Danielle's Art

My Etsy Page

2012-10-19T17:22:00.001-07:00

Hey everyone! If you haven't noticed there is a tab on my page titled "My Etsy Page". I started my very own shop on Etsy about 9 months ago. I listed my first item today! So exciting! Why haven't I had anything posted on Etsy until now? Its hard for me to sell my art and give pieces I have worked so hard on away. But I got to make money some how, not just to survive but to support my artsy activities.

So what will I be selling on my Etsy page? Well I intend on selling my yarn, jewelry and my art pieces. The thing about my jewelry is its not going to be the stuff I do in the studio at school. I wont be selling the pieces I make using a torch and mallet. Sorry. But these jewels will be just as exciting! And its making money from this that will someday able me to afford a studio of my own. Which means someday I can sell that kind of stuff to you. But for now its just going to be beaded, chained, jeweled and crafty fun! You will have to check it out for your self if you like it or not. For now I am going to be selective on the art pieces. I will be selling prints of some of the things you see and originals that are smaller.

If there is anything you like on my blog and you are interested please let me know by messaging me on my Etsy page. I will be posting new things that are to be sold, so if you follow this blog it will be easy to catch up. by the way I made that banner myself on Photoshop. Very proud. Thanks for reading!

The Selfish Artist

2012-02-28T11:02:00.002-08:00

Hey everyone! So you have seen several mediums used over the few years on my blog. But I haven't been true to you all. What you have seen is allot of 2 dimensional work and some sculpture. But would it surprise you that I make jewelry? Not beading and silly stuff like that, but metalworking, hammer and a blow torch type stuff! I actually took jewelry all through Booker T. Washington High School and I am continuing to take it at Brookhaven College, until I can go to UNT and take it there. Jewelry is a great love of mine that I will keep in my heart of art for ever!

Another form of art I have kept up with for maybe 6 years now is the beautify art of Mehndi! For those of you unfamiliar with this term it means the art of applying henna tattoos. This can be found in several countries mostly in the middle east and in Africa. It is apart of many different cultures and different religions. Its versatility in all these places and existence for several thousands of years is apart of why I think it is so beautiful! I have studied this art for several years now and enjoy practicing it on myself and friends. I also use henna for my hair to make it red and soft!

And yet another art I have taken on is the art of fiber! That's what I call it because I card, dye and spin fibers. Some people dye yarn, some spin yarn and some make bats of fiber , but not many people do all three. My interest started very young on a visit to Old City Park in Dallas. Its one of those places where people pretend to live in a town from the 1800's. I met some women who were spinning wool with a drop spindle. I was about 8 so naturally the interest left, but stayed in the back of my mind forever. Last July my mother and I visited the Dallas Fort Worth Fiber Fest in Garland, Texas. This is wear I fell in love with spinning again! I bought some fiber and found my old drop spindle! a month later my loving mother bought me spinning wheel and I have been making yarn like a wild woman!!!!

What all these forms of art have in common is that they have been practiced hundreds maybe thousands of years ago and they are still practiced today. whats even cooler about that is we can look back and study how these forms of art have changed, improved or stayed the same. They are also all forms that have to do with adorning the body. More posts to come on each new form of art! Sorry for being so selfish!
Love Danielle

Party Animal

2011-05-17T12:52:00.000-07:00

This is a dress I made the summer of my junior year in high school for AP 3-D class. This assignment was on a list of others to choose from. The challenge for this one was to design and create a garment NOT using fabric materials. I actually had another idea for this and created a more flapper design. But once I got my hands on the bubble wrap I could see it had more potential. So I whipped up this sketch.

The corset is made from cardboard. I cut separate pieces and let them soak in water to make them malleable. After letting them dry on the form i stitched and glued them together. Once smoothing the seems out with glue, I painted on the Zebra pattern with acrylic paint. Then covered it in clear packing tape to give it a shine.

The skirt was made of several cut out pieces of bubble wrap. They were stitched onto the corset. Duct tape covers the seem between the skirt and the corset. It is very see through so I suggest wearing a silver something under it.

When it comes to finishing touches, I used black duct tape for the side belt, the sleeves and the straps. For each piece I stuck lengths of wire between the pieces of tape so I could ruffle the edges. The belt strap has Velcro on the inside and there is a seem in the skirt down the middle. This makes it easy to slip on and attach. The mettle grommets on the front and back, are laced with black and silver chains. These make it a little harder to adorn. The brazier is glued in peacock feathers.

This piece has been featured in the Fall 2009 Senior Art Show called "Le Cirque" at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. It has also been at the Senior Art Show at The Norwood Flynn Gallery as well as a few others. This piece reminds me of Alexander McQueen's garments and I would like to see it worn by either Lady Gaga or Katy Perry.

