Why would an artist choose to work with a limitation? How does this change the way they create? Working with new materials creates new challenges for an artist to think outside of the box, as well as their comfort zone. When working with a new material or technique, it can give the artist a break from their usual medium that they use often. Typically, classical art uses materials like different types of paint, pencils, clays, etc. Therefore, people come to expect that style and use of materials from artists. However, it is important for artists to be unique, creative, and evoke thought, meaning or feeling. When an everyday material, or a material that isn't typically thought of as an art material is used, it has a tendency to impress whomever is looking at the art, and makes them think. I was impressed by all the ideas I researched, so it was difficult to choose an idea I wanted to use. I thought about using recycled materials like beads to create something, sand, or using a tool (like a stick) to paint something. I was certain on the idea that I wanted to use my left hand to create something. However, using my left hand isn't exactly unusual for me. I'm ambidextrous, so I often use my left hand while painting, using clay, and sketching. So I thought, why not use both hands? A video of the artist, Jackson Pollock, inspired me to try splatter paint. I've always wanted to try splatter paint, and I especially love being messy with paint and trying different movements of my hands to splatter and drip the paint. I got to use both of my hands, sometimes both an once, or separately (with different colors.) To help figure out how I wanted the splatter paint to look, I listened to music that was super fun to paint to. I ended up being able to get most of the paint on the paper, and only a handful of it on my clothes and somehow all over my face. I think it ended up being one of the most fun art projects I've ever done, and I certainly would do it again. In the pictures attached, I added a picture of my finished painting (which I titled "Hardcore finger painting") And the other picture was when I tried to take a selfie after I was finished (totally worth my phone case getting covered in orange.) There was another project was assigned where we were supposed to create some sort of pixel image. I definitely a hard time with this project. I really liked the idea to create an image out of words, but once I tried that, I figured out that I really didn't like how it looked. I ended up making a sort of sad creation with a sketch of a cute monster, and a background of newspaper clippings. It wasn't fun to make, since I didn't feel like making happy art at that time. I didn't want to work on it any longer, so it'll probably end up remaining unfinished.
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