Final Independent Project

This term of art I learned a lot about myself as an artist and pushed myself to try new and interesting topics. Through my sketchbook I've explored different techniques and styles of art and challenged myself to explore the weekly themes. I've worked hard to fill the page with art work and not worry so much about perfection. I loved the broad themes we had each week because many of them could be interpreted in different ways. I've also worked on developing a more productive creative process and not worrying about the final out come as much as just exploring the topic and having fun with it. The very first page in my sketchbook I experimented with glitter glue and I wasn't sure how it would turn out but I enjoyed doing it! I had a lot of trouble with the last theme of current events but I found whenI thought about current things that were important to me on a world wide scale it was much easier to make art and make it a fun experiment for me too. I have struggled completing my still life because I chose very hard object but I'm ready for the challenge and hopefully by the end of the term I will have finished all my projects. Something that I have found that has been a great help of inspiration to me and a lot of fun is my Tumblr blog. I really enjoy expressing myself through the blogging and a lot of my inspiration for my sketchbook is from my blog. It has actually grown into a big part of my life managing a blog with over 5,000 followers but it is almost another art form in photos, like a collection of my inspiration. Over all this term I have grown into a better artist and become more relaxed in letting my creative process flow.

Windows and Doors

My sketch includes a hallway lined with windows and one big window at the end. Along with an over head circular window. the perspective looks out into the city at night. The drawing is also tilted giving like a dizzy vertigo feeling.

Color & Value Research Planning

 GEORGES SEURAT - EDEN CONCERT

 EDWARD HOPPER - GIRL AT SEWING MACHINE

 LEONARDO DE VINCI - STUDY OF HORSES

JOHN SINGER SARGENT - WOMAN IN TURQOISE

2. Compare and contrast how color is used in the two paintings. How does the use of color communicate the concept of the work of art?

COMPARING AND CONTRASTING: both of one subject (a woman), one watercolor, one in acrylic or oil, one has reds and warm colors except green (reminds me of sunrise), representing time (morning)? darker reds though as though putting a mood of sadness. The other has cool colors, blues and turquoises and purple, and yellow. Has a sense of youth and innocence. playful fun colors. the way the dress is painted in shapes and an almost 3d effect. The first one has a prominent background and the other is focused on the girl. There are not a lot of contrasting colors in the painting but they both contrast each other a lot. 


3. Compare and contrast how value is used in the two drawings. How does the use of value communicate the concept of the work of art?

The first one of the Horse is very lightly sketched and then goes into greater detail.  It has a very light back ground compared to the other one which is very dark. The other one has very dark colors and not as detailed.

Thinking About Drawing and Painting

We can access images of anything via the internet and snap photos with our phones, so why are drawing and painting still viable methods for making images?

Art is a way of expressing our thoughts and feeling. Simply taking a picture of something doesn't always exactly express our ideas. But making something from our own mind using our imaginations and thoughts allows us to really express them. When taking a picture of something its a set moment in time, unchanged. But with drawing and painting u can erase, paint over, change things in any way you like. You have an immense freedom to create anything you can image. While you can only photograph anything in the world. 


Changing photographs to fit our imagination: http://www.divinecaroline.com/22343/102342-drawing-vs-photography personally i think this is one of the coolest things ever! definitely going to do more of these in my free time!

Found Marks

 Over the next few days I would like you to be on the lookout for marks in the world that are not made by humans. If you have access to a camera please photograph at least 10 of these "found marks" and upload them to this post in your blog. If you don't have access to a camera, you may describe the marks you found in detail instead. If you choose to write, describe what made the mark, exactly where you saw it, and when you saw it (date and time of day). Images from the internet are not acceptable! 

