Class of 2023 AP Artist
Megan Sutton
The central idea of my portfolio from the beginning was combining my friends and music. I’m a band kid. Music has been a part of my entire life and experiencing it with my friends is just as important to me.
I started out with mainly very obvious ideas such as the instrument they play and my friends themselves. I then delved into the process of creating cyanotypes, which is the same process as blueprints are made. Starting with a few practice prints I was able to get the exact time under the black light and how thick the pen had to be, but I still needed a central idea for what the subject for the prints were going to be. Looking at the more colorful painting that's an aerial view of Canada, it got me into the idea of more maps. As seen on the giant board, I created multiples of these maps, which are all aerial views of my friends' neighborhoods. With the board connected and done, my portfolio was fully connected.
About My portfolio
15 Portfolio Pieces
Materials: Acrylic paint, fabric, needle and thread
This painting is the most straight forward as it's just me and my friends, yet I created more depth with covering it with fabric. the idea is that you hear music yet you can't see the musicians who play it.
Materials: Acrylic paint
The idea of this painting was to basically introduce my portfolio to music. the instruments are the same ones my friends play.
Materials: Acrylic paint
This painting was basically the start of the rest of my portfolio. It was an AERIAL perspective painting that then INCORPORATed color theory. This brought an idea into mapping and how i could connect my friends through said maps.
Materials: Colored pencil, carbon paper, construction paper,white gel pen
made to be the full connection between music and the map idea i had been thinking of.
Materials: Cyanotype paper, blacklight
I wanted to explore cyanotypes, yet had never used them before. so, i experimented! used multiple different pens, objects, and times under the black light until i had the perfect mix
Materials: Cyanotype paper, white gel pen, black gel pen
more practice cyanotypes before i started mapping, did touch up with white pen and added measurments with black.
Materials: Cyanotype paper, white gel pen, black gel pen
more practice cyanotypes before i started mapping, did touch up with white pen and added measurments with black.
materials: Cyanotype paper, white gel pen
made cyanotype of my friends neighborhood.Specifically my friend calvin! Added was instrument he plays. Added white gel penfor touch ups and to continue cyanotype further on the page.
made cyanotype of my friends neighborhood.Specifically my friend Aneesa! Included was specifically not an instrument but fabric, as she's the fabric that keeps everything together
materials: Cyanotype paper, white gel pen
materials: Cyanotype paper, white gel pen
made cyanotype of my friends neighborhood.Specifically my friend Kira! Added was instrument she plays.Added white gel penfor touch ups and to continue cyanotype further on the page.
made cyanotype of my friends neighborhood.Specifically my friend ella! Added was instrument she plays.Added white gel penfor touch ups and to continue cyanotype further on the page.
materials: Cyanotype paper, white gel pen
made cyanotype of my friends neighborhood.Specifically my friend Luke! Added was instrument he plays. Added white gel penfor touch ups and to continue cyanotype further on the page.
materials: Cyanotype paper, white gel pen
materials: Cyanotype paper, white gel pen
made cyanotype of my friends neighborhood.Specifically my friend Louie! Added was instrument he plays. Added white gel penfor touch ups and to continue cyanotype further on the page.
materials: Cyanotype paper, white gel pen
made cyanotype of my friends neighborhood.Specifically me! Added was instrument I play.Added white gel penfor touch ups and to continue cyanotype further on the page.
Materials:Cyanotype paper, CORK BOARD, exacto knife,white gel pen
This was made putting all previous cyanotypes onto a cork board, creating a giant map.
Five Quality pieces
materials: Acrylic Paint
Looked into rearranging different photos and collaging them together.
Materials: Colored pencil
Looked into color quality and how
well different colors could go brighter or darker
materials: acrylic paint
heavy on color theory and how well certain colors could pop out compared to the surrounding
Materials:Cyanotype paper, CORK BOARD, exacto knife,white gel pen
looked for different ways to connect everything and look into arrangement.
Materials: Acrylic paint
looked into color quality and depth of landscape.