Project 2
Tittle: The Race
Medium: Mixed medium/photography Date of Completion: August 3rd By creating this artwork, I wanted to show that I like cars and to show something related to one of my favorite movies which is Fast and Furious: Tokyo drift. I also wanted to improve my work at creating a diorama model of something from the real world. This artwork was influenced by Lori Nix a photographer who makes handmade dioramas. When creating the artwork everything I used was bought or recycled from things around my house . |
INSPIRATION
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For my inspiration I used any 3 dimensional or diorama model that has been made. One specific diorama model I looked at was from Lori Nix.
Lori Nix
Lori Nix is an American photographer who is known for taking photographs of her handmade dioramas. She was born in 1969. Although most of her photographs capture disasters, I like the way she has a blurred out background behind each of her artworks and I was planning on doing that as well. Another thing I like about her handmade dioramas is the way everything connects to the work and the way she implements different materials such as small pebbles or things like that to give it a more realistic approach. Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift Another inspiration was the movie Fast and Furious: Tokyo drift. this movie is one of my favorite movies and my diorama is somewhat based on the scene where two cars are racing down a mountain. These cars where a Nissan 350z and a 1967 ford mustang. |
PLANNING
As I was thinking on what I would be doing I sketched out the way I wanted my model to look like. I wanted to create something like a mountain and two cars racing on it. I got this idea out of one of my favorites movies which is Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift. I wanted to show the cars drifting and by doing this I would use some cotton and for the plants and stuff for the mountain I would be using recycled materials.
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EXPERIMENTATION
For my experimentation I had done something similar to what I was going for but on a different scale. My first creation of a diorama was much smaller and had less details added to it. I also experimented on how I would be making the pine trees. I had looked up different ways to create pine trees for dioramas but as I tried I felt like I could do them by myself. So I cut out some Christmas ornaments and glued them together. Forming different shapes of pine trees and painting them a darker green to have more of a pine tree look on them.
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PROCESS
As I started this work, I looked for different Christmas decorations my family used last year to use as pine trees. At first I was going to create pine trees from scratch by using some wire and thin pieces of rope but that was difficult for me. once I found what I was going to make my pine trees out of I started by doing the base of the mountains. I did this using floral foam blocks and carving into them to make curved sides and different shapes to make it seem more like an actual part of a mountain or hill. After I cut everything out I had to start using glue and newspaper to give the floral foam a stronger feel to it as floral foam tends to break really easily. I did this by wrapping everything in newspaper which was dipped in glue, just like paper mache. As I was letting the paper mache dry I started painting the pine trees a darker shade of green and adding brown for the pine trees trunk Once the paper mache was dry I then started adding different tones of grey for the dirt and black paint for the road. I also went around and looked for a couple rocks to add in the diorama.
as I finished painting the hill, I grabbed some Popsicle sticks and toothpicks to use to create a fence to go somewhere next to the road. I cut and glued the Popsicle sticks and the toothpicks together. Once the fence was dry I added some brown to make the fence look more old trying to implement the way Lori Nix made everything fit into her dioramas without having anything look out of place. Once I was done I arranged everything together in the diorama to see if everything would fit nicely. Once I liked where everything was put I used a hot glue gun to glue everything into the hill. After that I added two cars which then I added some cotton behind then to create the look of them drifting down the hill just like the movie.
CRITIQUE
Similarities
Some similarities are that both artworks are dioramas. Another Similarity is that I tried to create a photograph with it just as Lori Nix did. Some other similarities are that all works have a car or something related to cars. When looking at each artwork you can see different things used such as moss rocks pebbles and other things to create the diorama. This is used in both artworks. |
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Differences
The work of Lori Nix that I used as inspiration does not show signs of using the real world in its photographs where as my work shows grass behind my work. Another thing that is different from our works is that Lori Nix tends to blurry out the background of her images which makes the viewer focus on whats really happening. In my work I did not blurry out the background like she did. |
Reflection
I think I really refined my skills at making a diorama and adding details to my work as this second time doing a diorama looks way better than the first time I created one. I developed my skills as an artist as I looked for different ways to create things for my art and improvised if something went wrong. My inspiration for my project who was Lori Nix does connect to my work as she also did dioramas and took photographs of her work. This project ties previously learned exercises and concepts as I used different materials and practiced my color blending skills when adding details to the ground of my diorama. My favorite part of this project was adding everything together and seeing how the final outcome looked like. My least favorite part was cutting the floral foam into pieces as little dust of the foam. I hope others see my work and compare this to something from the real world as its a diorama from the real world.
I think I really refined my skills at making a diorama and adding details to my work as this second time doing a diorama looks way better than the first time I created one. I developed my skills as an artist as I looked for different ways to create things for my art and improvised if something went wrong. My inspiration for my project who was Lori Nix does connect to my work as she also did dioramas and took photographs of her work. This project ties previously learned exercises and concepts as I used different materials and practiced my color blending skills when adding details to the ground of my diorama. My favorite part of this project was adding everything together and seeing how the final outcome looked like. My least favorite part was cutting the floral foam into pieces as little dust of the foam. I hope others see my work and compare this to something from the real world as its a diorama from the real world.
Clearly explain how you are able to identify the cause effect relationship between your inspiration and its effect on your artwork?
Both artworks show a handmade diorama and capture vehicles such as cars in both artworks.
What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
Dioramas can captures different things such as unfortunate events and events that are thrilling.
What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, culture, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
When making a diorama you can use different things to get the outcome you want. You can also have different ideas for the same thing to have more of a variety.
What is the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?.
Dioramas can also be photographs and not just something you need to see with your own eyes as in standing right in front of the diorama.
What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
Attentino to detail in a diorama is key and also implementing different things to the diorama.
Bibliography:
Lori Nix:http://www.lorinix.net/
Tokyo Drift: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fast_and_the_Furious:_Tokyo_Drift
Both artworks show a handmade diorama and capture vehicles such as cars in both artworks.
What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
Dioramas can captures different things such as unfortunate events and events that are thrilling.
What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, culture, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
When making a diorama you can use different things to get the outcome you want. You can also have different ideas for the same thing to have more of a variety.
What is the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?.
Dioramas can also be photographs and not just something you need to see with your own eyes as in standing right in front of the diorama.
What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
Attentino to detail in a diorama is key and also implementing different things to the diorama.
Bibliography:
Lori Nix:http://www.lorinix.net/
Tokyo Drift: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fast_and_the_Furious:_Tokyo_Drift