tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14767987082332323882024-03-12T20:17:43.235-07:00Linesspacerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680039083872812785noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476798708233232388.post-69414548278162189212017-05-23T15:07:00.002-07:002017-05-23T15:07:31.295-07:00Slideshow<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n0ND3gX0jqagB7vnY-02I8987S6YqVRis72msMpYaBc/edit#slide=id.gc6f59039d_0_20" target="_blank">This</a> is my slideshow that puts together all of my breadth and my portfolio as an example of work produced by an AP Student.<br />
<br />spacerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680039083872812785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476798708233232388.post-82942700526245616162017-05-10T05:37:00.003-07:002017-05-10T05:37:41.854-07:00Concentration: The Wheel of Fortune <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I just wanted to show Adrian how I forgot his pupils</td></tr>
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<br /><span style="text-align: center;">Adrian chose this card because he feels like his life depends on the fortune of the winds. Either things are going well for him, or things aren't good at all. The changeable nature of his life led him to chose The Wheel of Fortune to represent him. As you can see here, I sort of ran out of time to give him a proper oil portrait like he deserved, so I played around with white charcoal! Which is always fun, and I don't do it nearly as much as I should. The wheel behind him is a symbol found on the white tarot, I think, and the letters are "TARO" which, if read in a continuous circle, spell out "Tarot." </span><div>
I didn't only use white charcoal, though, I also used black charcoal to darken up some areas! And add shading to his face and his jacket, as well as attempting to give him some pupils. I think I did a good job with this one. My biggest problem with white charcoal is that I forget that I'm supposed to be coloring in the lights, and letting the paper speak for the darks, but I think that I avoided that pretty neatly here. Adding in the charcoal later certainly helped with that. </div>
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I also like how the wheel ws shaded. There could have been a bigger contrast, with the brights of Adrian's face being placed against the dark of the wheel, but I think that it would have looked inconsistent. And it's so nice to wrap up my series with a well-proportioned hand! It truly feels like we've come full circle (pun).</div>
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Again, I think that this picture shows growth in my ability. And hopefully I'll only continue to grow in the future! </div>
spacerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680039083872812785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476798708233232388.post-38354501685195603932017-05-10T05:27:00.001-07:002017-05-10T05:27:40.787-07:00Concentration: The Hanged ManI have always wanted people to see the world as I see it. That is what I attempt to do through art and writing. The Hanged Man wants to do the same. In a traditional tarot card, he is hanging by his foot, upside down, so he can gain a new perspective. For this card, I drew myself in a mirror, looking back at myself. This is how I see. There are no symbols or addendums in this card beyond that. <br />
I waited three months to do this card. Three months of absolutely no charcoal whatsoever. It was very, very difficult. And I think it's definitely one of the best, not only because it's charcoal, but because it combines all of my strengths--partial faces, backgrounds that seem really busy and concrete but are just a bunch of lines, confusing fabric shapes. <br />
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So, there it is. The same things as always, when talking about charcoal. I love the values I'm able to produce with it, and I really like the depth the mirror adds. The hair was a little difficult, and I don't think I pulled off my leg as well as I could have, but in general, it's a pretty great piece. There's not a lot I can say to the struggles of making this, because it was relatively small and took me two class periods. And I don't think that you can say that I incorporated techniques from other mediums here, because my skill with charcoal is the basis for my entire art skill. spacerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680039083872812785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476798708233232388.post-82448721191387760522017-05-10T05:20:00.000-07:002017-05-10T05:20:12.256-07:00Concentration: The World The World card symbolizes integrity and accomplishment. It is the end of the cycle, the twenty first card in the deck, and is a completion of sorts. The woman I portray in this card is Ty, who has a lot of life full of great things ahead of her, and is not finished in any sense of the world, has achieved great things. She is extraordinarily brave and is a very honest person. She chose this card for herself, and I am happy that she did so.<br />
I rushed this piece, and I think that is why it is such poor quality. Mostly, I am upset over my choice of paper, which was teal, and so every yellow that I put down turned green. I spent so much time on that when I should have been spending time on my figure, but I didn't feel like I could change my paper because I had already invested so much time into it, and I had 2 weeks until everything needed to be in and three pieces to go. Basically, it was a bad feedback loop that kept getting worse.<br />
I really messed up on her skin tone, and her face. Because the paper was so small, I didn't have enough room to work with, and her face doesn't really look like Ty. The skin color looks a little better in real life, but I wish it was smoother and better shaded. <br />
The things I wish I could change about this picture would be, I wish I had taken more time and used a different, bigger piece of paper. <br />
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spacerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680039083872812785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476798708233232388.post-45004313289524423762017-05-10T05:10:00.004-07:002017-05-10T05:10:50.065-07:00Concentration: The Hierophant This card would have been better if I'd been able to do it reversed. The Hierophant, placed normally, speaks to someone who operated within the bounds of society, while reversed it means someone who is struggling against society. The person in this card has a very strong opinion on the ills of society, and how they can be changed. He is endeavoring to change society, without stepping outside of its bounds, almost like a covert agent. The crown of oak leaves he has symbolizes wisdom, or, at the very least, knowledge.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">So, as you can see here, this picture represents the tragic story of me drawing it right, and then just hardly messing it up so, so badly. I mean, maybe drawing it right isn't even right, because look at his neck. I know he has a long neck, but it's not that long. Also, I messed up pretty badly on his smile, just because I'm not that good with smiles. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">I mean, the painting didn't come out horribly. The Empress was a whole lot worse, so I feel like this shows how I grew over my use of different mediums, again. And I'm really proud of the trees and the clouds in the background. Like, they are just beautiful. Amazing, if I do say so myself. And I think that going back in and fixing his face did change things a little. It made him look less awful. Also, there's a consistency of skin tone, which my last acrylic didn't have, and the shading isn't that bad. It's a little more advanced. </span></div>
