Olivia's Portfolio

• Audience Insight: What key message do you want your audience to understand about you as they view your artwork? How did you communicate this message?

The key message I want my audience to understand about me is that I often feel overwhelmed by a situation because I don’t see it in just one shade. I see it in multiple shades, so I will try distracting myself with things I’m immersed in. I communicated this message by using multiple shades of pink. The different shades of pink represent how I have always struggled making decisions because I’m always able to see the upsides and downsides to situations. Whiter it be something as simple as what I’ll eat for lunch or which person I should side with. The amount of pink I’m including will represent an overwhelming sense of default. By framing myself with whipped cream and putting it on me, it’s like I’m trying to distract the viewer from the pink by using whipped cream. I want to distract the viewer because it represents how I’m constantly trying to distract myself with other things. I decided to make myself purplish to represent how, when I took the MBTI quiz, I was an INTP, and the icon is purple. So I thought it would be a nice mention.

• Risk and Experimentation: During the creation of your artwork, how did you take risks and experiment in order to effectively express your intended message?

One of the biggest risks I decided to take was restarting my project. I quite disliked how it turned out, so I decided to take the risk, tho It would be considered more like reorganizing. Since I was on a tight schedule, a friend recommended I add magazines and random papers that match the pink to the background, since it wasn’t quite going with the vibe. It ended up working out. I was able to create something I actually liked. Something I experimented with was the crochet flowers. I wasn’t entirely sure if I wanted to include it, but I had seen some past mixed media work including them, so I wanted to do something similar. I decided to incorporate it to represent how I like to crochet. Which is a big part of my identity because I learned how to do it a long time ago. It’s also a big part of my IDENTITY because my sister constantly asks me to make her stuff and, it makes me feel like I’m growing a better bond with her. The whipped cream would represent how I like to eat sweet treats and desserts. Since whipped cream is often on desserts, a lot of people would associate it with sweets. I incorporated cherries but used buttons to look better with the whipped cream, but it also represents how I like to sew, it makes me feel happy to sew. The mannequin behind me represents how I’m involved with fashion, but there are no clothes on the mannequin to show how, even though I liked it, I don’t feel like I’m involved enough to actually know what type of fashion I’m into, because currently I’m still into a lot of different sub-genres for fashion.

One of the most important things I learned duringpreparation is time management. I got sick at thestart of when we started to write the researchcards. So I ended up getting really behind.However I ended up quickly catching up bymaking good use of my time.

The hardest part of this process was making suremy opening argument was good enough. Istruggled at the start; I was unsure on how to evenstart my introduction. Though by asking help frommy partner Candace she helped me start. Then igot a good first draft and edited it. I showed it toMr. Warren which he gave me good feedback thenI worked on it more creating a good openingargument.

The best piece of evidence I have would be “For example, communities impacted by school shootings have seen anincrease in the number of young people committing suicide. Themental health of children and teenagers can suffer greatly when theyare exposed to gun violence. After hearing gunshots or seeing ashooting, many people report experiencing fear, anxiety, or sadness.Serious problems like depression, PTSD, and subpar academicperformance can result from this exposure. Domestic violence is yetanother serious issue. Intimate partners frequently abuse women andchildren, and having a gun in the house can make these abuses lethal.The mere presence of a gun can intimidate and threaten victims, evenin situations where it is not used. As judges, you have the power toinfluence laws that shield our families and children from thedevastating effects of gun violence. It’s critical to consider how these problems impact actual lives in our communities”. I think it was the strongest because its about mental heath. Lately mental health peopleare starting to realize its a lot more important than you would think.

Fint Ai helped me write my conclusion. At the startI was confused about how to write it but then FlintAI helped guide me through it. Another thing FlintAI helped was with helping me find points for mytopic. I struggled with finding points since therewasn’t much other than deaths, suicide, andmental health. Then AI helped me come up withthe country’s reputation and the Domestic abusepoint for my topic.

Evidence of organization:

An example of me becoming more organized compared to the start of the school year is that I used to have a lot of over dues, but now I usually hand in my stuff on time. My science notebook has become more useful as the school year went on, as we got more and more care and added detail to my science notebook.

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Evidence of active learner habbits:

My goal was to reduce the number of overdue assignments, and I think I have improved at submitting assignments on time, but there are still times when I submit things late. One learner skill i have improved is my models. At the start, I would forget to add color and arrows (when I’m not supposed to), and my titles would be… questionable, but now my models have improved a lot. Something i think i need to improve is when there’s a quiz I need to pay more attention to the questions.

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Understanding key concepts

I have a good understanding of key concepts.