Can I Sit?

2011-05-15T14:06:00.000-07:00

This piece was done during my Sophomore year of high School in 2009. My AP 3-D Instructor assigned us something new, "Everyone make a chair". So this is what I came up with. I started with a wooden frame, that I made myself which was really hard because the wood was warped. I designed it to look like that classic fold up chair. except the difference with mine is that I didn't make the chair adjustable, I screwed and glued the two sides together, so it is stationary. I cant remember where I got this idea but what I did next made it even less functional. I took different soda cans and crushed them into discs. It took a long time to collect the cans and I had several techniques for flattening them. Although several were flattened a select few were used for the chair. Then I drilled four holes in each disc and connected them with floral wire. Once they were made as one blanket I hung them on the dowel rods for final completion. I would very much like to try this project again to see if I can improve the looks and functionality of the chair.

A "Confused Artist"

2011-02-16T21:56:00.000-08:00

con-fused art-ist :

-person
1. a person who produces more than one works in any of the arts, performing arts or visual arts; but is unclear or perplexed on which one form of art to pursue.
2. a person who is talented in many of the arts and is undecided on which one/one’s to partake in fully.

Green Ball

2010-05-11T11:02:00.001-07:00

This piece is really old. It's from my sophomore year when I did an observational study using oil pastels. We were not aloud to use black to create shadow, so we had to improvise using other colors. You can see that I used reds and greens to create the black shadows under the plate; and I used light blue to show the grays. This piece is actually really good for my sophomore year. I pulled it out of my portfolio to use it in my quality and breadth sections for AP 2-D Final Portfolio. It's good to show an observational study with your other pieces so colleges and jurors can see that you can still do the traditional stuff.

Robert Rauschenberg: Marilyn Monroe

2010-05-10T10:08:00.000-07:00

In this piece I focused on the painting and the colors. I began with a photograph of Marilyn Monroe and a few collage elements. Starting with a lighter purple for the background I continued with different shades of blacks, whites and grays. The translucent wave falling from the upper left and ending in the lower middle of the board is a long ribbon of folded Acrylic Acetate. I hot glued it on then gave it some black splatters of paint.

Since the Acrylic Acetate and the film strips (upper right) have the same glossy texture, I saw them both as stories each telling the level of fame in different parts of her life. I heard once that Marilyn was in porn films before she was in bigger films. The Acrylic Acetate represents the quality of her adult films; they were messy, uneven and unsophisticated. The film strips above her head represent the quality of the big films we all recognize her in; they were clean cut and higher class. Maybe the black drips show her attempts to put some fame and recognition into her earlier career as a porn star. She could only get a few splats onto the film.

slipper

2010-05-08T23:10:00.000-07:00

This piece is an excellent example of what Robert Rauschenberg created called a "Combine" which is a combination of his love for painting and sculpting. He did this by adding a 3 dimensional object to a 2 dimensional piece. Most of the objects were random, having nothing to do with the painting.

I started by painting a few places with turquoise and some other colors. Once it dried I covered it with a layer of pink. Then I used the end of my brush to scratch away some of the pink, while it was wet, thus revealing the turquoise underneath. One of the differences between Rauschenberg's work and mine is that I make sure to incorporate the objects into the paintings. I do this by using what Iv been taught in principles and elements of design.

First I placed the slipper on the canvas diagonally and glued the ribbon through out the top of the piece. I then added the lace to the left in order to let your eye travel through out the whole piece and to calm the attention away from the slipper. I changed the appearance of the slipper by painting some parts with the same colors.

The Brookhaven Scholarship

2010-05-07T10:27:00.000-07:00

I got it! I got the scholarship! The High School Art Club Scholarship from Brookhaven Community College. It is given to only two high school students majoring in the Arts. I sent in a Power Point with 15 of my pieces along with a photo of me, my artist statement and my resume. I'm so Excited!

Robert Rauschenberg

2010-04-26T10:19:00.000-07:00

This piece was originally four separate pieces. Our class was assigned to create four postcards each 4" x 6". The pieces were to be exhibited and auctioned off while the proceeds went to Haiti. I however failed to enter my cards on the right day for the exhibit.

It turns out the exhibit was not what we were lead to believe. So meanwhile I decided to use my jewelry making skills to attach each piece with jump rings, an it made a successful Rauschenberg.

Robert Rauschenberg

2010-04-26T10:18:00.001-07:00

Piece number 4.

Robert Rauschenberg

2010-04-26T10:13:00.000-07:00

Piece number 3!

Self Portrait

2010-04-07T13:44:00.000-07:00

This was one of my summer assignment for AP 2D. The assignment was to do a self-portrait in the style of an artist you liked, so I chose Andy Warhol.