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This is not the worst piece I've ever done. Is it the best? Highly debatable. But again, and think that it shows growth, which I can be proud of. Even if I did make my friend look like a giraffe. </div>
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spacerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680039083872812785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476798708233232388.post-30532910044476832402017-05-10T05:00:00.000-07:002017-05-10T05:00:15.500-07:00Concentration: The High PriestessMy friend Alice, pictured here, has, out of all of my friends, the strongest connection to tarot cards herself. The High Priestess is also another card that is associated with strong femininity and the power that is associated with that, and that was why I chose this card for her. The symbol behind her head is one that is very common in pagan religions, that of the maiden-mother-crone, or the cycle of life as it relates to the moon.<br />
Another interesting feature of this card is that it features black and white "pillars" which are also commonly featured in The High Priestess card. Although in Alice's case it's the white of a wall and the black of the doorway, the background mimics the traditional set up for the card.<br />
I chose to do Alice in pastel for the same reason that I chose to do Aiyana in chalk pastel--the colors of chalk pastel are strong, but I feel that the medium itself is unbound. The lines can be softer and more organic, while the colors are still impactful.<br />
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Okay, so, for some reason it's not letting me put a caption on the final image, but the final image is here. I forgot to take pictures while working on this piece because I finished it really quickly. It's a pretty tiny piece. But, as you can see here, I took some of the things that I learned from prisma colors as well as the watercolors and used it here. I used red and orange under the skin first, before putting the pastel skin color over top. And Alice's shirt has multiple different colors, such as purple and neon green, though in the picture it is only brown. I feel like this piece is a strong example of how my techniques have been building on each other.<br />
Another thing I really like about this piece is her facial expression. It doesn't look exactly like it does in the photo she sent me, but I think that her facial expression captures a lot of expression as well as looking like a plausible face. Which is a really big jump for me.<br />
This is one of my favorite pieces overall, because of those qualities. It shows a lot of growth, and maybe not mastery, but growth is all that I aim for. And Alice likes it too, which is always really gratifying!<br />
spacerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680039083872812785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476798708233232388.post-30704102072971961462017-05-09T05:50:00.005-07:002017-05-09T05:50:46.586-07:00Concentration: The Lovers <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The Lovers symbolizes not only relationships, but dedication. Though the two pictured here are in a relationship, the card is at most about their dedication to one and other, as well as the things around them. The ivy that binds them together is also symbolic of that.<br />
This is, I think, the best watercolor piece that I've done all year. As I went through my concentration, I really wanted my work with all mediums to help me improve in all areas, and I think moving directly to a watercolor piece after oil and acrylic really helped with that. I used the paint as less like watercolor and more like oil, which gave it more vibrant colors. Also, I wasn't afraid to layer, which added nuance to other colors. As usual, I could have sketched it out a bit better, but overall I'm pretty pleased with this piece. In the first sketch, actually Merryn looked a bit like a serial killer, and that's why I took a picture of it. I honestly don't think this piece looks anything like its subjects, but I don't think it looks horrible in general. So.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Day 2: Looking a bit better!</td></tr>
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As you can see, I am much more comfortable with watercolor here, than I was even while doing the Star. There is no splotchy removal of me trying to pull water color off the paper, and though that did happen, you can't tell that it happened. I didn't rub someone's arm off. There is texture in their hair, and shading in their clothes that doesn't look absolutely horrific. I'm not going to lie, I don't know what's going on with Sasha's arm there, but I guess. I take what I can get. Wow that looks super bad now. Okay, well, let's not focus on that. </div>
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I think that my shading and highlights worked really well here, as did my choice of color. My technique definitely improved, though it still has the same qualities of some of my earlier watercolors. I am very proud of this piece, overall. </div>
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This is a painting of my brother, who does not want me to divulge information about him ever, so I will only say that the Emperor is a card of strength. It is associated with the number four, which is considered one of the stablest numbers in numerology, and is also associated with the earth, which is the stablest element. I have never known my brother to compromise on anything, and his unyielding sense of morality is one of his strongest qualities. A bit like Ron Swanson!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A draft sketch of the shadows that I really liked!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sketching it out on the canvas. Note the nose.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I fixed the nose! And added shading areas.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beginning the fabric, which is always my favorite part.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bricks will keep changing, I kept<br />painting over them. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The wall hanging on the left really annoys me. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bleachers were also difficult. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I know the color of his skin looks weird in the pictures,<br />but it looks better in real life I promise!</td></tr>
