Dixie Dominus CD Release Poster





















Edy Wong, Dixie Dominus CD Release Party Poster, 11/02/09, pen and poster paper, 11"x17", FCS art classroom


To most challenging part of this assignment was thinking of how my poster should look like. I honestly could not think of how to do my poster so I finally settled on tiny music notes for the background and I wrote in the title in marker, but I thought it was way too plain, so I covered it with the colored strips. I typed the words on the computer then put them on color backgrounds to give the poster some color, and it looked a lot better thank goodness. I finished this REALLY last minute. But it I had a bit more time I think I would have done a design that had more color to it and I think I would have incorporated some jazz instruments, but hey, I still won the competition, which was surprising.

3 Lines Project


































































Edy Wong, Parallel, Stippling, and Continuous Lines Pieces, 10/05/09, paint, pen, and construction paper, 6 1/2"x9", 8"x11", 11"x8 1/2", FCS art classroom

For my parallel lines I decided to do a seashell because I thought it would be good to depect with just parallel lines. For my stippling piece I wanted to use paint because I wanted to blend the colors and becasue I like using paint. The stippling piece took the longest time because it was teidous and I made some mistakes along the way but managed to fix them. For my continuous lines piece I decided to draw onions, ginger, garlic, salt, and soysauce. The continuous lines piece was actually the piece I had the most fun with. The hardest piece in my opinon was the parallel lines piece because it was hard to make the shelllook realistic.

Shoes Composition












































Edy Wong, Shoes, 10/19/09, sharpie, pencil, white-out, construction paper, and photograph, 3-8"x10" pieces, FCS art classroom

Even though this project sounded fairly simple and easy to do, it turned out to be time consuming and meticulous. My photograph had many fine details so that was a challenge to depict in my drawing as well as my shapes composition. For my drawing piece I decided to use a grid to make the objects look as realistic and proportional as possible. I drew it in pencil but outlined it with thin and thick sharpie. The shapes composition was the hardest to do, and it took, me an incredibly long time to complete. My shoes, especially the 2 pairs of Converse, had detailed components and it was hard to cut out the shapes for them. I decided to add texutre to my flip-flos because I felt that, if I don't the picture would be unbalanced witht eh detailed Converse all on the lower half of the paper. My shapes composition doesn't look like it took a long time to do, but you're wrong!!!!

Artist Trading Cards


























































































Edy Wong, Inspiration, 9/21/09, paint, marker, and glitter, 2.5"x3.5" trading cards, FCS art classroom


For my artist trading cards I started painting color onto the cards as the backgrounds, not knowing exactly what I wanted the cards to look like (ie-their desing, subject matter). I painted and mixed colors that I liked, and after I did that I started thinking about the subject matter based primarily on what would match the background of the cards. I was not thinking about the theme just yet; I wanted to play around with the cards the see what could come out from them. I then got the idea of writing words onto each of my cards, and that was how the theme developed. My theme is basically my values in life and what I consider important and significant. For example, for one card, I wrote "hope", because I personally think that it is important to have hope in my life in order to be happy. The illustrations on my cards reflect these inspirational words. For example, for my card "appreciation", I decided to paint dandelions and small plants because these things are usually neglected; people don't really pay much attention to them, and take God's creation for granted. I made that card because I feel it is important to notice and to be thankful for things we usually take for granted. I decided to use mainly paint as my medium because I felt that paint would give me the most freedom in terms of blending and mixing colors, and because paint is more fun to work with. I used marker for some of the finer lines like the details of the butterfly and the ship, and I also used marker to write in some of the words on the cards. I didn't encounter any major obstacles with this project but I didn't have a lot of time to work on my cards; more time would have been better because I could have done more work like paint the back of the cards also. Another obstacle I encountered was mixing the colors. I had trouble matching some of the original colors because I had limited paint, but my cards came out okay in the end.


Still Life with Newsprint

Edy Wong, Still Life with Newsprint, 9/08/09, pencil, magazine, newspaper, and acrylics, 22"x17 7/8", FCS art classroom


With this assignment we were intructed to draw the still life that was put up in front of the room, and we had to incorporate newspaper into the composition. I decided to cover the baseball, the kettle, and the pinecone with newspaper, and I also decided to add some abstract elements to my piece (the kettle covered with different colors from magazine, the smoke coming out of the kettle, the pink cloth, and the blue background.) In case some of you may be wondering, the smoke does not represent any special and/or significant meaning; I decided to add those because I wanted my piece to be abstract and because I needed something to fill the space towards the top of the composition. Some of the challenges I encountered: honestly, I am not so great at sketching with pencil and depicting still life with pencil; I believe I work better with paint, so it was difficult to get the objects in my composition to look as realistic as I wanted them to look, and it was hard for me to create definition.

