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Final Project Q3&4

Posted by Georjelis Rujano in Advanced Art · Hull · x2 Band on

Quarter 3 I've created artworks that I'm proud of because I took my time and my skills of coloring. Every art piece took at least 2 classes, especially the eye. I wanted really do good details because the eyes tell a story but I used tricks that I knew and the eraser to create shadows or fading. The next art piece I'm proud is the optical illusion because it was calming and at the end it was satisfying to see. The internet was the best source to create all of the artworks. Also to create shading having different pencils specialized to drawing because it creates the shadin for you and all you do is create layers. 
The most important thing that I learned from this quarter was that patience is key when you do art and it also relaxes you so it's a good mix. You can express yourself through colors. For all my artwork I wanted to create things that were different and you know Georjelis made it. So when I created he mandala it was very different and weird because nobody else has done it. And the colors I used connected the some figures in the pictured. 

Q3-4 Slideshow - Lauren Matthews

Posted by Lauren Matthews in Advanced Art · Hull · x2 Band on

​Some of the art I create for Quater 3 include a bike drawing, an optical illusion, different shaded forms, an eye drawing, and a mandala. I feel like my artwork was rushed and I could have spent more time my assignments. All but my most recent assignment has color and I feel like the other assignments are more dramatic with the black and grey shading. The mandala looks so joyful and colorful rather than my optical illusion which looks scary. 

While making art this quarter I realized that the assignments seemed easier and that is why I spent my studio time the way I did. it took a lot of hours to give my art the grade that it deserved and I feel like it was worth it. I traced over most of my drawings then outline then with pencil or dark marker to make it more appealing. The shading form assignment, for example, took the most time because I kept erasing to show the different types of shading. I even used a paper towel to smooth out the shading to make it look softer. 

I would like people to know that even though I rushed my art process this quarter, it actually gave me time to realize that I need to work on my time better. I know next quarter not to rush my assignments and start as soon as I get the chance in order to do my best. I would also like to use more color for my drawings to make a point that my art means something to me.

Art 2 Q2 Artist Statement

Posted by Darlenny Rodriguez in Advanced Art · Hull · x2 Band on


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

Posted by Ashton Reigner in Advanced Art · Hull · x2 Band on

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.


Carolines Q2 - Art

Posted by Caroline Pitone in Advanced Art · Hull · x2 Band on

This quarter, I created some abstract and creative art pieces for my assigned projects that go from drawings all the way to paintings and photo editing. I chose the abstract and creative route while doing these art assignments because I wanted to let loose on my art abilities and see what other kinds of drawings I could create. Some of my most important sources of art are old record covers. Record covers have very amazing art because they are always built around the music. Every record has a story which I adore, because it makes each one unique. It helps motivate me to not be scared about what I create. Which leads into my next source of idea, which is music. Artists and songs are really good for me to think about and listen to while drawing because it creates this whole new world of art for me that I didn't really know I had. For each of my drawings, I attempted to do more of a sketch approach while drawing, which is not like what I did for Quarter 1. For the outcome of my art, I wanted things to appear a tad messy in the end. I used to always want everything very perfect growing up, but now I love the look of trying to make something look flawed. It gives each piece a lot of character. For my materials, I prefer watercolors and colored pencils as materials. I don't like the look of markers in my drawings because I believe that once you use markers, there is no room to improve the work. Markers appear so permanent and intense. This is why I prefer lighter. During this quarter I learned about blind contour, which I have never really done before. I thought it was really interesting to see how creative my mind can be while not being able to see my paper. Some special materials that I used were acrylic paint. I am usually most comfortable with watercolor, so using some more intense paint was very cool. During my studio time, I planned out my next steps for my new art, as well as sketching. During this quarter, I was collaborating with my fellow peers who I never talked to before. It was really different to connect with people who have a similar interest as you. I would like people to know that I made an effort to different strategies compared to last quarter. I spent more time on my pieces and put some thought into them.

