End of term reflection

This term in art I feel that I have been pretty engaged in my work. Processing my work and the steps I took to get their better helped my get to my final finished product. One big trend that I saw in my work was that I tended to do projects based on things I liked for example maybe baseball. However I feel that sense I did and I know baseball pretty well it was in a sense easier to draw or make a portrait because I knew a bit about what I was drawing. Also the thing I was either drawing or making was about something I liked. This being said I think in many ways it was much easier to stay engaged in my work. I think my most successful work of art was man vs. nature project. I really liked the idea I cam up with and was able to dive right in and make my drawing of birds playing baseball. I feel I was able to make it look like the birds were playing baseball pretty well. I think art will always be in everybody's life whether they like it or not. Art is all around us. From paintings to merials to drawings. I see myself in the future possible taking art again. Art also is in our everyday lives even tho we might not think about by the cloths we wear. From the colors on our pants or shoes or shirt to the design or symbols that might be on them.

Midterm reflection

My engement has been good. I have been doing better on being able to dive into a project and get going without to much trouble. I have made work from both observation and perspective. My finished product has been pretty good. In the past I would sometimes have trouble knowing when I finished something now I know when something is finsihed or not finished. My finished project comes out looking more like what I want it to or think it should. I have continued to work in my sketchbook this year. I feel my Sketchbook can be a good way to brainstorm for a project and come up with ideas.

Looking forward

I think I could use some of my time drawing or doing things in sketchbook.

Reflecting at the end of year

It seems like as I have been going back through my blog that I was good at using color in my projects. What I mean by this is that most of my projects were a variety of colors not one solid boring one. I think one challenge I had at the begging of the year was size and proportion. I noticed that somethings could have been a little better or turned out differentley if I had made them bigger. I noticed however by the end of the year I have been much better at doing this. I think sometimes one thing that could be hard for me was starting a new project. I would understand what I needed to do and everything but I might have a challenge getting started on an idea that came to mind that I could do. I think that I will take away that it is not necessellarly important to worry about how something will turn out but that it is soemtimes more important the steps it takes you to get to your final result. What I mean is that sometimes your tought process and how you went about doing something could be more important than a final result. I will also take away that even if your trying to copy or do soemthing similar for a project and the thing your tryng to copy already exist that you dont necessellarly have to make it exactly the same thing. You should think about how you want it turn out not how u think it should or is ment for it to. I guess sometimes this could have been a small challenge for me sometimes because sometimes I like to have things come out how they are suppose to if im trying to copy something.

Sketchbook Archeology

This year sketchbook has gone okay for me. I have noticed sometimes I have lots that I can put in it and other times I find I dont have many things to put in it. Some of my scketchbook is designes and shapes and some are pictures of me or of things I like or enjoy doing. I noticed I have put some baseball and sports pictures in it that show that I like baseball. I also noticed that many of the designes I put in are sometimes just shapes or one design overlapping another one.

Getting back to materials

I used pipe cleaners to make a picture of my head. I used pipe cleaners because I thought it wouldn't be to hard to attach them together and they would bend easily into wahtever shape I needed them to. I felt that my project was okay. It was a little challenging making it at first but I think it came out pretty well when I was finished.

End of Term 1 Reflection.

This term art has gone has pretty well for me. I think I was able to meat expectations on the class works that I did. I have learned how to make certain parts of my images that I have drawn stand out from the other things in my drawings. For example in my glass half full project I was able to make the people who were suppose to be friends in the photo stand out, but I was aslo able to have the school building there and make it kind of as tho it was in the background. Before I wasn't as good at doing this. I feel that after having art class I am a little bit better at making art work on my own. One challenge in art has been mostly how should I go about starting a project once I have an idea. How should I get going with the materials I have or intend to use. I think I can get better at this by doing more projects. If I work hard and think about the upcoming projects I do in class and plan out my ideas before I get to work and start, I think I will be able to have an easier time when I'm ready to start. I think I have grown as an artist a lot this year. Before this year sometimes when I did art I would be worried about how a project I did looked or turned out when I was done. This term I have been more able to just focus on projects we have done and not worry about how the final out come of the project looked even if I didn't intend it to look like it ended up looking. I have noticed this term that I have been trying new things on projects. Like experimenting with lots of different types of materials. This term has gone well in art and I think if I keep up with the class work and keep working hard on my projects it will continue to go well for me.

Coming back to school after summer vacation Glass Half Full project

Making my two drawings went fine. At first I couldn't decide what to draw. But after I got an idea it wasn't to hard to make my drawings. I got feedback from a couple people and they said maybe draw another person. They also said sense I hadn't started my drawing of the negatives of coming back to school that I could possible draw a person sitting at a desk with a huge stack or books or papers pilled u and the person looking nervous. I like especially how I was able to come up with an idea and draw it without being to worried  about how it turned out knowing if I made a mistake I could just erase and keep right on going.

                         

Pour Pantings

It was okay giving up control when we where making a painting. There wasn't a whole lot of things forming on the page there where a few bunches of blobs that I was able to make something out of them. When I returned to my painting to add on to it after it had dried I saw a bunch creatures and some animals starting to form. I ended up making a monster out of one of the big blobs and a whale out of a smaller one that kind of looked like an oval. I think my picture is almost done maybe if I wanted I could put a few finishing touches before I call it done.