final scetch ideas

For my final project I have chosen to base my series of pieces on the Claddagh. The claddagh is a very old Irish symbol that represents 3 core values of successful relationships. Those values are: Friendship(symbolized by two hands), Love(the heart), and Loyalty(the crown). The symbol made its way across the globe via migrating Irish people from the Potato Famine. The claddagh is most commonly seen in jewelry.

my web chart

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This is what i came up with to represent friendship, a little boy and his dog on the beach

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I decided to use the old fasion tree carving to represent love
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For loyalty, i chose the most loyal thing possible(in my eyes) the unknown soldier monument. You cant get much more loyal than someone sacraficing their life for their country, without anyone knowing who you were.

Batik Project and Examples of Texture

simulated texture

This is a batik that looks cracked and swirled but in actuality it is a smooth surface.

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invented texture

Van Gogh's adaptation of wind, moon, and star light is portrayed in this famous oil painting. There is no actual texture to these things but through imagination and creativity Van Gogh uses an implied texture to capture them.

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actual texture

This is a Chuck Connolly painting. Chuck is known for using tons of paint on his canvas. Layers of paint and the way his brush moves through those thick layers of paint create a physical texture you can touch .

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abstract texture

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my batik:

It was a wild and humbling journey. When i started working on it at home i think i may have heated the wax too much, causing it to not work the way it did in class. Some of the die colors were not protected by the wax, causing excessive and involuntary bleeding. If my project were an Olympic figure skating routine and i were a judge, i would give my project an 10 for effort, 10 for degree of difficulty and a 6.8 for execution.