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I would like everyone to know that I regret my decision to stay on blogger and not switch to weebly when I had the chance. It's just not letting me move the pictures! That's why this looks so horrible, okay, I promise I'm an artist. Sort of. </div>
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But more about this painting! It is fun to make, and I like it. Also, the oil staying wet longer has allowed me to go back and fix the little things, and honestly I feel like I have paid so much more attention to this painting than I have paid attention to my art in a long time. And I know it's been taking forever and we only have a few more weeks to do everything, but I get a lot of satisfaction from knowing that I have done this painting as well as I could. </div>
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I didn't use any liquin either! The last oil painting I did, I doused everything in liquin, but I didn't use any this time, and the paint went on so smoothly. I love the way everything blends together, and how you can still see some of the brush strokes. It makes the painting look so concrete and abstract at the same time. </div>
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I will be posting the final painting as soon as I finish it, which will be some time next week, and I am excited to show you my next series of six! Hopefully my improvements will be evident as I go through each medium again. </div>
spacerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680039083872812785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476798708233232388.post-59966872049713636432017-02-28T05:43:00.002-08:002017-02-28T05:43:05.759-08:00Concentration: The Moon The moon card is a symbol of creativity and intuition, as well as an uncertain or vaguely identified future. Dave chose this card for himself, and those were the qualities he mentioned when I asked why he chose this card. He also said that this card corresponded with his birthday, So, I guess, that was why he got the moon.<br />
Though the symbolic aspect of this card might not be up to par with the others: Charcoal!!! The light of my life, the beauty of my soul. I started this twenty minutes before class ended on Wednesday and finished it halfway through class on Monday. I know that I should not be proud of my speed, but it was really refreshing to not do a piece where I got all caught up in the specifics and was able to just draw. Also it came out 1/4s decent, so I'm pretty happy.<br />
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The linework is represented here. Um, He chose an odd picture to send me. He's making a face while looking down into the camera, which is held out at arm's length, but the face he's making looks sort of like his normal face. That is to say, I had some trouble with the facial proportions and his arm. Also, Randy, the cat. I should not be allowed to draw animals. <br />
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I think the fabric came out okay. And, props to me, I think the moon was a fantastic idea, and I think I did it very well. I tried to match the craters and stuff up to the actual moon, but I don't think I did it that well. Also, I redid his eyes several times, but I don't think I ever got them just how they should be. He was widening them, and his head was also titled, so it was difficult to accurately draw his face. Honestly, the only thing that I feel went wrong here was my initial drawing, because my charcoal technique is amazing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I thought this was going to be the final<br />but it wasn't that great<br /> </td></tr>
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Overall, I am happy with house this turned out. Yes, I could have done better, probably, and no, this doesn't really look like the picture I was given, but I think that it is a good addition to my concentration, and it looks pretty much how I imagined it would look when I began. </div>
spacerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680039083872812785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476798708233232388.post-27091905317478913782017-02-20T04:54:00.001-08:002017-02-20T04:54:05.577-08:00Concentration: The Fool The Fool, or card 0 in the deck, is seen as an optimist who wears their heart on their sleeve and ventures fearlessly into the unknown. Often pictured with a bindle over their shoulder and white dog at their heels, the card is seen as a sign of blithe innocence and freedom.The person whom I've chosen to represent this card is one of my oldest friends, Ryan, who remains upbeat, even annoyingly so, when I find it difficult to do so.<br />
There is a reason behind each medium that I choose, and for Ryan I chose prismas because I feel that the medium is immutable, and it takes a lot of effort to create something from prismas that is worth any attention. Both of those descriptors, I feel, could be applied to my friendship with Ryan. Although, prismas remain my worst artistic enemy. I thought I had it down with the mice, but honestly, I should just stay away from faces.<br />
That's what Ryan said: "Maybe stay away from faces, dearie."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the final days</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close up of the face before I put other shading in</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The face before I erased it the first time</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Day 1, photo 1: I was so hopeful </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beginning the face for the first time</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I had high hopes still, on day 2</td></tr>
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Honestly, I don't think the final was as bad as it could have been. Did I make some poor artistic choices? Yes, but who would I be if I didn't? The picture was taken in the gym lobby, and that's why I made the walls yellow. I wish they weren't so yellow, but the color lends a more "prisma" feel to the entire pieces. Like, it meets my expectations of what I think a prismacolor piece should look like.<br />
I think my most daunting obstacle is my lack of talent as an artist. Because I truly dedicate myself to my work, and I try to make my artwork beautiful. But my vision exceeds the my capacity to express it. I hope I don't wind up insulting someone by drawing their face poorly. Everybody I know deserves way more than that. <br />
Speaking in terms of the work, though, I think that this was one of the best prisma color things I have ever done my life. Not only is it relatively large, I believe I managed to keep a consistency of quality across the entire work, technique wise. I wish, of course, that I had done better with color, especially his skin color, and better with the shape of his face. To me, this picture just doesn't look like my friend. I know that the AP graders are unaware of what my friends look like, but I am personally disappointed in myself. <br />
His knee, shirt, and jacket, though. I am proud of those.<br />
