Shapes Project

I chose the subject of food, and more specifically fruit, for my shapes project. I developed a still-life type of design and I decided to make to compositions of the same design, one as curvilinear and one as rectilinear.

I definitely learned a lot in this project, most of what I learned was specific problems from working with the materials. I first drew a few quick sketches of my design until I had refined it to the final layout. I then lightly sketched my design on the bristol paper so that I could use that for size and proportion when cutting out my shapes. I used card stock paper for almost all of my project. After I had cut out all of my basic pieces and glued them to the background, I realized that I wanted to add a little depth, so I added shadows and highlights to some of the pieces in the composition.

I learned a few things when I made this project because I hadn't worked very much with these materials before. I learned the differences between certain glues, and how best to use each one(and how not to use them). Also I discovered that tissue paper would be very difficult to glue and cut for this project, so I opted to not use it(after messing up first). Overall, I definitely enjoyed this project and learned how to do better the next time.