Week 3

Craft: First, I used the couch and its center cushion. Then I used two identical dog toys and two flashlights for eyes. Then I placed a blanket on top of all these items. And lastly, for the two shoes I used two green pipe cleaners to hold the laces. I wanted to see more of the couch in the frame than the two shoes. Also, I wanted the couch to seem like a giant monster so I made sure to push the shoes back far enough so the couch would look huge. I placed the pipe cleaners on the laces so I could make the shoes look both suprised and scared.

Concept: I always think about those little fears that people have an thought-what would shoes be afraid of? So, I decided to use the couch as a monster. The shoes would then have personality and I would make them afraid of this giant monster.

Composition: I made sure to light the couch from high up so it would look huge, dark and intimidating. This was especially the case with the mouth of the couch. The shoes then stood out on the light colored carpet and the couch also was colored drastically different from everything else around.

Week 2

Craft: I, kindly, asked someone close to me to act as if they were walking up a staircase so I could take a photograph of their shoes in action. I decided to do this outside in the early morning to recieve less light than mid day, but more light than an inside staircase.

Composition: I like the idea of stairs ascending so I placed the feet directly in the center to show the single path up a staircase.

Concept: I have always been told that people's legs look the best while walking up stairs. This made me start thinking about the shoes role in this activity. Does the shoe make the leg look better? I set my sights to find out. And in conclusion it's not the shoe that makes the leg look good, it's exercise.

Craft: I first grabbed my old hockey skates. Then, while walking around my yard, I noticed a chunk of ice that had begun to melt. I placed the blades within a crevice in the ice as a holster.

Composition: I wanted to focus on the melting ice and blades more than anything else so I made sure to place the skates off to the side so I could view more melting ice.

Concept: After watching all the snow beginning to melt I remembered that i had my hockey skates still out. I decided that by placing these skates upon the melting ice would be a symbolic gesture of both the hard times (rusted metal skates) and the dying of a season (melting ice).

Week 1

Name: Erica Louise Bartley
Major(s): Secondary Education Art/Physical Education
Minor: Creative Writing
Favorite colors: Crayola Orange, Candy Apple Red

Favorite activities: Eating, Playing Soccer, Horseback Riding