Design your own art project

For this project, I used what I learned in class about stop-motion photography and my passion for poetry in one video.

I am still learning how to use video editing technology. I have only edited one video in the past, which you can see on my creative writing page.

I used Quin as a model because she has short hair, and in the poem, I discuss how I feel and felt about cutting my hair from pretty long to a buzz cut.

Each time I use a new program I learn something new. This time I learned how to fade music in and out, as well as laying voiceover on top of the music.

This is the first stop-motion video I have produced. I do not think I took enough frames to make the video move at the pace I wanted to. If I had to do it again I would've taken more photos and I would've used a setting where the lighting was better.

I had a lot of fun making this video. I enjoyed reading my poetry and matching it to music. My favorite part has to be why I made this video; I made it for the women I admire.

Personal logo

For this project we had to create a logo that represented us. I used my middle initial, and the first letter of the name I go by 'Rosie'. I love the color pink and saw that I could create a heart in the R.

On the right are examples of how my logo would look on merchandise. I might also use the logo on letterhead

Technology op-ed visual aid: political cartoon

For Humanities we created a technology opinion piece. I wrote mine on how instead of using drones to drop bombs, we can use them to deliver medical supplies.

Depicted in the cartoon are first aid drones coming in from the left and a military drone from the right, a man is standing conflicted in the middle.

I used Photoshop to put the drones in and to make it look like they were flying through the grey clouds. I took the jpg of the photo-shopped piece and put it in adobe illustrator. I put a filter on the image which separated the colors more and made them look cartoonish.

Black history visual aides

Nat Turner's revolt

I did a presentation on Nat Turner's insurrection in Humanities class. I made a visual aide to present the content I learned.

Nat Turner led one of the most successful slave rebellions in American history in 1831. The red I think is compelling visually and it represents the bloodshed that resulted from the revolt.

To create this piece I used a drawing pad that connects to the desktop computer and free-handed the face on a separate document in illustrator. Then created the background, pasted the face onto it and layered different colors of splatter that look like blood using a brush in illustrator.

Artist/activist art

"I am a Yoruba, Taino, Puerto Rican girl with really brown skin, full curly hair, and a spirit that does not quit." -Destiny Frasqueri.

After I finished the visual aide for my humanities presentation, I wanted to do another piece. For this piece I found a photo of an artist who inspires me, her stage name is Princess Nokia. "I am African, I am Native American, I am indigenous, I am all of these things that my grandparents were too mis-informed, too ashamed, too uneducated to claim" Destiny embraces her heritage, ethnicity, body, and gender which is very important in media today.

I took the photo and used filters to adjust the pixelation, and what the pixels looked like.