mixed media

For my mixed media project I developed my art making skills because I learned that making mix media art takes way more effort than just gluing down different peices of paper. You have to think about what designs you want and you have to take the time to layer and add the appropriate peices. For my art I decided to do a vintage theme so I thought about using the kind of old type of colors. I liked using the cream, greens, and brownish colors. I also used glitter, and I enjoyed using the stencil. I made the stencil out of cutting paper with a hole puncher. I feel like adding all of there items together made my peice a lot better. 

I took risks in my art because when It was my first time using gelato and at first I thought it didn't really make a difference I'm my art but once I started to put more on I realized a difference. I found out that it makes the paper thicker and gives it more texture. I used it when I made the dots for my stencil. I found it so helpful and much needed for my mixed media. I also took risks because I had no idea what I was doing when I started because this is the first time I've worked with this and I had no ideas I my head in the beginning, but now that I've finished I think that it turned out well. 

^my final mixed media 

For my art I solved problems because in the beginning when I first started to make mixed media work it was a hot mess and throughout the process I started to understand the concept of it all. so I started putting the right peices together. After I messed up so many times I realized that just putting paper together won't make it look good so I started layering magazines and tissue paper and then it turned out okay. 

^ my bad ones 

burrito blog- Art 2

For my burrito I used the medium clay. Clay was actually easy to deal with because it was easy to mold and it was easy to make all the filling inside of the burrito. Painting the clay way actually easy too because making the burrito color was a simple thing. Adding highlights was a struggle though because I didn't know where to put it. I also struggled because some of my beans fell out and now there just a random hole so I didn't know how to fix it. I'm actually proud of my burrito because I feel like I worked hard on it. If I had to do this project again I would because it was a lot of fun and it turned out a lot better than I expected. 

For my up close drawing I just drew a bike because I had nothing else to do. I used a medium of colored pencils which was pretty easy. I also outlined the medal part in silver. I thought i could've done a better job and I should have taken my time. if I could do it again I would choose something more challenging. 

 

candy blog-Art2

when I was working on my jolly rancher I tried to make it as realistic as possible by adding different colors to add shade. My jolly rancher is green so I added blue to make a darker shade on the bottem and I added white for a tint. I actually liked using oil pastels more than chalk because it doesn't get everywhere. the only thing about oil pastels is that it's really hard to blend. overall I'm some-what okay with howt jolly rancher turned out 

Working on my mint I used chalk and I didn't like it because it got everywhere and it was so messy and it was hard to work with. Also my mint turned out horrible. My rough draft turned out way better. And I just gave up because it was to hard. I did try to make the mint round and make the rapper look more realistic but it didn't really work out as well.

Working on my lollipop I used colored pencil and personally it looks so much better with colored pencil. I got really frustrated while working because I didn't know how to make the rapper realistic so for my final I just made the rapper laid out with the lollipop on top of it. I like howit's easier  to blend and it looks so much better and I feel like I made the dum dum more realistic.

Perspective drawings -Art 2

For my art perspective drawing i drew the candy land board with a hand holding one of the pieces to play it. For my art i tied to make it as original as possible but at times i found myself  looking on pintrest for cute and creative ideas and most of the ones i found were either to advanced of boring for me to draw. I actually drew like five different pictures of different things to see which one i liked the best. I was just going to draw my room but that got to hard. I had lots of problems with shading correctly and making everything go to one point but as i went on i got more and more use to how i was supposed to make everything go. While making it i tried to make it look as realistic as possible. Like with the hand i tried to make it seem like it was coming on to the board and tried to make it look like the little candy land pieces were coming off the board.

