VA Junior Review

  

Jaycob Perez 

Shades of Grey

  I started this work with the process of making a map of my heart. I decided to make a map of my heart because I felt like I wanted to express a regret. I choose chicken wire for my armature. I bend the chicken wire in the form of my face and then cut out the eyes and mouth to make the face look more realistic. The materials that I use for my armature skin are plastic wrap, aluminum foil, and vinyl. I use plastic wrap because it was a different style, I didn’t want the armature to be made out of aluminum foil only. I also use the vinyl to show the meaning of my piece (regrets). I put my prints on the wall before hanging my piece. I put my prints from darkest to lightest to make it more interesting. 

  What I can do well is, use different colors in my artwork. I'm good at combining colors as you see in the pictures above. I use multiple colors in my work because I like to push myself as and artist and not do everything the same color. Lastly, I use colors to make my art pop out and look more realistic.

  I want to get better at making human faces and at adding details to drawings. I want to get better at this because I enjoy making faces and drawing eyes and specially noses. It's hard for me because I don't know how to add details to the work. I know that in the time that I'll be in school I'll have this skill by the end of my senior year because I practice a lot drawing faces.

  I transformed from and art student and artist by challenging myself and working big. I've change a lot in the time that I've been in BAA. I didn't like to challenge myself and think big. all of the work that I have from the past years are all small but as and artist I've learn that sometimes you need to take risk and work out of your comfort zone and challenge yourself. I used all of the feedback that's I've gotten from my teachers and peers and used them in my art pieces. 

  

  My artistic process is brainstorm and talking about what I want to make. Most of the time I talk about what I want to make because it helps me think more and my peers can also help me and sometimes give me feedback if what they think about my idea. After I talk about it I make little sketches of what is going to look like so when I start working on it I won't get stuck on how is going to look. 

  My favorite artist are Sue Webster and Tim noble because they use recycling materials and they make does recycling materials to sculptures. I like how they use light to reflect the image in the wall. Their artwork connects to one of my pieces. The 3D self portrait, it connects to that specific pieces because I use materials that they use in their artwork to creat the self portrait. Tim and Sue have inspire me to create work like their work and I will try to make more pieces that connect to them and also sculpting different stuff. 

Monument Proposal

I picked this idea because I wanted the piece to represent cancer survivors and the fact that they are not alone. This piece is important to others because it shows that through the bad or good you they aren't always alone. My idea would make a good monument because it's commemorating people that might not feel good about them self and they might need something to make them feel good, not just giving them balloons and cards. By making this monument that commemorates cancer survivors and patients it shows that they aren't alone through what they are going through.

Pastel writing

  The colors I use for my pastel drawing were chosen by what colors I see the most in those season. For the piece that represented summer I use orange, lime green, dark green, and brown because those were the colors that I see the most in the summer. For spring I used dark pink, yellow, red, brown, and grey. For winter I used navy blue, green, purple, white, yellow, and sky blue and for my last piece fall I used dark green, pink, red, brown, yellow and purple.
  I choose to place my objects different ways because I didn't want the object to have to much light on them. So I place my objects in a way that they had shadows on some parts and light on the other.
  The Objects I picked to draw for my pastel pieces were a cup, piercings and charger. I choose the objects randomly except the cup. I choose the cup specifically because it was going to be a little challenging to draw the light on it and draw the different colors on it to make it look like a real cup. 

Season Pastel pieces

Cancer Survivor Monument

Cancer suvivor monument

Cancer Survivor Monument

Jaycob Perez 

Studio Arts 2b 

Ms. Marsh 

6/6/13 

      My idea commemorates cancer survivors. My piece is for cancer survivors, patients and their support people. My piece will show the survivor that they aren't alone and that there are others supporting them and that no matter what, we still love them. 

    The process of making this piece was thinking about shapes that represent strength. I used spheres because I wanted to represent a cancer survivor with others surrounding them, showing that the cancer survivor is not alone. I used clay first, but the final piece is made out of carving foam. I am confident my piece looks like it represents strength. I’m learning that the triangle is not the only shape that represents strength, but how you put other shapes together. For example, I use circles for my piece but I surrounded it with circles and it made my piece look stronger because the circles are not alone; they are all together. 

   If I could put my monument somewhere, I would put it in the Boston Common. I would put it in the Boston Common because there’s a lot of people that like to run and walk in the park and it would make it easier for people to see the monument where other people are. It would be a good place to put it in because there's always events going on in the park and people would see it. If I couldn’t put it at the Boston Common I would put it inside outside of the Dana Farber Hospital. I would put my monument there because Dana Farber is a hospital where they treat patients that have cancer and it would be a pleasure for me to make a monument that commemorates cancer survivors and patients.