BrittStew+Spring+2018+Page

=Brittany Stewart (Britt) =


 * Business Management Major **
 * Transfer student from NVCC
 * This is my second semester at Mason

Plenty of experience with art, I took art all the way through 7th grade to my freshman year of college. I was in my High schools National Art Honor Society. I've also had experience in a photography dark room developing film and making prints. I have a couple years of experience with some graphic design work and had a paid internship with a web development company in Springfield. My newest addition to my art skills was purchasing an air brush and doing some graphic stuff for my friends and I.

In my spare time I like to game. The platforms I use are Xbox One and Playstation 4. Im interested in starting a PC build in the future. My macbook is great for my graphic design work but not suitable for gaming.
 * I play a lot of First Person Shooters (FPS) like Battlefield 4, some Call of Duty, Starwars Battlefront, Forza, MotoGP, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Ghost Recon Willands, Destiny, Warframe and even a little Minecraft.

Other than gaming I love Cars. I like to work on cars, my has family drag raced cars for generations, I also enjoy going to car shows and meet ups.

My personal sport of choice is Weightlifting but I also enjoy watching/attending Capitals games and like the Green Bay Packers/Texans for football.

My artistic interests are Graphic Design, Abstract, 3D sculpture, pointillism, typography, spray painting, and even down to some DIY crafts around the house.

= Implied Shapes and Textures =





** Figure Ground **

Sample on Sketch Paper, Cut into pieces. Easier to organize and transfer to the bristol paper.

Transferred, filled in with sharpie. Reversed the figure and ground from the sample set. Looking at examples and the shapes I used it was easier to reverse the black/white ratio.

= Lines in the World = My Dirty closet :P Bathroom Towels Sisters Hamper My bed spread Dirty House Vent Truck Grille Neighborhood Mailboxes My Car Rims


 * Drawing Exercises 5 Contour 5 Gesture **


 * Inflatable Hash-Tag **
 * Prototypes **
 * Trash-bag Prototype**
 * 1) Single Trash-bag
 * 2) Drew the pound symbol on the bad and cut it out, creating a font and back section
 * 3) Taped around the perimeter leaving one end of the pound symbol open to inflate.
 * 4) Left the center of the pound symbol closed to test the groups theory of the shape looking like a pillow with arms and not the "pound symbol" Theory was correct.

To fix the center we will still created a front and back section but will add a equal scale section between the front and back. Allowing for the open center and add width as a 3D box shape. Doing this will keep the seam from looking like a pillow and give the inflatable shape with no sharp edges like the above picture. The box shape will be portrayed in the bristol board model pictured below.
 * "Inflated"**

As a group during class time, we discussed the best way to construct the model. We measured and cut out the front and back sections, started making the connecting tabs and the 1x1 squares to add the edges for the 3D box effect.
 * Bristol Board HashTag Model - 1x1 Scale**

My Homework: Assemble the Model: 1. Glued the tabs and 1x1 connecting squares around the perimeter of the bottom section of the model. 2. Attached the 1x1 squares (32) to all the connection tabs along the inner and outer edges.
 * There are (8) endings on the hashtag each end took 3 connecting tabs (over-lapped) to allow for the attachment of the 1x1 squares
 * The center has (4) 1x1 squares each required 2 connecting tabs (over-lapped) to allow for the attachment of the center 1x1 squares and the adjacent side for the outer perimeter.

I placed the top section on to enclose the model. I decided to not attach the top half to allow us to remove it to visualize the workings of the perimeter for constructing the actual size inflatable.

Didn't have enough space at school to lay it out so I brought it home to find the scale we needed.
 * CONSRUCTION **

Thursday (12th) 7:00 am After finding the correct scale I split the numbers in half to find the cross sections. We started off with 4 tubes each being 7 bags long. For linear issues we cut it down to 6 bags. I was able to get into the art building early enough one Thursday morning and I taped all the tubes together making a front and back section.

Monday (15th) 9:30am-6:00pm During and after class we took the bottom half and played it out. Then we took another bag and taped them around all the entire perimeter. these pieces can be seen in the sample model above. The width pieces gave us a more 3d balloon like appearance instead of a sewn together pillow case. Once all the width pieces were attached we then placed the top half on top and started connecting the cubes at the ends.

Tuesday (16th) 1:00pm-3:30Pm I brought it home with me Tuesday in order to tape together the very center of the hashtag and the seams in between each protruding cubes It finally started to look like a balloon at this stage.

Wednesday (17th) 8:30 am LAyed it out, inspected both sides and attached the air tube to the back and attempted a test inflation, and added the vent holes.

Measured out the PVC pipe to make a a stand to attach the back to allow the hashtag to stand up. Wednesday (17th) The assembled frame with the help of Professor Davis. All we did to attach the frame to the bags was we laid out the hashtag, placed the frame over top, took trash bags cut and folded them in half. Then placed them over the tube and taped on both sides of the bags creating a pocket so the tubes could easily be removed and disassembled.

**FINAL PRODUCT**







On display at the Off the Wall / Nite Lite show April 21st