Rachel Hatchers Art III Honors Portfolio

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Rachel HatchersArt III HonorsPortfolio
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Table Of Contents

• Artist Statement

Title
Size
Medium

• Elongated Self Portrait
• Clay Relief
• Stippling Of Matt Wayne Whitlow
• Guitar
• Mono-print
• Color Theory Project

• Pastel
• Clay
• Pen and Ink
• Plaster and paper Mache
• Oils
• Acrylic

• 35 X 12.5
• 9X 6 X 1
• 14 X 11.5
• 37 X 13 X 7
• 12 X 16
• 11 X 14

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Artist Statement

• In life there are good times and bad, and not
  everything works out the way we plan. People
  change, move on, get hurt and make mistakes. Most
  things are out of our control. Art is my release
  from all of my problems. It is something that I
  have complete control of and no one can ever
  change that. When I look back onto my journey
  through art it all conveys a message from deep
  inside me. It helps me realizes who I am, who I
  long to be, and what my beliefs on all things in
  life are.
• So far, my friends are my biggest inspiration,
  for they are the ones who helped me become who I
  am today. In the beginning, art was just
  something I did in my spare time but now its my
  life. In almost every piece, I try to express a
  quality that most people dont notice something
  that will open my viewers eyes to new aspects of
  life. When I achieve that knowledge of knowing
  that people can understand if they really try,
  thats all I could ever ask for.
• Growing up I moved many times and never thought
  art would be such a huge part of my life. For my
  future, I dream of becoming a professional
  photographer. I want people to realize that true
  beauty comes from the inside. Most people can
  look at something or someone and say. oh how
  pretty, but rarely do people take the chance to
  go to the next step to realize the true meaning
  that someone or something is trying to express.
  The fear of making a wrong choice shouldnt keep
  us from trying to achieve our goal. Its being
  positive about the choices we make that will help
  us reach our goals in the end. Without taking all
  those risks of messing up, I wouldnt be where I
  am today. At the end it will always be worth the
  effort.

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• This is my elongated self portrait. I really
  loved doing this. I used green for my face cause
  its my favorite color. I used red and purple for
  my hair cause it contrasted and then polka dots
  in the background cause they are fun and it
  reminded me of my room.

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• This is my clay relief. Its a painting from
  history that I recreated in 3D.The painting is
  named The Rehearsal done by Edgar Degas in
  1871.The original was done in oils and mine is in
  acrylic. I really enjoyed this one.

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• The particular piece was one of my
  favorites. Its a stippling pen and ink of Matt
  Wayne Whitlow. At the time this he was my
  boyfriend. The shirt was a challenge. I was
  really amazed with how it turned out cause this
  was the first time I had done pen and ink. I also
  love drawing people or just realistic objects in
  general.

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• I really loved this project mainly because I
  play the guitar. The hands are plastered and on
  them they say no lies just love which pretty much
  spumes it up. The guitar is made of cardboard and
  paper- Mache. I painted the guitar blue so it
  kind of looks the sky at night and put different
  colored stars everywhere. Also I made ribbon like
  piece with piano keys and my thought are writing
  on the keys. The project meant a lot to me for it
  described a part of me.

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• Before finishing my mono-print I thought I
  was going to quit. I love doing realist things,
  but Im not so good with animals. I was really
  surprised with how it turned out. I was kind of
  scared when I used white paper to print it on
  cause I wasnt sure if the whiskers would show up
  but if you look close enough you can see them. I
  didn't want to you colors paper cause it tends to
  make it blur and I worked to hard on getting the
  painting exactly the way I wanted it for it to be
  messed up.

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• This is my color theory project. At first I
  didnt know what to do so I started to think if
  something that could be colorful so I used MnMs
  except I used different colors and gave them all
  there own personal style so none of them are
  exactly alike just like people.

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• This is called Tromp Loeil Personal Still
  Life. Its were you draw the shadows that you see.
  This was and okay project. I just got really
  bored with it. I made it work together so that
  your eye moves around. I love the way the comb
  turned out. Overall I think that it turned okay.

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• This is my Portrait in an usual perspective.
  Its not of me its my friend Nancy Perez. Shes
  10. The picture is unusual cause her feet are the
  biggest thing in that picture mainly because they
  are closest to you. This was not one of my
  favorite project but in the end it was okay.

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• This picture is a picture from my photography
  project out of every picture I took. The texture
  in it was amazing and I love the view. Also her
  facial expression was just great.