Final Project Planning

     I really enjoy painting so for my final project I'm going to make a painting. One Idea I have is to paint the the photo below. Or at least drawing the window with the trees and sky. I might change some of the colors like the sky. I would want to make it a bluer color. I want to do it on some kind of thickish canvas.

Sketchbook reflection

      I loved working in my sketchbook. I got to experiment with so many different techniques and materials. I got to practice drawing, painting, making collages, etc. I was also able to use it for brainstorming Ideas for projects throughout the year.


Materials/techniques I used multiple times
- I painted many times.
- I made a similar painting 4 times, but they were a different each time. The paintings kind of looked like the ocean.
- I did many drawings.
- I had some collages.
- A couple times I did this doodle thing which is a page filled with shapes, overlapping each other.

Year reflection

      I had a lot of fun in Art class this year, and learned many different things. At the beginning of the school year I really didn't like drawing. Throughout the past 2 terms, I began to enjoy drawing a lot more. Because we drew once a week, almost every week, at least in the first term, I feel I have gotten so much better at it. I especially like the drawing I did of the pile of sticks. Another thing that I feel I'm good at is painting. Something else I realized this year is that I love using so many different colors in my paintings, collages,  and sculptures. In the future I will keep drawing and painting, not necessarily as a job, but for fun during my free time.

ART 21 REFLECTION #1

Susan Rothenberg
- She always dirtied her colors before painting. Sometimes she had a theme, or a series (like horses) and other times she did not feel inspired to do a series. She loved to use the colors red, green, and white. She doesn't like to get to "literal" about things and she wants the people looking at it to have to think about it. She wants to tell a "truth", and found much beauty in nature, such as a dragonfly and a snake. She often painted from the perspective of looking down. Sometimes it took her a long time to finish a painting, and sometimes it took 2 days.
- I liked her series on horses and found them to be cool looking. I wasn't a huge fan of her "dirtying up the colors," as I like bright and pure colors.

Kara Walker
- Her art is often about past events and times in history. She also deals with race in America and power.  A lot of her art has been about the "unexpected." She makes silhouette's cut out of black paper so you can't really look directly the subject and many of them have to do with taking away power. She also uses overhead projectors to light her work. This creates shadows so that the viewers shadow in in the picture. The viewer is important to her work. Her work is based on fact but is also very dramatic.
- I thought her work was interesting and clever but didn't feel a real connection to it.

Symbolic Clay Sculpture Portrait

     I am going to make a clay animal about my dad. I chose to do him because I am really close to him and I thought it would be fun to figure out an animal like him. He is nice, smart, and when he was younger he ran in races. In theses races, instead of sprinting for parts of it, he would run at a slow and steady pace. This reminded me of the tortoise in the book the tortoise and the hare, slow and steady wins the race.
    I will put the turtle on a soccer field with a soccer ball under one leg. I chose a soccer field because my dad likes playing soccer, coaching sometimes, and managing my teams.

  

Sybolic Portrait

I'm doing the portrait on my brother Murray

- I chose him because I am really close to him and I know so much about him.

Things about him:
   - reese's
   - soccer
   - music
   - Mexico
   - Pimpsticks
   

Materials:
- paint
- drawing
- collage

Visiting artist: Hamlett Dobbins

      The painting I liked best is an untitled painting from "First Draft (a collaboration with Tad Lauritzen-Wright). I like it because it contains so many different colors. I can recognize things in the painting, such as faces and the words. It's also complicated and seems to be about a couple communicating with words and facial expressions after some problem.
      His work seems to have a lot of color kind of like this painting. It fits in the paintings in "First Draft". They are all very colorful, many have faces, and they all seem to have to parts which are connected.

Q: Since it says that "First Draft" is a collaboration, what part(s) did Tad do, and what did you do?
A: Tad did the outline of it. It took maybe like 30 seconds. The picture on the left was originally holding a gun, and the picture on the right had his hand up. Hamlett got rid of the guns and the the hands. Hamlett also put in the color.