Final Art Blog

I think over the course of this term I have improved my behavior significantly. I went from being loud and not caring about my work, to being very determined and focused on my work. I learned a lot of things about art, including people, shading, painting, colors, proportions, and how to develop a portfolio. One of my favorite projects was the head-line project, because I loved to display newspaper article through my work. It made me think a lot before putting it on paper and helped develop my creative skills. At the end of the term, I realized after looking at my portfolio, how amazing of an artist I could be if I was really dedicated to continuing art. Thank you for giving me a great opportunity this term. Hope to see you next year!

The Self-Portrait Project

The self portrait project I thought was going to be the very hard to accomplish, but it turned out to be very fun and least complicated. The main time consumer was thinking about what I was going to draw and do a map of. I decided to do my mouth, and many path ways coming out becuase I am a very verbal person. The four words in each corner of the picture describe what I am. I ask many question, I listen, I like to smile and I lastly like to ask comments. The map inside my mouth ( on my tongue) describes how often I use them. It also describes how crazy I say them, and are they consistent and or inconsistent. There are some thick lines meaning consistent, crazy lines meaning I do and say unknowingly and, thin lines I something do it. I loved this project and how it turned out to be!

Place Project

My place project described the places I want to go and the places I have been. The places that are in color are the places that I have been. And the place I want to go is in black and white. It is the Israel flag, and I want to go there, but I have not gone yet. I decided I wanted to do this becuase it describes who I am, what I like and what I want to do. I like to travel to many places. Some of the textures of the drawing are what the objects are in real life. I decided I want to use color pencil becuase they have the most variety to the color section.I enjoyed the idea of using colors to describe what is going on in the picture.

The Headline Project

The idea for my headline project, describes a teenage perfectly! I love the idea I did for this project and the contrast I did to describe what is happening. I think you could tell what is happening very well in this picture. There is a boy giving a girl alcohol and she says yes! Later on that night the girl feels, gross, drunk and about to pass out and she thinks to herself what the situation was like when he asked her. She wished you could have said no. At that time she excepted the alcohol it was day and by night was drunk she wish she had not drunk. I liked how I also learned how to draw people and the sizing of them. It was cool to learn how to draw people.

Candy Painting!

I painted this picture of my candy painting becuase I love the candies I choose on this. It was hard to accomplish this at first but got much easier as you taught me and time progressed. I think the most difficult part was putting the spire-mint rapper candy painted on. I thought I would hate putting the shadows on,but it turned out I actually loving doing them. However, it was my favorite part. I also enjoyed mixing the colors together and trying to make new combination's. It was fun to see what the final product would look like and to paint the background. Even tho it took me a while to finish this project, I think I liked this art piece the best!!!

Alexander DeMaria

The beautiful drawing Mr. Alexander DeMaria drew were amazing. The detail's he showed in the drawing were amazing and looked like they were real like situations. The way he described what is going on in the picture showed a lot about the feeling and emotions. The colors also took a big part of what was going on in the picture.

Drawing from observation skills

The skills I have made has progressed throughout the past 3 and a half weeks. For some of the drawings, like shading for the zoom drawing. In order to determine what the object is for the zoom drawing you need shade in order for the object to stand out and using no lines. You need to make the object stand out by using dark, light, or medium shades to figure out the textures. Another skill I learned when I did the wall still life drawing was proportion. I learned and put them to use by using my pencil and finger to figure out how small and large things are, into the actual still life. For instant if I drew a rectangular table, and a cup was sitting on the table I would need to figure out how small/large the cup is.I would figure it out by seeing how many cups could fit on the table and the exact measurements by using my pencil. The last skill I want to talk about is observation. The hole unit so far we have been creating drawings from observation. Observation drawing is very difficult for me to do because I am better at imaginary drawing. The skill to use observation drawing requires many things in order to make you drawing look realistic. For instant taking away lines, shading, value, texture, proportion and many more. Overall I think I have learned alot of the time span about proportion

Take a look at the drawings you've made so far and think about the skills it took to create them.
On your blog describe several of these skills (at least 3) and how you put them to use in your drawings.