During the month of February, I worked on 3 paintings and a jean jacket. When I was painting the jacket, I communicated with Mrs. Heggerty what my goals where and she suggested using a embriodery hoop to stretch the fabric. This helped me to have a solid frame for my design and also helped me to place the design on my jacket. I also worked on my octopus painting, a flower painting, and a lemon painting, Im using these smaller paintings as a way to develop skills of paying attentiont to detail. I was obsercing other students doing acrylic paint pours and I decided to make my background look similar to that for a couple of my pating, I think an abstract background with a simple foreground can make for interesting paintings.
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Throughout the month of January I struggled to compose what I wanted to focus on for my AP Portfolio.. I had a couple ideas but nothing solid. After a couple weeks, lots of communicating with peers, solving problems, and reflecting, I decided on portraits of service dogs, shelter dogs and my own dog as my focus. I picked this because a large portion of my life has been dedicated to helping animals, who in return help humans. For paintings this month, I've begun working on an octopus painting on the largest canvas I've ever worked on. Picking this size canvas seems like a large risk for me, however I'm excited to develop new skills and work on this painting. Throughout the month of December I’ve been working on 5 small animal portraits. The portraits are a good example of how my skills have developed as an artist. I’ve begun using a higher amount of detail, working on shading, and reflecting on paintings after they’re finished to see what I can fix and do better. I have worked on communicating with my peers more, seeing what I can add to my art to make it the best it can be. I have also been solving problems that I’ve individually had with my art by taking a break, and then beginning to work on it again the next day. I feel like this has helped me to refocus again the next day and really understand what my goal for my art is. Throughout the month of November I’ve finished my landscape painting and begun small animal portraits. I have been creating original art by not really following a photo, only taking glances at a reference when needed. This has helped me to realize the importance of shading and how the use of one brown is really 7 different shades of brown. I feel like I’ve developed several new skills and have grown as an acrylic painter. I’ve been communicating better with my peers and observing their works to learn how I can improve. I seeked Marina’s advice when creating the lighthouse. I’ve also been working in my sketchbook at home to create better colored pencil pieces. I feel like this will help me to take more risks and use more vibrant colors. For my second October post, I explored blind contour and revisited some works from last year. My favorite work of art from last year was a oil pastel I did of my friend looking at a clock. The clock is disappearing into an abstract hole. This was an original artwork I did and the reason I enjoy it so much is because I spent my time working on it. I realized that something I lack with my art is patience, and to solve that I’m going to force myself to spend more time on my paintings. I spent a whole week on the oil pastel piece and I think it reflected several qualities about my artwork that I can do, but don’t give myself enough time to do. I also communicated with my peers to ask what else they think I should do on my pieces. I know I need to spend more time on my assignments, which I think I can accomplish if I work on smaller paintings. For the first half quarter we have been focusing on using a range of approaches. I developed skills such as how thickening a line can improve the depth of a art piece. I did this while creating negative space. My art piece for our negative space unit was not my favorite, I got stuck after making the headphones blank and the background blue. Looking back, I would’ve made the background an album cover collage of my favorite music. I collaborated and reflected on my piece during group critique but I hadn’t thought of that idea yet. I took a risk by leaving it so plain and it didn’t pay off, the piece looks unfinished. Trompe L'oeil is french for "deceive the eye". It is an art technique that uses hyper realistic imagery to create depicted objects and take them from 3D to 2D while looking very similar. I chose to use more glass based objects which proved to be very difficult.Wayne Thiebaud is an inspired artist who is famous for drawing hyper-realistic sweets. From cakes and cupcakes, to pies and donuts. Part of what makes Wayne's style so unique is that he uses opposing colors to make shadows and add depth to the sweets. We created our own original work using his style. We collaborated with each other to help each other make shadows, use different colors and learn about adding depth.Throughout the month of February, our class aimed to develop skill by embroidering. We created original art using a hoop, needle, and embroidery floss. We communicated with each other to learn new stitches and create embroidery samplers. One our inspirations, Faith Ringgold, who raises global awareness using quilts. She embroiders, onto quilts, images of her childhood and then uses it as an anecdote for her stories she writes to go along with them. I enjoyed this unit because it helped me realize that I am capable of embroidery and sewing which I never thought I would be able to do. Throughout the month of January we studied the art of carving. To first learn how to create original art while carving, we used EZ carve blocks and our carving tools. We used the printing blocks and ink to create original art that communicates our inner selves. Later, after we mastered the EZ carve, we moved on to carving linoleum, which was a lot tougher. We reflected over how best to approach the new tool seeing as how the linoleum was difficult. We collaborated and decided the best idea was to iron it while carving to make the material softer. |
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