For my capstone I decided to do it on the haunting truth of our corals bleaching. The reasoning for me doing my project on this is because no one really knows it's happening. It’s rarely talked about on the news and yet its impacting our everyday lives. I've always been drawn to the magic of the ocean. It feels like time slows down. Most people stare up into space with wonder yet we have this almost alien world on our planet teaming with life. But it's a world most people never explore; and yet, it plays such a big part in our lives. Our oceans are the source of life.  Oceans control the climate, the weather, and the oxygen we breathe. Without healthy oceans, we do not have a healthy planet. For many of us, we live far from the nearest beach, for us, it is “out of sight, out of mind”.

Slide Show: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15zWBUaQoQmjAFtjTOIBVR1U29cegi9eu4r3OlwlRkg/edit?usp=sharing

Essay:

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The reason why I’ve created this artwork is because when you approach Linoleum cut you will noticed that it only consist of one color black. Because of this I decided to do a fish yin-yang because I thought that it would be great for this project, and as it turned out it went as I imagined it would. My overall vision for my work was to be precise and cautious about my work because it was my first time doing linoleum cut so I wanted my work to be spectacular. But I was hoping to achieve a fish yin-yang through the creation of my work and that's what I got. I think that what my work communicates to the viewers approaching it is that they will look at the colors and shapes and their first thought would be “ooh this is a yin-yang how cool” and hopefully they cherish it. I think that I achieved many things in this project, some which were completing it on time, measuring how paint I needed for my piece of art to be readable, by readable I mean so that they can noticed that it's a yin-yang as soon as they walk up to it.

The reason  why I have created this work is because I was gonna draw actually gonna start by drawing a cube but some house expanded on it and made more than I was going to do. Which became sort of like two hallways.

At first what I was hoping to achieve was a cube but I saw that it wasn't coming out the way I wanted it to come out so I wasn’t accomplishing my goal. So then I just decided to add random thing to my drawing and came up with two hallways like if it was an apartment, but I drew it randomly so I didn't really do it based off of two point perspective.  

I think that what my art communicates to any viewer is an illusion in most of it and many different colors just mixed in, also how I fixed it by adding the two points of perspective and then fixing it which made it way better.  

What I think I’ve achieved through the creation of this art is how to draw a two point perspective piece of art.

I don’t think that my current work relates to any of my previous work because when I learned how to draw a one point perspective room I was a freshmen and I am now a sophomore. And I haven’t learned how to draw a two point perspective drawing this was my very first time doing this.

My piece of art fits into the Abstract Sculpture Sean Newport made a sculpture that causes an illusion and I made a drawing causing an illusion.

The first thing I did was draw a rough draft of what I wanted to do which was a cube. But then I just switched up and added plenty of things and made lots of changes. I had to eliminate so many things and add others.

What inspired me to draw this piece of art is that last year I learned how to draw a one point perspective room but this time I wanted to do like two hallways going to two apartment doors.

I guess you can say that this work reflects the world we live in because nowadays there are various artists that draw pieces of art like the one I did. I don’t really think that this work reflects on my own life. My experience was last year because I learned how to draw 3D objects and illusions.  

I think that my work could influence or make an impact on the world is because when people look at my drawing they can come up with so many stories to it because of the various things I’ve drawn.

Knowing what your doing is very important because I didn’t know that I had to draw two point so I could draw the walls of the halls perpendicular to one another and so that everything can be equally measured.

Do some research or ask your teacher about what your doing make sure your 100% you're sure you know what you're doing.

I have created this piece of art because I didn’t want to make a wheel like everybody else. I wanted to create something unique. My overall vision for my work is was to make the captain american shield but it wasn't coming out correctly so I just decided to make 5 circles with stars in them to separate the colors. What I expect from my audience is complements and also things that they think I need to work on. The way the audience will react is confused at first because they're going to try and figure out what I did and it’s probably gonna take them a while. My current work relates to previous work because I put my knowledge together of things I’ve learned in the past art classes to make the shapes I did and paint . Also I used my understanding of how to mix colors to complete my work. I think my work fits into the current contemporary art of creating my own color wheel my way. My work fits in with the history of art practice because if you look at my work and look at someones who had more practice than me you will see my process of practicing the color wheel. My work fits into groups of exhibitions, or series of projects I have done because knowing how to mix colors and draw the things that needed to be drawn helped me accomplish my goal of this project. Sources for the inspiration of my image were the avengers one of their protagonist Captain America. I was going to do he’s shield. I guess you can say that my works relates to other artists work because every artist starts with an idea works on it for a while but see things they don’t like and decide to change their idea or improve it so it can be better. Like myself I was going to just do a circular shape and add lines in the inside but I did not like it so I changed it and made my work better. This work fits into series or longer body of work because everything starts of small to be greater. Certain techniques are important to the work because that’s what helps the work be better, not just average. A new technique I learned was not to but a lots of paint on the plate to create a new one just with a drop of the paint it’s good enough to create a new one.