For this project we were all given a famous artist that we had to research and paint a landscape in their style. I was given Mary Cassatt, an impressionist and chose to paint a landscape of a place I visited in Maine. How do I take risks? For this painting I had to use the style of an impressionist painter, which I had never done before. Using so many small brush strokes was different than how I'd usually paint, so it was really difficult at first. Another way I took risks was by adding a lot of color into my work. I had to add colors that weren't "typical", like purples in the water and pinks in the rocks. This was not something I've done before, so it was really interesting to see the outcome. How do I collaborate? As I was painting this, I had to ask other people for their input a lot. The people at my table gave a lot of encouraging comments on my work whenever I was frustrated, and they helped me see ways to improve the thing that was stumping me. The Art 4 students in our classroom also gave a lot of input on what they would do to make it better. This really helped me make my painting so successful. Also, my mom (who used to teach art) gave me some much needed constructive criticism when I took it home to work. All of these people and more helped me really bring my painting together. How do I reflect? I personally feel like this is one of the best things I've done in all of my art classes at AHS. I went into this with pretty low expectations, since I'd never painted anything like this before. I really love the way it turned out, and the way all of the colors in the water made it look like an impressionist painting. I feel like this could have been more like Mary Cassatt's work but it was hard to recreate her style with acrylics, since she primarily used pastels. Over all I am quite pleased with the final product, and will definitely benefit from this project later in my art making career.
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For this project we were given the task of making food out of clay. I had a few ideas, but ultimately chose to make some yummy cupcakes. It was much harder than i had anticipated, but I'm still very pleased with the result. How did I take risks with my art? One risk I took was glazing my final pieces instead of painting them with acrylic. It would have been much easier to paint them with acrylic not only because I'm familiar with this medium, but because glaze is much harder to picture the final with. The hard part about glaze was that the way it looks as you paint it on is completely different than the way it will look when it has been fired. If I'd used acrylic paint it would've been much easier to visualize the final product, but I went with glaze nonetheless. How did I create original art? I used many online sources to find inspiration for this project. I didn't have any pictures of cupcakes that I'd taken, and I was crunched for time, so I used google to find reference pictures. The compiled sources all gave me a different idea of what the cupcakes would be shaped like, and I used my own ideas to decide what they'd look like over all. I also used my own ideas when it came to glazing the cupcakes. I had an idea of what colors (or flavors, I suppose) I wanted to make my cupcakes, and I used those in my final product. I also came up with my own idea for how I wanted to present the cupcakes, in a muffin tin instead of just on a plate. How do I reflect on my art? There were multiple times during this project where I had to completely crush a cupcake and start from scratch. It can be pretty frustrating to think you have it just right, only to step back and see something totally different. Something I wish I had done differently is made the cupcakes more similar in size. They would have turned out more realistic if I'd made a set size for them instead of just eyeballing it. Even though I wasn't totally pleased with this aspect of the project, I'm still really proud of the way my cupcakes turned out. I love how cute and fun they look, and would definitely do this project again! For this next project we had to make food out of clay. I decided to make cupcakes, because they are super cute and delicious! Here I'll show you my in progress pictures as I made the clay cupcakes. |
SOME info for youAll of this is art from my second art class, which I took the first semester of my sophomore year in high school. This was the year that I realized, "Hey, maybe I'm actually sort of okay at this." After I took Art Two I had pretty much decided in my mind that I wanted to go further with art and explore my abilities. Archives
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