Mixed Media
This art piece taught me new techniques and skills. I learned how to create order out of randomness by finding a common theme like color and shapes. I used a red-pink theme throughout the piece as well as positioning pieces diagonally and using circles. I learned how to properly layer pieces with gel medium which I had never done. By completing this piece I learned new elements of art.
In reflecting my art, I took times between adding new layers to look at what I had done and see what works best for future layers. I considered the way in which I bent the straw I put on my art and where to add my bubble wrap paint circles. I think my strengths were the complexity of the layers and keeping to the theme. A weakness I had was putting the right amount of gel on each layer and knowing how much to put on. Overall there were both weak but mostly strong points of my work.
Print-making Final
This piece of art required a lot of risk taking while creating it. Ink and printmaking is not a familiar technique. I have no experience therefore I was forced to learn the process. I wasn't sure about positioning the linoleum in the right place at first. Then with practice, my art became neater and more precise. Though risks were involved, success came with them.
This project taught me new techniques in printmaking. I learned proper tools and carving styles on the linoleum. I also learned the proper layering of colors to make sure no one color bleeds through the ink. I also learned lining up the prints so that the picture stays the same. I was available to develop new skills in art making.
Print-making Progress
Rosenquist Art Progress
Famous Artist sketch
Clay Food
Georgia O'Keffe Copy Art
Clay progress/ Thumbnails
Upclose Nature Final
Upclose Nature Sketched
Colored Pencil Apples
Watercolor
Oil pastel
Chalk Pastel
Sketching: Learning the basics
Here I learned the different sketching techniques and how they can be used and make value with.
This was our practice with the effect value has on the dimension and look of shapes.
This is my value chart where we learned how pressure and pencil type effect value.
Perspective Project
During my trip to California this summer I was able to take photos and took the inpiration photo for this art in Beverly Hills. The typical photo of palm trees down the road inspired me to draw this in that it incorporated perspective. I chose to add some greenery around the tall leaning trees but I also added a sidewalk that further increased the perspective of the art. The sky is also a unique creation that I created by blending prisma colors to add more interest.
While I was drawing my road I started with the goal of coloring it in and not looking at its value and perspective. Then I started to add dark red and purple in the back and made it lighter as the road came closer. I also learned to use lines that follow down the road that allowed for proper value and shape. Just by using these vertical lines the road comes alive. I learned about shading with prisma colors by blending blue, purple and some red. Drawing this road increased my knowledge of perspective and value and how they work together.
This was my first true final drawing with prisma colors. Before I had only experimented with them but I thought doing a landscape would be a good time to start. I also used the prisma to make darker colors than I usually do. I feel that this paid off in that the tree and the road had a new dimension and more interest in the darker points. I was weary of the outcome but I feel the colors really helped my drawing stand out.