Total Bliss

Obstacles

1. Time

2. Money

3. Skill

4. One Try

5. Artist Block

What Ifs...

1. What if I used my lack of skill to illustrate the learning process?

2. What if I used any mistakes to my advantage and layered them with the better version?

3. What if I did the book very slowly over time instead of large chunks?

The Sight of Taste

For this exercise the class was tasked with tasting a brand new food that we had never tasted before. I had a hard time thinking of a food or dish that I had never eaten or tasted. I thought about finding some restaurant downtown that served Indian or Middle Eastern food but did not want to spend the money. I then wondered if I could make one of the dishes myself and ran into a similar problem. Along with seriously doubting my cooking skills for a foreign food that I had never cooked, or even tasted, before.

I lucked out when I came home from work today to find that my mom had made a new dessert that I had never tried before; pumpkin and apple bread pudding. Since it is fall she decided to make a dessert that reflected the time of year. I had never tried bread pudding before so I was fairly eager to give it a try, especially after smelling it.

The dessert tasted almost as good as it smelled. It was sweet and had a strong cinnamon flavor. The pumpkin and apple spices really helped me to get into the fall season. The overwhelming taste that I had while eating the bread pudding was of a spicy sweetness. My entire family loved it as well.

Here is my visual representation of what I tasted.

more, More, MORE!!

Coming up with an idea for this project took a little longer than the others. At first I just thought of doing a lot of something and then documenting what I did. I couldn't think of something that would be fun to do so I abandoned that idea. I started brainstorming about the word "more" and how it could be used differently but eventually got bored and gave up on that as well. My final idea was to take one of my old completed pieces and do something more to it. This is what I came up with.

This is the first iteration of what I did to the original.The original piece was a contour drawing of an old, rusted metal coil. I wanted to make the picture seem somewhat dirty and rust colored, so I settled with this color scheme.

For this version I simply inverted the color scheme from the original version and enhanced the color contrast a little bit. I liked the neon effect that the coil had so I decided to include it.

Original