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Q2 Pieces for Art
For my art pieces this quarter I felt very inspired to use paint as my main art material. I found that when painting I felt very calm. Holding a paintbrush and using my imagination to create art pieces felt very therapeutic for some reason.
When I started my first pieces which was the contour drawing I found it challenging since I couldn't see what I was doing, I kept trying to look but in the end I came out with very unique drawings. Then, coloring them in was also a challenge. It turned out to look completely opposite of what it was originally supposed to be, but I think that’s the beauty of art. You can draw or paint anything and it will still be right because it’s something you created out of your imagination.
Then we went on to our own choice of painting, it was around the time of holidays and I was in the christmas spirit so I decided to paint classical images you would see around the holidays, a snowman and holiday lights. I loved creating and painting these pieces. Afterwards we had to recreate a painting and I instantly knew I wanted to create a Picasso. He is one of my favorite artist for so many reasons. His artis inspiring and I find his blue era inspiring, so I decided to recreate a painting from that era. When creating this piece I learned how important it was to mix colors and blend. In the original price some areas were a lighter blue than other areas so I had to mix in some white in order to get in just right.
Afterwards, we had to illustrate a piece of writing. I knew right away what I wanted to do. I chose a J-cole song called “A Tale of Two Cities” on the song he talks about police-brutality and everything a black man has to go through. He talks about black injustice. I decided to recreate this song by illustrating one of his lines “hands in the air run it” and then “Forgive me father for I have sinned” by painting a man pointing a gun at someone else and saying the line and then above two hands praying with the lyrics next to it. In between of the two grains you can see golden bricks and this image represent the line “I know that everything that glitter ain't gold.” The bricks may be painted gold that doesn’t mean they are valuable. This was one of my favorite drawings. Lastly we had to take pictures and then edit them to show depth. I took three pictures that showed depth then edited them and highlighted and used contrast to further emphasize the depth of the pictures.
Art 2 Q2 Artist Statement
This marking period in art, we worked on many different assignments. These included: Blind Contouring, Adding Color to Blind Contour, Make a Painting, Recreate a Piece of Art, Illustrate a Piece of Writing and Edit a Photo.
The first two assignments went hand in hand. We had to close our eyes and draw something without lifting the pencil from off of the table. We then ad to color those same drawings. This was my favorite piece from this quarter, it was fun and relaxing in a way. A few of the things I drew were a stuffed animal, a basketball player and a telescope.
The next assignment was Make a Painting. We had to create anything we wanted to, we just had to paint it. I decided to paint the Dominican Republic flag, since that is where I am from. I used the colors red white and blue because those are the colors of the flag, and also used green for the leaves on the flag. I painted the letters in gold.
Next, was Recreate a piece of Art. I recreated a painting based off of ¨El Dia De Los Muertos¨, ¨Day of the Dead¨. Painting the background of this piece was fun. I mixed colors like green, yellow and brown all together. The Painting was two skeletons(a couple) which goes with the entire theme of the day of the dead in Mexico.
After that assignment came the Illustrating a piece of writing. The piece of writing I chose was an album by my favorite spanish artist Ozuna, his album was named ¨Odisea¨. The The used paint to raw the album color which included a brown stuffed bear in a hoodie, with his name in the hoodie and his album logo in black on the top.
The last Assignment of the year was photo editing. I took two pictures and used an app to edit it. I added filters and played around with things such as enhancements.
Overall, this marking period in art I drew a lot of inspiration from my life and my identity. For instance, My flag represents where I am from and the illustrate a piece of writing represents my taste in music.
Ashton Reigner Q2 Art
I had a lot of inspiration for my art this quarter. Everything I created has an explanation. One thing I looked for is how I could make something that sampled things from other art. For this I looked to music and famous paintings that I felt had their own source of inspiration. While creating my drawings I used pastels and colored pencils mostly. I like to put as much contrasting color in my art as possible and these were two mediums that would allow me to do so. When I do my art though, I like to be in a certain state. When in the classroom, it’s hard for me to concentrate and open my mind up to create whatever it is I want to create. This is why I like to do all my art at home. When I’m at my house in my room, alone, I get fully concentrated and that is when I produce my best art.
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Advance Art slideshow Quarter Two
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Over the course of quarter two we were assigned to create a variety of different drawings and photos, being: Blind contour drawings, colored blind contour drawings, choice painting, recreation of an art piece, Illustration of a writing, and Photo editing.
Our first assignment was blind contour drawings, we had to pick ten subjects we wanted to draw and then gather ten sheets of printer paper and draw each subject. Contour drawings are drawn from a starting point and without looking down at the paper. You figure out where your starting point is going to be, pull up the image or look at your subject and draw it to the best of your ability without taking your drawing utensil off the paper until you're completely done. For the first assignment I decided to draw items I saw around the art room.