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<br />spacerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680039083872812785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476798708233232388.post-60962772275828410672017-02-18T07:51:00.002-08:002017-02-18T07:51:57.057-08:00Concentration: The EmpressThe Empress is card number 4 in the Major Arcana deck, and it symbolizes dual aspects of femininity, strength and beauty. Emma Grace, who I chose to be the subject of this portrait, exemplifies both of these qualities. Not only is she one of the most gracious and beautiful people I know, both personality wise and physically, she is strong in a way that I one day hope to be.<br />
Sadly, I feel that I could not capture this with my piece. It is acrylic paint on illustration board, and the photo was one she took of herself. The odd angle in the photo, and my difficulties with the colors in this piece were really a detriment to the overall effect. People who have seen the piece told me they liked the simplified look, but I am disappointed that I could not capture the intricacies I could see in the photo. <br />
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One of my biggest difficulties with this piece was mixing the paint, especially the skin tone. Every time I wanted to touch up a shadow or add a highlight, I had to completely mix new color of paint because I found that it wasn't matched the to tone that I had put down before it. <br />
Another difficulty was in finding the shadows themselves. The photo was taken in soft focus, and I found myself having to guess where the shadows would be if the light hadn't been so completely evened out. Most of that happened under her chin and across her chest. <br />
I also had a lot of difficulty with the shape of her face, just because of how it's positioned? Also, her make up in the photo made her eyes seem bigger, and I kept drawing them twice as large as they should have been. I think my drawing was the best part of this piece, though, and am sort of disappointed that I painted over it.<br />
I do like the roses, though, and her eyes. Those were two pieces of the painting that I felt were particularly strong. I am glad that I got this chance to work with acrylics, and hopefully next time I do so I will be able to improve even further. spacerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680039083872812785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476798708233232388.post-46378692713352997302017-01-17T14:50:00.003-08:002017-01-17T14:50:45.130-08:00Concentration: The Sun <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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For my second concentration piece, I focused on my long-time friend Aiyana, whom I've known since I was in third grade. In all that time. Aiyana has been one of the nicest people in my life, and she has always been there for me. Whenever I am feeling doubtful about myself, she is there, an unyielding pillar of hope and change that inspires me to be a better person. As the sun card, in tarot, is a symbol of optimism and the promise of a better dawn, so Aiyana is a constant reminder of all of the joy of life. <br />
Speaking more to the mechanics of the piece, I am not happy with how this turned out. Looking at it now, I'm going to have to add more hair to her forehead to make anything proportionate at all, and the hand itself still really angers me. Before I put the background in, everything was looking alright, but the moment I put it in, her hand and arm seemed much too small in proportion to the rest of her face. Hopefully I will be able to fix that. <br />
Also, I sort of tried to do something with the colors? Like, the top is supposed to be yellow, her shirt is supposed to be predominantly blue, and the background is green. I don't know, I thought that it would be an interesting composition? But, upon reflection, I see that it doesn't work out so well. <br />
I think the gradient in the sun works out very well. I wasn't going to do it, but I think that it was a good decision. Also, I had a lot of trouble with the skin, and I'm proud of how well that turned out. I used a pale peach color as the intermediate color, and then used white and pink for highlights as well as orange a light brown for the shading. I was really proud of that innovation, because the orange definitely made her skin more vibrant. <br />
I don't really have anything else to add to this dissertation at the present moment. Other than the fact that I will be changing her hairline as soon as possible. And also possibly doing some more shading on the arms and on the hand. Also, over the right eye. <br />
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Anyways, I decided to do this picture in pen and watercolor, because I had a lot of fun doing that with the interior spaces. I used watercolor pencils where I could, though, because I really enjoyed doing the mixed-media map/nature vs. mechanical fruits with those. <br />
Another reason that I chose watercolors is that I feel the gentler colors of the medium are more in sync with Allie's personality. I almost wish that I'd made the background darker to make her stand out more. Also, I added a crown of stars to her head, to emphasize the point of the painting. Originally, I was going to make the crown of stars by using a wax stop in the shape of the stars, in the same position that they're at right now, but since I put the wax on first it got really dirty. Because it wasn't standing out as well as I had wanted it to, I scraped it off with my fingernail and painted the glitter on with modge-podge.<br />
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I think that my pencil drawing in the beginning was much better than what I was left with, but I believe that the final product has its own sort of charm to it? It was really difficult to make skin color, and I messed up on her right arm. I know you can't tell, but the paper is all peeling off. It pretty much blends into the rest of the picture, but.<br />
I was asked to write more about why I created this piece as I did, and all I can honestly say to that is that it felt right. The colors of all Star cards that I've previously seen are softer, and the medium of water color also felt appropriate. I feel like it added a texture to the painting that otherwise would have just been a girl standing in her kitchen. I don't have a better answer to why than these. I wanted to paint Allie in a way that was eye catching, as a star is, but not harsh or shocking to look at, because stars are quietly beautiful and don't draw attention to themselves. Hopefully, I communicated all of that in this piece. <br />
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I know the background is a bit rough. I didn't get the perspective right initially, and I kept making snap decisions with the guache, which I used for the background. The crown of stars around her head represent the ideas of the card itself, though I plan on making the distinction more clear in further pieces. </div>
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Overall, I like the piece a lot. I know it has its faults, but I also feel that some of the faults fall into the acceptable category for watercolor and my style. </div>
