End of Term Reflection

I think that this term has gone really well, I believe that during this term I have learned many art skills and made immense progress in my art which was my overall goal. During this term, the big thing that I learned was how to paint and control a paint brush and as an artist that helped me grow. In my growth, I also learned how to speed up the drawing portion of my art by paying less attention to detail and focusing on the big picture. What surprised me during this term was how easy it was to paint if you focus and don't get frustrated over little mistakes, because they can be fixed. My biggest successes so far has been constructing a painting and one of the biggest challenges have been completing projects, I always start pretty well but then I run out of momentum. The advice I would give myself about the class for the start of the next term would be to manage my time more effectively and complete work. The things I need to work on as I grow as an artist are to focus less on detail and always consider the big picture and to also push through every project by pacing myself.

Mid- term Reflection

I think that at the half way point in my intermediate drawing and painting term my work has developed in some areas. In terms of what I have made I don't think that anything has changed drastically, because of the fact that I take a long amount of time on my work I feel that when completed the quality of my end product will not change. In terms of process I think that I have grown greatly; throughout last year I rarely used my sketchbook to brainstorm or sketch out ideas but this year have really utilized my sketchbook during project planning. I have also begun to utilize people's feedback when doing my project and incorporated their ideas in my art. My blogging hasn't been up to date because of technical problems but I feel that I use my blog as much as I did last year. In terms of engagement I believe that I am engaged most of the times except for during work time when I tend to get distracted.

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.

I am an Artist, a Student, and an Athlete

I believe that the strength of my art is the self portrait that I drew and other drawing aspects. The parts of my story that came out in this non-traditional self portrait was who I am when I walk into a room. Instead of drawing I used words and pictures, and made a collage to help display my story.

Reflecting on self portrait project

I shared my self portrait with the group and I explained to them the purpose and my plans for my self portrait. They liked the self portrait of myself but since that was all that was there they weren't able to do a lot of critiquing on my work. But they did give me good feedback on my intentions for the final project.They told me that my work up to this point was good. I need to develope my ideas and put them onto my project to make it original because without my ideas it is just a portrait of myself.

The Book Project............. progress and planning

The story that I am telling is that a president of a country is being impeached for being caught squandering the countries money on stocks and the country ,like the U.S, is facing a recession. The people are greatly impacted by this recession and they are in a very miserable state. Then they elect a new president who promises to help them overcome this recession and he does. With this man as president they become one of the wealthiest countries in the world and the country is now as beautiful as ever and the people are overjoyed. So far the process is going fairly well but with the class time I now have I plan to catch up. The challenges that I've faced were taking plain pictures that I planned to keep the same and changing them so that they are now different using the principles of design. One thing that is going well is that I have one picture completed and I like it. What isn't working is that I don't have a lot done.

Drawing the Human Figure From the Inside Out

The goals for today's class drawings were to draw various classmates, while they were in all kinds of obscure positions that were difficult to draw. The ways that I achieved these goals were to start from the center of their body/ waist, like Ms. Roberts demonstrated, and work my way down by drawing the legs and feet. Then, I drew the top of the figure, stomach and head to complete and balanced the sketch out. Then after we figured out the porportions and the main scheme of the drawing then we added detail such as eyes, clothing and etc.Throughout this activity I didn't face any challenges other than the fact that we couldn't erase. The final product of my drawings were pretty good and I was very surprised because my portraits looked a lot like the people we were drawing. Next time I will try not to make many mistakes so that I will not need an eraser.

Shades of Gray

The goals for today's drawing were to make a charcoal drawing of light and dark objects using additive and reductive techniques. We used many different utensils such as black and white charcoal, pencils and erasers to help capture the light in the drawing and utilize 5 different shades of grey to make the drawing includung black and white. I think I did fairly well with this despite the fact that I was sick which slowed down my process and impacted my final product. Challanges I faced were capturing the different shades of grey and capturing the light in the drawing using an eraser. But I found ways to get through these obstacles; one of the ways that I got through these obstacles was I started paying close attention to the still life instead of drawing from what I thought it should look like. Overall I think that this was a tough but useful activity.

Reflecting at mid-term

I think that I have progressed a lot since the start of the term. at first I didn't really comprehend the true purposes of the projects and activities that we have been doing b/c they were rather awkward and seemed to be obscured. But as we progressed and begun reflecting I started to see the purpose of the activities that we were doing and it started to reflecting in my grade. I also started trying a lot harder during the past week; I put a lot of focus into my work which is evident in my grade and I intend on continuing to try hard.

Wht's in the sack?

Our goal for today was to focus on the drawing and try to really get the lighting and detail of the bags by giving it form and trying to help identify what's in the bag by drawing it. I think I did fairly well with this; the process from start to finish was rather easy but I did face some obstacles during this activity. At first I thought I was done but then Ms.Roberts reminded us we had to try and catch the lighting on the bags in the picture and that was by far the hardest part of this activity because you had to erase and try to find lighting which was hard.

Reflecting on my first critique

Since my painting was very simple and not so confusing I got a lot of good feedback on the story line because the people in my group thought that my collage was funny but still good. The critical feedback that I got was that I could have used the lines more effectively and used them to connect the characters to each other. It felt good to get feedback from my classmates today.

ReVisiting observations/ Description activity

Sophia got everything right besides the tables,and the supplies on the table. The people holding the paintings and the person on the table. Sophia didn't get the part when I described the table and the utensils on the tables. The reason why she didn't get it is because I described those two things as 2 dimensional figures. If I could do this again I would describe the objects more descriptively.