Second, the colored contour drawings were done off our previous contour drawings, more specifically we had to take our contour drawings we had drawn for our first assignment and color them. I colored my country drawings with multiple colors, and gave some contour drawings a background. I specifically did that, to make the drawings more appealing to the eye. One thing I took away from these two contour drawings, was that not everything is going to turn out exactly how you want it to turn out the first or even the second time. Although, you may want to change your idea or subject your, sometimes it’s best to stick on the same path (as said in the direction about keeping you pencil on the paper at all times) and find a better way.
Third, was the choice painting, you were required to choose an art piece of interest, and paint it on a medium sized canvas, which is by far larger than 2 pieces of printer paper put together. I chose to paint a monster from the Tv show called “The Mist” because it seemed very cool and interesting, also the monster was the main part of the Tv show, and due to my strong interest in “The Mist”, I wanted to find something that would respable the whole Tv show. One thing I took away from this, is being able to go deeper into detail with whatever you may be analysing or drawing. For instance, I didn't just draw the base or an outline of the monster. I drew the outside fog, and I painted the fog with a mix of black, gray, yellow, and white paint, to give my painting a more supernatural feel. Overall I put as much detail as I could, to show and give you the feeling of what was happening in the moment when this monster appeared in the Tv show.
Fourth, we had to recreate a piece of art, this piece of art can be anything from a drawing you found online to a drawing or painting you or someone else did last year. I recreated a painting from a famous artist. This was a painting of a complex multi- colored forest with deer throughout the painting. Instead of painting the original painting i decided to draw it with colored pencils, because it was easier. After doing this drawing, I realize that even the most complex art pieces can be done just as well with the simplest materials.
The fifth assignment consisted of illustrating a piece of writing. Meaning you have to find a piece of writing whether that's in a book or online, and illustrated in anyway you prefer to illustrate the writing. For this assignment I chose to illustrate the quote “Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out”. I illustrated this out in the form of a drawing, because while words get a point r message across well, I think portraying a message/point through a picture makes the message even more powerful than it originally was. Something I took away was the ability to better portray a message through a detailed drawing.
In conclusion quarter two brought a lot of new perspectives into me life. Last year quarter I learned about time management and being precise. Whereas, this quarter I learned about not being perfect but doing the best you can do, drawing/creating exactly what is asked to be created, making due with the materials you have to make your art pieces, etc. Most significantly I learned how to tell a story and a meaning throughout the simplest and the most complex pieces of art.
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Week 10 Art Project -Brendan Barnes
For week one we did blind contour drawings and it was kind of hard for me because I was so used to looking at the paper when I was drawing. Then I didn’t really understand that it was supposed to look messed up so I was throwing a lot of the really bad ones in the trash and starting over. For week three we had to color in our contour drawings and I forgot to submit my work so I was walking around with a zero for it but once I realized it I quickly submitted it.
On week 4 I had to paint, I chose to do perry the platypus because he is my favorite character from a tv show that I watched when I was a kid, I had a lot of fun working on it because I had to mix the colors together to create the colors that I really wanted. Week 5 and 6 was my worst week this quarter because I tried to recreate the American flag but then I left my flag in my locker and since we had a lot of snow days I was not able to really work on it so I didn’t get a good grade on it, but I choose to do the American flag because it is a symbol itself but within it there are multiple symbols, I just find that to be really cool.
The assignment for week 7 and 8 turned out to be the best artwork I’ve done probably in my whole life, I chose to do Chief Keef who is one of my favorite rappers that are from Chicago. I feel like I did it perfectly. I got points off because for some reason it was turned sideways on the pdf but not on the normal google doc. Week 9 we had to edit a photo and add depth of field to it. To me it was a good way to end off the marking period. I chose to focus on a picture that said “Neither God” and it didn’t take my long to do that but the picture had to be 2 hours of work so I spent the rest of the time add special effects to it.
I would also like people to know that I don’t consider myself to be an artist but I honestly do feel way more confident about drawing since I joined Ms.Hull’s art class, I make sure just to try and have fun with it. For every single one of my pieces of art I never once said I couldn’t do it and I just tried my best.
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Quarter 2 Artist Statement
Week 10 Art- Project- Sharron Norton
In the second quarter of my art class, we were giving 5 major assignments and these art pieces resulted in the finishing of blind finished contour drawings, creating my own art piece, remaking of a famous piece of art, illustrating from a piece of writing, and photo editing . During the process of this task to complete, my creativity was unleashed. From these assignments, I was able to truly have faith in myself as an artist and test my resourceful talent that has been hidden for so long.
My artwork is about the excitement of exploring with your eyes, mind and spirit the unique and the mysterious. The work that I create in Mrs. Hull’s room is created to have immediate impact and long lasting power, personally for me, atleast. My art pieces are very meaning for to me because its about doing what I never thought I could do that I never thought I would actually had the time to do before. And from the process I completed in every class period, the paintings and art pieces had engaged me by their power of color, motion and imagery and eventually moved me into a sense of wondering and curiosity. Right then and there, I was beginning to be pulled in--to be involved in the process of discovering all the variety of shapes, the dark and light spaces in between them, how they're connected, float or seem to move fast across the paper. And to my surprise, I would return the next class period to the painting and find new insights and associations with the imagery that I would then add to me overall sense of experiencing the original beauty of the creative process. When completing I knew once placed in my room, that they would energize it and me as well.
