Just for fun: Project 2

Cardboard Project

Joseph Pierce once said, “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”  I completely agree with this quote and got inspiration from it.  I used to really enjoy art classes but always got nervous when people looked at my work and critiqued it.  I did not like talking about it, only enjoyed making it.  Then I learned that to be a good artist, you need to be confident while making art and while other people examine it.  I’ve also discovered how to be helpful with other flourishing artists.  I know now that I need to listen to what others say to me to help me improve along with give advice to them as well.

I believe that creativity is being able to come up with new, original ideas with little help from others.  I learned early in my life that I was full of inspiration and creativity when it came to artwork.  This is why I decided to pursue a career in a field of art.

The first assignment we had for the Spring Semester was “anything but a box.”  We had to use a cardboard box to create a three dimensional form that completely changed from a structure of a box to something new.  I struggled with looking for an image to make a box out of.  I knew we had to make sure the box no longer looked like a box, so tried to stay away from any object that seemed box-like.  You also had to use just about the entire box so I had to think of how to approach the image I was going to choose. I was looking around my room then saw my hands and thought that could be pretty interesting.  I began by measuring my left hand and fingers to make the image look life-size.  I then thought of the idea to make layer after layer so that I would use the whole box and my figure would be thick.  After I got all my concepts down, I started cutting and hot gluing. 

From this project, I learned how to sketch and write down ideas to go over all the things you need to accomplish.  For instance, I knew we had to use the whole box, so instead of making the hand extremely large, I decided to layer the cardboard.  This make have been more time-consuming, but it was worth it.   And I also understood that art is not a quick process.  It could take a long time and be tedious, but everything will come out better in the end.