This is the link to my presentation

http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AXxSwlwVxNL1ZGQ1YnpkcHZfMTJnc3dzbnZoZw&hl=en

Edy Wong, Collage Squares, Magazine collage, 6"x12", 5/03/10, FCS art classroom

This is my last piece of my concentration. As you can see I wanted to continue working with collage and I combined different pictures cut out from magazines to create different scenes on each square. I think my pieces have gotten more and more abstract and creative depictions of flowers. I tried to make unlikely combinations of flowers and backgrounds and tried to make different scenes on each square. I also tried to vary the color and shapes.

Edy Wong, A Child's Imagination, magazine collage, 13.5"x9", 4/26/10, FCS art classroom

I really went out of the box with this one. I discovered that I really liked working with collage because I can make the piece abstract by combining different pictures of flowers together and forming a story out of it. This piece is basically depicting what a child imagines. In this case the little girl is imagining flowers and as you can see the flowers are all bigger than real life because a child's imagination is creative and usually doesn't conform with real life. After all, that's why we call it imagination, right? The white thought bubble is full of words because the girl is making up her own story and her creativity continues in the world around her as seen by the big flowers and grass around her. It sorta reminds me of Alice in Wonderland.

Edy Wong, African Violets in Watercolor, Watercolor and acrylics, 10"x7", 4/19/10, FCS art classroom

My main goal with this piece was to create different layers of paint and color to create definition and creativity to the flowers. I tried to incorporate different hues/shades of colors on the petals and even tried to make it kinda abstract. The more colors the better. Some of the colors I blended well while some I left very defined and layered.

Edy Wong, Yellow Orchids, Watercolor and acrylics,11"x14.5", 4/12/10, FCS art classroom

This was surprisingly really fast to complete because I used WATERCOLOR!! I love that about watercolor. So anyways this is a simple piece and fairly easy to do. I did this all free hand, so you can just imagine how easy it was. I don't usually do light colored flowers, I tend to like darker colored objects because I like things that stand out, so this is probably one of my few light colored pieces. I like how the red and organges really bring out the individual flowers.

Edy Wong, Outlined Flowers, Pen and watercolor, 14.5"x17", 4/05/10 FCS art classroom

For this piece I decided to do an outline of flowers that I drew from pictures. It sorta looks like a design and I decided to add only a little color to the middle parts of the flowers so it wouldn't be that plain. This took me a while to complete because I had to first draw the flowers in pencil and then go over them with pen. This piece was also inspired by the shapes composition assignment (when I had to outline the shoes).

Edy Wong, Flowertree, photography, 5"x8", 3/29/10, FCS art classroom


You know those pretty little white blossoms that grow on trees during the first few weeks of spring? Well I like these flowers from far away because they make the tree look like its covered in snow. But I've never seen one of these flowers up close. So I picked some that fell on the ground and I decided to arrange a photograph using these flowers. My favorite arrangement was this single flower that I stuck on another tree. So this flower really doesn't grow from this particular tree but it does look cool if it did.