" (tentative name)

Materials:

• 2 pieces of Bristol board
• 1/2'' artist's tape
• gouache paint
• paintbrush
• water cup
• alarm/timer
• ruler

Instructions:

1. Figure out for how long you want to keep a mood tracker for. For the sake of this project, I made a mood tracker for 15 days (Nov. 6 through Nov. 20).
2. Set an alarm on your phone, watch, etc., for any time of the day (for example, 7 p.m.) to remind you to check your mood, record it, and paint a "square day" according to the emotion you are feeling.
3. Assign the emotions fear, anger, sadness, joy, tiredness, calmness to a color you associate each best with from your gouache paint set. For my project, I matched fear with black, anger with brilliant red, sadness with blue lake, happiness with medium yellow, tiredness with burnt sienna, and calmness with leaf green.
4. Get 1 Bristol board paper and measure it out. You will discover that it is not truly 9 x 12 inches which makes it really difficult to use rational numbers to create equal "square days". Record the measurements anyway.
5. Depending on how many days your mood tracker will be for, you will have to create a grid using 1/2'' artist's tape for the borders and the dividing spaces between each "square day." Because I had 15 days, I chose to have 3 rows of 5 squares. I did not chose to make 2 rows of 7 squares because the squares would have been more like rectangles.
   
6. Every day at the same time, the time you have set with an alarm, check your mood at that time and record your mood in case you are not able to paint at the moment... (record it anyway even if you do have the time to paint).
7. The day you prepare your Bristol board should also be a day you record your emotion. So start painting!
8. Get your paints and the other Bristol board paper to use as a palette.
9. If you notice that you are feeling a mix of emotions, mix the two colors together!
   
10. Paint the first "square day," should be the top left corner square.
    
11. Come back the next day and paint the next square.
    
12. After the 15th day, wait until the next morning to take off the tape from the Bristol board.
13. Good morning... time to take off that tape...
    
    Final product
    
    
    
    

Reflection
I enjoyed this project because I really like painting and I find the gouache paint medium interesting to work with, especially because of the texture after the paint has dried. I chose to create a mood tracker because I think it is just fun and interesting to see visually and represented in color the emotions I normally experience.

Project 6- Sarah A. Rosecrans

What you will need:

• Watercolor paper
  
• Watercolor
  
• Paint brushes
  
• Two suction cup hooks
  
• Two small binder clips

Water Color Shower Process

Instructions:
1. Prepare your watercolor paper by brushing on a thin layer of water across the paper 

2. Paint the composition however you like
3. Repeat steps two and three at least five times, set compositions aside to dry

4. Set up the shower by attaching the suction cups to the wall of the shower, preferably
out of reach of the water
5. When ready to shower, attach binder clips to dried composition and hang on suction
cup hooks in the shower
6. Shower as you normally would and when hair begins to fall out into your hands, take the
hair and stick it to the water color composition.

7. At the end of shower, flip hair over to towel dry (excess water from hair will splash the

composition)

8. Leave composition to hang dry
9. Once dry, peel hair from paper
10. Repeat steps five through nine every time you shower 

The Outcome

This project was pretty interesting to me. I've never really thought to create art out of a daily routine so it was fun to try something new and didn't take much effort since it was really just something i'd do on a regular basis anyway. Everything ended up costing just a bit over ten dollars and everything i bought I was able to grab in one stop at Walmart. The prepping process of creating the watercolor paintings was relaxing and worked as a sort of stress relief after a long day. I'm pretty content with the outcome of the project. The only thing is when I was thinking about this project and how to do it, and when we were brainstorming, I guess I was thinking back to before I cut my hair, when it used to be long and unhealthy, it would fall out a lot more during my showers... and I mean A LOT more... So I feel like if I would've attempted this project before I cut my hair It could've been a much more interesting outcome. That's just something to keep in mind for later for myself. But all in all this was a pretty cool project and I'd try it again in the future.