A Struggling Golden Fish I
Blue
A Struggling Golden Fish II
Minimalism
An Observational Drawing
A Shadow Play
The City
Lights and Shadows
The Nature of Music
The Window
The Face
Me
Vulnerability
Green Architecture
Xiaoyue Qian
Portfolio
Independent Project
A Struggling Gold Fish
I
PG.2
Project Title
As the first part of this series, this freehand drawing intends to capture the loneliness of the golden fish.
Medium
Category
Pencil
Freehand Drawing PORTFOLIO
2020
Independent Project
A Struggling Gold Fish
II
PG.3
Project Title
The second part of this series indicates that the golden fish spent its entire life struggling to get out of the limited space, failed, and was placed in a light bulb after its death.
Medium
Category
Pencil
Freehand Drawing PORTFOLIO
2020
Independent Project
An Observational Drawing
PG.4
Project Title
I tried to the improve realism of my drawing.
Medium
Category
Pencil
Freehand Drawing PORTFOLIO
2020
Class Project
The City
PG.5
Project Title
I used the screws to metaphorically represent the buildings and the smokes made of newspaper to represent that people living in the city are overwhelmed by the flood of news.
Medium
Category
Pencil & Newspaper
Hybrid (Drawing + Collage) PORTFOLIO
2020
Class Project
The Nature of Music
PG.6
PORTFOLIO
2020
Project Title
I combined a photo of me with a handdrawn wolf to empower myself and the violin represents that empowerment is the nature of the music.
Medium
Category
Pencil, Newspaper, & Photo Hybrid (Drawing + Collage)
Class Project
PG.7
The Face Project Title
I imagined certain possible ways of turning a humanlike sculpture into a Chinese god and used an ink brush to draw one of them.
Medium
Ink Brush
Category
I combined the drawing with the sculpture to reflect a transformation.
Hybrid (Drawing + Photography) PORTFOLIO
2020
Independent Project
Vulnerability
PG.8
PORTFOLIO
2020
Project Title
I included what symbolizes my fear into each tear and used these tears to reflect my vulnerability.
Medium
Category
Pencil
Freehand Drawing
Class Project
Blue
PG.9
Project Title
I made some sketches of coral reefs. Capturing how different shades of blue interact with each other, I created a photographic background for a purse.
Medium
Construction paper
Category
Papercutting PORTFOLIO
2020
Class Project
PG.10
Blue
Project Title
I took pictures from different perspectives to show my understanding of visual merchandising.
Medium
Construction paper
Category
Papercutting PORTFOLIO
2020
Class Project
Minimalism
PG.11
Project Title
I experimented with organizing the cellophanes cut into different pieces.
Medium
Cellophane
Inspired by Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Category
Papercutting
Boogie-woogie, I used a marker pen to draw some faces and placed cellophanes on top of them.
PORTFOLIO
2020
Class Project
A Shadow Play
PG.12
Project Title
I asked my friend to take a picture for me when I was cutting a piece of cellophane and this piece of art was
When I presented my artworks,
inspired by Peking Opera.
I intentionally chose different backgrounds because every combination of the background and my artworks resembles a shadow play.
Medium
Cellophane
Category
Papercutting PORTFOLIO
2020
Class Project
Lights and Shadows
PG.13
PORTFOLIO
2020
Project Title
I used a magazine to make a 3D papercutting project and played with lights and shadows to show my love for fashion.
Medium
Magazine
Category
3D Papercutting
Class Project
Lights and Shadows
PG.14
Project Title
I used a magazine to make a 3D papercutting project and played with lights and shadows to show my love for fashion.
Medium
Magazine
Category
3D Papercutting PORTFOLIO
2020
Independent Project
PG.15
The Window Project Title
I found two identical magazines and I decided to use the same page from the two magazines to create an artwork.
I designed a window and I cut it from one page of the magazine.
Medium
Magazine
I put the “window� on top of the other page from the other magazine.
Category
Papercutting PORTFOLIO
2020
Independent Project
Me
PG.16
PORTFOLIO
2020
Project Title
I used the Chinese radicals (a radical is a graphical component of a Chinese character) included in my Chinese name, my photos, and favorite quotes to make these graphic designs in order to showcase my unique personality.
Medium
Category
Photoshop
Graphic Design
Independent Project
Me
PG.17
Project Title
Medium
Category
Photoshop
Graphic Design PORTFOLIO
2020
Independent Project
Green Architecture
PG.18
Project Title
I found some abandoned wood frames broken into different pieces and decided to use these pieces to decide an artwork that symbolizes green architecture.
Medium
Abandoned Wood Frame, Wire & Bryophyte
This is the initial stage of my sculpture.
Category
Sculpture PORTFOLIO
2020
Independent Project
Green Architecture
PG.19
Project Title
I decorated the building with bryophyte and flowers made of wires and took pictures from different perspectives.
Medium
Abandoned Wood Frame, Wire & Bryophyte Category
Sculpture PORTFOLIO
2020