I just started on my first project and I chose the basketball painting. My idea for this is to create a basketball on one side and split the second side in half. With the two half, I will start off by creating a farming part then the last area is undecided still. I came up with this idea because I love sports and there is a lot of farming in my family. So this is the best way to show each side of my life.
I started this project with the baseball background and rushed to get the red lines on and messed it up. This resulted in two more layers of white. But so far it has gone well, I created the lines more clear this time and it is looking better. If I can take my time for the rest of the projects it may actually look like I planned it to.
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Artist Statement
Artist: Eli Robinson
Title: The three sides of life
I first called it “The three sides of life” because my life feels like it has 3 different sides to it. Baseball represents sports and how that is a big part of my life, that is why it takes up the most space just like how sports in life take up a lot of time. Second is the city and I placed that in one of the two smaller sections because it represents traveling and how I love to travel a lot but don’t always get the chance to. I would like to be able to someday create equal space between all three of them. The last one represents farming and how that plays a big part in my life and days. I would also like to make that space a little bit bigger in the future. It has been past through generations in life and will always be part of me.
Something I thought about well I was creating this was if I was doing enough on it and in my past experiences, whenever I try to add too much to a project I mess it all up. I have learned that it is best to take your time on the small things in a bigger picture and that is why I only created three scenes on my basketball. I am very pleased with how the overall look of it worked out as I have never had an art project turn out good. Also, I love the cornfield with the combine but I wish I wouldn’t have tried to add more to the top of it in the end. In the end, there wasn’t much I would change but If I could I would have tried to be neater and this was a good lesson to learn for next time. One last thing is If I could I would have equaled the space between the three to make it look better.
I chose religion for this project and how I told the story in the piece by creating crosses on each side along with a fish because they represent Christianity. Also, the stars represent Jesus's birth, the earth in the middle is representing bringing Christianity into the world. I folded it in different ways to keep everything equal and similar, that is how I like doing art because then everything looks organized. I love traveling and that is part of the earth in the middle and I want Christianity to surround me on my journeys throughout the world. The 2 successes I had was with the equality on the outer paper and the center turned out better the practice one. The 2 challenges were finding the right background and color for it, and also cutting out south america.
We are doing paper mache right now and so I decided to make a mask that looks like a robot. I don't know why I decided to do this and had no inspiration or idea of what I was doing when I started, I just used some clay to sculpt whatever came to mind. This Idea is unique because I thought of it from nothing, and also the top right eyebrow is curved as my little touch to the project. My favorite part of this project so far is sculpting the clay model for it, how I could control the whole project by myself. The biggest problem with my project is getting it to dry out in time for me to paint it, or figuring out what colors should go were. I'm planning on making a cool face with paint on the front of his robotic face.