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.

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.

The picture that I enjoyed the most was Age Old Hymns. I felt that this drawing was the most interesting and intriguing picture among them all. I really like this drawing by Alexander DeMaria because I think that it is really cool how he incorporated different things that he is fond of drawing and merged the into one portrait. I also really like his use of color/paint; he used guash on the mans face and really made it stand out. I also really admire the amount of detail he puts into his drawings and his effort to try and make them as realistic as possible.

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.