Yesterday you: [ If you missed this, go back to day 1]
Learned why writing is an integral part of your portfolio
Explored how your materials connect to your ideas
Downloaded the Portfolio Push template and started collecting information
Viewed the video walkthroughs
Left a comment to share your work and ask for feedback
Today, you will:
Edit your writing about materials to meet the 100 character requirements
Edit your writing about materials to highlight the connections between your ideas and the materials you selected
Add your artwork dimensions to the Portfolio Push Template
Leave a comment sharing 1-2 examples of your material writing and ask for feedback.
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20 Day Portfolio Push is a paid subscription. 20 Days of actionable instruction, designed and delivered to help you finalize your portfolio. The guidance within this 20 Day course is also helpful for any students working to prepare an art portfolio for a college application or competition.
Let’s get started
Step 1: Connect your ideas to your materials
You don’t have to connect every material back to an idea. Try to demonstrate how 1-2 materials connect to your ideas.
Examples:
Idea: Power dynamics
Watercolor paint = lack of control, ink= permanence, cold press watercolor paper, paintbrush
Watch the video below, to better understand the connections and approach to writing.
Idea: Does money equal happiness?
Scraps of colorful patterned fabric to show the contrast of poverty and joy in everyday life, I used thread to sew the scraps together with my Grandmothers sewing machine. My grandmothers sewing machine connects to my idea by demonstrating creating with what you have instead of buying new materials, as well as how families do or don’t hand things down generation after generation creating generational wealth. Wealth can be defined as money or joy.
Watch the video below, to understand how to edit you’re writing, to demonstrate how your materials and ideas connect.