My life has several important things that contribute into my life such as family, culture, and hobbies. In this piece I have shown my family with the Irish and American flag, since my entire family is Irish and I am the first person in my family to be born in the United States. I have shown my culture by painting the beach and the tie-dye because my family goes to the beach every Thanksgiving and we live a very chill lifestyle. I have also painted my hobbies in this piece by putting a coffee cup and the BMW logo because I am a coffee addict and I'm slightly obsessed with cars, and I drive a BMW. The most difficult thing with this project was deciding what to paint because I wasn't sure how I was going to relate it to my life, in the future I would change the materials and the objects that I painted with. With this project I found it most successful that I actually used puzzle pieces to describe parts of my life. (I was absent for the paint warm ups)
The inspiration for my design was fruit. I decided to try and print make fruit because of the shadows that represented and how you can pair colors together to make a nice contrast with the background. It was difficult to cut out the small sections on the block but to overcome this I microwaved the block to make it softer, and I used different size blades to cut different pieces away. If I was to re-do this project I would chose a more intense object and probably add more colors and layers into the lino block.
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December 2015
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