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.