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So, I drew out my apple and my banana--they're water color pencil--and then I drew the cogs and gears in pen, and then I painted them with water. They came out looking fantastic, and I was really proud of myself, so I started on the marbled granite of my counter using oil pastels. Honestly, it looked terrible, and I was really disappointed. </div>
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So, I did what any normal person would do and I cut the pieces of fruit out individually. As you can see here. Now that I had the individual fruits, though, I needed a background to put them on. I had already planned on doing the map project after I was finished with this one, so I decided that I would just combine the ideas. <br />
I had a better plan for the map project than the nature vs. mechanical project, so I continued on with that theme, which was road trip. I know that that was a pretty stereotypical idea for a map, but I was going to do a monster road trip. So, I sort of incorporated that into this piece. <br />
The map that I chose was of Manhattan and the surrounding boroughs. Ms. Rossi said that she liked the little newspaper and pen monsters I'd put in the water, so I decided to really amp it up and make the piece about monsters attacking New York City? And this was just someone's plan to get out. So, I drew escape routes directly onto the map, wrote a list of things that you would need to do if you were escaping the city, and sponged holes into the paper itself, and glued monsters coming out of it. On top of all that, I added my banana and my apple because I thought that they fit the idea well. Sort of a steampunk atmosphere and also the color scheme went well together.<br />
Whenever I make collages, I'm thinking of creating more of a story that I do when I'm making another sort of art. The combination of different objects from different locations lends itself more to storytelling for me. So, the idea behind this is that someone is quickly leaving their home, and they have fruits that are lying on top of their map. Fruits and a bunch of other stuff that they'll need, as well as representations of their future and what's going on around them. So the piece is a still life of a moment in time. It's not a very cohesive idea, I know, but I love it a lot. <br />
The note in the middle of the page was one that I found in the book of maps, and it's handwritten by my uncle. It's directions to somewhere, so that is the coolest piece of this collage.<br />
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I don't know if you can tell, but there's a monster crawling out of the map by the banana, and then there are a bunch of cut out letters that say 'avoid water' like a ransom note in the middle. The picture on the bottom is of my mom's car with a bunch of luggage on top booking it down the highway. And the gears in the top left and bottom right corners are yellow, to keep the banana from standing out so much. I definitely could put more stuff on top of all this, but I don't want to obscure any of these details, because I'm so attached to them (that's a problem I have with collages, I think), and I wouldn't know what else to put. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First rough draft </td></tr>
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In my defense, this piece of paper is like, two feet by a 18 inches. Which is a tremendous amount of space to work with. Also, I didn't really know what I was doing with foliage, as is probably obvious.<br />
The media for this is white and black charcoal with chalk pastel pencils on brown colored paper, in case you were wondering.<br />
What I wanted was for the brown of the paper to be the middle tone, and for the white charcoal to demarcate highlights. Of course, the color range was eventually expanded because the amount of depth I would be able to get out of those to components was questionable, so two different shades of brown and black were added, as was gray. <br />
I think I made two big mistakes. The first being the black in the foliage. It's much too overpowering, and really detracts from the entire scene. Possibly, I should have left out black all together. Secondly, I forgot that there were actual places where you could see the sky, and so had to color those the lightest possible color, white, which really threw the highlights of the trees out of whack.<br />
To top it all off, using the paper as a medium value left a lot of blank spaces on the paper, without any real depth. I'm going to have to revisit this piece and figure out how to make it more cohesive and how to give it more depth before submitting my final.spacerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680039083872812785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476798708233232388.post-90820037293033699242016-11-28T14:58:00.001-08:002016-11-28T14:58:15.748-08:00Animal Portrait <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Original sketch</td></tr>
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For my animal portrait, I decided to draw my three pet mice. The white one is named Cassie, the black one that she's sitting on is Sammy, and the brown one who eats too much is Dean. I used prisma colors in this piece, obviously, even after swearing that I would never so much as look at prisma colors ever again for the rest of my life. And it was actually a lot of fun. I used some layering techniques that I had never considered before, which are especially prominent in Cas's fur. I also layered a lot on the wheel and its shading. <div>
I think this project was successful for me because I paid attention to my technique, and it was large and complex enough to hold my interest for a long amount of time. I think five days? There are some things that I don't like about it, but overall, I think it turned out really well and is most definitely one of my better pieces this semester. </div>
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I appreciate the warm undertones that the red paper gave my mice, but they are not under a red light? I just really like the color red for prisma colors. So, since changing the technique that gives a lot of this piece its individualism, I would change the paper in the background to a brown or orange. Yellow might not have gone so well with the blue. I would also have liked to look at Dean's proportions a little more; I don't know what I can do now, but she still looks a little cartoonish to me. Of course, I might want to make not to use more unrealistic colors all over the picture in the future, so I don't have just one section that stands out as really miscolored, but I don't think the effect is too terrible here. </div>
