Remember Art Class?

Last semester I took an online art class, and since we never met in person, our assignments had to be photographed and uploaded digitally online. One night, in my own boredom, I was going through all of my albums on iPhoto when I stumbled across the one labeled "ART 010". I figured I might as well share some of what I found for the sake of preventing these bad boys from collecting cyber dust.

Our assignment for this piece was to create something inspired by an artist from the surrealist movement. Even though he may be considered more of an abstract expressionist, I got the okay to use Jackson Pollock as my inspiration.

_{(Watercolor and white out on watercolor paper)}

Bear in mind that I am a starving artist (see also; broke college student) working with minimal funds. Having said that, I got great use out of the watercolor set I bought that semester. Another thing, having few resources and limited supplies really forced me to think outside the box and come up with any type of media that I could put to use (white out, anyone?)

This assignment was to create a piece of "mail art" that had something to do with your childhood. I focused mine around the idea that when I was little, my neighborhood friends and I always set up lemonade stands at the end of my driveway (We actually ended up making a lot of money from it! Money which would later be spent on walkie talkies that we used to communicate with each other. Money well spent, in my opinion).
_{(Watercolor and sharpie on watercolor paper)}

This class was great because it helped open up my creativity. After high school, we tend to get muddled into taking long, boring, lecture-based classes that restrict us to doing the same mundane tasks every night. However, with this class, my creative floodgates opened, and I was given the freedom to express myself in a way in which I've always felt comfortable: through art. While my roommates were buried head deep in a jumble of powerpoints and notecards, I was sitting indian-style on my floor with the newspaper spread out, splashing watercolor paint all over the place. Sounds like a solid trade-off to me.