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.

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 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.