My artwork is titled Possible Waterfall. It is a three dimensional popsicle stick and cardboard sculpture held together using hot glue. from almost any angle it looks like a mess of pieces, but if you look at it from one specific spot, the pieces line up and make an impossible shape resembling M.C. Escher's Impossible Waterfall. The shape makes it seem as if the water is flowing far away and uphill but it ends up flowing back into itself. in reality, there is no flowing water. In the drawing, gravity doesn't exist, so you can draw the water as if it were flowing, but in reality the water has to suspend itself from the beginning pool area.
I created my artwork by hot glueing popsicle sticks together in a few shapes that line up only when viewed from a specific angle. I then planned to hot glue cardboard to the bottom of the pieces to make them resemble the canals of the original drawing. I also planned to put blue tissue paper into the canals to make them look as it water was flowing. For the self suspending tissue paper, i planned on attaching the paper to blue pipe cleaners. My only inspiration was M.C. Escher's Impossible Waterfall. I have always loved Escher's work and illusions in general, so taking something that was literally supposed to be impossible and making it 3D was interesting to me and seemed like a fun challenge. My goals for this artwork were originally to make the illusion work. I wanted it to only make sense when viewed from the angle it was originally drawn in. That was when I started. Now, my only goal is to finish it. I have no idea if that will happen, but we'll see. So far I think it was going good. I got cut off before I was able to make any real progress but I was on my way there quickly. I feel like the illusion would have worked as I planned and sketched it out mathematically and it worked when i modeled it in 3D online, so I really wish I could've kept working on it. My two-year-old little brother Jayce got my pieces that I was making the sculpture with. I have two images; the pieces when I got them from the school, and the pieces after my brother got them. The picture of broken pieces got half corrupted when I emailed it to myself.
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James Rizzi's style is very basic. His artworks consist of solid colors and sharp edges/contrasts. His images have no shading or blending. The buildings in his work have unique faces on them and are of unorthodox shapes and colors. His artwork is bright and colorful, but basic at its core.
I do not believe Rizzi's work is successful because it looks as if a child could have created it. The funky shapes and bright colors make it look like a drawing that would be hanging on a fridge. The only part of his work that does not remind me of children is the sharpness of the edges and overall solidity of the colors. If a certain part is supposed to be one color, it is exactly that color throughout; no shading, no blending, no variety. I personally don't like this artwork. I don't like how basic and lackluster it is. It lacks depth and substance. I like intricate pieces with details that allow you to focus on one part at a time. With this art style you can't focus on one part because there is no specific detailing. You are forced to look at it as a whole and be content with "here's some bright colors and cute faces. Hope you like it." I don't like that. I wouldn't change my artwork. I would just toss it. I might sound dramatic but I don't enjoy his work. Yes, it's cute, but not my forte. My plan for the architectural drawing is to created a three dimensional version of M.C. Escher's 'Waterfall' out of popsicle sticks, glue and possibly task board.
Envision - This artwork has been in my mind for some time, but I never really knew how to accomplish it. I am fascinated by M.C. Escher's work and have always wanted to recreated some part of it some way, but I never knew how. I'll admit, it's quite a stretch to try and create something that is literally titled as impossible, but I think I've figured out how to 3D render this into a sculpture. Stretch/Explore - Every time I create something in this class I am stretching myself a little more. The only 3D creations I have ever made outside of this class are in robotics. The Among Us plushie was new and different, but it wasn't hard to create. This next piece, however, this is going to be a challenge. |
AuthorHey I'm jaden, I'm a senior this year, and I really like to draw. Like, I REALLY like to draw. Only with pencil though. 90% of the time I only create art with a pencil. Archives
January 2021
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