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This week I did something different by taking 2-D to 3-D. I used Instagram artist Kaye Banazi as my influence. Kate does these 3-D organic and geometric shapes that she screen-prints and layers on top of one another. I took her style as inspiration for my project. My take on this was to hand-draw and hand-cut shapes that were a cross between both geometric and organic. Next, I twisted and intertwined these shapes around one another to create a paper sculpture of what was once influence by 2-D art. I took this week as more of a learning experience more than anything after I worked on my second piece. My next project was an illustration of the Greek tale of Persephone and Hades. Persephone is stuck in an hour glass and is sinking into the underworld where Hades awaits her. I planned on turning this drawing into a relief print block and making multiple copies of it. I realized after starting this drawing that illustration wasn’t quite my string suite and neither was 3-D art. With my paper aculpture, I wish I had gone bigger and even had done a grey scale instead of bright saturated colors. With my illustration project, I stopped early because I was confused as where I was going with it and frustrated with my mark-marking because it didn’t translate what I imagined in my head. Due to this, I chose to make this week a learning experience and about self reflection so that I know how to approach next week and start back strong.

Kate Banazi

Unfortunately, I could not get a good image of my paper sculpture, so I decided to take it to the photo lab at the college and get a more decent picture of all the layering and upload it next week. 

Greek tale drawing

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My response to the short chapters about the influence of history on art, I can say that history does have an influence in my art. I’m inspired and intrigued by the old process of printmaking and how in history it was used to make mass amounts of copies. Also, the hands-on experience of carving the block to make these block prints date back to historical times where technology was starting to erupt. My illustration this month was also inspired by history and all of the myth and tales the Greeks told about how the world got to be the way it was. History like that interests me and has sparked ideas and themes for my artwork many times.