Work in progress... Still have 1 more finger to do
Today I am wishing that art was the only class I DID have homework in insted of the only class I DIDN'T have homework in. Back to school tomorrow though most likely without enough sleep... again.
Vase/Face/Optical Illusion/Dancer?Today she tricked us. Mrs.Haggerty knew that it would be difficult for us to draw the vase/face when she was saying what the parts of the face were while we were drawing. When she was talking she was assigning words to the parts making it harder to draw them because we had to use the left side of our brain to think about words and the right to draw. When drawing you are supposed to only focus on the right side and it makes it much easier to do. She also showed us a video similar to the one below. It explain in the description about the right side and left side and how they relate to the video and the dancer. Upside down ManFor this assignment Mrs. Haggerty gave us this drawing by Pablo Picasso but we weren't allowed to look at it. She handed it to us downward and we put it straight into a folder. We called it upside down man because we started from the bottom. We pulled a little bit of the drawing out of the folder at a time and drew each part without knowing the whole image. The purpose was to focus on right brain and left brain functions. She wanted us to be able to draw the man without assigning words to the different parts. I think it came out very well, the only thing that I would change would be his head. Its a little small and I'm not really sure why. I also don't think anyone would notice if they don't see the original. The hardest parts would be his hands and his glasses. When I came to these places I made my sections smaller to pay more attention to the smaller details. Another thing that was difficult was to not go back and change things after I drew it the first time. "Line to adjacent line, angle to adjacent angle" Pre-InstructionThis was our first project of the year. We used watercolors on hard press paper and then sharpies for the letters. We had to choose analogous colors (colors next to each other on the color wheel) and paint them using a grid. I had used watercolors when I was younger but never on hard press paper. Actually I didn't know there was such things as hard press watercolor paper... It took a little getting used to because the paint sort of sits on top of the paper. It was interesting to work with them and figure out how to get them the way I wanted them. To make the border around the painting we used masking tape. When I was pulling mine off some of the paper came with it. I was a little disappointed but I just used a wet brush to spread the paint already on the paper over to the fix where the paint was pulled off. You couldn't even tell!
First Day!
Mrs. Haggerty wanted to take a different route on the first day so we had a balloon competition. She gave each team of 3 or 4 of us 25 balloons to make the tallest tower we could. I had Destiny, Ashleigh and Jillian in my group. We had some trouble blowing up the balloons and twisting them. During the project we were called down by grade for assemblies so working as a group was a little difficult. Mrs. Haggerty introduced Artistic behaviors to us and then told us that we had already been doing some of them without even knowing it! |
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May 2016
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