Ari Felsen ART211 blog

My project was inspired by the Dadaism art movement. I created a pair of palm trees out copies of my forearms and hands. Planning this, I wanted my project to feature real objects rather than an abstract piece; however, my main goal was to inflict a strong feeling or tone/mood, but in the simplest way possible. And I believe I effectively have done so. I wanted to use the peacefulness and beauty of palm trees, and combine the stiff, wide open hands to add a creepy/uncomfortable feeling. And, I find that the way the xerox copies came out strongly assist my intentions, as the black and white and Xerox scan help add more eerieness to the composition, making it appear even less relaxing/serene than a normal palm tree.

For the 30x30 grid project, I put a lot of deliberation in the planning of this project. There were so many subjects I could do it on, as well as the countless possibilities for my choice of medium. However, the choice that I decided to go with was a big inspiration to me and meaned the most out of all my other ideas. I did my project on a tribute to Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival. I recently went to Okeechobee just two weeks ago, and it was the most beautiful, happiest, wonderful place I've ever been. The picture I painted is the signature Okeechobee "portal" spiral/logo. This logo was everywhere at the music festival, and looking back at it brings back some of the greatest memories of my life. I chose to use peanuts as my medium because peanuts were the primary source of food for me, basically what I was surviving off of for the four days at the festival. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks in between, peanuts consisted my Okeechobee diet. Therefore I found it ver

Attached is the video copy of my flipbook. Despite the difficulty of this product, watching the final product is very satisfying! After countless hours producing my flipbook project, I have finally completed the final result. Although a project based majorly on drawing may sound easy to most people, I can assure that this was not easy by any means. The first step I approached to this was first brainstorming. I took about an hour brainstorming different ideas and planning out how I would use those ideas to create the flipbook. I then narrowed my ideas down until I had one that I felt comfortable and happy doing. Then, I broke up that idea into several parts and planned out the framing and number of frames per "scene" for better organization as well as to more effectively sync the flipbook to the music. Once I had all my plans ready, I began the first stage of officially creating the flipbook. I went through every page and sketched out each drawing in pencil. I did this so