Question #1- Which artwork was my most successful? This is just a little clipping of one of my art pieces, and I absolutely love it! I spend most of my time working on this fire hydrant. I have no idea why I even wanted to draw this fire hydrant. I just love how I sort of captured all the highlights and darker shades and blended well enough for my liking! This piece was one of my most successful in my opinion because I took my time and I really like how it came out. Question #2- Discuss one project you felt you overcame the most obstacles. This past theme! Flight. I decided to draw a hummingbird but I had to constantly blend and figure out all the colors and what colors would work better. I really had to learn how to work with acrylic paint and oil pastels and blend and how to work with them while wet. It was a lot for this little birdy. Question #3- What 2 pieces show your growth as an artist. Even though these are art pieces just a theme apart. This hummingbird is really detailed and not just scribbled on like Winnie the Pooh. Question #4- New way of teaching/ learning. I really liked how you let us branch out and draw whatever we really wanted and connect to the theme. I remember seeing last year how each art piece was the exact same and now its more different and you can really feel the feelings the artist is drawing. This new way of teaching really helped me understand what artist go through and how to connect to my drawing and want to get better. I went from cartoons to really thinking about my drawing and wanting it to look the best it can possibly be.
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Home Artists Communicate Through Their work. This past weeks art challenge was the theme: home. It was really challenging for me to think of what to draw. I finally decided to draw Winnie the Pooh, because ever since a child I've always loved him, I even have my baby blanket with him all over it. So I just drew Pooh and a vase of flowers to keep the drawing nice and light. Pooh Bear will always represent a sense of calm in my life and I tried to represent that in my drawing. Artist Reflect
This weeks theme is FLIGHT. I plan on drawing a humming bird, but on the chest part I want do the pinkish color in a mini collage like thing. I hope I get it done the way I picture it in my head! I'm pretty excited about this drawing. My original thought was to use metallic metal colored pinkish and teal for the feathers of the bird... but I don't want to go and buy those foil sheets, haha. This little bird will hopefully come out the way I picture in my head. The rest of the bird will just be drawn in pencil and colored to show all the other detail. The chest and tail collage will just be added for mixed media. Artist: Thomas Gainsborough (1775- 1831)
Painting name: Portrait of Mrs. Sarah Siddons Year is was made: 1785 Medium created in: oil on canvas Size: 126cm x 99.5cm Environment Artist Develop Art Making Skills This weeks theme for our art piece was environment. I didn't really know what I wanted to draw, but I did know I wanted to use oil pastels. When I thought of environment I thought of a fire hydrant for some odd reason, and began to stick with that object. I first started to draw the fire hydrant first, and wanted to show the high lights. One word. Blending. Haha, the colors go on the paper rather harsh, so I really had to blend. I used my finger and the white pastel to help blend to my liking. It was really neat to use the oil pastel. The color goes on so smoothly and I realized that it goes everywhere. Everywhere. I have this tendency to drag my hand when I write or draw, so the red was everywhere. Oh it was so frustrating and messy. I learned to color with my hand up, and to make sure if I wanted a certain piece to remain white to put the white pastel there. Artist Create Original Art I didn't want to just draw a fire hydrant so automatically I thought of my cat, Nathaniel. He's black and white with a red collar. I thought it was going to be so hard to draw him, because he has a lot of white on him, even in his black fur. Half way into drawing him I totally wanted to cut it off. It was so hard not really having a close up already drawn out picture of him. The whole cat is free hand drawn, some parts are really messy. However, I managed to do it and I half way like the way it came out. Artist: MAX ERNST
