Final

Essential Questions:

1.  How will this piece relate to the community?

2.  How will this piece relate to the culture of our population?

3.  How will this piece engage non-KCAA viewers?

4.  In 25 years how will this piece be viewed?  What will it look like?

Answer these questions in three paragraphs about your beautification project.

Through completing my beautification project it has benefitted me and hopefully an outcome of this project is that in the future others can benefit from it as well, such as the community, our school culture, and any non-KCAA viewers.  Throughout creating this project it helped me understand more about working on art projects that are bigger than 8” by 11”, and how much more work, energy, and emotion is put into each one of them.  This project relates to the community because it involves the community through helping them if they don't know all of the colors of the color wheel, or it can help them learn different color theories and the different combinations that come with them.

Similarly, this piece relates to the culture of our population because we are an arts school inside of an arts community.  Through being an arts school every student doesn't only do one type of art, within each of our classes we can have multiple different combinations of art projects, and it is important that we know about and understand the different artistic options and how to use them effectively, one way to do that is through the color wheel.  For example, both 2D and 3D students will need to know about the color wheel and each of its key components so that they can create art that corresponds what they want it to.  Along with that, photography students can chose to say specific things through their art using different saturation and color effects that the color wheel can help with.

Throughout creating this project it has influenced both my future and the futures of others.  This piece will engage non-KCAA viewers because it will add an aesthetically pleasing aspect to the room that will be able to engage all different viewers through the different mixes of colors.  Additionally, this piece will help bring attention from non-KCAA viewers to our arts programs that give us small amounts of “real world” experience so that we (the students) have a better understanding of what our futures might hold.  As a student, beginning to understand how art works in the real world through viewing different examples such as the movie “The Barefoot Artist” and gathering different ideas about what others are doing around the world and transferring it into my own art projects about how to benefit others by beautifying different places has changed the way that I view different topics, and spaces. Through understanding how and why Lily created beautification projects helped me realize why I should think of how to innovate the world and different controversial topics.

Along with that, the project will be able to draw people into the picture showing them where the clock is throughout the room pointing out time management, which helps complete one of my goals within doing the project.  In the future, the project will still be up on the walls helping other students throughout their school career because they will be more likely remember the color wheel and to make sure they understand how much time they have left. In 25 years the piece will look like a reference guide to the color wheel, or an inspiration piece for any student looking for artwork that catches their eye.  In 25 years the paint will still be up on the walls showing other students a possibility of what they could do in the future.

 

Beautification project

Through creating this project I made a color wheel around a clock to brighten up the room and help other students focus on time management and creativity.  One thing I would change about this project would be how slow it went, I would try to speed up the process or add the rest of the design to the final outcome after getting an extension.  One thing I liked about the project would be the experience that I gathered.  For example, previously I had never gathered any experience painting on a wall, or anything except canvas or paper.  Through getting the experience of painting on a wall I realized how hard it really is and found a new respect for every artist or person who has painted a picture or idea on a wall throughout time.

This project is both theory based and design based.  This project is theory based because it uses the concept of color theory through the color wheel.  Color theory can be explained as a guide for color mixing with its visual effects or outcomes.  This project is also design based because I created a design idea with scale layout and then proceeded to complete the design in the designated area.  The research that I did in order to create this project was talking to multiple teachers to see what they wanted beautified throughout the school.  Then, with the responses I asked the same teachers what their ideas were for the areas that I had chosen and what they thought about my idea.  Through gathering this information I created multiple designs to help beautify classrooms.  Finally, I submitted the design idea I liked the most and got it approved by Castillo and Mrs. Lohr.

There were many steps that I went through in order to create this project.  At the beginning of the project I researched information given to me by different teachers.  Next, I planned out a few sketch ideas.  In the following weeks, I submitted a final design idea ad got it approved by Mr. Castillo and some of his staff.  The same week I got the idea approved, I gathered materials and started the layout of my design in the classroom that i chose.  After finishing the layout of the design, I began to tape and paint the design according to the labeled color choices.  Finally, when I was done with the color wheel I made a neutral grey color and created a box around the completed color wheel and filled the box in so that all of the lines from the color wheel were clean and crisp.  After the project was done, I talked with both my teacher and the teacher of the room and gathered constructive feedback from them.