Why Art is Made.

I believe people make art because they feel like it brings out themselves in the most creative way possible. Making art is like doing daily activities people do it or them because they want or need to because it is a hunger. I make art because i feel that when i do it brings out my focus a little more and lets me show my creative side.

4 hour project

My original plans for my project was to pour paint, but this later changed quickly. I soon realized that i wanted to be more elaborate, I wanted to really go all out on the final term project. There is really no story that i am trying to tell in my painting. My painting went very well, i feel that it looked very similir to some of Jackson Polocks' works of arts. I did come into one problem, the back looked so plain so i decided to spice it up. I took the plastic from underneath my work area which had paint splotches all over it, and glued it to the back. I then had the best idea ever, i quickly ripped off the plastic and the paint came of it, sticking onto the back making much more colorful. I feel that my painting was my best work of the term, it came out exactly how i wanted it. I do not think it could have been any better.

The Book Project

My story is trying to tell story of kids growing into adults. My story is going well so far, most of my pages have modelled off of my first drawings in my sketchbook. Also, the story of my people is going very well, it shows the age changes on the pages. The first challenge I faced was cutting out the right parts of an image to best illustrate me idea. The overall story of my book is turning out very well so far. The one thing that isnt going well is finding the final images for story, because i need to find a child.

Drawing people

Today in drop everything and draw, we drew our other classmmates who were acting as models. We used charcol like utensils and had to draw very generally at first, I liked it. I feel that when i am not to specific with things other than people I have the potential to be a very good artist. I was one of the models and realized that it is not as easy as it may look, it is very tough actually. I liked this particular class because the models were not expecting them to be perfect so my ability at this was not judged to be bad. Hopefully next time I will be able to be just as generic with the pictures because it feels like that is my strong suit in drawing.

Nighthawks

Nighthawks, by Edward Hopper

Born in Nyack, New York

Nighthawks was made in 1942.

My first impression of this painting, is that it is very well thought out. The artist must have been very careful and very anal about his details. What i see in this painting is very complete. It seems he was painting an old-fashioned diner with the table around the bar and the very old coffee makers. It also says Phillies so clearly he had some motivation for making this painting. I like this painting a lot, because it really shows what specificity can do for something like this.

Edward Hopper went to the Ashcan school for art, and this changed him drastically, he started to depict not the chaos of urban living but the sense of urban isolation. He says he painted Nighthawks because he saw this diner where two streets met which was very intriguing to him, also he says he was painting the loneliness of the city.

My analysis on this painting is that it is very carefully painted and thought out. He really uses emphasis the most in this painting. He uses the contrast of color and the placement in this picture. He also uses motion as well though, the people all seem to be connected in some way or another. I especially like the emphasis put on the bartender, it seems like he is in my opinion the main man in the picture.

Balence

Asymmetry



Radial Symmetry









Approximate symmetry

Symmetry

The principles of Design

Principles of Design- helps artists organize shapes, lines, forms, and colors to communicate effectively.



Balance- The visual weight of an artwork feel equally distributed



Symmety- Its the same thing if u draw a line down it.



Approximately symmetrical-almost symmetrical



Asymetry- oppisite of symmetry



Radial- If u draw a line anywhere it will be the same on the right and the left



Emphasis- when one element in an artwork appears to be more important or attract the most attention, we say it creates empahasis, and the three types of emphasis placement, contrast, and grouping.



Rythem and movement-how the artist guides the viewer through a work of art

Leading lines





Proportion- size relationships parts to one another or the whole but in the piece of art.
colors-
shapes -
forms-



Unity- a feeling that all the element



Variety- is achieved by introducing some differences into pictures to increase visual difference

Found-object sculpture

I began my Found Object sculpture with a trophy and a computer screen. I then took the trophy apart and thought about making an even bigger trophy but soon realized that a face would be much better. After this realization, I cut speakers out of a boombox as ears, this was clearly a metaphor for no input and all output. On the top, is meant to be a crown and overall, it is supposed to be Louis the 13th the king of France whose head was chopped off. During the critique, i learned how my sculpture needed more color and in the future i will make sure to work on that. Personally, i thought that this has been my best work of art as an artist.

