Entering Art 2, the only previous experience in art in high school was Art one with Mr. Sands. Transfering into this class is one of the best decisions I think I've made in my high school career, from the people, to improving my art, to having an amazing teacher to talk about Salem Street with! I've used so many new mediums through this class, from watercolor with masking fluid to clay, and learned a lot about my artistic potential. Overall, I think my favorite piece was either the pen and ink flower or the piece of a painting. I think I struggled the most of the pop art sculpture, because I had never worked with clay before and building a mug was a whole other kind of thing. I enjoyed working with color the most, especially in the paintings and 3 color portrait. If I were to do this class over again I would organize my time better to be able to spend enough time on each project. Overall, this class has been one of my favorites senior year and high school, and there isn't a lot I would change.
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My artist that I chose was Faith Ringgold, and I chose to do a cityscape of Amsterdam, since part of her style was simplifying things, and I had a lot of pictures of the city from when I visited back in 2013. I chose to add a "quilt" border since she was known to do a lot of her work on quilts. Progress
Self Evaluation1. Who was your referenced artist for the painting? Name 4 main ideas you used from your research to create your painting.
Name-Faith Ringgold Main Ideas: Simplicity, borders, color, quilt border 2. Describe the craftsmanship of your painting. (Is it neat and well executed?) I would say that my painting is not as neat or well executed as I would like, mostly due to a lack of time and rushing to finish everything at the end of senior year. 3. What was the most difficult part of this project? I think the most difficult part of this project was the planning: what I wanted to paint, how I wanted to execute it and keep it in line with my artists' style. 4. Describe your color choices and how they reflect the work of your chosen artist? I tried to use a lot of bright colors while still keeping the painting semi-realistic because my Faith Ringgold uses a lot of bright and solid colors in her paintings. 5. Describe how the style of your landscape reflects your chosen artist. I chose I city-scape for my landscape because even though Ringgold's most common subject was people, she also dabbled in city-scapes (such as San Fransisco) and I felt her style transferd easier to a city than a nature landscape. 6. What do you think your chosen artist would say if he or she could see your painting today? I think she would give me some advice on how to improve my technique to make it cleaner. 7. What would you do differently if you were to do this project again? I would take more time to make it cleaner and not as messy/rushed. For the clay unit, our assignment was to imitate the style of pop art artists in some form of food. I chose to do a coffee mug, plate and espresso beans, using glaze for everything but the latte art. ProgressFinal ProductReflection1. Describe the craftsmanship of your sculpture. (Is it neat and well executed?) The craftsmanship leaves a little to be desired, I feel if I hadn't been in such a rush it may had been a bit better. The mug I completed by using coils and slipping and scoring, while the plate was made by molding it against the bottom of a plastic plate.
2. What was the most difficult part of this project? For me, the most difficult part of the project proved to be the espresso beans, it took me so many tries to try and get a realistic bean size and shape. 3. Did your color choices work together harmoniously? I think they do, especially with the glaze I feel that all the colors work well together and pop against each other. 4. Is your sculpture interesting from all views? I think so, from a lot of views it's the same since it's pretty simple, but I think any view of the plate where you can see the espresso beans is interesting. 5. Describe the differences in constructing a sculpture and doing something 2D. Sculpting is very different than anything 2D because you have to think and worry about all angles and dimensions, rather then just the composition from one angle. 6. How did you create textures in your sculpture? For the plate and the mug my goal was to make as smooth of a texture as possible, so I used a rib-bone tool for that, for the "latte" surface I used a sponge, and for the espresso beans again i tried to make the outside as smooth as possible, but for the "dent" I just used a needle tool. 7. Does your sculpture look like the actual food? How did you accomplish this? I'd say the espresso beans looked pretty realistic, I accomplished this by molding them to size and using a dark brown glaze to imitate the color. 8. What would you do differently if you were to do this project again? I might chose a different subject matter, to be able to use more texture in the pieces to imitate the food rather than a lot of smooth objects with glaze. In preparation for our clay unit, we researched three pop artists that we would be mimicking n style for our "pop art" clay sculptures, and researched and learned various clay terms as well.
In order to practice with blending colors with prisma, a few of our first assignments were creating spheres and cones to learn how to establish a light source and shade, and create a color wheel to learn how to create colors with only the primary colors in preparation of our final project: a three color self portrait.
To practice and master how to use and mix acrylic paints, we were each given a portion of an acrylic painting to recreate as closely as possible.
To start off our painting unit, our first assignments were to create three value charts using the primary colors and make a creative color wheel to learn how to blend colors and how to make shades and tints.
For our final project, we had a guest watercolorist come in and teach us his technique of applying masking fluid and mixing and layering watercolors. I chose to to paint two pineapples, one sliced open for my final. Self Evaluation1. Explain the process you had to use to create the poured watercolor painting. The first step in each new layer was masking the lights that you wanted to keep. Then you had to put water on the painting, a lot if you wanted light colors, not as much for dark colors. Then it was important to drop the colors in the places you wanted to see them on the painting.
2. Describe any difficulties you had with this process. Some difficulties I encountered were making the layers dark enough in the beginning, and keeping colors in one location so they wouldn't mix too much. 3. What were 4 things you learned from this project? I learned a new technique for painting in watercolor, how to use masking fluid, how to mix watercolor paintings, and how to plan where you want lights and where to add more value. 4. What would you do differently if you were to do this project again? I would allow less mixing of colors and keep some areas red and some blue, and I would mask out less areas each layer to add more contrast and value. 5. How did you use layers, textures, and color to create a successful piece? Each layer of the piece added more value and texture, and the colors mixed in different layers to provide more value to the piece as well. 6. Do you feel that the mini watercolor lessons were beneficial to you learning more about watercolor? Explain. Yes, because each mini lesson taught a different technique, so by the end I felt I had a good grasp of how to use watercolors in many different ways. 7. Was having a guest artist a positive experience? Explain. Yes, having a guest artist gave a new light on a new technique of watercolor, and hearing different techniques from different people has helped me develop many different experiences and techniques with watercolor. 8. What did you learn from the guest artist that gave you more insight into being a professional artist? I learned that a lot about art is experimentation and finding your own grove in a medium or multiple mediums of art. |
Megan PetersonSenior at Apex High School. Archives
June 2018
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