up close and personal

I couldnt think of a personal subject but i knew that my project had to be colorful so i thought a bright iguana would work. I tried to blend colors and also use darker/ lighter areas to show emphasis. I thought that having one color blend into another one would make the picture pop more. I used oil pastels on a black paper because i wanted contrast. I chose the oil pastels because they are very bright and colorful and thats what i wanted for my iguana. I wanted to keep my iguana on a small piece of paper but i was kinda pushed out of my comfort zone to draw much bigger. I was handed a huge piece of black constrution paper and felt iffy about drawing that big. it took a while but it was worth it and im glad i added trees in the back. I think i included technique in my art becasue i had an idea of what i wanted my piece to look like and it turned out the way i planned.

Whats the point?

Sands : Art Two : What’s The Point

Posted on: Thursday, September 5, 2013
  Sands : Art Two : What’s The Point

 1. What where some of your solutions to What’s the Point? 

I was thinking literal points so i thought of animals with pointy teeth.

2. Which solution did you chose and why?

I chose my snake because i liked the long, sharp teeth. It ended in a point.

 

3. How did you show contrast in your work?

my background was black and white tiles so i thought that showed good contrast. Also my snake is shaded in certain areas to show contrast.

 

5. What techniques did you use to create this work?

I used black charcle for really really dark areas and i blended it together for value.

 

We encourage risk taking in art. Risk taking can be as simple as trying a new technique or learning about a new medium to as complex as trying something totally new.

 

6. Did you take any risks with this project? 

I thought my background wasnt going to turn out right because the black would rub off on the white but watevs.

 

game drawings

Game Drawings in Perspective Critique 

Vocabulary to use: perspective, washes, watercolor, gradation, blending, colored pencils, overlapping, horizon, vanishing points, value, highlights, shadows

 

I really like my final piece. The value, shadows, highlights, and the way i blended the colors made it all come together and it really looked like a gameboard. This is one of my favorite projects, I really enjoyed coloring and making the vanishing points a huge part of the project. I feel like this project was very successful becuase the rooms get smaller and smaller farther away and the color gets darker and darker. the value was very good do to the shading and the perspective of the board seemed realistic. I think everything worked in this project, everything came together perfectly and seemed to work together very well. If i were to do this project over again, the only thing i would do differently would be to not use black watercolor on the parts i needed black. The black watercolor just seemed too dark and the blending seemed off. The most difficult part was the watercolor because a lot of the time it just got the paper too wet and wasnt working as well as i would have liked it to. I learned to shade, use vanishing points, and blend colors to add value into an art piece.

anamorphosis critique

Anamorphosis Critique

Word Bank: Use these vocabulary words in your responses. Please underline or make letters bold when you use them. 

Grid       colored pencils anamorphosis                 photoshop        transform         scale

Perspective      shadows             value                    

                I went to google images and chose a picture of fanta soda, then i went onto Photoshop and transformed the image much longer and wider to get that 3D affect. It had to be pulled to the right and left so it almost looked as if it was being stretched. The picute was changed by scale. By stretching the object, it made it look like it was coming up off the paper. so to a viewer, it looked like the can was standing ontop of the page. The most important concepts was the coloring, shading, and blending. Of corse the image had to look real, so by adding value to the picture, it made it look like a real fanta soda.

stencil

Famous Landmark or Transportation Stencil Critique

Word Bank: Use these vocabulary words in your responses. Please underline or make letters bold when you use them. 

Stencil                 Spray Paint       Xacto Knife        Positive/Negative Space

Composition    Collage                Photoshop        Threshold              Contrast

when I used Photoshop to change the picture to black and white, I printed out the picture and took it back to class. Then i used a projecter to copy the image from the paper to a poster that i later cut out with an xacto knife. I cut out very colorful images from magizines that poped out to me. I liked bright blues and greens so I got images that had those colors in them. There wasnt really a relation to my topic, but i liked the way it looked when it all came together. The colors seemed to blend together and it made the background seem a lot more interesting becasuse of the contrast. I used positive space for the background and negative space for the foreground. This caused the picture to look more realistic and background didnt take too much attention off my castle.When using the xacto knife, I had to be careful because the blade was so sharp. I held the knife carefully and my other hand was far away from the blade. I carved inward so there would not be any chances i got cut. The spray paint was fun and interesting. The color was very important because it helped make for an interesting and organized background.

 

turtle evaluation

Self evaluation

1.     Describe the overall composition of your artwork (balance, unity, rhythm and movement).

  I think that the overall piece is very neat with good print, shapes, and color. The balance of my artwork was put together with all the right textures and surrondings. It all came together to give my piece life and creativity.

 

2.     How did you add texture and contrast to your print? Is this important? Why?

I added texture to the actual turtle and sand. Everything else surrounding it was left white, that was the contrast. The bright pink worked very well on white paper and looked as if they were working together for that perfect contrast. Texture and contrast are important to have in a piece because they make it interesting. You wouldnt want to see a plain turtle on the same color background with no texture within the piece. It makes it all the more real when there is texture and contrast.

3.     Explain how you used positive and negative space to show your image.

The pink within the piece was the positive space and the white was the negative space. I cut out everything around the turtle, the rocks, starfish, and the turtle's patchy skin and shell for negative and postive space. This was also another way of showing texture and contrast because I had pink on white.

4.     Describe the craftsmanship of your print. (How good the project is technically crafted)

The craftsmenship was good because I put detail into the piece. I did this by putting things in the sand in stead of leaving it like it was. The turtle had lots of lines in it and showed good texture. Everything came together well and was very organized.

5.     Were you able to achieve depth by showing a foreground, middle ground and back- ground? Explain.

Yes; I had the turtle, the sand, and the open ocean. You could tell that the turtle was the closest up, it was hovering over the sand, and the open ocean was behind it all. It all look neat with foreground, middle ground, and background.

 

6.     Explain your experience with Printmaking. What were the obstacles and advantages?

When I was actually carving out lanoleum, it was hard to get the smallest items because I had to be very patient. I also had trouble printing because I could never get the right amount of paint. An advantage I had was the turtle didnt have fur that I had to spend my whole time working on, I had lines and scales but it wasnt hard for the most part.

chalk mural critique

Chalk Mural Critique

                                                                                                                                                        

Self evaluation (must write at least 3 sentences for each question)

1. Explain your experience working on a team and executing your ideas for the mural.

When I first got into my group, I was a  worried a bit about how it would turn out because I had been so used to working on projects alone. I thought the group was a good idea though, not only did i have my own ideas, but i had everyone elses too. When we wrote all our ideas down on paper, we had to portray them on the wall with chalk and with everyones help, it worked out great.

2. Explain the importance of collaboration when working on a team.

As a group, everyone can add different ideas and everyone within the group has a say in how the piece should look. The more my group members would talk about what they did and did not like, the more ideas we would have to work off of for the final product. It was important if everyone spoke their mind and helped with the project.

3.  How successful was this project? Explain how and why.

This project was really successful for the most part. We had some really good ideas and worked together great. The only thing is, some of our members werent working or didnt even try to help us, we did pull it together with the four of us though and it turned out amazing.

4. Explain how you feel about creating artwork that others can interact with. Ex. Invoving the whole school? 

I thought it was a great idea, I loved how I would see other people who I didnt know jump into the picture and pose. It made me feel like they were enjoying something my team mates and I had created. Evertime I would walk past it, I would look in its direction and remember how fun it was to createt it, I loved working with chalk.