Big Idea

For my Big Idea project and having to come up with 7 proposal ideas for this I got to thinking and I really want to do a mark making piece, but I thought of other things too.

1. I've been looking at typographic portraits done on the computer and I know that we have to do something that we've learned in class, well I've never seen an actual typographic portrait done written by hand, I've only seen it done on the computer and I remember us doing mark making and writing our names on a piece of paper over and over again. For my first idea I want to use Bristol paper because its nice and is a clean looking white and take a picture of me and do a portrait with handwritten words. The medium I'm thinking of using is sharpie, I havent decided wether or not to try color or just use black sharpie and achieve the shadows with varying thicknesses of sharpie. I also think I will use one word which will be my name repeated over and over again.

2. Another mark making piece on Bristol paper using written words only except this time I want to do one of a coca-cola bottle. I would take various pictures for the angle of the bottle that I want and then use various words and phrases that are often used in advertisement for Coke. This time I would want to some color like Red sharpie because red is coke's color.

3. Yes my third idea is another mark making piece except this time I want to do a (noir style) black and white scene possibly from a movie and use only a really fancy cursive type of writing and done is fine point sharpie. Instead of using Bristol paper Im thinking of an off white kind of old looking or tea stained style of paper, making it myself will be cheaper and probably more fun. But I want to emphasize this old feeling and antique look.

4. I saw some really cool ideas for the 3rd phase of Val's color project and I kind of thought about maybe playing with shadows on this idea. I haven't decided what image i would use but I want to paint on a see through type of material like saran wrap or something and then have it attached to a frame with a light shining on it and projecting the image onto the wall. I haven't exactly thought this whole piece through so this is a work in progress.

5. I had this idea for a modular madness piece and for some strange reason I keep thinking back to my golf tee's that I glued together and how people kept telling me it looked like a bed of nails. Well I was walking in my grandpas house one day and found myself looking at a bag of colored drinking straws, well then I had this idea that I want to glue them together without damaging them with hot glue or anything and then create a long bed of straws and have people sit or lay down on them to see how strong they really are when they are all together. And also I would use straight up drinking straws not the bendy straws, those would sooo not work.

6. This modular madness piece is actually inspired by my mother, since I live in the country and are surrounded by nature and also after watching one of the artists in lecture (I forgot her name but she was the older lady who made the modular piece out of twigs) but anyways I really liked her stuff a lot and as I was walking outside with my mom I have this urge to create a modular madness piece out of twigs, and not use anything to keep them together, just the twigs themselves so they would have to be sturdy. I think this may be a personal piece that I work on at home but I still want to make it.

7. My last idea is to do a photoshoot of me, something that reflects who I am and then blow up the image to a large size (not sure what size, bigger than 8x11) and then do Val's second phase of the color project and use torn paper to cover up the image. I really liked doing the torn paper project and would like to continue to do so on some projects.

So in conclusion these are my ideas for the Big Idea and I really want to do the one of the first 3 ideas really because Im just itching to work on typographic stuff, ahh I love typographic pictures