Question One: What media did you choose for this artwork and why did you pick it? What did you intend to communicate in this artwork? How does the media you selected help communicate the message you intended? Is the piece successful? Why or why not? My first piece: the "pie of deforestation" was completed using mostly chalk pastels layered on top of colored pencil and sharpie outlines. I was originally going to use colored pencils because I am comfortable using them and they are good for accomplishing detail. Since this was our "worldwide issue" project, it was easy to portray communication of a problem in the world. For me, this communicates literal idea; the problem of deforestation worldwide and how certain countries are using up all the resources. This piece did accomplish its goal of portraying its issue in the way that I hoped; some pieces however, change throughout the time it is made (such as my pie from sculpture). My second piece was a piece made for my parents' anniversary, titled "True Love Lasts Forever". This piece was done with a combination of colored pencils on the figures and chalk pastels on the background. I chose chalk pastels (on both pieces) because they cover a large area well and fairly quickly. The colored pencils on this piece allowed for great detailing and texture, if I do say so myself. This picture is trying to communicate the figurative idea of love, which can be shown through art in many ways. I tried to portray love by the warm colors and actual action of them kissing. (Awww). I think while less obvious, this piece too, displays communication of love. Question Two: What projects or units did you enjoy? What would you add or take away to make the class a better learning experience? I had fun with all these projects, but I liked the units' concepts better than how my most of my projects turned out. I liked the change project the most because I got to use different brands of gummy bears to melt and create my name and a rainbow. These I think turned out well and continue to change and warp as the temperature around them changes. I also had fun with the nontraditional materials unit because we had to think past our normal materials and be more creative. I had fun collecting cans of all kinds and putting them together to create the wind chime (which is still in use in our backyard, f.y.i.). The last project we did that I had a lot of fun with was the piece based on a piece we saw after going to the art museum. There were many pieces I saw that I enjoyed at the museum, but went with the Andrew Wyeth painting of the boy running down the hill. This piece was my inspiration and basis to create my identity piece, seen above. I used his piece as a reference but it did not turn out as how I planned. |
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Part One: "True Love Lasts Forever" I worked hard on this piece, originally planning it to be photorealism (making the art look almost exactly like the reference picture). I began by "tracing" the picture to a piece of paper from the projector, but could not get details. That is when I ran into trouble, and where the piece started to become portraiture, not exactly photorealism (the detailing and features were not 100% proportional, but it is still evident what is trying to be accomplished by the art). Over all, I like the background, title,and texture created by the colored pencils; but could improve on proportion to figures. Fun fact: this was a gift to my parents for their anniversary and when I gave it to them, my dad compared it to Picasso. This is interesting because on one of my parents' first dates, my dad bought my mom a copy of the above piece as a gift! Part Two: "The Boy Who Lived" This piece took a lot of patience and logic, believe it or not! while it did not take too long to create, I wanted to summarize the important parts of "The Sorcerer's Stone" by using actual text, but it proved hard to pick the "correct" events to use. The strong part of this piece if definitely the title "Harry Potter", using a 3-D effect and detailing to make it look like the titles on the books. I do like how the background words turned out, but am more pleased that I decided to add a light coloring (in orange over the red words, since orange goes with blue and red) to make it look more finished. If I were to redo this project, I would have made the words smaller and closer together to make it look more interesting and to fit more into the piece. Overall, while this may not be the most complicated piece, besides the pie I made in sculpture, this is one of the pieces I am most proud of. |
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