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.

Water Lilies

Edy Wong, Water Lilies, 3/22/10, watercolor and computer paper, FCS art classroom

This is my sixth piece of my concentration. I decided to paint water lilies using watercolor because I thought it would be appropriate. Water lilies in watercolor, get it? ANYWAYS..this piece turned out to be time consuming because I had to add detail to the individual lilies to make them look more realistic. I like using watercolor because even though the paint dried I can still erase most of it with water if I needed to fix some things, which I needed to do a lot with this piece. I added lily flowers that I printed out because I couldn't paint lilies that looked normal so I decided to cut out the flowers and glue them onto the paper.

Flower Collection

Edy Wong, Flower Collection, photography, 16-4"x6" photographs, 3/15/10, FCS art classroom

This is my fifth concentration piece. I decided to take lots of pictures of the same type of flower for this piece because I really liked these flowers in my backyard. I think they are absolutely beautiful and the best way to capture their beauty, in my opinion, is through photography. I wanted this piece to include many photos because I thought it would be interesting to show the flowers from different angles, perspective, etc. and because they were just so pretty I couldn't setting on merely a few pictures. Taking pictures also allowed me to finish this assignment pretty quickly since I was gone for Musicale and was falling behind. Taking pictures also allowed me to capture the flowers' detail and color accurately. Some of the challenges I faced was getting the lighting correct because I took some pictures on a cloudy day (which offered me excellent lighting) and some I took on another day when I was a little sunnier. So some of the lighting didn't match.