Ariana Meo

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Final Project

First I wet the cardboard to get the layers to fan out, and then I burned it after it dried. To me it looks like a bunny so I tried to mimic the technique and drew it with charcoal to get as close to the ashy burn mark as possible.

I dripped ink over a feather and then wrapped plastic over it to smudge it across the surface. The colors and shape looked like a butterfly, so my response was a blue butterfly drawn on the plastic.

I used the same inky feather from the previous project and dragged it accross the cardboard. The design came out so smooth and perfect that I was reminded of a Chinese ink drawing. I tried to create a scene as neatly as I could inspired from my feather design.

I used another feather dipped in ink and dragged it across the cardboard.

I used a match dipped in ink to draw a match on cardboard.

I used matches dipped in ink to draw an abstract design. I could sort of see a shape and tail rutter of a helicopter and responded to that.

When scratching at the carboard, I peeled away the skin and revealed the detail underneath. It reminded me of a cityscape, more particularly, the World Trade Center. I responded by duplicating the technique on an actual image of the Trade Center.

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Found Object Responses

I wanted to contradict the texture of a piece of coral by making a response out of sculpy. It has the smooth surface with the illusion of the texture that the actual coral has.

I looked up the markings on the fastener and found out that it belonged to a specific sprinkler. My response was drawing the sprinkler that it once belonged to.

I wanted to contradict the soft, feathery texture of the feather by making a response out of a solid block of wood. The engravings also represents the separate pieces of the feather, opposed to the solid block of wood that the response is made out of.

I painted my response to represent a jagged piece of wood by painting on a soft piece of paper once made out of wood.

I tried to duplicate this piece of coral through a sponge. I painted it white for the color and like the way the sponge opposes the smooth texture of the coral.

My original thought was to melt the tar and create a smooth surface of its liquified state. However, tar requires extremely high heat to melt. So this is what the attempt ended up being.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Found Objects - Photographs of my found objects

Coral: I found this walking on the beach. It's one of my favorite things to do.

Coral Underside: I also found this walking on the beach.

Fastener: I found this in the parking lot outside of the auditorium where I park everyday.

Feather: I found this feather at the beach.

Stage Wood: I found this piece of wood near my car outside of the auditorium. It is probably one of ours since it has been painted.

Tar: I found this on the beach and had no idea what it was. I was intrigued by that fact.

Wood: I also found this outside of the auditorium. It is most likely ours, but I found it interesting that it had no paint.

Movie Diagram

I did a storyboard of "Gladiator" by Ridley Scott. I selected key parts to diagram the movie. However, I did it backwards and could not photograph the entire storyboard. When looking at the pictures, start on the left and at the bottom of each row to read the story in chronological order.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Walk the Line

I wanted to film walking in my father's footsteps. We all have a hero who's shoes we hope to someday fill and for me, those shoes are my father's. For me this video represents how sometimes it is hard to find the path, but no matter what obstacles we are presented with, we always find out way back.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Water

First I decided to photograph water crashing against or along something to provide a sense of movement to a feature that is always flowing. Then I wanted to illustrate ways that water affects humans, seeing as it makes up a majority of our body.