Northern Lights

My goal was to use light and dark to help capture the beauty of the northern lights over rocky mountains. I arrived at this idea when I saw a couple of pictures and I liked the use of light and dark in the portraits so I wanted to make something like what I saw in the pictures.I used the pencils and erasers to create different shades, color different objects and create streaks in the sky. From this experience the different powers of a simple pencil and how much pencils and erasers mean to a picture or portrait.

Self Portrait as a Panther with a Mic and Speakers

My clay sculpture is a panther with a microphone and speaker in the background. I chose a panther as the animal that best represented my personality because I felt that the panther best described me as a person when I walk into a room. The panther is strong, a leader, quick, independent, and assertive. I also decided to make a microphone stand because at times I can be outspoken and quiet so by adding the microphone stand and speakers to an animal who serves as a leader helped to add a conceptional aspect to the sculpture. I had a little trouble making the sculptures because working with clay isn't wasn't easy at it seemed but in the end I was able to get my point across and complete my sculpture. I used one of our tools to make fur for my animal to help add texture to my sculpture.

Me-Scape:A Reductive Block Print

For the printmaking project that we did towards the end of the term, I decided to make a beach scene in Hawaii. I decided to make a colorful scene of a beach with sand, trees, boats, clouds and other fun things that could be found on a beach. This project was really hard because it was very difficult to get everything in the right place and once you made a mistake it was almost impossible to fix. Even with the help of a my teacher who happens to be really good at this it was still very hard to complete this project. In the end I felt that the print making project was very challenging and even though it didn't come out the way I would have wanted it to I still managed to finish.If I could do this project over again I would be more precise when printing.

Reflecting at the end of the course

My story as an artist this year began when I transferred out of chorus to join this art principles class. I came into art principles this year as an artist with natural skills but with very poor knowledge of different techniques, styles, and principles that are associated with art. From the start I found it hard to abandon my bad habits, change my style and develop new techniques that would help me progress as an artist. I was very stubborn to dropping my bad habits and beleived that my style of work was better. But as I went on through the year I started to pick up new skills, and change my bad habits for the better which was evident in my work. Although the one habit I wasn't able to drop is my obsession in detail, which throughout the year had a crucial effect on my time management. I took a lot of very important skills and concepts from art this year and I believe that I will use what I learned again next year in future art classes.

Light in Art

In the art world, Light is a key component in creating a work of art. Although in everyday life some form of light it always around; sometimes in some places more than others. The utilization of light in art and life can symbolize many things. Light can be used to convey emotions such as happiness, sadness, anger etc to an audience. You can also use light to emphasize on certain things and you can use it to try and display the state of things. For instance one situation that I had where I experienced some form of light was in a Theater/ School play. Throughout the play the crew used lighting to direct the play and at a certain part in the play the stage went dark and a spotlight appeared on the main character and even though the other actors were on the stage the audiences attention was one the character with the spot light on them which helped emphasize the character and take away any distractions. Another situation where I experiences the utilization of light was when I was in an Art gallery the artist was trying to emphasize a character in the frame so he made the things around the character in the frame dark and mad ethe character very bright so that it would be able to catch ones attention. So in totality I feel that artist use light to emphasize on what they want the audience to notice.