Briella Zoino

For the Artist and Technology project I chose to do a mandala because I love the symmetry and simplicity of it. The project is about 2 and a half feet and I wanted it to resemble like a flower blooming. Mandalas are very calming, and I thought making one out of hands would be very interesting. The outside part of the mandala is my whole hand, the middle part is just my fingers, and the middle is the palm of my hand. I think this project looks very interesting in black and white because of the different shading in the ink that appeared when it printed. This project was very calming and fun to do.  My inspiration for this project was Jamie Lockeart. Her mandala's are so beautiful and I would love to get a tattoo one day based off of her art. her website is http://www.jamielockeart.com/ and all of her work is displayed on her website. She is brilliant and makes huge amazing mandala's. I found out about her through my Senior year art teacher, Mrs. Noll. Since then I have followed

For the Grid Art project, I took flashcards and I cut them down into small, square pieces. In the middle I included a full size flashcard in my art with a drawing of flowers that I drew on it. The card says "Be Free" because sometimes the world gets caught up on the stressful things in life. People forget about the little things, like the flowers that I drew, and at the end of the day the small things that set you free of stress is what matters.  This project took me four hours to do. I made the grid, cut down the pieces of flashcards, measured out each piece, glued them down, and colored them in. The first picture is just the perimeter done with the coloring. The second picture is the finished product. I used four colors including pink, blue, green, and yellow.

In my opinion, ascii art is very cool. It takes a lot of patience, something I do not have. I love how when you look at the image from far away it creates a big image as a whole, but when you are close up, it shows the little dots or symbols used to make it. I think ascii art should be a more popular art for people to chose to do because it tests their patience and could make them a more skillful artist and be more proud and appreciative of their art if they practice that patience.

I wanted to do something cute and simple for my Stop Motion Animation project. In the video, the pink little circle grows and is very happy. He ends up being sad because he realizes his other friend isn't around. A blue triangle pops up and tries to cheer up the pink circle, but it doesn't work. The pink circle shows the blue triangle that the little yellow light is "dying". The yellow light disappears and the pink circle decides to do the same. To keep the pink circle from "dying", the blue triangle gets an idea, and turns the light bulb above his head into a little energy mass of light. The yellow light turns into a new friend for both the pink circle and blue triangle. They play all day and live happily ever after.  The video is sideways and I tried to turn it, but it wouldn't allow me to.