Where do I even begin to talk about this piece. This is one of the best things I have ever painted, and when I began this project I had no idea that it would turn out this well. I chose to do cat eyes because of the crazy amount of detail in them, and because I love to draw eyes with a lot of detail. I quickly realized that these are the MOST detailed eyes I have ever tried to paint, and was slightly overwhelmed by it all. I also had to paint a million tiny lines, which ended up being super relaxing, but also sort of exhausting. Patience was a key factor in creating this. I learned how to look past the colors you typically see when looking at a picture, and see the purples, reds and even yellows in the parts I'd originally thought were just brown. I also was not allowed to use straight black in my painting, so I had to mix super dark purple and blue for the shadows. And don't even get me started on the eyes. I procrastinated painting them until the very end, and added so many colors into them. It's crazy to me how eyes that I thought were just blue ended up having so much green, purple and even a little bit of yellow in them. This project taught me so much about my own art, and showed me how much patience can pay off. I learned that using a medium I've always been comfortable with, acrylic, could still prove to be a challenge when you add water. I also learned that sometimes you have to build up layers just to kick them back again to get the desired affect. Overall, this project was definitely something that will help me in the long run, and I am extremely surprised at how well it turned out!
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For the Nature Vs. Mechanical project I had a hard time coming up with ideas at first. I knew that I didn't want to do something that other people have done a lot before, and randomly came up with the idea to do a jellyfish. I started out by drawing a jellyfish realistically (top) and I decided that this idea was definitely the way for me to go. When I started the final piece I was struggling to incorporate the mechanical elements into it. I decided that chains and electrical cables would make the jellies look much more mechanical, while still keeping the color scheme I wanted. I also made them all roughly the same shape and size to make them seem factory-made and mechanical in that sense too. I wish I had varied the size a little bit because it would have made a more interesting composition, but I think the monotony in the size gives a sort of eerie effect, which I really like. This project was the first real project I tried with Prismacolor pencils and I think I learned a lot about blending and color because of it. I can definitely see myself using Prismas more in the future. I'm really pleased with how this project turned out, and I think it really helped me grow as an artist. Not only did I go out of my comfort zone with medium, but I had to think more creatively about the subject matter itself.
The last project Mr. Sands gave us before he left was to use the postmodern principles of art to create a project. One of the options we had was time and progression, which really sparked my interest. I decided to take a project that I had really enjoyed from Art 1 and re-make it. It was crazy to me how much I have improved with just a little over a year of high school art experience.
Since the majority of us haven't finished our projects for this project yet, Sands told us to post a blog explaining our idea for it. I came up with a lot of different ideas for this project, but wasn't sure how to make them into a piece. Eventually I came upon the quote, "do you suppose she's a wildflower?" from Alice in Wonderland. This quote really caught my attention, and since I love Alice in Wonderland so much I thought it would be a really interesting metaphor to use in my art. I began researching different ways to use flowers in portraits, and found some really beautiful, inspirational pieces. I also decided to use watercolors and india ink, since I recently got some really nice watercolors and pens. All though I only have a sketch of what I want to do right now, I'm really excited to see how this project turns out!
For this project we were given a sheet of paper with information about an unknown person's likes, dislikes, strengths, and weaknesses. I had zero clue what to do for a good 5 days before I started this painting. I mostly brainstormed and sketched, but nothing I came up with was something I felt like I'd be proud of. I went back to the original sheet and wrote down a bunch of adjectives that came to mind when I read the person's interests. They struck me as someone very kind, happy, confident, and approachable. I tried to portray this in my artwork. The person also had a lot of interests that struck me as very colorful and vibrant, such as art, music, culture and imagination. This all gave me an idea to paint a stylized portrait of a woman who was colorful, happy and confident. I am definitely more pleased with this piece than I would've been with a collage, which was my first idea. It was really nice to paint something more freeform and abstract, instead of something realistic.
For this project, everything was left for us (the students) to choose. We had to choose the medium, technique, and subject of whatever we wanted to do. I decided to do a portrait, since I'd never really tried to draw faces before. Since this was my first real attempt at a portrait I stuck with graphite, a medium I was already familiar with. I also chose to do a picture of myself when I was a toddler to make it more personal. I think that for the first portrait I've seriously attempted, it turned out pretty well. It was really challenging to get all the different values to work, since the reference photo I used was pretty high contrast. The hair itself took me at least two class periods to get how I wanted it. I ended up altering some aspects of the reference picture to make the drawing look better, but it still ended up looking pretty close to the real photo. Overall, I'm really pleased with how it turned out, but I don't plan to draw another portrait for a while.
This activity given to us by Mr. Sands was to help us become more familiar with the variety of materials we can use to make art. Turns out we have more options than just pencils and paint! 5 non paint materials that can be used to create art:
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A Lil InfoThis is all of my art from Art Three, which I took second semester of my second year of high school. In this class I had the most laid back art teacher I've ever had before, and I really took that opportunity to explore different styles, subjects, and mediums. When my teacher moved mid-semester and we got a substitute who has been through art school and worked as an illustrator, it was a really awesome learning experience, and I found myself growing as an artist even more. Archives
May 2016
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