ARTIST TRADING CARDS
The twelve piece mini concentration that I completed focused on the abstraction and cropping of chairs from different time periods and styles. I used this project to experiment with color and the ability to change the subject while still keeping it structured. These twelve cards possess a doodle and sketch like quality rather than a full artistic rendering which helps to express part of my style. One of the most successful cards dealing with abstraction is the green card on the second row, as I removed multiple parts of the chair from the work.
In my AP Portfolio next year I plan on having a focus on interior design and architecture by bringing together things like colors, textures, moods, furniture, and basic concepts; which made this project perfect for preparation. This project helped me to explore styles that have come about through time periods as well as color and how each time period has a generic color scheme that can be associated with the period and the ideas/beliefs that made that time period unique. Through the things I have learned within this project I hope that I am able to expand my depth and breadth in AP Studio Art.
As my idea for this project was first developing I had the idea of doing a focus on twelve different chairs and colors, but as I drew a box around one of my sketches I realized that there were so many ways I could crop one chair let alone four that there was no reason to do all twelve chairs. From there I chose the four chairs that I was most interested, drew the overall subject, and then found two ways to crop each chair after that. I wanted to unify the cropped works and so to do this I painted the background of each series the same color. After unifying all the works in a series together through color I wanted to remove structure from the work and a whole and give the viewers eye movement so I decided to mix all of the cards up, randomizing them and then positioning them in this random order.