I included multiple images of good grades because my goal for the second semester is to get really good grades in math, so for 9th grade, I can get into IM2. Another image I added was books because I want to read more so it can help improve my language art grade. Then for the 3rd image i added was a brain, so i can have more brain power.

I found this unit to be really fun. Although there were some challenges. A challenge that was the most obvious was that there had to be 8 people per court. It was annoying at times, but overall it was fine. A good thing about this unit though, was that we played badminton, which was very fun, and we got to pick our partners. A strength I experienced was that serving was something I was able todo in pickleball and badminton. A challenge I experienced was rallying in pickleball since most people did it last year but I son’t know why but my class didn’t do it last year, so it was a struggle at first.

Reflection:

For my band grades, it’s pretty diverse. I have a lot of meetings and approaches, but I have one excceding: I’ve never been late to band class. Another thing I did well was using music vocab. An example of this was the assignment where we had to pick songs and describe them. I got a meeting for this, and I think I didn’t do a bad job on it. Another thing I did well was using dynamic i think i struggle with them a bit but i think it’s mostly meeting standard.

Area of growth:

The part I’m mainly struggling with is handing in work on time. I usually hand in my work late. Not only that, whenever I get a 2 I usually don’t end up redoing the assignment. Something else I would like to improve on is better air control, as in being able to do better in hitting higher notes.

Action plan:

An action plan I plan on doing is I will try to practice more often, specifically, I will try to practice every day for around 30 minutes. Success will look like me having air quality and more air support.

Extension:

Currently, I haven’t done anything to extend my learning, but for the future, I’m going to try resubmit assignments I scored lowered than a 3.

1. In what ways did you showcase your abilities as a Creative and Active Learner during this project? Refer to the attribute charts to help you identify specific examples.

Ways I showcase my abilities as a creative learner were that during the process of sketching out our ideas we first created our own then by sharing ideas we were able to come up with an idea to make a bear. I showcased being an active learner because I worked with 2 other teammates and we struggled smoothing out the bear thing but by combing our work effort we were able to turn it into somewhat smooth.

1. How does a sketchbook contribute to an artist’s creative process? Provide examples from your group’s experience to illustrate your points.

A sketchbook contributes to an artist’s creative process since the purpose of a sketchbook is to put in ideas, and it can be as messy as possible, so just putting it all out there makes it easier to make the clay sculpture, because it’s not just in your head, you have a physical reference. In addition to that it’s easier to share ideas to other people. For example, we used our sketchbooks to put our ideas to share to my partner.

My sketchbook is a true reflection of who I am as an individual and an art student. This past year, I have developed a fascination with jellyfish, which I felt was essential to include in my work. Another passion of mine is baking; I love how I can express my care for others through desserts. One of my favorite treats to bake is strawberry shortcake, a dessert rich with memories from my childhood and time spent with friends.

A design technique I used was emphasis. I tried to make the jellyfish a similar color to the water to give the illusion of transparency. This draws more attention to the strawberries. Another design technique I tried to incorporate was a repeated pattern. I made 2 jellyfish with the hats having a similar pattern.

How intended the views to engage with the layout is that the viewer’s main focus would go onto the bigger jellyfish since it was drawn in the center, and it’s the biggest thing on the paper. After looking at the big jellyfish, the viewer’s eyes will trail down the jellyfish to its oral arms and tentacles then the vison will go onto the smaller jellyfish.

SONG PIECE:

I picked “Love is a frozen door” mostly because it was almost the only one we could find that was playable for trumpet and Flute. All the other pieces(3) the piecec would either have too high notes or it would be too easy. So even though “Love is an open door” had 6 sharps for me and 4 sharps for my partner we kinda had to pick it.

PLAYING THE PIECE:

Something I learned about my self it’s easier to play sharps over flats. I use to think both were alright, but know i realized sharps over flats. A skill I got better at was playing with a key signature with 6 and 4 sharps because that was my key signature. It was a struggle at first, but i got used to it. I feel more confident in playing in the 6 sharps key signature.

CHALLENGES:

A challenge I had at the start was the 4 sharps and the 6 sharps. The 4 sharps I was somewhat used to it, but then A# and E# came… I kept messing it up…. It was horrible. Even though it was the same fingering, I just kept messing them up. A challenge I had was having 1 and a half measures of rest, and then I would always miss my mark, but Mia helped me with that, and now I don’t miss the mark. I think practicing and my partner were a huge part of my success because practicing would help me with getting better, but my partner would help me out with rhythms I kept messing up.

This unit was very interesting. We had to be in the high school gym, and 8 people per court it was a struggle at first; however, throughout the unit, we got somewhat used to it, and the more people it was to count points and tell what was in and what did not fall in. They would also help my badminton skills grow. My backhand serve got better with the help of my partners.