Week 10 - • Artist's statement

Posted by Zaire Williams in Advanced Art · Hull · x2 Band on

Throughout quarter 2 we have created 6 different art pieces for every week. For the first two weeks I drew 10 different images without look at what I was doing called the Blind Contour. The things I drew was Rihanna, Freddy Krueger, Michael Jackson, Batman, Hulk, Cam Newton, A Demogorgon, and Pennywise. On week 3 I colored them all they best as I could to bring the picture out. Next, on week 4 the assignment was choose your own painting. I choose one of my favorite game covers, Mortal Kombat. I painted it the best I could for it to look similar. On week 5&6 the task was to recreate a piece of Art. I wanted to test my skills so I decided to challenge myself a little by drawing a very detailed eye with shadows. For week 7&8, I personal think was my best piece of art yet. The task was  to illustration from a piece of writing, meaning we had to recreate a piece of art from a game, song, movie etc… I made J Cole the rapper album cover and it came out better than what I expected. For my last week 9, the task was to photo edit a picture with deep depth of field. I decide to edit two pictures because I enjoyed it a lot and they came out look really good. I made the lighting much better and brighter. I also added color to make certain things stand out.
One of my most important sources of ideas for art is just google images because you could type in a type of art and show you a lot of them you can choose from and they come out to be very creative. I sometimes outline the image for it to look neat and then do my own coloring, and sometimes I redraw the whole thing myself if i’m in the mood to. But, when I do redraw the whole picture I change somethings around like color or the way it looks if I think it look better.When I draw I personally like to use mechanical pencils because unlike a number two pencil, it doesn’t draw out after a certain time of using it. During this time I don’t think I learned anything new or different but in the future I plan to, to better my drawing skills even more.To make my artwork I sometimes use the projector. I would put my image on the projector and outline it on to my paper and do the rest myself.
I use my studio time wisely most if the time by starting my art right away and planning on what I want to start with and how I want it to look. But, I honestly can say I sometime work on other assignment to stay ahead in school.Overall, I really enjoyed this art assignments this quarter and hope for even better ones in the future that I can test my skills to.

Final Project Q2-4 - Artist’s Statement

Posted by Lauren Matthews in Advanced Art · Hull · x2 Band on

 Artist’s Statement:
For Quarter 2 Advanced Art class, I created drawings, paintings and edited photos. For week 1, the assignment was to do contour drawings and I choose viral and related topics that were currently going on. These topics include Pennywise from the movie IT and the dancing hotdog from Snapchat. Two of my favorite pieces of art created was week 4, choosing your own painting and week 5 and 6, recreate a piece of art. Week 5 and 6, I recreated a piece of art by the artist Noe Two. I felt like this piece was personal and I did better because it was someone that I admire, Aaliyah. As for my recreation of a piece of art for week 4, I painted a water bearer with different shades of blue. I got the idea from my zodiac sign which is aquarius and the sign for it which is a water bearer. 
I would like people to know that I take my art is personal to me and that I put a lot of effort into each assignment. I like to choose personal topics for my art work because I want to express how I feel about certain topics through my art work. For example in week 7 and 8, I completed a illustration piece from a piece of writing. The photo I used In this piece of writing was image was from album cover. I made the photo larger first. Then I traced the image and colored it in.
 Most of the equipment I used was, coloring pencils, markers and paint. I used markers to outline my art so that it can pop out. Them I would use paint or markers to add some color to my artwork. In week 1 for my contour drawing and coloring, I used different colors to make my contour drawing better. Using these different colors allowed my drawing to be more colorful. Instead of using the colors that are supposed to be for each picture, using different colors made my picture more aesthetic.  