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I really appreciated working on this drawing, and it had given me new understanding of prisma colors. Though there were things that I would change, this picture definitely has its strengths. I will post the final soon.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Final, day 2</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Final, day 1</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Final, day 2.2</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Final, day 3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Final, day 3.2</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close and personal with Final, day 4</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Final, day please let this stop</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Final, almost done! </td></tr>
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spacerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680039083872812785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476798708233232388.post-44013136700257566472016-10-25T17:41:00.001-07:002016-10-25T17:41:29.968-07:00Self Portrait So, I forgot to take in progress pictures for this, which is really bad of me, I know. In my defense, though, I drew this really quickly so taking day 1, day 2 photos wouldn't have really mattered. <br />
I know people look at this and think of "A Bad Case of the Stripes," but I really didn't mean to copy that idea. This project was introduced on the day that I was sick, and I came in the next morning and came up with this idea and the reference photo in time for inspection. <br />
Directly below, you can see my planning piece for this portrait. Um. I don't know what happened, I really don't. I thought it was a good picture when I first drew it, and as you can tell I played with the ideas of having different colored stripes throughout my face instead of just one solid color each time. I also had the idea of not doing just random colors for each stripe, but a rainbow gradient down my face. <br />
I really have no idea how I can copy the same pictures twice and end up with such drastically different results each time. Anyways. I really like the brown stripe under the nose in this one, it looks good enough to be part of the final. <br />
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I do appreciate the effect the orange had overall, though? Sometimes I look at it and I feel like it's Halloween, which it is, but not Halloween in a good way. Or, like, an old timey prison jumpsuit, but with orange instead of white? Overall, though, I like the orange. I like the way that I've blended it with red and purple and yellow. It makes me really confident about using prismas again. <br />
I wish I had used a little more expression in the face and given myself more of a challenge, but that's what my concentration's for, right? I like my shading and composition, and how I used color. I really like the fade out in the background, with the intensity of color fading out into the light blue, which is sort of the reverse of what's happening into the face. I think that the texture in the hair really makes the picture that much better. And I am so happy that I redid the eyes over again, because they look really great.<br />
If I could change anything, I would make everything just a bit smoother. The shading, specifically. Again, I would change the expression of the face to give the drawing more complexity. I also don't know that it looks like me? But I always make my face longer when I'm trying to fill up a page, so that's nothing new. I would darken some shadows now that I'm staring at it, and would probably go back in with the lights if I had a chance, but I really like this piece and am glad that I had the chance to create it.<br />
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Ms. Sudkamp told me that it's been really nice seeing how my art has matured since art 1, and I agree. It's really refreshing to be able to look at this compared to, like:</div>
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It makes me really proud of what I have been able to accomplish so far, even if it isn't all that spectacular in the grand scheme of things. </div>
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spacerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680039083872812785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476798708233232388.post-30334549168912440632016-10-17T13:28:00.001-07:002016-10-17T13:28:28.974-07:00Interior Space <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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This piece was also really enjoyable for me to work on. I wasn't fighting the medium, or struggling to express my ideas. The composition was enjoyable for me to work with, and I feel like the colors all worked together. <br />
It was really fun to paint with water colors and gouache. Though the paint I had was actually gouache, I sort of used it as water color for a different texture. I thought that gave it a certain feel that just doing one or the other wouldn't have. Outlining in pen also added an element that just color wouldn't have. I think Morgan was right in saying that it looked whimsical. <br />
I know that we're in Art 4 to make serious art that will eventually be judged by college professionals, but I think at this point in the semester I have to realize that I am not artistically on par with the rest of the class in a lot of mediums. I enjoy making art very much, but I never plan on it becoming my livelihood, or utilizing my skills beyond enjoyment. Obviously, I would love to improve. But overall, I think that I would like to like making art more. These past two pieces have been very frustrating to me, and I haven't liked the process of making them at all. <br />
This project, though, made me remember why I love making art. The simplicity of the colors and the shapes, and how they all came together in the end, was fun. And I know that it doesn't look a lot like the reference picture, and that factually it is a very poor representation of my interior space, but I think that stylistically it is an accomplishment. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was my initial trial run, and as you can see,<br />I did this without a reference picture.<br />I've made notes on how to improve it on the picture itself.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is my final project. I really like it, and I think the<br />posters in the back provide an interesting contrast,<br />because they aren't super detailed, but<br />they are very colorful. </td></tr>
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<br />spacerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680039083872812785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476798708233232388.post-53668318326004377822016-10-16T15:18:00.001-07:002016-10-16T15:18:07.945-07:00Inktober This is a bit late, but here's my inktober monster! <br />
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This is my fellow. As you can see, he is walking by the milliner's, and he is upset because he does not have a hat. I think this turned out really well, especially the shadows. Eventually, the top will get smoother because it will be touches a lot and worn down, and that's the only real problem I have with the piece. Also, I wish the windows were a little different. I tried to use some white charcoal to indicate the difference, but I don't know how well it turned out. </div>
