Texture Project

This project, I must admit, was fairly hard. It took a lot of my time but I was able to complete it, by God's grace. I chose to do the "Flower Carrier" by Diego Rivera, a famous mexican artist. The first thing I did was print out the picture and wrote on it, saying what I wanted to use for each part, as far as material and whether it was going to be actual and or visual texture. Then once I got the supplies I cut the matting board to its right size and drew the picture in pencil to map it out. The next thing I did was work on the visual texture using adobe photoshop and illustrator. That was a little difficult. I found pictures of grass, dirt, hair, and different fabrics that would stand out as texture. I made them into patterns in photoshop and then changed the color to match the painting. I also made a check list and marked off each piece of the painting I finished, which helped tremendously.

Next I started to make the actual texture. I cut out each piece and tried to make as much detail as possible using string and black velvet. I tried to match it up with what I had mapped out. As for the basket I cut up a scarf and folded it into the basket shape and super glued it together so it would stay. Then lastly, I glued everything down starting with the background and the hands. Positioning and gluing everything down was quite tricky I must say, but it all worked out for the most part.

From this project I definitely learned time management. I practically worked non-stop on this project even during some of my practices. I learned to sacrifice some things so I could get my work done, and not be procrastinate. It also taught me about managing my priorities and showed me what hard work and good time management can do. Although, time-premitted, I would change/fix some things like the leaves, the skirt, and the faces.