ArT 1 FiNaL eXaM!

.  1.Which project was your favorite or most successful this semester? Please explain.

 

           My favorite project and most successful this year was the Stencil. It was my favorite because we got to trace a landmark that we picked and then make the background a collage. I enjoyed making the background and picking all the colors of the water colors and spray paint, to make it look bright. I think it was my successful project of the year because I used all different colors in the background to make the values of the colors in the background, make the building stand out. I also centered the building so that there wouldn't be empty space on either side of the collage and make it look incomplete. I cut out the black space so that when I spray painted on top of the stencil, it showed the inside detail of Big Ben. Cutting the black out made my picture have good contrast with the black and the bright colors in the background. I think the hardest part of this project was cutting  the stencil out with the xacto knife it's self without cutting yourself or messing up the landmark by cutting the white space out instead. The black spray paint represents the negative space and the rest of the landmark represents the positive space in the picture. Overall, I think this project came out really well and I am really proud of it. 

   2. Regardless of whether you liked or disliked a project, which one did you learn, grow, or developed the most from? Please explain.

   The game drawing I learned, grew, and developed the most from this year. I learned the most from this project because I didn't even know what one-point perspective was, and I didn't really know how to make the objects look smaller and darker the farther you went back. I also learned how to overlap values and make the different highlights in the playing cards. I grew a lot in blending colors and making my lines go to the vanishing point better. My picture started out pretty bad but once I blended the colors and made the game pieces look more realistic, and when I added more color my picture started developing. I think the most difficult part about this project was making the picture in one-point perspective and making sure all the horizontal lines went to the vanishing point. To finish off the project I added a darker brown underneath the game board closets to me to show the shadow from the board on the table. This was a very challenging project but I think I did alright on it. It diffidently taught me a lot, that I did not know before. 

T      3.Choose 1 piece of Art that you used skills and techniques learned from previous projects. Discuss your growth as an artist and how you incorporated these skills and techniques to create the piece

The landscape painting I used skills and techniques I learned from previous projects. I used what I learned about mixing colors, making different values, and making things dark the farther you go back in the picture. In the game drawing we learned how to make different values and how to put highlights in our picture, I used what I learned in that project and made this landscape. I used that things get smaller as they go farther away, also in the game drawing. I mixed a little bit of white and blue to make a little bit lighter blue, and then I mixed red and blue to make green. After that, I mixed the lighter blue and the green together to make the values in the water. I did that to show the texture of it, so it wouldn't look completely flat and all one color. The canvas made things a lot easier when it came the painting part of the project. You could paint over it and nothing would show, which was very helpful when you mixed colors wrong or messed up in some way. Overall, I think the game drawing taught me what I needed to know most for the project, perspective, values, highlights, and mixing colors all took place in both projects.

    4. Which project do you feel was the least important in learning the concepts taught in this course? Please explain.

  I chose the printing project for this one because I didn't think the techniques were as important. We learned how to cut out negative space and make an animal with part of an environment in the back ground. I didn't really learn that much from the project because we just traced the picture, cut it out with a knife, and then printed it on paper. I also think this was this was the least important because I had already done a project just like this in middle school art. It was really difficult trying to the print to stay in the registration marks. I also had trouble and didn't think I learned that much because we didn't do anything but cut out the linoleum  and print it on to a few pieces of paper. It was easy but I just didn't really learn much from it such as, values, shading and how to put ink on it. I think this was my least successful project of the year, in my opinion because it didn't turn out as good at the other projects I have done.                                   

     5. Choose a piece of artwork where the subject matter reflects you as an artist; one that you have a personal connection to. Please explain your choice.

                                                            

                                     

I chose the

anamorphosis

project because this is like the only project that I had a connection to. I picked it for a reason, because I love the perfume and I have this perfume. This project was pretty difficult drawing it all out and making it look like it was coming out of the paper. I think it all represented me and my personality the most because I am girly and this shows the personalityof a girly girl. It reflects me as an artist because it's something I picked out that represents me. We had many steps to this project and I learned how to make it look like it was popping out of the page. We also made different values in the shadow where the light was hitting the object. I think adding different colors and highlights to it made the picture look more realistic. I also think this shows who I am as an artist by the way I made the colors and how I shaded. I think this project turned out okay. I think maybe I could have done better and made improvement on where the light hit the object; the shadow.