This document contains summaries of art projects completed by Christina Brown for her sophomore art class. It describes bumper sticker design, still life shading, texture and balance warm-ups, a photography assignment on sky photos, a gargoyle warm-up drawing, a Starbucks logo redesign, and a mixed media collage on the theme of "Growth". For each project, Christina lists the materials used.
1. By: Christina Brown
11.27.2012
Sophomore
Personal digital drawing
(still in progress)
Title: Earth’s Nurturing
2. Bumper Sticker Design
A bumper sticker design at the beginning of the year where we had to make a bumper
sticker with the text “Art is ______” in our design.
Materials used:
•Paper
•Black thick and thin markers
•Color Pencils
3. Still Life Warm-up
This is the still life
shading warm-up of a
cylinder, a cube, and a
cone. We had the shapes
and practiced our shading
with a picture example in
front.
Materials used:
•Paper (shapes already
printed in)
•Pencil
•Eraser
•Finger/napkin (For
smearing)
4. Texture and Balance Warm-up
This texture and
balance warm-
up was really fun
and colorful!
Materials used:
•Paper
•Bottle caps
•Paint
•Hot glue
5. Photography
This was an
assignment in
the photography
unit where we
had to take
multiple pictures
of a single
subject. I chose
the subject the
sky.
Materials used:
•Phone camera
•Photo editing
system (Chinese)
6. Gargoyle Warm-up
This is the gargoyle
warm-up assignment
in the Architecture
unit. We had to design
and shade in our own
gargoyles. I took some
inspirations from
Medieval Dragons and
a book that I had at
home.
Materials used:
•Paper
•Pencil
•Thin Black Marker
•Ruler
7. Logo Design
For this assignment, we had to
redesign a logo. I chose the logo
of Starbucks, which had been
criticized for its over complexity
and made it a clean and simple
logo that still holds all the key
components and colors.
Materials used:
•Paper
•Pencil
•Color Pencil
•Marker (Sharpie)
•Eraser
8. Mixed Media
Warm-up
This is the warm-up collage for
the mixed media unit. The
theme for this collage was
“Growth”.
Materials used:
•Paper (Drawing paper and
Stock paper)
•Paint
• Cotton colored fuzz
•Blue pen
•Black marker (Sharpie)
•Orange highlighter