End of term refelction

1. What was your greatest achievement this term? Why?
   I think I did well experimenting with materials and taking risks. In my pattern project I didn't know what it was exactly going to look when I did a pattern on top of a repeated stencil. And my wax project the idea of layers I wasn't sure if it would work or not wanting it to be see through but I stuck with it even though I knew it might not turn out how I expected.

2. What did you struggle with the most? Why?
   Maybe getting going on projects. Sometimes I might have an idea but it takes me a little while decide to start. It is good to plan things out but sometimes I think I might have been stuck on what I want something look like and could have maybe just started and gone with an idea and see where it had taken me.

3. What would you do differently next time? Why?
   Plan less and do more making. Meaning I would still plan out my projects just maybe start sooner when I get an idea and just go with it and see where it takes me.

4. What was something that saw, heard, thought, etc that  inspired you to do something unexpected? For me looking at picture online helped me come up with ideas for projects. At first when I was thinking about my pattern and repetition project I thought I might do something baseball. But when I look online and say a picture of a scull and cross bones I thought it might look cool if I did a piece with repeated skulls on it and not have every project be about what I like the red sox.

5. Is there anything you will continue to do in upcoming art classes that you learned here?
   Well I learned that once you come up with an idea even if you don't think it will be your final idea to just go with it and see where it takes you. For me sometimes coming up with an idea can be one of the most challenging parts of a project so I think if I get an idea and just dive in that could be a good thing. I would obviously plan it out but I think getting going on a project is important for me.

6. What will you leave with that makes you different then when you walked in? The ability to take risks. I think thats one thing I have learned over the year. Sometimes I can be worried about what the outcome is or looks like. I feel that I was able to do less of that this term.

7. Is there something you’d like me to know about your experience in this class? It was good. This class seemed to me pretty different than most art classes I have taken at beaver before.

Finished Projects

Images For Wax Project

Timeline inspiration

Images For Stencil Project

Reflection to artists

1. What stood out to you after hearing Arturo Herrera and Mark Bradford talk about their work and process? Both of them used collage and newspaper. I liked how Mark Bradford used sandpaper to change up his work when he didn't like how something looked.

2. How do any of these ideas relate to you in your current project? What could you use from them to help your work? A lot of their work was changing. They had one big idea and then kept making small changes to it. Ideas can change and sometimes you do not always go with your first idea because it might not always be your best one.

3. Where are you in your newspaper project? What is fueling your idea and thinking? I am at the point where I am coming up with my idea. I have gathered many images from the newspaper that are interesting to me and that I might be able to use in my project. I am thinking I will do something with portrait or pictures of players that I like and then collage them and put them in some kind of order.

4. Don’t forget to post any images that your are looking at to your blog!

Final Reflection

My strengths this term were:

I think I did a really good job coming up with good ideas for my projects and then expanding onto my idea in order to make them into finished pieces of art work. I also think I was good at using x block time when I needed too. At the end of the I remember coming and working a couple days during that time. This was good cause it made me not so overwhelmed with finishing up my projects.



Some things I struggled with were:
I think for me it might have made my art work slightly different or even in a few cases maybe better if I had tried more materials. I think trying paint was good but I think if I had done more of that and expanded on what materials I used it could have benefited me because in the past I have worked with pencil and paint before. For me I think I had the tendency to work with what felt right or comfortable to me. This is ok however, looking back I wish maybe I had taken a few more risks by maybe trying a few more materials.



Project I am most proud of and why was:

I am most proud of my test image picture. I draw David Ortizs hands of when he points to the sky after he hits a home run. I just feel like to me out of all my work that this piece felt the most complete and finished even thought I did manage to complete other pieces. I just like the the image of the hands and text came out.



Over all my thoughts and feelings about this class and my work this term was:

I feel that the work I created in this class was quality work. I think it helped me make art of something that I was interested in or passionate about. I feel I was




Thoughts you would like me to know about any aspect of this class:  

Well for me I did not really like the drawing from observation downstair. I just felt most of the projects we did were pretty similar without a ton of variety and I have not been a huge fan of drawing from observation like that over the past few years.

Found Images For Text Portrait Project

Images for map project

Midterm Reflection

Overall, I feel I have been doing pretty well in drawing class.  I have for the most part been engaged each day in class and able to get my work done. Every now and again I can sometimes get a little distracted during class. I feel that my process is pretty good when I am doing my work. I am good at planning out my ideas for projects and assignments in my sketchbook before I start the actual project. I tend to draw pictures and practice drawing my idea out my sketch before I start the actual assignment. My product in this class overall has been pretty good. I have not finished all of the assignments yet but, my projects have been looking good and the end results have been turning out pretty well. I have found the sketchbook to be a helpful tool to use in class. It is a good place for me to draw out my ideas and thoughts. For the assignments in my sketchbook I have done a good job keeping up with them and doing what is asked of me. However I might be able to improve if I possible tried new materials or by simply diving in and not worrying about the outcome of my drawings as much. 

In this class I am not that fond of drawing from observation. For me sometimes it can be hard to look at something and than try and draw it to scale on paper. Drawing myself was challenging for me because you had to be careful you drew the different parts of your body in the right spot on your paper. 

Drawing and painting are valuable methods for making an image. They can sometimes give you a sense to how an image is made and the process that it takes to make a painting or a drawing and how much work it might take to make one.

One project I have been working on is my Windows and Door. In this project I have been focusing my idea of a hallway and a shadow of someone in the door way. I have been paying close attention to the color and the lighting in my drawing. I wanted to have a shadow of a person in the door way looking down a dark hallway. I am making the door way bright by drying in a lightbulb on the ceiling. I wanted to make the door way bright but at the same time I was just having a shadow of a person in the doorway.

pictures for doors and window project

Early Marks

Some early marks I made was first times playing tic tac to. Also when I was little I use to mess around and make random designs when I drew. Also when I was little sometimes I just played around with different colors and making randoms things on my paper.

What is a drawing?

A drawing is something created to represent or show something. A drawing can be of almost anything. A drawing is usually 2 dimensional. This picture of a bureau bellow shows that often not always someone creates and image that shows or represents something. A drawing many times is several shapes or different lines put together to create your design or image.

Angry baseball player

working hard on the coouter

Still life painting of baseaball, rock, hairbrush, soda can

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.

Picture of birds paying baseball

Matt Rich

I find this picture interesting because Matt Rich seems to use a lot of shapes in his work. In this picture I believe he was making it of Obama. You can tell that several diffrernt shapes were made in order to make this work of art.

Questions;
1. What inspired you to make art using shapes to creat your designs or images?
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Reflecting on what I've Learned this term

• Perspective
• Drawing figures/people
• Mixing different colors
• Planning out ideas
• Marks