2020
Portfolio
A Struggling Golden Fish The City The Nature of Music The Face Vulnerability Blue Minimalism A Shadow Play Lights and Shadows
Xiaoyue Qian
The Window Me
02 Independent Project
Medium
Category
Pencil
Freehand Drawing
A Struggling Golden Fish I A Struggling Golden Fish II
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.
As the first part of this series, this freehand drawing intends to capture the loneliness of the golden fish.
03 Class Project
Category
Hybrid ( Drawing + Collage )
The Nature of Music
The City
Medium 01
Pencil & Newspaper I used the screws to metaphorically represent the buildings and the smokes made of newspapers to represent that people living in the city are overwhelmed by the flood of news.
Medium 02
Pencil, Newspaper & Photo I combined a photo of me with a hand-drawn wolf to empower myself and the violin represents that empowerment is the nature of the music.
04 Class Project Medium
Category
Ink Brush
Hybrid ( Drawing + Collage )
Independent Project
The Face I imagined certain possible ways of turning a humanlike sculpture into a Chinese god and used an ink brush to draw one of them.
Vulnerability I included what symbolizes my fear into each tear and used these tears to reflect my vulnerability.
I combined the drawing with the sculpture to reflect a transformation.
Medium
Category
Pencil
Freehand Drawing
05 Class Project
Medium
Category
Construction Paper
Papercutting
Blue I took pictures from different perspectives to show my understanding of visual merchandising.
Capturing how different shades of blue interact with each other, I created a photographic background for a purse.
I made some sketches of coral reefs.
05 Class Project
Medium
Category
Cellophane & Marker Pen
Hybrid (Papercutting + Drawing)
Minimalism I experimented with organizing the cellophanes cut into different pieces.
Inspired by Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie-woogie, I used a marker pen to draw some faces and placed cellophanes on top of them.
06 Class Project
Medium
Category
Cellophane
Papercutting
A Shadow Play I asked my friend to take a picture for me when I was cutting a piece of cellophane and this piece of art was inspired by Peking Opera.
A SHADOW PLAY When I presented my artworks, I intentionally chose different backgrounds because every combination of the background and my artworks resembles a shadow play.
07 Class Project Lights and Shadows
I used a magazine to make a 3D papercutting project and played with lights and shadows to show my love for fashion.
Medium
Category
Magazine
3D Papercutting
08 Class Project
Medium
Category
Magazine
3D Papercutting
The Window
I designed a window and I cut it from one page of the magazine.
I found two identical magazines and I decided to use the same page from the two magazines to create an artwork.
I put the “window� on top of the other page from the other magazine.
09 Independent Project Me
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
10 Independent Project
Medium
Category
Abandoned Wood Frame, Wire & Bryophyte
Sculpture
Green Architecture I decorated the “building� with bryophyte and flowers made of wires and took pictures from different perspectives.
I found some abandoned wood
This is the initial stage
frames broken into different pieces
of my sculpture.
and decided to use these pieces to decide an artwork that symbolizes green architecture.