The End of the Year Blog post

I feel that at the begginning I was really bored and annoyed by art. Then it went really down hill with art as we began drawing. But by the end of the year I was able to really get into art and had fun with the sculpture and drawing project. Some of the ups were the splatter and then finding the things inside the splatter and drawing them. One of the downs was the printmaking project. I understood it, but my image just couldn't come out right and that really frustrated me. This year in art has really given me a new look on art. I usually hate art and didn't want to be apart of it. But now I looked forward to art and actually enjoyed it. Even though I'm still not very good. I have decided though that I've had to much of art. Next year I will probably switch into theater because I have acted before and really want to move on to that. Thank you Mrs.Roberts for everything you have done.

I see the light drawing

My goal for using the light was to emphasize the windmill in the teardrop. This also helped emphasize the teardrop and the top of the background. This idea just popped into my mind from a song and then the idea of people wasting emotion came to me and I included the baby teeth as the emotion because we only have a certain amount of baby teeth. I used the pencils to give the base color and have the picture get darker and then use the eraser to lighten the part which were to dark. I learned to never start out with 6B pencil because on the bottom of the teardrop there is a faint outline of the first teardrop i tried to draw.

Use of light

Be sure to write about at least 2 situations like the ones just described that come to mind when you think of light and answer these questions:What is the potential for light to be symbolic in a work of art?What could it symbolize and why?

One situation is that when using light you can emphasize something in the picture while one area could be dark. The potentiol for light is that you can have light change the feeling from happy to sad or add a new element that creates a controversy in the picture. It could symbolize happiness, good strength, trust because light usually represents happy emotions. Another example of use is in the song white light by Gorrilaz it tells of how when you've gone to far you may see the end of the tunnel.

i am me.

The strengths of my piece of art are that it's organized by color and groups which allows you to follow the story easier. If I was someone looking at it the first time I would believe that it was a very simple but easily understood picture. Also I would belive that it was an easy story to follow and understand my life and picture. One thing that comes through is the ability for all the pieces to come together yet blend in cohearant way. This comes through because of how I added the pastels.

Alexander Demaria's work

The picture I liked the most was Ritual Growth. This was one of the most interesting of them all. Especially because of how the person thing was in kind of a thinking stare and trying to figure out what he or it is thinking. I wanted to ask him were he gets his inspiration for the picture.

Reflecting on self portrait progress

On your blog, please describe what happened while discussing your work.
What did you share with your group members?
How did they react to your story and your work of art?
What feedback did they give you about your work up to this point?
What do you still need to do to finish your work and how many more classes do you anticipate needing to finish?

I told my group about my picture and what I had completed on it, because I couldn't find mine in the classroom. I told them of the brain and my ideas and my life story flowing out of it. They really ignored and didn't give me any feedback. Right after I was done speaking they decided to quickly move on to the block post.

4 hour project

The four hour project was a nice break from our usual art projects. I liked this because we had a stronger voice in this project. One thing that was challenging was choosing what I was gonna do because I felt like I was left in the open water. My sculpture came out pretty well but one thing I could've done was try to add more ideas and more of me into it if I had more time or if I could redo it. At first I got off to a great start and made a ton of progress but then it became tougher for me and there was then less progress being made.

The book project where we are now!

On YOUR blog, DESCRIBE your original plans for The Book Project.What's the story you're trying to tell?Then write about how it's going...what challenges have you faced so far?What's going well? What isn't?
My original plans were to have the step mom kill the dad then the daughter gets mad, and then the step mom cashes in on selling the house and the life insurance. It's stayed at the same idea of the plot except I have trouble adding more stuff to fill the page. One thing that has been challenging is how I can make the story flow smoothly.

Drawing the human figure from the inside out

Drawing the Human Figure From the Inside Out.
Today you made a series of drawings of the human figure.In your own words, describe what the goals for today's drawings were.How well did you achieve these goals? Give specific examples from your process and/or from the finished drawing. You might even describe what challenges you faced.
The goals for today were to try to continuasly without the charcoal leave the page. One of my drawings came out well because in the begginning i used the cirular technique and then filled in the details in my first picture. One challenge i faced was that I had just taken 38 milagrams of Benadryl. And I was very tired also I struggled on getting the facial features right.

Nighthawk

Nighthawks
by Edward Hopper, Edward Hopper is from America.
Made in 1942
Oil on canvas was used to make the work.

My first impression of this picture was that it was bland and kinda of boring. But when I started to look and think of it more it started to remind me of the movie Watchmen for some reason. Also I like how the artist did the diner seen yet had the rest of the canvas black night. I think it would've been cooler if the artist had've put like one person standing in the darkness that would've added a kind of spooky alure.

