I find it really sad that this will be my final art blog for Art 1. I have to say, I learned so much in this class. If you had asked me what we would be doing in Art at the start of the semester I probably would have said something like "painting or drawing? Maybe sculpture?" Actually I did think I would learn a lot in Art 1, but I didn't know how much. One thing that changed a lot for me was how realistic my drawing was. I thought that I was pretty good at drawing eyes, but then I drew a real human being's eye. Wow. The difference is kind of insane. I find the differences between two eyes amazing. The one on the left is so unrealistic, strangely shaped, and the eyebrow is about half of the length of the eye. Yikes. The eye on the right kind of shocks me. I still can't believe I was able to do that! Besides the fact that it was more realistic, it also shows a growth in how I actually create artwork. I hardly ever use colored pencil before this class. I got some Prismacolors for christmas and I just HAD to draw something with them. (I mean they are Prismacolors!) I found a picture of an eye online and drew it, and it is basically my greatest achievement. In the Observe unit I had a very important lesson in perspective. I had done a perspective drawing in seventh grade art, but I had no idea what I was doing. When we were told to sit in the hall and draw what we saw I was totally and completely lost. I did my best, but the result is super embarrassing. Can we just look at the "before" picture for a minute. The walls look like they're going to fall over (the right wall looks like it already did...) and what kind of perspective is that? I feel like I am looking down on the hallway and it is making me very uncomfortable. The picture on the right is better in so many ways. Although I never finished shading, it is way more real. I feel like I am walking through a real hallway, not to mention ones with upright walls. I think that I definitely learned the most in the Artist's Observe unit, and these pictures are proof. For the Final project the theme I had to portray was beauty. My first piece was a rose, which is really "basic" as my teacher would say. The rose was also in the center of the page (basic composition), and there were strange looking tentacles with thorns all around it. Im not really sure what I was trying to portray, but for the beginning of the course it wasn't bad. My new art is a huge improvement. I wanted to have a deeper meaning than the first one I drew of "beauty." I decided to show an example of how people view beauty in today's society, and also how much words can affect a person's body image. I think that it was a much better interpretation of the theme, and it also was a much more high quality drawing. I am super proud of how it turned out. I think that my favorite unit to do was Artists Steal. I thought that it was really cool to change an idea that was already thought of and make it your own. I also learned that stealing is not a crime in the art world. I "stole" the idea of Disney princesses for my project but I changed them into my own artwork. I really enjoyed seeing how I could take two ideas or things and combine them together. My favorite piece that I made in this class was done in this unit, for the "2 to 1" project. In fact, another piece I love was done in the Artist Steal unit, with the subject steal project. I loved taking Art1. I loved seeing my art skills improve, and they improved a LOT. I also had a ton of fun in the class, whatever we did. I liked how the projects were open to our own interpretation so we could express ourselves in different ways. I also learned ways to create art that I had never tried before. One of those was the lino cut. I had seen my sister do one before, but I never did one in any of my previous classes. Art 1 gave me many opportunities to experiment with different medias of art. I honestly think that I learned a lot, and nothing could really be different. Ms. Purtee made the class so enjoyable and she taught me so much about art. I can't wait to see what the rest of high school art will bring.
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When we first got the identity project, I was totally overthinking it. I was trying to find something that really described me, but it was like I tried a little too hard. I went through my ideas, and I found one I really liked. Gender Stereotypes. I liked this idea because it is actually something I have learned a lot about in the last year. When my older sister went to college she learned all kinds of things about feminism and sexism. She comes home and talks to me about everything she learns and I find it really interesting. I decided to look on Pinterest and find some quotes that represent sexism for both men and women to put in my artwork. There were the generic "Girls like pink," or "boys can't show weakness" quotes, but there were also some really deep ones. I got a picture of me from behind in b&w (because it's super artsy!) and put the quotes all around it. It turned out really awesome if I do say so myself.
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The BEGINNING.Here it is. The deepest, darkest depths of my high school art career. This was before I had any clue what I was doing, and marks the beginning of my journey as an artist. As a fun game, feel free to look through and then go back to my most recent art. You know, to see development and all of that. Enjoy the very beginning of my art education. Archives
January 2015
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