Week 5: Five Drawings with Procreate

All the videos were created in Procreate and the music was made in GarageBand. I started off making the music first and our objective was either to use one instrument or to use recordings. I decided to use one instrument and decided on the guitar. After I finished the song I began the tedious job of creating five drawings. The basis for the drawings were that they had to be "Impossible Fiction." I did all five drawings in Procreate and utilized the gel pen, the smudger and the hard airbrush. I wanted to play around with color and highlight so therefore each background consists of a different color. After I created the videos and music, I took everything to Photoshop and put the music into the videos. The music was a lot longer than my videos so I shortened the song in Photoshop so it's very repetitive because I used the same part of the song in all the videos as I was confused as how to use different parts of the song in the videos. I then uploaded them to YouTube and here we are. 

I arranged the composition so that a majority of the objects were centered, so that your eye gravitated towards that area. I started off in most of the drawings by drawing in different sections of the composition and then moving everything to the center because I felt it was more unified to put everything in the center instead of having one video in the center and the others all over the place. 

What I was trying to achieve from this piece was just something fun and colorful. I wanted the "Impossible Fiction" to come into play because the videos all consisted of cute drawings of food that had eyes and terrible puns and the last video would be of the dragon eating all the foods. I didn't want anything intricate or messy so I just stuck to cute foods with faces. 

Week 2: Special Edition Blog Post - Edyta Stepien

Edyta Stepien’s craft would be she utilizes sight specific installations, large-scale video, macro camera lenses, an aquarium and miscellaneous materials. Edyta would put random objects such as glitter, sand, moss, grass and etc. into the aquarium and either use a hair dryer or move the tank around to create the motion that is represented in her video.

Edyta Stepien’s composition is that she arranged the piece so that it looked like something that would occur in nature with natural and synthetic materials. She placed objects in the aquarium to best represent what she imagined natural disasters to look like. Her video was configured on a massive wall, which was projected by a screen projector giving it this overwhelming and massive quality that grabs the viewer. 

Her concept would have to be she’s trying to depict natural forces such as earthquakes, storms, floods and strong winds. She’s trying to show the viewer what it’s like to be in the middle of these natural disasters since they occur frequently and are often disastrous. Edyta Stepien wants to show the different changes that the environment undergoes with this simulation she’s made into a video.  

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Week 1: Introduction

My name is Wioleta Takuska, Violet for short and for those that can’t pronounce my name, and I am a senior at Saint Xavier University. My major is Secondary Art Education and I hope to teach high school students art in the near future. My goals and objectives at SXU would have to be first and foremost, I want to graduate. Graduating with my bachelor’s degree from Saint Xavier would be ideal as I need a piece of paper to let others know I am qualified to do the job somewhat effectively. I would also like to adequately hang an art show with my peers in this little thing called Senior Seminar, which is an important aspect to my number one goal of graduating. I feel that these two goals/objectives are crucial in order to get on the path of starting my career anytime soon…hopefully soon as the job market doesn’t look so promising.

And a picture of my cat because sometimes I would like to trade places with her and do absolutely nothing.