Edward Hopper was trained to be an illustrator but spent five years studying painting which influenced his style to become about urban isolation. He made this painting to show a diner and three customers that are all in their own private thoughts. Without even knowing it Hopper actually painted the loneliness of a large city.

I believe that there is no balance in this picture because the lighted side seems to be outweighing the darker side. Also there is emphasis on the lighted side because that is where the people are which draws your eye to it. Which is emphasis by position, contrast, and grouping.

Finding Images that are balanced

symetrical
Almost Symetrical

radial

asymetrical

Reflecting on found object sculpture

The object that inspired me the most was the green circular disk because of the shape and how I was trying to make something else like a disk player. Then I took the circuit board and that reminded me of a backing of something, So then I realized I could make toilet out of these objects. One thing that helped about our discussion is that I should try to put something in the next sculpture with out using hot glue. I feel that my project went well over all. Except for the backing of the toilet which I used as a telephone shell but other wise I thought it was good.

The principles if design- set of rules that help artist organize shapes, lines, forms, and colors.







Unity-is the feeling that all the elements in a work belong together.



Variety is achieved when by introducing some differences into the picture to increase visual interest.



Balance is when the visual weight of an artwork feels equally distributed.



These are the 4 types of Balance:



1.Symmetry-when you draw a line down the middle of a picture the two sides are the same.



2.Approximately symmetrical-When they are almost symmetrical



3.asymmetry- the opposite of symmetry



4. radial-is when you draw a line any where divided it will always be the same.





Emphasis-When one element in an artwork appears to be


Placement-The thoughtful placement such as where the artist want to focus it.


contrast-When something is very different around.


Grouping-When the artist puts alot of little elements and put them right around the thing they want you to focus on.

Proportion in art we are talking about the size relationship of the parts to one another or to the whole.

Reflecting on midterm

In the beginning of the term I was nervous because art is my weakest subject, but now it is one of my best subjects. Even though I may not be that great I put in all the effort into my work and always have been trying my best. Especially with our sculpture project I really tried my hardest and ended up taking a plastic green circle and a circuit board and taking some other objects, and turning them into a toilet. This shows that I have become better at seeing something in something so little. Also with our line story, I took some people and some monkey and turned it into the rainforest with a conflict between poachers and the enviromentalists. Last in the middle of the term with soccer games and missing some class I fell behind slightly but I was able to use my x-block well and pulled through and got the work done.

Whats in the bag?

In your own words, describe what the goals for today's drawing were.How well did you achieve these goals? Give specific examples from your process and/or from the finished drawing. You might even describe what challenges you faced.

The goals for todays drawing were to be able to see which bags were which in the drawing, what was in the bags, and the color and reflection of each bag. I achieved these goals pretty well and almost did a pretty decent job. Some challenges I faced were the time we had to work and trying to show the lines reflecting on the bags.

The work of Ingrid Calame

Our pour paintings seem very familiar to this.
1. She's an artist that takes things in the real life and turns it into art. Just like we've been doing for the past week.
2. She makes this type of art because when she was a kid she wanted make and draw maps. Instead she makes amazing masterpieces much like maps but of the hidden things she see's in the real life.
3. This picture reminds me of hands and branches of trees mangled together, also the colors are very well mixed together and are very creative. This picture also reminds me of my pour painting because of the different shapes and spatters in it.

Reflecting on the first full week

All of these activities in some way have restictions, for example in the still life we couldn't actually draw the objects. While with the postcard activity you could only write them directions and not tell them what it is. These 2 activities were the most confusing of all the activities and caused the most frustration.

Changing still life

Today in art class we drew a changing still life with charcoal. To keep up with the changing still life you had to always be ready to erase fast and draw without thinking of the out come but of how you can keep up with the drawing. Also you had to be able to sketch the drawing very fast. Last you had to be able to see the difference of the erased drawings and the drawings that you were drawing at the time.

Found objects

What is it about objects or parts of objects that gives them the potential to become a part of a sculpture like the ones you see below. In other words how or why did the artists choose the objects they did? Use specific examples from the pictures below
They choose different objects because of what they see when they put them together into art. For example the bird thaat was made of glass or plastic. That bird was made of just random bits and the artist was able to make it into and amazing bird.

Reflecting on my first critique

On your blog describe BOTH the positive AND critical feedback you got on your story collage/drawing during the critique today. Then answer the following question...How did it feel to get feedback from your classmates today?
It felt weird because I haven't got a chance to really change my story, and the people in my group didn't really understand my picture even though it was very simple. It was basically two sides fighting against one another. People thought that my idea of the Ghandi like figure was good, yet they felt that it was to random and confusing.