Looking past the obvious, close observation and engagement is major key during the process to making art work. The challenge is to see beyond the distraction of self- doubt and to just go with flow. Capture the uniqueness within yourself and your work. The advice I have for others is enjoy your experience and don’t deprive yourself from greatness. Even if your spend an entire class period just pondering multiple ideas of what you want to create in your assignment, that's fine. It may not seem like its progress, but let me tell you it is. The process of creation is in a constant state of decay and renewal. I say this because you won’t have anything unless you bring your artist side to life. Set it free to explore and be open minded to trying new things. Even if it may seem unusual. My goal is to inspire those who to discover beauty in unusual places.
Q2 Art Slideshow - Ethan Larrabee
Julia's Q2 Art
A lot of the art I created in this quarter were different versions of art from the same assignment. Namely, these were 10 blind contour drawings, 10 blind contour drawings with color, and 10 versions of a picture of a chicken I took on a road trip to Plymouth through different filters. Two more pieces of art I made were a recreation of The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh and an illustration of my interpretation of the Parting of the Red Sea. I also painted a picture of the sky, but I didn’t have enough blue, so I used purple, red, and a bit of green. This is why I named the painting “Improvised Sky.” I come up for inspiration for art the same way I come up with inspiration for stories: they can pop into my head at any time. I could just be minding my own business, when suddenly an idea hits me.
I used my same strategy of drawing a rough draft in my sketchbook, and then making the good copy on a separate piece of paper. I still prefer colored pencils, but using paint can also be fun. I learned that experimenting with different filters and frames on the same photo can make two completely different and really cool. An example of this is using the night vision filter and the film frame to make a scene of a chicken in a documentary filmed at night, and using the monochrome filter and the old photo frame to make an old and somewhat spooky black and white chicken picture. I still use a sketchbook to draw out rough drafts and ideas.
I spend my studio time working on my current art assignment, or on something else if I’m already done. I learned that you don’t have to draw something to make art, you can just have some fun with a few photo filters.
Artist's Statement
For this quarter I created from recreating a piece of artwork to photo editing. I recreated two types of flower, cherry blossom and a read morning glory flower. In the photo editing I used photos when I went to Venezuela. I got pictures of myself with the background with the sky on top of The Avila mountain in Caracas. I also have a picture of my uncles because they perform for the people, and tourist that go there. The important source is being observant of what you are trying to do because you can’t just do whatever. Well for my experience I need to be observant to recreate something or take a good picture. I used snapseed to edit my pictures, and it’s a very useful app because you can select points in the picture to make it better in that point you picked. Also my phone was a good tool because it has cropping pictures and adjusting brightness.
My preferences is editing pictures to submit a work if you need to take a picture because you can edit the brightness, contraction or anything else. The material I prefer is color pencils and markers because markers are great to mark lines and coloring in with color pencils. I did learn a new technique, using the projector to copy a drawing. It’s the best thing ever because you can be a skilled drawer or not and still us it it’s so helpful. I didn’t use special tools this quarter but I learn about a eraser that is used to decrease or blend a drawing. The studio time was spent productive even if it wasn’t art, I would be doing work from another class after I was done my artwork.
My important thing happen was communicating with the teacher because if I was communicated with her I wouldn’t been marked late. I try my art pieces to connect with me some way, the photo editing was about me and my country Venezuela and my uncles that have been there for me and trust. The artwork is from an anime I used to watch and my uncle has a cherry blossom flower tattooed on him so that inspired me. When I chose my own painting I wanted to do something from my childhood so I did Mickey Mouse and the gang when they were babies.
Julia's Q2 Art
A lot of the art I created in this quarter were different versions of art from the same assignment. Namely, these were 10 blind contour drawings, 10 blind contour drawings with color, and 10 versions of a picture of a chicken I took on a road trip to Plymouth through different filters. Two more pieces of art I made were a recreation of The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh and an illustration of my interpretation of the Parting of the Red Sea. I also painted a picture of the sky, but I didn’t have enough blue, so I used purple, red, and a bit of green. This is why I named the painting “Improvised Sky.” I come up for inspiration for art the same way I come up with inspiration for stories: they can pop into my head at any time. I could just be minding my own business, when suddenly an idea hits me.
I used my same strategy of drawing a rough draft in my sketchbook, and then making the good copy on a separate piece of paper. I still prefer colored pencils, but using paint can also be fun. I learned that experimenting with different filters and frames on the same photo can make two completely different and really cool. An example of this is using the night vision filter and the film frame to make a scene of a chicken in a documentary filmed at night, and using the monochrome filter and the old photo frame to make an old and somewhat spooky black and white chicken picture. I still use a sketchbook to draw out rough drafts and ideas.
I spend my studio time working on my current art assignment, or on something else if I’m already done. I learned that you don’t have to draw something to make art, you can just have some fun with a few photo filters.