Up, Up...And Back Down

(Photo soon to come.)

End of Term 1 Reflection.

This first term of art for me has been more then I expected. Coming into Beaver, I thought that art principles was going to be a pretty dull class that would teach me fundamentals, but not necessarily have me put them to use. Yes, I have learned basic fundamentals of art such as shading, sketching, principles of design and many others, but I have put them to use. After learning how to shade (though, I'm no expert and still need to work at it MUCH more) I was able to on later assignments (such as other D.E.A.Ds) put the skill to use and make my picture look better then it would have in the beginning of the year.

Though I thought that it would be dull, I also thought that art was going to be easy. I didn't realize how high the expectations were going to be set and it came as a surprise to me that there was homework, yes HW! (Then again, it IS high school. Yikes!) I think that my biggest issue is feeling like I am doing a good job because I really haven't finished many of the projects. (Yes, I know you're going to tell me that I have -ex. the found image collage project, glass half full project, and MAYBE one other if I'm lucky. BUT I DIDN'T finish my pour painting project, sculpture, collage, and probably a few other projects as well.) So the hardest thing might be that I do not feel accomplished. I hope I will have time to re-visit projects and start and finish more in this upcoming term.

On a happier note, I'm very glad that I am in art principles with you as my teacher and I think that I will keep learning new skills and techniques and I look forward to putting them to use very soon.

Chair With Coat.

This week, I found our D.E.A.D. less complicated but harder to draw. There were less objects that were needed to draw, but the couple that were there, I had a hard time getting the proportions right. I think that I only skill that I used today that was needed in the previous D.E.A.D.s was shading. However, I didn't get much shading done because I was really trying to get the proportions finished correctly. I think that this might have been the most frustrating of all, because in the end, I didn't feel quite as satisfied.

Beauty In the Eye of the Beholder

When I started the glass half full project, I had no idea what to do. Eventually, I decided that I wanted to do my project on women and how there are good thing and also bad. However, the bad good and bad things were really hard to translate onto paper. Then I had the idea of working with the   medias image of beauty verses natural beauty. With the consent of Ms. Robberts, I combined the concepts into one picture. I emphasized the two different faces and made all of the other images in black and white. I was able to do this by glueing all but the two faces that were going to be in color and copied them into black and white. After that, I glued the two faces on. The two faces are so different, one of them has a lot of makeup on, and the other one is very natural looking. These faces are definitely the first thing that people see when they look at the collage. After they see the faces, they see the surrounding faces. I think my point was successful in making people see the differences between the two concepts.