Painting Name: PIETA OR REVOLUTION BY NIGHT Year Made: 1923 Medium: OIL PAINT ON CANVAS Size: 1162 x 889 mm Color work. Oil Pastels This past week, we worked on using colors in our work. My favorite way of using the colors was with oil pastels! Using this technique is more understandable for me. I loved how it's easier to blend the colors better than using the other techniques. I'm not even close to being finished, but I used blue and white to show the color values. It's so much easier for me to blend and bring out the colors this way. The blue just automatically faded and became darker when I used the oil pastels. It's a really nice feeling when you finally get the picture to go the way you want it to. The white helped pull out the blue and make it softer, which I really liked. Colored pencils
This drawing is all using colored pencils. I absolutely hated it. My dad always told me that when coloring you have to color in the same direction of strokes the entire time... which I don't do. I scribble. No matter how hard I try, I always scribble and color hard. I tried really hard to make the colors blend better together, but that didn't happen. The whole "using the colors opposite the color wheel" to create shadows and depth just don't click in my head. I just see two very different colors looking ugly, haha. Man/ Machine Art Work Artist Communicate Through Their Art. Originally I had a totally different picture in my mind. I really do hate technology, with a passion. I wanted to draw a picture showing the happy natural side of an animal and then split it right down the middle and have the second half robotic themed and look evil or bad in a way... turns out that it's really hard to portray what you want through drawing. So I turned to another aspect of mine, I really like the cartoonish appeal. I drew a half boy and half robot, the outcome is really cool. It shows how we're human, but underneath the surface is a robot. Technology is slowly running into everyone's life. My drawing shows exactly how I feel, "technology overrun". I probably sound like a crazy person, but that's how I feel. The robot is smiling and waving so it seems nice and pleasant, but it's really slowly taking over the boy.. crazy. Artist Collaborate.
My freshmen year of high school I was really close with one of my friends who took art. Her name was Jessenia, we had our sign language class together and she was always drawing! She drew amazingly, she showed me how to shade in and blend pencil really well. I decided to use this new little technique with my man/machine art work. Since the drawing had to be in black and white I used my pencil for everything except the outline and "title". The shading and blending is evident in the whole drawing. I would just color over the whole part I wanted shaded and then took my finger to smear it and blend it. I'm so glad Jessenia showed me how to do this a few years ago. She really helped me, without even realizing it. ARTIST JOHANNES VERMEER
PAINTING NAME: "GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING YEAR MADE: 1665 MEDIUM CREATED IN: OIL ON CANVAS Size: 44.5cm x 39cm Vermeer had no particular portrait in mind when he made this. The background actually isn't black, it's more of a greenish tint BUT the translucent glaze over makes it blackish. Pinch-pots/ Bobble-heads & Man, Machine. Artist take risk. The second week of school Mrs. Barnett has us work with clay. To experiment more with the clay, I pinched and rubbed the clay to see the outcome of it. The clay was semi easy to mold and manipulate to what I wanted. I had no set plan in my head when I was making my "Bobble-head" pinch pot, I literally pinched and rubbed until it looked cute in my opinion. It was neat experimenting with a new technique. There were some challenges, I wanted to add on wings to my bat. To do so, I had to roll out some clay and cut out the wings individually. It was pretty easy to remember to slip and slit each item I added onto my Bobble-head bat. The wings were the trickiest part to my Bobble-head pinch pot. To improvise the with the wings while they dried, I gave them like a a seat to rest on made of a lump of clay. Artist create original art.
My bobble-head pinch pot is made entirely out of my own creativity. I really like cats, so when I began to make my pinch pot I had the image of a cat in my mind. To make my monster less basic, I decided to add wings and add fangs. ARTIST: EDGAR DEBAS
"DANCERS PINK AND GREEN I" MADE IN 1890 OIL ON CANVAS WITH DIMENSIONS OF: 32 3/8 x 29 3/4 in. (82.2 x 75.6 cm) DEBAS DREW THIS PAINTING WITH THE PERMISSION FROM HIS FRIENDS DURING A SHOW, WHILE THE DANCERS WAIT FOR THIER PROPS. THEY WAIT, EVEN THOUGH THEY MAY BE LATE, AND DEBAS CAPTURED THIS MOMENT. |