Once I printed out enough prototypes and experienced with different functionality features, I was ready to create my first bowl with one of my creative decorative designs.
CAD design
I began by selecting the Mark IV design as the main design (with the standard two-piece split), once the parts were printed I started by painting them in a base colour of grey in acrylic, once they dried I then gave them a secondary coat of white. (This was so it help the bright colours stand out, once I painted them.)
Piece 1- The Pixelated portrait
I started by drawing the design in pencil then outlining it in black paint, for the colour scheme and design I decided to do a mix of Adam Lister’s pixel paintings (The shades, sizes and layout) and a picture of me that I uploaded onto an app on my phone called “Bricks” which allowed me to upload and create lego style photos as well as controlling the resolution of the pixels to make it either blocky or a bunch of small pixels.
(I used this to give me an idea of shading, shadow and background colour)
Note: I was originally going to paint the person (me) in very colours and using the pixelated picture as a reference, I was happy with how it looked so I decided (mid paint) to just keep the background in bright colours and paint me in the same dark colours as in the original photo.
Heres’s a link to the Adam Lister page on The Guy Hepner wesite to see his work: https://www.guyhepner.com/artist/adam-lister-paintings/paintings-adam-lister/
Piece 2- New York landmarks
I started by roughly drawing my three selected New York landmarks the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty and the one World Trade centre.
The Collabritive painting
Once I glued in the magnets to each piece and attach them together I was able to paint my collaborative painting, at first it was difficult getting the positioning right because the drawing would curve if I didn’t spread it out, because of the shape of the bowl. What painted was a pixelated version of the Statue of Liberty, to help with the design and proportion I took some design inspiration from a pixel artist named “UNIHORSE” off of his webpage on “The Blockheads”.
https://forums.theblockheads.net/t/unihorses-pixel-art/48314
I added this painting inside the bowl as a way of collaborating my two choices, each half being its own thing, but when combined together, the two worlds create one, which is the theme my Gesamt Kunstwerk choices in terms of applying my own ideas to my choices.
End result
I was happy with how it turned out, especially with how both pieces were able to magnetically attach to the fridge and the magnets were able to hold the pieces in place and just like in the video, it was able to hold a handful of skittles.
Here is a link to the video on my youtube channel demonstrating the bowl practical use:
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