highschool related artworks

so yeah, the title pretty much says it all. these are artworks that i've had to do for school. i'm not proud of all of them but u live and learn from your mistakes i guess. here they are.

Paul

john
this was my final outcome for year 12. i kind of let myself down a bit, i was meant to paint all 4 of the beatles with the theme of one of their songs. paul's is "blackbird" and john's is "revolution". i don't really like painting... i let the teacher talk me into it. oh well.

so now you get the size.

this was my year 11 etching i did. i really enjoyed the etching. it was inspired from this exhibition i saw at this daylesford museum, it used to be like a nun's place or osmething... but anyway, this exhibiton was by this artist, i forget her name, but it was all of mandala's, which are hindu kinda drawings. they're within a circle and they represent a journey or a cycle of life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandala
the method was really complicated, i think i would need an entire entry on explainging that, but basically, u get a metal plate, you scratch a picture in it with this scratching tool thing, then you soak it in this acid which burns away the lines and then u put ink on it and print it, and this is what you come up with!!!

the personal significance of it, the girl is meant to be me over every 4 years. 4 years old, 8 years old, 12, and 16. it represents MY journey.


this was my year 11 outcome. it was a bit of an accident the way this composition came about. you see i was in the target change rooms, and if you've been in there you'd know there's multiple mirrors on different angles, and i accidentally took this foto of myself. i put this effect on it and the teacher said it was great and suggested i painted it. this was when i found out i dont like painting!!! why i did it again in year 12 i dont know.
this was another year 11 peice. a mini assignment. we did a study of a fruit, mine was an apple and then we had to paint it in some way. this was the way i chose. it was inspired by a postcard i had picked up somewhere, but i don't know the artists name anymore because i lost the post card. so yeah, this work isn't entirely honest, i guess you'd call it APPROPRIATION. hehe, the art terms come out.

this was a picture for my graphics folio in year 12. i decided to recreate the illustrations from the little mermaid, so i drew lots of mermaids and this section was from the front cover. i started from scratch- grey lead on regular catridge paper, then texta (special graphics textas), pencils, water colour pencils, and glitter! voi la! i love mermaids!