Bella Dayrit- Peer Critique- Ava, Meghan, and Marissa

 Part 1:

Marissa AP Drawing

Materials: Poster-board, reference photo, Sharpee, Watercolor,  liquid acrylic ink, gouache

Processes: She looked up an image of a heart and covered the entire foam-core boar with gouache and watercolor. She then dripped the acrylic to the top. She then splattered watercolor all over it. 

Ideas: She wanted to express bipolar disorder. It's supposed to express the highs and lows and its effect on the heart. 

Synthesis: It's another example of a mental health disorder. It's a representation of how the mental disorder both effects the body and mind. 

Ava AP 2D-Design

Materials: Photoshop, Modge podge, printer paper, acrylic, magazines, newspaper clippings, Hot glue, foam core, cupcake liner, matte medium, poster board 

Processes: She took the photo of her friend and found pictures from magazines. She collaborated with the person she made the piece of for some things which represent him. She used photoshop to enhance the image and was inspired by past collages. 

Ideas: It's a representation of her friend Micah. She wanted to utilize found objects. 

Synthesis: It connects to her investigation because it also is another collaboration with another person and a representation of another person through art. She wanted to synthesize found objects and personality. It's evoking another person's personality through visual representation. 

Meghan AP 2D-Design

Materials: Cotton balls, newspaper, acrylic, Photoshop, printer paper

Processes: She used photoshop to add the mini details of the cigarette and use photoshop to make the colors much brighter than studio materials. She used gradient of black to white to represent how lungs turn black after a while of smoking. 

Ideas: It's about nicotine addiction. She wanted to use bright colors to contrast the usual depiction of addiction. The bright colors are motivation to motivate the person to get out of it.

Synthesis: This fits into her investigation because it's another piece which delves into addiction. The bright colors is representative again of the person trying to get better. The black and white theme along with a pop of colors is a consistent theme in her investigation. 

Part 2 (Marissa arrived so I'm just critiquing her piece at this point because before, I was grouped with Ava and Meghan)

Critique

I really love how bold the heart is and how clean and crisp the line art is. I really appreciate the different line weights on it as well. I think the warm and cool colors are also a good representation of the highs and lows of Bipolar disorder. Even the drips kinda represent the chaos that bipolar disorder can feel like. I love how the background is also transparent and how bold the line art is. The drips give it a different spatial dimension because it feels like the heart is behind the drips.