Art 1.
Final Poject
For our final project we got to choose what we did. I tried to make mine to where it sort of looked like the sword in the stone. I was mainly focused on trying to get the detail in the rock and in the trees correct. I love the myth and even though its not the same as what the landscape would normally look like I think it turned out much better than I anticipated. I used acrylic paint. It took a lot of testing and painting over to get it where I wanted it. This project was difficult but I like the challenge and it was fun to work with something I don't normally work with.
Perspective
For our last project we had to make a picture using either one, two, or three point perspective and make our own world. I used two point perspective and my actual points that everything went back to were actually on the outside of my paper. I then went over it with ink using a dip pen and after that dried I painted it using watercolors. The project was a little more challenging than I initially thought it would be and took a lot of time to get done, but I think that it turned out much better than I expected it too.
This was supposed to be an abstract image, with crazy part going through the picture. I used oil pastels to make it. We had a paper that had directions we needed to follow. At the end of it the directions said to finish the picture how we wanted to, so I used the oil pastels to cover it and made a picture that to me looks like a supernova exploding, with the earth in the corner.
Alebrijes
This project was to make an alebrije. It was supposed to be a mug made to be a mixture of animals. The head was made in a close shape of a duck, the front and back legs were made in reference to a sitting donkey, with the patter on the front like light fur and the back legs had a thick fur theme, the tail of a cat, and then I used a marker cap to make a scale like look on the rest of the body.
Self Portrait
To start off this trimester we are doing self portraits. These first few are not actual self portraits. We first started with making a sketch with what we could already do. Then we went as a class and made another, focusing on the actual eye shape and the correct way to draw the nose and accurate lips. I feel like the hair is going to be the hardest aspect for me. I think she is having us do this because it is challenging and takes a lot of paying attention to details. She is having us use three symbols for something about us. My symbols are gears, showing like my mind is always working, the gears are always moving. Another one is a volleyball net and ball behind my self portrait, representing how I am super into sports and athletics, especially volleyball. The last one is an E necklace that i got four years ago, and haven't gone anywhere without it on since, making it really a part of me.
Final Project.
This was our final project of the trimester. We were given freedom to choose what to make. I decided to draw something that had some meaning to me. It's and angle sitting in a hospital bed. The one of the contrasts of this drawing id that the hospital bed and the angle are sitting the the middle of a a bunch of trees, out in nature. The other contrast that i decided to go with was that I drew the picture in pencil, and then added in ink with a fountain pen. So most of it was done in pencil, so grey tones, and then I added in green and black into the trees with the ink. I also added s pearl and silver into the moon in the top right corner.
Close up value drawing
We are now doing close up value drawings. Trying to make the drawing as accurate to the picture it can be, while doing it all in mostly shading. We can add up to 50% of our drawing in color but no more. Sketching out the shapes of the flowers in the water drop and making the spiral of the stem has been a challenge trying to get them as close as possible to the original image.
Printing.
Printing. First I played around with different materials, finally deciding to use yarn. I made a rose on the bored, cutting the yarn in little pieces and then gluing it on. The other two, I used and exact-o knife to carve into them. I lacquered them over night and then they were ready to paint. First I used the relief inking process, printing on the raised surface of the board. That worked best on the rose one with the string on top. Then I used the intaglio inking process, printing from below the surface, in the gaps. That worked really well on all three styles.