Before:
My critique of the water color apple, in my opinion, doesn't represent my ability to critique my artwork.
After:
My clay project is the piece that I'm most proud of and the one that I feel I can critique the best. I am definitely not very confident in my artwork, but, I can say after doing this project I ended up really liking the outcome and learning many techniques for working with clay. For example, I didn't know that making a cylindrical jar would be so difficult. I had to roll individual strands of clay and slowly build it up to make it a jar-shape. The assignment for the project was just to make a clay food, so I thought making a peanut butter jar was creative. When I started the project I was kind-of clueless as to how I was to go about starting the jar shape, but after asking for tips I had some good ideas of what I was going to do. I chose to use glaze since a real peanut butter jar is plastic and I figured it would make it more realistic. I chose to use the "JIF" logo because I like the multicolored band that wraps around the back and I just thought that it added color to it. The slice of bread I made that goes with it was a last minute decision, but I still like how it goes with the peanut butter. For the texture I used I sharp tool and poked holes on the surface to make it look like bread. Also, I used regular paint instead of glaze because I thought that bread would look weird if it was shiny. This was my favorite thing to do because not only did I have fun creating it, but I also liked how it turned out. If I were to judge this I would say that it's a decent piece and the shape of the jar is really good. You can obviously tell that it's a peanut butter jar, so that's a good thing.
Two mini-lessons that I thought were the most beneficial were the apples that we drew with all different mediums and the oil pastel soda cans. I chose these two because they both taught me a lot about how to use different shading. I also liked being able to try out chalk and pastels because I learned what was easiest for me to use. For me, making highlights with chalk and colored pencil is much easier, but at the same time I like the consistency of oil pastel. I love blending things to get a certain color, so these lessons really helped my blending skills. I even used these lessons as a reference in my more recent project where I did a chalk background that faded to different colors. I'm glad we had the chance to do mini lessons like this because they helped me through out the rest of art class. Chalk is my favorite medium because of how easy it is to use, and if we didn't do those mini-lessons I wouldn't have known that.
Out of all the things I worked on this semester I think you can see the most growth between my pumpkin for the Georgia O'keefe project and my landscape painting inspired by Sol LeWitt. I chose these two because they were some of the only ones that I drew free-hand. With the pumpkin, I believe I could have been way more creative with the whole nature idea. The landscape project was nice because I was easily inspired by LeWitt because he had such a unique painting style and it was easy to get ideas from him. Considering these were both projects where we were supposed to find inspiration, I think that my landscape was significantly better and more creative. Both times there was enough instruction I just think that I understood it better the second time. When I first thought of the idea for the landscape painting I was unsure how it would look, but after starting it I became more confident. Although I like chalk and pastels more than painting, I like the painting much more than I thought I would.
Two mini-lessons that I thought were the most beneficial were the apples that we drew with all different mediums and the oil pastel soda cans. I chose these two because they both taught me a lot about how to use different shading. I also liked being able to try out chalk and pastels because I learned what was easiest for me to use. For me, making highlights with chalk and colored pencil is much easier, but at the same time I like the consistency of oil pastel. I love blending things to get a certain color, so these lessons really helped my blending skills. I even used these lessons as a reference in my more recent project where I did a chalk background that faded to different colors. I'm glad we had the chance to do mini lessons like this because they helped me through out the rest of art class. Chalk is my favorite medium because of how easy it is to use, and if we didn't do those mini-lessons I wouldn't have known that.
Out of all the things I worked on this semester I think you can see the most growth between my pumpkin for the Georgia O'keefe project and my landscape painting inspired by Sol LeWitt. I chose these two because they were some of the only ones that I drew free-hand. With the pumpkin, I believe I could have been way more creative with the whole nature idea. The landscape project was nice because I was easily inspired by LeWitt because he had such a unique painting style and it was easy to get ideas from him. Considering these were both projects where we were supposed to find inspiration, I think that my landscape was significantly better and more creative. Both times there was enough instruction I just think that I understood it better the second time. When I first thought of the idea for the landscape painting I was unsure how it would look, but after starting it I became more confident. Although I like chalk and pastels more than painting, I like the painting much more than I thought I would.