Reflection

Reflecting at the end of the year. Look through your blog. Go all the way back to the beginning of the year. Look especially closely at your finished work. Think about how the year has gone for you. Now, write a detailed paragraph that describes how the course has gone for you. What have you found to be your artistic strengths? What have been your challenges? What do you think you’ll leave the class thinking about? How can you see it influencing your life in the future? LABELS: reflection

 This year has been an amazing year of art for me. Not only have I learned a lot and grown as an artist but I have really enjoyed this year with you as my teacher. My work I have finished this year I found has developed and gotten better and better and more creative. My love for art has really been strengthened by taking this class. I have found I love doing collages and working in 3D art but my drawing skills have really improved as well. Drawing is most definitely my greatest art strength but I am looking forward to expanding my horizons and challenging my self. The only real challenge I have had this year is dealing with the tragic loss of my art journal :( After it being lost now for about a month I am starting to worry I may never get it back. I had just finished the journal and it has this entire years art work in it, including some personal things too. This year I think I will leave the class thinking about my lost art journal sitting  behind some cabinet in a cold dark corner, or in a smelly pile of trash at a dump. Mostly though I will be thinking about how much I will miss this class, and how I cant wait to get back up there next year and work with you again! This class is not only the best art class I have ever taken but also the best class in general. I will take all that i have learned from this class and use it in all my future years of art (which will hopefully be many). My freshman year will be remembered as the year I took an amazing art class, with the great Mrs. Roberts! I can't wait till next year when I get to be up there for 2 art classes!!

SKETCHBOOK ARCHEOLOGY

Sadly my Sketchbook has gone missing so this will be more of remembering on my part then flipping through my journal.
Some of the things I remember like themes and materials are:

• peacock made of from glitter gel pens
• horse tack sketches
• circles from paint pens
• horse magazine clips collage
• Angel writing
• glue gun plaid
• velcro scene
• sewn on circles
• window clip
• horse sketches
• floral chanel paint pen drawing
• all layouts for projects
• hand made out of words
• magazine collagags
• interior design lay out
• barn sketch
• house sketch
• metalic abstract design with paint pens
• tiara design
• dress designs
• fox sketch

Final Project

Large Sketch (maybe canvas??) of Birds eye view of a town.

Symbolic Clay Sculpture

Who? Myself

Traits? sometimes shy, someimes chatty, small siza, unique, high pitched, fast, brave, smart.

Animal? Where? Chickadee Bird in a cage, (as though locked in)

Symbolism portrait

perfume
No. 5
little black dress
chanel logo.
chanel hats
lace
ribbons
floral
pearls.
feminin revolution.

Paper Cranes for Japan Project

Describe what images and/or facts stayed with you from what you saw and read about the devastation in Japan. Now make a list of at least three wishes you have for the people of Japan. Add a picture of a paper crane to the post.


I saw many videos of the devastation in Japan. It was so sad to see so many people homes, boats, cars and even other possessions, float by and there was nothing they could do. It must have been so hard for these people to watch as there home was destroyed, to not be able to stop it. I heard one story of a man who when he realized his wife and mother were not with him, was told to report them as missing, and wait 2 DAYS for the rescue workers to come and hopefully find them. He knew he couldn't stand around and wait, so he took action. He swam into his house and managed to hold his breath long enough to find them. They were stuck in the bedroom with only a foot of breathing room left. He helped them out of the house and they survived. If he hadn't have done that, and been so brave, they would have surely died with the rising water level. Its so inspirational to hear these stories about how brave these people are.


WISHES:
1. That all the homes and buildings will be able to be rebuilt.
2. That the nuclear problems with the food would be solved/stopped.
3. That no more people will die for reasons relating to this tragedy.

Getting back to materials

Insert a photo of the self portrait you made in class today. In a post on your blog explain why you chose the materials you did for today’s project, then describe how you decided to use the materials you chose. What was the process for making what you made? How do you feel about the finished product?

For this project I didn't have many choices for materials, but the one i thought would be a lot of fun was this bendy wire string stuff. It was in a huge role and u could bend it into different shapes thats why i thought it would be easiest to use. Fist when i started to make my self portrait I made the oval of my face and twisted the ends together so they would stay. Then I used the symmetry lines of drawing faces to use a line to create the 2 eyes on and a line to create the mouth. I had to bend them into the shapes of these features though. Next I put the nose attaching to the line between the 2 eyes. Then i used to strands to outline hair. One challenging part was that the wire wasn't completely bendable to it would sometimes twist apart or the lines of the eyes and mouth would move lower and higher than where they should be. The finished project although it isn't a masterpiece I think does look like a face, this project felt like more of a fun thing to get back into my creative side and doing art in school again.