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I love working with charcoal. The contrast with ink in this was very interesting, I think. For a small sketch the piece was a lot of fun to work on, and hopefully I can do something like this again soon. </div>
spacerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680039083872812785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476798708233232388.post-8875493118523670742016-10-04T14:42:00.001-07:002016-10-17T13:29:46.789-07:00Oil: Everyday ObjectThis project, man. We were supposed to choose a bunch of everyday objects and paint them with oils. Again, I wasn't super enthused with my idea, and I didn't dive into it with elbow grease and all that. I didn't feel that soul-rending passion that I enjoy from the beginning of a project. But, I did it. I'm not finished, I'm going to go back and touch some things up and add some shadows and also some copper design or whatever behind so that it will match the mermaid. I have a plan.<br />
I really hate presenting my painting to the classroom? Because everyone else has these masterful works, and then there's me, and it's amateur hour. Get ready to suffer, Emma! I touched my oils when they were wet because I was painting on the floor between the dining room and the front hall. And because I'm impatient and always have paint all over my hands. So I have to go over and do that. Also, I was painting with minimal light so the colors look all wrong and just--ugh. I dislike it very much.<br />
I mean, I like the basis of the painting. I think I have a solid foundation, and was even able to pull some of that off. I really like Charley, the skull. Mercifin, the dragon, and the mermaid, are a little more abstract, but that's because I didn't have the control I needed to make them more realistic. I didn't like how little I could manipulate the oils. Also, I painted shadows where there shouldn't have been shadows between the books, and it was hard to rectify my mistakes. The whole time I was painting this I felt like I was swimming and just barely keeping my head above water.<br />
I should have done a grouping of objects that appealed to me more, or at least something with a set background that I wasn't making up as I went along. Or, not used blue as my shadows. That's something I learned in drawing, but I really dislike it. Like, it's good in theory, but it takes away from the actual blue. And if no other colors are distorted, it makes you question what you're really looking at. But, at the same time, black is such an overpowering color.<br />
Also, I tried to be clever with the color? At the bottom of the painting, Charley is warm browns and yellows, and then we have the <i>The Dream Thieves</i>, which is red, and the table cloth, which is yellow. Moving up we have Blue Lily, Lily Blue which has a green jacket, the mermaid's tale, and then the hypothetical green fixture in the background. At the top I wanted to group Mercifin, <i>The Raven King</i>, and then the rest of the blue background together. Maybe I'll make like the stack of books and table that they're on are right up against the wall and add shadows to the background along with the fixture, to keep it from being so static.<br />
What we can surmise from this project is that I dislike waiting as much as I ever have, and that I am just as bad with color as I am when we started out. I will get around to fixing the painting, but I don't think it will ever be as good as I hoped it would. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My reference photo.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First step.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Second step. I added in Charley and Mercifin<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This I think, would be a picture of my work on the<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And this is not the final picture, but was taken before I<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is probably from the sixth day i worked on it.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not the best photo, but another one will be posted<br />
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spacerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680039083872812785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476798708233232388.post-63293998186573642012016-10-03T13:29:00.004-07:002016-10-03T13:29:37.191-07:00Mentor/Mentee: First Visit My Mentee is Joseph, who is really an incredible artist. He does not want to continue in art, and is taking it only for the credit, but I really think he should continue. Looking at his blog, at least, I think this his blog and I didn't mishear him, I am impressed with his knowledge of shape. He is far more advanced than I was when I was in Art 1, but I understand if he doesn't want to continue.<br />
I really like his two-in-one project, I think it's very clever. And his charcoal project is very nice. Obviously, he knows which mediums are the best already. <br />
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In the apple I did by traditional methods--paintbrush--the colors blended together wonderfully. I had a couple panic attacks as I worked, freaking out that I had added too much paint of the wrong color, or too many highlights, or highlights that were too weird, but I think it came together very nicely, and I am happy that I have it.<br />
I absolutely hated doing the palette knife painting while I was doing it. I wiped my pink covered palette knife on the leaf, actually, because I was just done with the whole thing. I couldn't control the knife, and I felt like I was using too much paint and wasn't staying within the lines, but once I gave up worrying about that, it was really enjoyable. And when I took a step back to look at the finished product, I was overwhelmed by the fact that I had painted such a beautiful thing.<br />
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spacerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680039083872812785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476798708233232388.post-12009559773034253792016-09-19T15:35:00.002-07:002016-09-19T15:35:24.552-07:00Reflection: Final projectI dislike this picture so much. a) I hate prisma colors. Either that, or I don't really understand what I'm doing with them. b) I dislike how I drew this picture. Let's get started.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In progress photo, day 1</td></tr>
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I tried very hard to layer my colors and build up the prismas, but I don't think that I was too successful at it, which is a big problem with this piece. I also think that I didn't do too well at choosing my colors for the color scheme. I think I chose fairly dully colors and a fairly dull background to work on, which didn't do anything to exhibit how saturated the prisma colors can be. I also feel that while my piece came from an interesting idea, the composition was lackluster and unappealing.<br />
