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Special Thanks to: Anwar, Marley, and Uyen for the transpasses. 

​This is my bicycle drawing
 
This is my negative space bicycle drawing

This is my guitar that I made

For our last quarter we were suppose to create a piece of art work out of things you find and can use for different things. Things like duct tape, newspaper, etc. but I decided to use plastic bottles, bottle caps and cardboard. The thing that I created was a stool, because it was different. This stool isn't for sitting but just for show the  legs are made out of plastic bottles and the seat is made out of cardboard and bottle caps. I did this because in all honesty I didn't know what to do but then I was sitting on a stool and a friend suggested I make it so I became in agreement with her and did it. I came with the idea of bottles because I didn't think it was common for people to use them but common for people to use. And I didn't want to throw the caps away so I just decided to use them.
 And then we were to draw a picture of a bike 3 different ways. A regular pencil drawing, a shadow drawing, and a no space drawing. This was a very difficult task because I don't think I am a good artist so I doubt my self a lot but I think my pictures came out better then expected. I drew the regular one first and then shaded the darker parts and the light dark parts. After that I drew all over it and made it seem as though the bike was the only thing showing.
I feel like this was one of my best quarters this year because I feel as though I really accomplished what I needed to and got that I shouldn't try and look for the perfection the flaws that I improved on over the year.

Above are the three photoshopped photos
Below are the bicycle photos 




Below are my sculptor pieces. I made candy wrapper barrettes. 

For the 4th quarter we were asked to complete multiple piecies of art work. Some include a bicycle upside down drawling, area shading of a bicycle, and creating a sculpture for the sculpture I decided to create an xylophone. Below are picture of my pieces of art

 

Vichhay Roeung

Artist Statement #4

 

            The fourth quarter is the shortest quarter of all. At the most there were only five assignments that had to be turned in this quarter. There was much that had to be done, perspective drawing, spaces, (negative), sculpture and photo edits. The first project was a sculpture; during that week I worked on building a mobile, a piece of art that was created by Alexander Clader in 1939. Mostly used as decoration and in nursery, the mobile focused on the aspects of equilibrium. When building it, I focused on the balance and irregular shape of the art piece. One side being a regular balance while the other is irregular, in the end it looks good, it balances and rotates.

 

            The second art project was to take over two hundred photos and edit three of them. Being a good experience for a week as I went around taking random pictures of everything I see. Which it was fun as there were a lot to see in Philadelphia, many wonderful and strange things such as warning signs. The next piece was a bicycle drawing, where we had to do a negative space drawing, lines only, and then shading. Which what I should had done first was the lines then shading because I finished with the negative spaces, there were color marks that blended over to the lines side. This piece was by far a difficult task as there were many parts and small objects that had to be drawn and focused on.

 

            For the famous art piece, I decided to copy an art piece created by Leonardo De Vinci. It is a sketch of the Siege Machine that De Vinci created and so forth I copied. Needless to say I captured most of the details that were vital, but since it was a sketch, the insides were the hardest to draw, as there were not much that could be seen. The final piece was a drawing from observation, which I did of a bench near my neighborhood. The drawing seems somewhat like a sketch but the details are truly captured and expressed in the drawing.

 

Compare and Contrast:

- The first picture is of a flower. I decided to do it that way because I wanted to focus on the beauty of the flower, thus I had like a lenses focusing on it. Burring the picture and making the flower shine.

- The second is that of trees near a park in South West Philadelphia. I decided to make it this way because at first it was just plain and normal, so instead I made it creepy and mysterious. Mainly because by changing it this way it became more exciting and dramatic, such as those in movies.

- The final ones were that of houses in a wide-open area. I brighten up the picture to show how wonderful I thought the area and scenery was.  

 

Natalie Sanchez
6/8/11
Artist statement Q4
This quarter in art class, my we were asked to take 200 photos, modify 4 photos, recreate a famous painting, sketch a bicycle three times in different ways, and draw an outside scene from observation. There were some forms of art that were new to me. For example, before this art quarter, I never used to do photography, but this assignment gave me an opportunity to experience that freedoms that come with photography. I feel like in this quarter, I have been exposed to new forms of art.
 The most challenging project of this quarter was modifying the four pictures.  As I mentioned before, I did not know how to use photoshop at all. I had to find a friend of mine to teach me how to edit the pictures. She taught me the basics: How to cut out the background of a picture, How to change the background of a picture, how to manipulate the layers of the pictures, and how to add text to the same. After she explained these things to me, I was able to modify the four pictures in different ways. After I learned how to use photoshop, I liked the creative aspect of the project.  I enjoyed using my creative liberties to make a picture completely different than what it initially was.
The easiest project of this quarter was recreating the famous painting. I recreated the Painting “Starry Night” by Vincent Van Gogh. I enjoyed the process of creating the painting because painting is one of my favorite hobbies. I also feel like I had plenty of time to finish the painting because I paced myself with it. I worked on it for two whole art periods and at home for half an hour and was able to finish it on time.
Overall, I feel like this quarter opened my interests to other forms of art like photography and photoshop. I feel like photography gives me a chance to capture the art in my world as I see it and that photoshop gave me an opportunity to modify a picture the way that I want to. If I were to start this quarter over again,  I would probably pace myself with all my art projects so that I would be able to finish all of my art work on time and save myself work time at home. As a whole, I felt like this quarter went well. 

Link to my 200 photos.

Wallet made of Duct Tape

Edit 3 Photos

Bike: Lines only​

Bike: Shading only

Bike: Negative drawing

Artist Influence 

Outside Picture:

Example photo of drawing

The first picture, is just a line drawing.
The second is Shadowing with some shadow reflection
The Last one is supposed to be negative space.