Grid Drawing

 

 

               This is my grid drawing. This was done by placing a grid over a black and white photo and recreating it on a bigger scale. We used shading pencils for our medium. I liked doing this assignment because I liked the photo and I do better when I have something to reference to. Shading is not one of my strong points so that was one of the biggest issues. The thing I wished I would have done better was blending in the shading into the actual paper so it looked a little more natural. I also thought the mouth and fingers were difficult. But I did really enjoy this assignment.

Mask Design

             This is my mask. For this assignment, we were required to create a mask that showed an emotion. I chose to make my mask silly. We made our masks using paper maché and tempera paint. While constructing my mask, I decided if it was going to show a silly emotion, it had to look silly. So, I decided to add funny features such as a snout, tounge, and oversized cheeks, and squiggly eyebrows. I used yellow to paint the majority of the face to show happiness. For the eyebrows, cheeks, lips, and tounge, I used bright colors as well. I think the hardest part of this assignment was the construction. It was hard to get the image in my mind to transfer to the mask. I wanted to look silly, not distorted. Overall, I wish I would have spent a little more time on the construction and maybe done a better job painting, but I think I displayed the emotion.

Creative Challenge: Messages

 

               For this creative challenge, I drew a girl looking into a mirror that said, "Warning: Reflection's in this mirror may be distorted by society's idea of 'beauty.' " This shows the message that the world is changing what we think of ourselves by putting out examples of what is "perfect." And if we don't match up to that when we look into the mirror, we think we're ugly. The writing in the mirror is telling the girl that what she sees is based off of "society's idea of 'beauty.' " No one is perfect. I think the reason I chose this is because I can relate to it. For the medium, I used colored pencils, which were nice because they were erasable. The thing I could have worked on was making the letters look all the same, like you would see while typing. But, I really did enjoy this assignment and I am happy it turned out this way.

Etching

              This is my etching. For this assignment, we modeled our pictures after black and white pictures of different animals. I chose to do the tiger because I thought it looked really cool and would be a challenge to do. To create our etchings, we used a black sheet that could be scratched off to reveal a silver underneath. We also used a small tool to scratch away the black. I thought this assignment was really fun. The only thing I didn't like about the finished product was one of the eyes was slightly more open than the other, but I am very proud of it overall.

Creative Challenge: Transportation

                   This is my transportation creative challenge. The assignment for this was to display a form of transportation using any type of medium. I chose to draw pieces of dandelion blowing away in the wind. For my mediums I used green tempera paint for the grass, oil pastel for the sunset, and puffy paint for the dandelion and the wind. At first it was very hard to find an idea. After I settled on this one, I tried to connect to it. For me the pieces of dandelion blowing in the wind represent me going out on my own. This year I did a lot of thinking on my own, away from friends. But this picture could connect to anyone, maybe someone going off to college and leaving everything behind. The hardest part was the sunset. I wanted it to look warm and welcoming so I used yellow, orange, and pink. When I was creating it, it was hard to blend the different oil pastels together and still make it look good. Even though it took me a little while, I like the end result.

Famous Still Life

                    This is my famous still life drawing. This drawing was originaly drawn by Vincent Van Gogh. I really liked drawing this because I had a picture to refer to. The mediums I used were pencil and shading pencils. The easy part of drawing this was that I didn't have to think of an idea. The hard part was the shading, which is one of my weaknesses in art. I really liked this assignment.

Creative Challenge: Dwellings

 

             This is my dwellings creative challenge. The assignment was to draw something that represents a place of dwelling or a dream that dwell's in your heart. I drew Times Square in New York City because it's somewhere I've dreamed about going for a long time. The difficulty in creating this drawing was the amount of detail included. I spent a lot of time trying to get the little details right. If I could do it again, I would probably try to make them a little more accurate. The thing I like about it is the signs and buildings make it look realistic. Another requirement for this project was we could only use pencil. The convenienve in this was that I could easily take back a mistake. This project took a lot of time and effort but overall I'm really happy with the outcome.