Question 1: The Art Criticism Process There are 4 steps to this process. a) The first step would be to describe the piece. You should describe anything that stands out and describe it in a way so someone that doesn't know what it looks like would recognize it once they see it based on your description. b) The second step would be to analyze the piece. This means that you look at all the techniques and elements they have used in their piece and usually requires the use of vocabulary words. c) The third step is to interpret the piece. This means you try to understand what the artist is trying to portray through their work and figuring out the story or how you feel when you see it. d) The fourth and final step is to judge the artwork. This is overall how you would rate the artwork and critiquing it. This step is mostly based on your own opinions on the work. Question 2: Critique Your Work Description: The artwork has a gradient blue sky as the background and the bottom half of the painting was painted a darker blue to represent a body of water. There are shadows painter in the body of water to give it more texture. At the horizon where the body of water and sky meet, there are mountains painted in a different shade of blue and buildings painted with different shades of gray paint. There are also white clouds in the sky with a grey outline around their borders to give them a more 3D effect. The painting is meant to be of a city. Analysis: There seems to be the use shadows in this painting (especially in the clouds and ocean), and the layering is done the proper way. There is some gradient in the sky with the blending of a lighter blue at the bottom and a darker blue at the top. Interpretation: What I think I was trying to portray through this painting was my memories of going to DC because the picture that I used as my reference was a picture of DC. I really enjoyed my time there, so I had decided to paint that specific picture as a way to remember the memories I have. Overall Critique: I don't think the execution of this piece was done that well. I think the colors are dull and the painting overall is not as lively as I wanted it to be. There are really only 3 colors used in this overall painting, just different shades of them. Questions 3: What is art? Art is the embodiment of the artist through any type of vessel. It is when an artist shows their raw emotions and feelings in their piece. Art can be anything and can be interpreted in many ways, but that's the best thing about it. There's no limit to what is known to be art. Question 4: Illustration Fridays & sketchbook homework assignments have been completed almost every week this semester, do you feel this assignment helped you brainstorm for main projects or helped your skill levels in any way? Why, or why not? Illustration Fridays really helped me discover the style of art that I mainly like. I learned that I like cuter and more animated drawings to draw as little sketches. They also helped me realize that I'm not the worst artist in the world. I may be bad, but I can at least draw something. 8 Question 5: Do over: If given the opportunity, which project would you do over? Describe why and how you would redo this project.
The one project that I would do over is my watercolor project. I feel like I rushed while doing and I would definitely take my time redoing it and make it a lot more detailed. I would want to make the bushes and trees stand out more by using different shades of green and giving the leaves more details.
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1. I did a portrait of myself because I didn't want to offend anyone else with my horrible drawing.
2. I used paint for my piece. 3. First, I drew a sketch of myself on my canvas. Then, I painted my eyes, hair, and shirt. Then, I painted my skin and added contours. I painted the background for my last step. (There are a lot of things wrong with this process). 4. The thing I found most successful was that I think I drew my face pretty accurately compared to the facial proportions warm-up. One thing that I would change is that I would definitely paint the background first and then sketch and paint my actual face. 1. The most helpful warm-up was the face proportions one. It really helped me figure out where everything was on a face and how big everything should be.
2. I honestly found everything about the proportions surprising, but I think the weirdest is that five eyes can fit in our face because I always thought our faces were pretty small. 1. For my first layer, I used scraps of tissue paper and I glued them onto the poster board. Then, I drew a plane and cut it out of my sketchbook and glued it onto the poster board as well. I then decided to print out letters and cut them out to make a quote. Then, I painted on clouds around the plane to make it look like it was flying. Then, I decided to use glitter to finish things off.
2. My word was journey and I decided to portray my piece as the journey through childhood. I used colorful tissue paper and glitter because it reminded me of a child's vivid imagination. 1. Since the in process blog post, I have glazed my clay piece with multiple glazes and fired it.
2. What I find most successful about my piece is that I actually managed to get the structure to stand because I was really struggling with keeping the piece all together. 3. If I could change my piece, I would make the measurements of the lid better because it didn't fit that well on my piece. (I may or may not have accidentally deleted all the pictures that I had of my sculpture when I was cleaning my camera roll a week and a half ago :(( ) (Photo of linoleum block will be posted soon)
1. I think my piece shows the theme of line because I tried adding as manly lines as possible as seen in the sketch, but it didn't work out that well in the actual process. 2. I think my piece at least looks similar to waves. I would definitely redo it if I could because I don't think I did my best. I would try to not carve as deep in the linoleum and try to carve out more details. 1. What I planned on doing throughout the process was to just get a piece that looked similar to a birdhouse and I did it just by taking it slow and not trying to rush on anything.
2. I found measuring slabs and fitting everything together hard because sometimes something was too big and sometimes it was too small. 3. I think the bird that I made was the most successful thing I did throughout the project. 4. Basically, I cut and rolled out various slabs and scratch and slipped them together. I made sure the slab roller didn't make the slabs too thin because I needed sturdy slabs for the greenware. I also made a bird that will sit on top of the birdhouse and act as a handle for the lid. (I may or may not have accidentally deleted all the pictures that I had of my sculpture when I was cleaning my camera roll a week and a half ago :(( ) |
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