Dada collage

Edy Wong, The Old and The New, 12/12/09, magazine clippings and sketch paper, 8.5" x 11", FCS art classroom

My collage is based on the nonsensical style of the Dada Movement. The topic I wanted to depict with this piece is "nostalgia." I juxtaposed an old fashioned East Hampton salt-box house (bottom) with the skyscrapers of the city (left side) . I did this to show to contrast of modern technology and lifestyle with the more simpler, anquidated style of living. I have always been fond of the elegance and classicality of old-fashioned houses and I find antiques very interesting. I feel like we should be aware of our fast-paced progress of our advancement inindustry and technology. Although computers and cars have been a significant part of my life (I cannot imagine surviving without the internet or a car), sometimes I actually want to move to a quaint little town and live in a cozy little English cottage somewhere over the rainbow. Also, I included flowers as a representation of nature; we as modern Americans don't always come to appreciate the importance and beauty of nature when we are surrounded by television and Wii games. I mean, the average person would rather sit home and go on Facebook rather than to take a walk on a nature trail, right? And in our daily lives we generate too much pollution and trash that comes from industry, convienience foods, plastic wraps, paper, etc...sometimes I just want to go back to 100% homemade and handmade.

I found this assignment somewhat challenging because of the unrealistic and nonsensical style I was required to incorporate in my collage. For me it was difficult to think outside-the-box because I have usually been asked to depict realistically with my artwork and I am not as familiar with conceptual art.

Accordian Book

Edy Wong, Edy's Accordian Book, 12/2/09, paint and ink, 5" x 5" accordian book, FCS art classroom

My accordian! The picture isn't in an accordian form because I separate pictures of all the pieces and put so you can see each of them in detail. As some of you may know I first painted the paper black, then painted the different pictures on it. It's not really clear in this picture, but some of the black paint shows through the colors on top to add an INTENDED EFFECT. Okay, maybe it wasn't so intended, but it sorta gives the images a chalky effect. And I wasn't wasting black paint. So stop complaining. Each of the pictures represent things that define who I am and things that hold importance in my life.

Did I use changes in value to create form? I used many different colors on each picture to create form, like using a darker shade of a certain color to make the objects realistic.

How did I use the Elements of Art and Principles of Design to express who I am? Like I explained earlier, I used different colors to create form and value in my artwork, and I tried to use streaks of colors (especially for the backgrounds) to create a rough, somewhat chalky texture (and the black paint underneath helped to create that texture). The objects, like the pinwheels and flowers, are painted realistically and are proportionate and balanced, and I painted the backgrounds with colors that would give emphasis to the objects. I tried to vary the colors so my accordian would look interesting but the piece as a whole is still unified with the same techniques and style.

What was I trying to communicate to the viewers of my art? The purpose of this assignment was to create an accordian book that tells something about me. My pieces portray some aspects of my life, who I am as a person, and my values. The lotus flower and the orchid are flowers found very commonly in Chinese culture, which represents my ethinicity; the tree is the Tree of Life; the piano keys show that I am a pianst and my enjoyment of music; the Bird of Paradise flowers represent paradise in Heaven (and because I have these flowers in my backyard and they are so pretty!); the cross definitely tells viewers that my faith is in Christ Jesus; the Chinese lanterns are another depiction of my ethnicity and culture; the beach represent relaxation and a place I really love; and the pinwheels are there because I was born and raised in the U.S.

Would my family or friends understand me better or see me in a new light by seeing this portrait? Definitely. Viewers can have a better understanding of me as a person when they see some of the things that characterize me as illustrated in my accordian book.

Torn Paper Mosaic: Self Portrait

Edy Wong, Torn Paper Mosaic: Self Portrait, 12/2/09, sketch paper and computer paper, 8.5" x 11", FCS art classroom

I am so glad I'm finished with this. So this is my mosaic: I tore little pieces of paper and glued them on sketch paper. I didn't sketch the picture before I started gluing the pieces so I had to re-do some of the edges to make it look better. So the next time your art teacher assigns a mosaic project, make sure you sketch your pictures before you glue. Don't get all excited like I did (riiiight) and rush into things.

So anyways, question time...

Did I use changes in value to create form? Well, I kinda had to, because the assignment WAS to use different colors/values to create the form and edges of your face. I definitely used different shades of paper to form the shadows of my face, as you can see.

How did I use the Elements of Art and Principles of Design to express who I am? I created form by using changes in value through different shades of paper, which also created shape because my face had the appearance of being 3-D. Color? Hmm..it's black and white, but I used different shades of black and white. With this change of colors I created visual texture in my face and hair. My mosaic is balanced because the changes in form and color are not too heavily emphasized in one section or another, and the object (me) is in the center of the paper. My features are proportioned correctly (at least I think so) and the overall piece is unified because I stuck with one medium, computer paper.

What was I trying to communicate to the viewers of my art? I wasn't trying to communicate anything special, just a depiction of me.

Would my family or friends understand me better or see me in a new light by seeing this portrait? Not really. Like I said, I wasn't trying to communicate to my viewers anything special or meaningful, this piece is just, well, me.