Before we did our self portraits we looked at facial proportions. The photo on the bottom had lines on it where different features were supposed to be. We used only black and white paint to do both paintings with a flat brush. The top photo was our second attempt without any guidelines. They're a little creepy looking but thats okay.
This is the finished project! I really like it :) I was really pleased when I measure it after and it was centered because i forgot to do that before I started drawing. I will describe my process below. This project had a little bit more freedom then our other projects so far. The only requirement was that there were 2 hands in the finished product. I wanted to experiment a little more with watercolors so I did. One of my class mates mentioned that the top of it looks like a heart as well. I put tape on the edges to give it a border which is still on in this picture. It ended up ripping a little bit of the paint off which I had to fix. I spent 2 days working on this and I think I should have just left it the way it was at the end of the first day. I don't like how some places are splotchy and have hard lines, at the end of the first day it was more of a blended color.
During our critique we talked about positive and negative space and how many of us were already using it without knowing. The way my hands made a heart is a good example. The hands are the positive space and the heart is the negative space. This was our next project and it was all about negative and positive space. We used special "paper", I put it in quotes because it was really plastic but I don't remember what its called. It had 2 layers, the first was the white and it was one big sticker that we cut through to the second layer which was black and not sticky at all. To begin we cut it so there was a white rectangle is the middle. Can you see where it sort of still is? We were told not to cut the corners and to be like Tim Gun and "Make it work". For a perfectionist like me it was hard when thing were completely symmetrical. I started in the top left corner and did somewhat of a diagonal. The bottom diagonal is like a mirror image of the top diagonal. The zig zags in the middle were the hardest to "make work" I didn't know where to put them on the outside of the rectangle. Cool fact! On the web sight we use to post our artwork on for school Artsonia (there is a button with a link to the right to check it out) this was up for artist of the week! It didn't win but that's okay!
These are a few of my classmates artworks that I really liked. During he critique we discussed artistic behaviors, made compliments and suggestions for each other.
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-Instruction |
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May 2016
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