Olivia * AP art

Materials: watercolor pencil, sharpie Process: i found, once again, a sentence from many and drew connecting lines to the words of the sentence through the gaps of other words. I sketched out the hand using my own reference and colored the hand and door using watercolor pencil, as well as the background. I then went over the pencil lines of the connecting lines with sharpie and any border needed. I did not mean to use purple, I thought it was black, but I made it work by adding a shadow through the doorway with sharpie. I added butterflies on the doorway and thinner lines around the rest of the door. Idea: the butterflies on the doorway symbolize change and I wanted to come almost full circle from my first piece which was reaching out towards something unknown yet hoping for something to help them. This time, the hand is almost in the same position but reaching towards something they know will be good: growth and change within themselves for the better. The “door opening” is the butter

 Materials: iPad, ibispaint, exacto knife  Process: After I put together the sentence from different words found on a book page, I copied it onto Manila paper. I used a exacto knife to cut out all other words other than the sentence seen using a straight edge ruler and two triangle rulers, one large and one small, to get straight lines. using a reference, I sketched out the rough design of the hand and flower, finalized said design and did lineart and flats. I glued the book page on top of the printed out digital artwork. Idea: following “Fraying,” Warning describes how the heart has caught onto how the narrator’s crush does not reciprocate their feelings and agrees with reason. “It is the warning and his heart knew” means that when one gets the sense that their crush does not like them in that way anymore, reason/logic warns the heart that there could be potential danger should they keep liking that person (danger being emotional hurt, etc). The flower is a rhododendron which symboliz

  Warning - digital Closing - traditional with watercolor pencil

Materials: book page, ipad (ibispaint), exacto knife, glue Process: I drew out the lines connecting the sentence I had found on one the book pages and then copied it onto bigger parchment colored paper. Using the exacto knife, I cut a border and around said lines so only the sentences were left. I sketched a design on my iPad using ibisPaint, lineart, and colored as well.  Idea: I wanted to convey the message that matters of the heart/desire can overtake one’s mind, throwing all reason to the wind. The flower symbol represents Aphrodite, goddess of love, while the owl sitting on the branch represents Athena, goddess of wisdom/reason. The sentences “I understand that for years now, the heart wa dimly doing what he knew best. It was foolish, but it was magnificent. Don’t give the chance to reason” is simply what it means. The heart can feel many things and that’s what it knows best, but the mind makes the decisions. So, sometimes when you get to know someone and start liking them, the he

 

 Materials: book pages, digital art, exacto knife Process: I found the sentence that I wanted to use and copied it onto a beige colored paper, then cut out all of the words save for those in the sentence and made a border using the exacto knife and a ruler to get straight edges. From there, I sketched out my design on paper and took a picture which I imported into a drawing app called ibisPaint on my iPad and drew the lineart and coloring on there for sharper lines and edges. I printed the image out, glued it onto a black background and then glued the cut out page on top.  Idea: to express the “narrator’s” journey through the process of liking someone, this is the change where they realize that it’s okay to be rejected and used this as a means to self reflect/grow self love or confidence. Hence the sentence “then he set about raising himself  and slowly he made progress.” The triskelion represents change and progress in Greek/Celtic culture and the hands are reach up for it, wanting to