When i first started the print-making process I really wasn't excited about carving the linoleum out, but once it started coming together i really enjoyed how it looked. This project was definitely the one where i came across the most challenges. It's easy to get confused while carving because you have to carve out what you want to keep a certain color. Luckily, none of the mistakes I made were big enough to notice in the final piece. I also found it difficult to perfectly line up the linoleum with the place on the paper where I wanted it to be. The assignment for this piece was to do something that had to do with history/the prehistoric era, so, of course, the first thing that came to mind was a dinosaur (due to the lack of my creativity). In this piece the thing that really stands out is the bright blue on the bright red. Even a lot of my classmates
For the mixed media project I didn't come across too much challenges, but once in a while I thought it was hard to make the different scraps flow together. When I ran into an issue I asked Mrs. Rossi for pointers so that I could make it better. In this piece it's obviously not a depiction of a person or landscape, but all of the different things put into one piece makes it real art, just as much as a picture/landscape. I think since I used a view finder to find the perfect place on the piece, it would have been hard to put more colors in while getting in the picture. I love these types of things because there are so many things that can catch your eye. I liked putting 3-D things on it because it makes it unique. I think when people look at my piece they will notice how many layers there are and not just what's on top. If you look closely you can see that there is more than just the tissue paper on the top. Some elements I used in this piece to invoke a certain mood were things like using the word "power" in the middle of it and sparkly things to catch attention and create a happy, colorful mood. I hope that people who have looked at my mixed media have liked.
For this mini-project we were given a portion of a famous painting and we had to recreate it on a larger piece of paper. I really enjoyed this project because we were able to copy it down and then later after we had all finished, we matched ours with three others in the class who were doing the same picture just a different portion of it.
For this project I chose to glaze the jar and just paint the piece of bread. Glazing the clay was a new material that I had never done before. I really loved the way the paint job turned out after it was fired. I wasn't sure how it was going to turn out since the colors change in the kiln but I think it was pretty spot-on when it came out.
I considered how things would work out almost every time I would start painting. I drew it out most of the time and I asked for tips from people around me who had already glazed. I stepped back to analyze it once I was finished to see if there were any improvements that I could make before it was fired. I was able to make changes that I think helped how it looks in the end. I used inspiration from my class and former students' clay projects that Mrs. Rossi showed us. Then I took my own ideas (since I love peanut butter) and that's how I got my idea. At first I was going to make a jelly jar too, but after seeing how long it took to make one jar I realized that I wouldn't have time. Instead I figured I would make a piece of bread, since the two foods go together pretty well. The first picture is my clay peanut butter jar before it was dry and the second picture is after I painted it with glaze but before it was fired.
This was the only in-progress photo that I took. I was almost finished with the project when I took this, but I still had to work with the blue to make it go darker.
For this project I was assigned the artist Sol LeWitt. During this project some new techniques that I learned were layering the paint to make it look fuller and more colorful. I found it difficult to gradually make the colors into a gradient-effect because they always ended up looking really similar. Luckily with acrylic paint, once it dries it's easy to paint over.
A lot of times during this project I would step back and analyze my work. It helped me to see what changes could be made from seeing it far away. My idea of what I was going to do in the beginning is much different from the final product. Most of this was because I found different ways to go about the project after looking and analyzing it. While painting, I frequently asked the people around how I was able to make it better. They gave me pointers on how I could improve and almost all of the ideas I put into my project. For example, the clouds were something that I definitely wasn't sure about, but I was given some good ideas on what I could to to make them fit in with the project. My artist mainly did lines and colors, so it was hard to take one of my own pictures off my phone and make it into something that Sol LeWitt would have drawn. Everyone helped, though, by giving me tips and constructive criticism. For this project I drew a pumpkin with oil pastel and I colored the background with chalk. At first it was hard to blend the colors of the pumpkin, but I got the hang of it. I started in the middle with lighter colors and I gradually made it darker the farther I went away from the center. I had to put a lot of layers while using oil pastel since you can't really blend it with you fingers (like you can with chalk). The stem is only two different colors because I went to dark right away and I wasn't able to make it that much lighter. I liked doing the background because it was easy to make it go from white to dark blue. I put white closest to the pumpkin because I wanted it to contrast next to the dark orange. Overall, I liked this project because i liked that we were able to use whatever medium we wanted.
For this project I definitely tried something new by using the oil pastel and the chalk together. I wasn't sure about it at first since I had never done a big project with them before, but I think it turned good. Generally I don't send a message through my artwork, but with this one I was able to connect to it because fall is my favorite season. I liked that I could choose what to draw because it let me put some self-expression in my work. I find it hard to express myself in drawings, but I think it makes it easier when you get to choose something that you can relate to or something that you enjoy. For this apple I used water color pencils, which is when you draw with colored pencils and then go over it with water making it look like paint. I liked this, but it was hard to make the change in value not be so abrupt. I though it was a little bit easier when I used just normal water color paint so that I was able to blend the colors more easily. Also, after adding the water to the apple it seemed to make it lighter than it actually was, which is hard to go back over and make darker since I had already put the water on it. Other than that, I think this apple turned out okay; however, I don't think it would be my first choice for a project.
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