Through out art 2 this semester I've grown as an artist. My painting technique and brush strokes after replicating Van Gogh's work I think bettered how I paint. Van Gogh has small layering brush stokes and I've never painted like that before, but as you can see it's something I can improve on. In the last two pictures I have my prepective Lego color pencil drawing and my multi-media JFK collage. I compare these two in idea and process not in medium. The Lego drawing was a simple idea to just draw numerous Legos but it didn't test me as an artist. The piece is very straight forward there aren't any questions about it. In the mixed media JFK piece I didn't have the slightest clue what was going to be the end production. The idea started off as a roller coaster then newspaper and JFK. I rolled with the punches and layered my piece together. Even though there may not be a setting the piece makes you question what is going on. I like making people question my work which is how I've grown through out this semester in art 2.
My least successful project is my first one. It isn't my least successful project because it's my first one but because it's drawing and that's my weakness. But the perspective is not too bad so it's an overall eh in my opinion. My ideas are good, it's just hard to create them on paper. This is suppose to be train tracks going into a tunnel and on the sides is buildings and very unfortunate trees without tops. I ended up just shading in blank areas and people commented more on the quicky shaded sunrise then what I really wanted them to focus on. Mrs. Rossi told me that my focal point shouldn't be in the middle and that it should of been smaller because it was further back. If I could change this piece I wouldn't, because that's what I learned from creating this, but for next time I will apply those points in my perspective.
My favorite medium is chalk. When we use chalk I feel like I'm 5 years old in front of my house. It's so fun to draw with, because it has to be big to show the details, plus it's messy. Another thing I like about chalk it that it dulls out after blending it too much which in some cases can be good because I can always go back over and add some more color. We drew peppermints with chalk on black paper. I didn't exactly draw the ends of the wrappers (they got dulled out) but I did use the white chalk to add the wrapper effect on the peppermint. I want to use chalk more in my artwork, maybe do a big piece on the side of a building or something like that.
These mini lessons helped me the most I think. I really liked the drawing unit that we did even though I wasn't very good. My drawing did get better with the contour drawings and perspective drawings. I learned that you can't have too much value, and value is what makes the piece look real. I think I do need more instruction for success depending on what it is. Like I feel like my clay work is better than my painting and drawing (nevermind the apple I tried to sculpt). No one really taught me how but I feel stronger with clay than other mediums. Yes, I feel more instruction leads to more success because there are techniques that the students aren't yet aware of until a teacher brings them up and tells us the vocabulary behind what we're doing. I think I was given enough instruction to success but I just needed to practice more because that's what makes perfection.
My most successful project was my clay apple pie. The theme of this project was food and each individual table had a different meal, our table had dessert. I was happy we got dessert because I really wanted to do pie. We made these around Thanksgiving so holiday food was a no brainer. My process was kind of long, I cut all apple pieces to go inside the pie and the had to put them together which wasn't very hard. Also I weaved the "crust" on top of the pie for a more realistic effect. In my opinion the hardest part of this project was trusting it would come out good with the glaze, because some of the glaze colors we kind of old and had chunks in them. I think because glaze is just glass that the chunks melted in the kiln; plus I added value with darker colors. This is also my favorite project because it taught me to trust my materials and take a leap which is sometimes needed to create something great.
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