The thought behind this piece, how this artwork is a reflection of me, is that I love to write. The original picture is of me, writing in my journal, with the words of my journal reflected in my bracelet. I have a couple thick, band-bracelets that I wear fairly commonly, and so that was another insight into me and my life. <br />
To improve this piece, I think that I would improve my prismacolor technique, change the colors that I used, and try to go a lot slower. That is a reoccurring problem from me that everyone is probably sick of hearing about, I know, but I am very anxious to finish things when I really should be slowing down and concentrating on the minutia of my piece. spacerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680039083872812785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476798708233232388.post-355477384966845622016-05-31T17:11:00.002-07:002016-05-31T17:11:35.506-07:00Scratch That, Reverse It: Scratchboard Final 1. Describe the subject matter and the meaning of your work.<br />
The subject matter is more of my same magical realism theme, I guess. It's a girl with wings, trying not to be blown away by the wind as it pushes her umbrella upwards. I guess a girl with wings would have very light bones, so it might be a danger that she would be blown away. I don't know if I drew this with a true meaning in mind. I just was thinking one day, and I saw that picture, and I wanted to draw it.<br />
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2. How did you use texture to enhance your picture?<br />
I think I used texture to show the tension in her wings as the wind pushes them along. Feathers wouldn't be the same without texture, I don't think. And the water was greatly enhanced by texture, though I don't really know why that was there. I think that the texture was one of the main points of the composition, because without it, the picture would have seemed very bland.<br />
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3. How did you balance your artwork and create a well-organized composition?<br />
I think that I created a well-organized composition through texture. Also, the balance between motion of negative space and objects was very well balanced, thanks to Ms. Rossi's input. The added feathers added a lot to the composition, and make the piece look a lot more spontaneous. Looking at it now, I really regret the water. Or, at least, the line that separates the water from the rest of the piece. I sort of drew that line thinking that it would be the basis for a sidewalk, and then I misplaced the puddle, so now it's a pool, but I really regret that whole bottom third.<br />
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4. How did you imply movement in your drawing?<br />
I think I imply movement with the wind and the feathers blowing everywhere. And I think the girl's basic position implies movement, because she's reaching up to pull the umbrella back down to her. Her limbs and her hair all suggest movement to me, as does the position of her head relative to the rest of her body.<br />
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5. How could you improve your artwork?<br />
I could not have that bunch of water in the bottom. I think that would make everything look at lot better. Also, I think that because this was my first scratchboard I was very inexperienced in the medium, so I made a lot of amateur mistakes. The wings don't look all that great, upon greater inspection, and some of the lines go in funky directions. Seeing what some of my classmates did with their scratchboards made me reconsider my skills.<br />
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6. How did you demonstrate a wide range of shading values?<br />
I think I demonstrated a fairly wide ranged of shading values through the water, and the wings and the girl's clothing, especially. I tried to make the brights as bright as they could go, and keep the darks as implied as possible, but I found that very difficult because, again, I didn't plan as well as I should have, and I didn't really know what I was doing. Also, I found it hard to take away the lights, as I've mentioned before, and so I accidentally wound up taking some of the darks off instead. I think that if I redid this scratchboard, I would have a better understanding of what I was doing, and would consequently have a better range of shading and values.spacerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680039083872812785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476798708233232388.post-20762711924085090152016-05-15T15:28:00.006-07:002016-05-31T16:50:15.685-07:00Face Me: Final<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Describe:<br />
So, my idea for this was that I would be slowly turning into a zombie as flora took over my body. I hoped to show pain, by my facial expression, because I imagine it would be a painful process. The drew the face in charcoal, with white charcoal highlights, and the flowers and plants were colored in prismas. The paper I drew it on is a brown construction paper. <br />
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Analyze:<br />
I would say that this work isn't as well drawn as I would have liked it to be. I do think that it is a good drawing, possibly one of my best, but I also really appreciate the sketch drawings more. I think the size of the paper threw me off. I was used to working on a less stretched out paper, so when I moved to a longer paper, the proportions became maligned. I don't think it looks a lot like me, which is sort of disappointing, but I feel like I pulled everything else off successfully enough.<br />
I really enjoyed the effect the white charcoal had on the body. It draws the eye away from the brightness of the flowers to the darker side of the face, which I feel is really important, because both sides are of equal gravity to the piece in its entirety. <br />
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Interpret:<br />
I got the idea for this piece from my fascination of flora and the uses for different sort of flowers. I think that in this drawing, I've included juniper, evergreen, lichen, hydrangea, violets, Indian's paintbrush, and a rose. Some of these I've added for specific reasons, and I think that I put the color in to also make the same point. The color, to me, represents the beauty of nature, vs. how humans destroy the environment. But, in this drawing, the nature is the one destroying the human. Event though it's beautiful, it still has the potential to destroy. Maybe this just me being dramatic, but I think that the color detracts from this message, which makes it even cooler to me still. <br />
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Judge:<br />
I think that the effect of the drawing, over all, was very good. Thought it didn't happen how I wanted it to, I do think that I executed it well. I don't know what happened to the right side of my hair, I really should have darkened that up, but I think that is the weakest part of the entire drawing. Overall, I am very proud of this. I think that I was able to use a lot of the skill I've been building up over the semester, and I demonstrated my ability to use both charcoal and prismas effectively. spacerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680039083872812785noreply@blogger.com0