First I took a photo of myself with my phone, actually has great quality, and worked on it in Photoshop. After cropping it the way I changed it to black and white, so no color and more shadow.

Then I changed the threshold level so it captured the shadows and the only thing showing were the lights and dark's. But I couldn't show all the detail I wanted to on the first change. So I duplicated a bunch of layers and worked one at a time. Each one a different threshold level and then changing the blacks to greys on others. so what you see that is grey in my face was a different level on the computer, and the black on each feature were different levels. I later added all the levels together and added bright colors to the sponge curlers in my hair.This baby went through an emergency delivery as a sequel of one of my many failed concentration studies.

Robert Rauschenberg

2010-04-07T13:32:00.000-07:00

Piece number two!

A Real Pig!

2010-04-07T10:33:00.000-07:00

My Promise to you...

2010-03-22T19:16:00.000-07:00

Dear people, I'm not so positive that my blog is always the highlight of your day, I know that you don't wake each morning anxious to read what I have posted.

The main idea of my blog is to present my talents and interests to the opportunists of the art world through my portfolio, but I think that most of the time it serves its purpose by letting anyone and everyone see my art and share the same interests. The blog is also important because its a big part of my grade in my GT Mentorship class.

I would never have though of using a blog to share my portfolio with others on the Internet. I have always wanted to create my own website to serve that same purpose, but this is the first step. I think to my self that I have probly neglected you all the true potential of my creations. And if I were to plant more flowers in my garden, would more people stop by to look?

So I will make a promise to you, to the world and to the Cham Cham. I will update my blog everyday and make it as spectacular as can be with my art, if you spread the word to your friends, your weird brother, the mail man! your art teacher! your hot and single brother! and all the opportunists of the world! All in hopes that more people wake up in the morning anxious to get on that computer, or your new I-Phone, and look at my blog!

And that is my promise to you!

A Confused Artist

2010-03-12T11:16:00.000-08:00

Robert Rauschenberg

2010-02-16T10:14:00.000-08:00

As a Final in my AP2-D class we had to choose one artist from a list of 5. In addition to writing a report on the artist we were all given an 18" by 16" canvas board to create a piece in their style. The artist I chose was Robert Rauschenberg. I got a 100 on the final and my teacher liked it so much that she wanted me to continue it as a Concentration!

Printmaking II

2010-01-08T19:38:00.000-08:00

This print was from my freshman year printmaking class. The assignment was to create an image telling how we felt about 9/11. The image you see is an angle wearing an ammo belt and below her is the city of New York during the attack.

The image represents how Americans cope with 9/11, some cope with their faith and others with violence. I felt it appropriate to call it "Faith vs. Violence" I originally drew the angle with her bare bottom showing, but my teacher made me cover it up sue to public school policy.

Printmakeing

2010-01-08T19:03:00.000-08:00

These are prints I did my freshman year in high school. They are both done in black ink on white paper except the second print I colored in with Prismacolor colored pencils. I call it "The Tree of Life" The Earth represents a seed and the tree represents the life growing from it. I used planet Earth because its the only planet with life in our Solar System.

Aphrodite

2010-01-08T17:33:00.000-08:00

This is a drawing of Aphrodite the Greek Goddess of love, beauty and sexual relationships. At the bottom of the page you can see I wrote her name in Greek letters with the end of a burnt match. You can also see Zeus written above it to the left. The page is from my old deconstruction book, an old copy of "Come On Seabiscut!" I like to experiment with textures and colors in my collages. You can see I used blue and gold glitter as well as ink pens, gold shoe polish and watercolor. I used blue and gold colored foils from the Five Gum wrappers to make the Greek Key pattern.

Watercolor

2009-11-10T20:34:00.000-08:00

The four pieces below are a series of work I did during my Freshman year using in watercolor paint and ink pen on small mat board. They show the life of a white blob figure in different environments. This was something I did out of my own interest, it was not assigned.

The following two pieces were an assignment my freshman year in design class. We had to paint landscapes on these very small 2 inches by one inch paper in watercolor.

Wall Work

2009-11-10T19:55:00.000-08:00

The two pieces below are collages I did my freshman year in design class.

This piece is made up of two collages next to each other. I did them in my free time during sophomore year.

Concentration

2009-09-29T13:58:00.000-07:00

Ugg I have been sick all weekend, it's tuesday and I'm still sick but my fever is down. I have not been able to work on any school or art work. Oh well I'm about to die right now there is only 6 minutes until the bell and I can't stop falling asleep. Anyway back to buissness, I can't descide if I want to do my concentraion on deadly plants or andy worhal self-portraight's. I better find out quick!

Hello everyone!

2009-09-24T13:36:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! I am excited to have this blog to share all my thoughts and ideas with you! Please take a look at my gallery! This is one of the only places you can be a follower and its not considered stalking!