Quarter 2 Artist Statement

Posted by Emma Risher in Advanced Art · Hull · x2 Band on

​Quarter 2 Artist Statement 
Thea Risher 

Over the course of this quarter, I made many different pieces and styles of art. These included blind contour drawings, a painting of our own choice, a recreation of a famous piece of art, an illustration from a piece of writing, and an edited photo. Because they were all very different, the process was extremely different for all of the pieces. I used many mediums I had not used before, such as watercolors or photo editing tools. In this artist statement, I will review everything I did, as well as how I grew as an artist. 
It started with the blind contour drawings. For this art, you had to draw anything you could see without looking down at your paper or raising your pencil from the paper. At first this technique was difficult to me because I felt that they needed to be perfect. Once I got the hang of it, it became easy to just draw with my instinct and let it look funny. It showed me that art does have to be perfect or meet anyone’s standards, but could also be fun and stress-relieving. I drew mostly the people around me, myself, my hand, and my hair. I began to enjoy the freedom and simplicity of it. We had to make 10 of these, then we had to color the blind contour drawings as best we can. I used a combination of markers, highlighters, and colored pencils to do this. We could use our eyes for this, so the color ended up making them look more polished and pretty. I used different color schemes for the different drawings, and I really enjoyed the final product. Next piece was my favorite of the quarter, which was any painting of our choice. I chose to use watercolors, because I was curious about how they worked and had never used them before for the most part. I painted a path in a forest, with different colored leaves. I made the branches with a very dense brush and darker brown paint, then made the leaves with washy oranges and reds. I finished with sparkly watercolor paints. I learned that a little bit of water can go a long way. I really pleased with how it came out, considering it was my first time using watercolors. The next assignment was to recreate a piece of art by a famous artist. I chose to do one of the famous still lifes by Paul Cezanne, because I admire his work and technique. I originally wanted to use acrylic paint to recreate his painting, but could not capture the detail the way I wanted to. I ended up having to start over, and decided to just try sketching it. I liked the sketch much better, but I had to work on it at home because I wasted a lot of time trying to use the technique of acrylic painting. This piece was one of the most difficult for me because of changing mediums in the process, but the end product turned out very good in my opinion. 
The next art piece was an illustration for a piece of writing. We were given a lot of freedom in this assignment, so I decided that I wanted to do an illustration for a song. The song I chose was Pink Matter by Frank Ocean. For this illustration, I wanted to do the silhouette of a woman surrounded by pink watercolors and full of galaxies in the middle of her body. I started by painting the background, then drew a woman’s profile on top of the pink layer. The profile was difficult to draw, so it took a few tries. Then, I colored her in with black acrylic paint. Once the paint dried, I drew white stars and galaxies and such. I thought this was a very fun art piece because I love music and was glad to incorporate my love of music into my art pieces. Lastly, we had to edit a photo. This was by far the most difficult assignment for me. It was the only one in which we had to edit a photo online, and I had a lot of trouble with this. Twice I completely edited my photo, only to have the photoshop app crash and lose all of my work. It would have been much easier to edit if the software was not faulty. Nevertheless, I think this was a learning experience because I had to learn to operate different photoshop tools, which will be useful for my future. 

Q2 Art Slideshow - Ethan Larrabee

Posted by Ethan Larrabee in Advanced Art · Hull · x2 Band on

Our first assignment this quarter was to create ten blind contour drawings. I mainly used pictures of various musicians along with a few other things such as my own hand. When coloring, I used colored pencils to try and mimic the original pictures though I tried some more abstract color choices as well. The whole thing was sort of a rushed job like most of my art assignments. For the painting, I actually didn't have access to paints, so I once again had to use colored pencils. For the flames, I used a mix of several yellow, red, and orange pencils.
For the recreated piece, I found a photo of an old alley and added some characters of my own using pencil. I orginally wanted to ink it and add more detail but I unfortunately ran out of time. For my illustration piece, I used lyrics from a song by Queens of the Stone Age and created the drawing with pencil, inking it afterwards. As for the photo editing, I used the "painting" assignment from ealier in the quarter. I wanted to try and bring the flames out a bit more from the rest of the light and create more contrast. Unfortunately, I have very little experience with photo editing, so it ended up a bit of a mess.

Julia's Q2 Art

Posted by Julia Furman in Advanced Art · Hull · x2 Band on

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.

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