Snow Globe Birthday

Term 1 Reflection

Dear Mrs. Roberts  
This terms art class has been the best class I have ever taken, I have learned so much and always enjoy coming to class. Art has always been my favorite subject but this year expesially has been so much fun and I have really enjoyed all the projects and activities we do. Things like Drop Everything and Draw really challenged me and my artistic skills and pushed me to really create my best work. Although they were sometimes frustrating I never gave up and fought through to create some pretty interesting and realistic drawings. This not only boosted my confidence in my art but helped me to become a better artist too. Being in this class I have not only grown as an artist but I have learned so much. I have really learned to be patient in my art work and that sometimes having to erase parts of your work and start over does not always mean you messed up. I think my level of different types of artwork has really grown in this past term. Usually I only do sketches but I was surprised that I have come to start using other materials and found that I love to do magazine collages! I have also done a wide variety of things in my sketch book and tried my best not to limit myself. I was also surprised at how open and creative this art class has been, although we have been assigned projects in no way are everyones the same, we all get to add our own creativity and twist to each project. The most enjoyable thing though that we did was our sketch books. That really allowed me to be as creative as I wanted to and never have be judged by anyone, I really like trying out new things in there and being that I do art on a regular basis it was a great place for me to hold it all in one place. For next term I would like to continue to work in my art journal over the winter and I would advise myself to try to keep practicing new technics, and to improve on others. My goal by the end of the year is to have that journal completely full! To grow as an artist I need to simply just keep doing what I am doing now. I think since I want to go to an art college when I grow up I need to start collecting all my work in a portfolio, try new things, and improve on my skills that I have now. I think I could really improve my sketching and collaging technics if I just keep working on them. Although I love to do art, I don't always have time for it with my busy schedule but I have decided that since I want art to be in my future I need to keep improving my skills so one day I can be the artist I have always wanted to be. I want to thank you so much for opening my eyes to just how many possibilities in art there are out there. I really enjoyed having you as a teacher and really enjoyed working and sharing my work with you. I am so excited to continue having you as my teacher in the spring. You are by far the best teacher I have had in art, or any class!


Your Student,
Natalie Freedgood

Chair with coat

Fabric Drawing

Finished Projects

Half glass full project:

Sculpture:

Pile of sticks:

Chair With Coat

HOW did you find today's still life more or less complicated to draw than the still lives over the past few weeks (white paper, sticks, fabric)? Be specific.

HOW did you use some of the skills we've developed over the past three weeks drawing more complicated still lives to draw the chair with coat today? What are these skills?


I found this still life to take more time than the others but not necessarily harder or easier its just more combining both methods we used with the sticks and the fabrics. You had to use fluid soft movements for the coat and more lined hard or jagged movements with the chair. I started with simply the basics of the chair and coat just lightly sketching then added the darker and lighter spots and then added shadows and highlights. I used this skill from are drawings over the past couple of weeks. Another skill I used was to almost look more at the still life then your drawing. 

Glass Half Full Project.

Describe the concept for your work.
Describe how the process of making this piece went for you.
What struggles did you encounter?
What did you discover?
What feedback did you get along the way and from whom?
What aspects of the work do you think are most successful?


The concept for my work was the pluses and minuses of going to a horse show. The process of making this piece was easy for me because for some reason the ideas just flowed out and i immediately knew what I wanted to do. The only struggle i encountered is where to put certain things on the paper and what to do for the backgrounds of each picture. I discovered that when i finished my piece it looked a lot like the list i had made of things to include in it. The way things were organized and placed on the page made it seem like a list. Silmar and Nikki said I should maybe do gray on the background on the minuses one but I decided that it may look to drastic like that and i didn't want the other part to look to bland with no background. I think the way i represented things with pictures was most successful in my piece. 

Principles of Design research

Our piece of art was made by Grant Wood and was called The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. He used a lot balance in his work with all the houses and had a lot of emphasis on the road because of the leading lines. There was also implied movement with the horse Paul Revere was riding. The movement of the horse made the image look a little less like it was made out of toys. The proportions were also important in the piece with the big mountain in the back in the white church which also showed contrast from the brown houses and green grass. 

We got some feedback from people saying they liked our snowflakes and the idea of the snow but thought the shingles didn't look to much like shingles. 

I thought Nikki's work (a helicopter) was successful because it had an actual moving parts and really looked like a helicopter.