Mid-term Grades

This term, i have made a lot of progress as an artist. Before i ever came to Beaver, I thought and knew i was not a very good artist. Then when i started at Beaver, i started to see how i was getting better small steps at a time. First it was with the collaborative drawings, where I learned that I help other people while they helped me. Then with the pour exercises, I found that i could roll paint and turn it into different shapes. The Line Story Collage taught me that i had gotten a lot better at turning lines into all different kinds of metaphors. Finally, the Found Object Sculpture showed myself that i had improved greatly at Art because I even thought my sculpture had turned out well. Overall, this term started out slow at the beginning and then jumped out after i started to realize i had more potential in Art. I feel that by the end of this term, i will have much more strength as an artist, and also, by the end of the year i feel that I will have reached my highest potential.

My Drawing has been sacked

Today, we dropped everything and drew. What we drew though, was the interesting part of the class. Our teacher, set up sacks full of crazy and random objects. Ranging from water, to ink, and to a box. Our goals, were to start drawing the big general things at first and then incorporate the smaller things. The way i accomplished this was to take my mind off of the things inside the sacks and just draw the outlines. After I had completed that i moved on to the objects inside and drawing their outlines. Then i started to draw the little things that i could see, like crinkles and ruffles in the plastic. This class was very interesting because i saw how much i have improved at drawing since the first class.

Charcole drawings

Today, to make the drawing i had to accomplish three things to allow myself to do it. I had to let go of any feelings i had toward my drawing. Then i had to to shut my other half of my brain down and just concentrate on the table and the things on it. Lastly, i had to remember that this was my work and that if i liked the final product than it was some of my best work.

Objects into works of art.

Those objects are able to turn into works of art, because when you put crazy or different things together it creates even better things. Artists choose these items because they felt that by taking very random objects and thinking about different shapes they could think off. Also, by putting these together is a large challenge to come up with new things out of different things.

My first critque at BCDS

My first critque at BCDS went very well i thought. We all reviewed each others work and told each other about our stories and our ideas. We also told each other what we liked about theirs and what we thought they could have added. The critique of my art piece went very well too.

Ingrid Camale

I love this picture, because i can look at it for almost 30 minutes and still see different things. All the different paint types and line types makes it such an interesting work of art. It feels like Ingrid is a very creative artist and likes to express herself in all of her paintings and especially this one.

Ingrid Camale

Ingrid Camale is a very talented artist at her field of art. Her drawing and painting skills are amazing, she can paint the thinnest lines and they are perfect. She makes her paintings by seeing spills or markings on the street or ground, and she traces them with other friends or artists. Then she takes the tracings back to her studio and fills them in with paint, and then traces more and places it over the first drawings. She does this several times before she thinks her painting is complete. She does this because she feels that this is the way to be creative, she believes that the way to create art is to create it several times.

Art in a new perpective.

All of these projects that we are doing, all seem to connect to each other in some small way. Pouring the paint seemed very strange at first but later you had to just completly lose all your sense of right or wrong and just pour. With describing, you basically had to paint a mental picture using words for a partner to deciever. Then with the collaborative drawings you had to picture what this person wanted and draw it for them almost like you had known them for years. Then with the mapping of the still life you had to basically do the same thing as the describing painting but backwards, this time you had to draw something for someone to deciever. All of these projects seem to bring you together with someone, to share your ideas. This was a very enjoyable week because it made me look at art in a new light.

Re-visiting observation/description

Her coloring of the ground had a certain resemblance to the carpet in my famous painting. She missed the doors and the little girl, but she also probably missed these because my description was not as helpful as it could have been. If i were to do this again i would be more descriptive.

Imagery in the Pour

1. A face
2. Craters
3. A Spider web
4. A Person Sideways
5. A character with a large nose.
6. A Whale
7. A foot
8. Blood splatter

Pouring

Creating art by pouring paint was one of the more interesting experiences i have had in art, it was very fun and creative to mix and pour paint and see what you could create. It felt almost relieving to not know what you would create, kind of like a mystery that was about to be solved.

Collaborative Drawing

Today we made a collaborative drawing with the entire class.
Having someone work on my work of art, helped put together an unfinished product, there were somethings people think of that i would not. I liked most things people did to my picture, like paint in lines or add certain things. Also, there were some additions i was not as happy with, like deleting one of my original drawing that really set up the picture. Overall though i thought this class was very productive.

Art

An artist is someone who expresses what they are thinking, feeling, and what ever they want because it is their art.

What it means to be creative is to express yourself and what your thinking.

All someone needs to be creative is their brain, a piece of paper, or other material to do with art, and then their hands.

Terracotta Lekythos

550-530b.c

Attributed to an Amasis Painter

First Impression:

This oil flask reminds me of my 3 years of taking Latin at my old school.

What I've learned:

I've learned one of the most important jobs a woman had back then was preparing wool and weaving clothing.