References:

Final:

Mimicking an Artist! - Art 2

While i started working on my art work i realized that this would be a tough project. I got the Artist James Rosenquist and while i worked on my artist essay i learned so much about him that i wouldn't have known before. James liked making collages and he loved bright vibrant colors and he also focused on the political and sexual theme in his paintings. So for my first  try with this project i made a political collage with cutout stripes of the white house with splattered paint in the back ground. i wanted to stick with the political theme so i added the donkey and elephant to represent each side. As i was working on this i realized that it sucked. I hated it so much , and i could tell that everyone around me was trying to be nice and tell me that it was good (when i know it wasn't). I soon gave up on that one and began to make a new painting. I threw away the idea of making a political painting and i thought of just doing something that's more like him. So i made a collage of all his art woks. I cut them up into little squares and clued them on my canvas. I thought it was somewhat creative because James Rosenquist was well known for his "Pop Culture" and collage Paintings. I then figured that i had to inquire paint so i just added on to some of his pictures to get the feeling that all the pictures came together and that they just over lapped each other. Over all i don't think that this project was hard i just think i have a hard time with being creative, so that's something i need to work on.

References:

My references are just paintings that James Rosenquist has made.

My Final: 

Art 1 final

I decided to do over the first hand I drew on the first day of this class. As you can tell there is a bigggg difference between how I drew then and how I draw now. In the first one I drew I had no value or shade and it didn't look proportional at all. All of my fingers were about the same size and my palm looked too small for my wrist. I most definitely like the new one better because I used a lot of value and I shaded in the background to make it stand out. I fell like I have improved a lot over the past semester. 

For my identity project I tried to make it more about how to find your identity and how to be happy than making it about myself. For the materials I used tissue paper, and colored pencils. On page one I used primary and complementary colors together made out of tissue paper to make the cut out person stand out more. On the second page I used yellow value behind the quotes just so I could have an artistic behavior. And for the third page I didn't really use any of the art vocabulary we used but I just drew the flags of where my parent are from and in the middle I just drew an American Flag to represent where I'm from. 

If I could do over any project I would choose to do over the land and sky because it looks like I just  rushed into it. For this project I wanted to just draw a single road to show that it's just land and there's nothing that great about it, and I bet if I drew it better my message would've came across. If I did it over again I would fix all the things I didn't put in it and the things that don't look good. I would fix the proportion of all the objects to make them realistic. I would also fix the local color and make everything a realistic color. So over all I would just fix all of the realism in my art work that I didn't have before. I also don't like how the road doesn't meet at a specific point. So I would make a better vanishing point so it looks like the road goes on and on. Basically the only part of  my art that I like was the value I used at the sides for the grass. 

My favorite type of media I used was the water colors even though I wasn't the best at it. I used water colors for my emotion project. I drew eyes with water colors dripping from the sides( that shows sadness and happiness). We also used water colors to practice making a color pallet which was also really fun. I wish we had the chance to use water colors more often.

The project that I enjoyed most this year was my zentangle. I felt like It looks the best out of all of them and it looks the prettiest. In my zentangle I used different shapes and designs and the outside of my zentangle was a flower. I wish that I made my flower sizes proportional but i still thinks it looks good. My zentangle got the most good comments for critique out of all of my other ones. I wish I used value in the back where the pink is to make the flower stand out more and to make it look more artsy. I'm just happy with the designs and everything about it. I also like how I did a border around the picture. 

  

Kendall's art-change, functional, creative

3. Artists communicate through their work. 

For all of my projects I tried to be as creative as possible. I made a wreath, a flip book, and a bell. I made the the wreath out of a stropome circle that I found at AC Moore. I made my dad spray paint it green and then I just glued all of the stuff I got from AC Moore. I glued down flowers, glitter, and letters resembling my initials. For this Idea I just glued things that I like. On pintrest I looked up "creative art wreaths" and not many good ones came up but I used some one the ideas I saw to create mine. 

1. Artists create original art.

I also made a bell out of clay for my functional project and as I was making it I couldn't decide how I should put an actually bell in it. So I googled videos to watch and all it showed me was how to make a bell so it wasn't that useful. So I decided that I was just going to make it and put it in the kiln then paint it then put on the bell. For the colors I was going to use pink but then Christie said I should use a metallic gold and I thought that looked the most "bell like". Then I thought it needed something else because It looked boring with just the gold on it, so I added a big letter K in the middle of it. 

2.  Artists develop art making skills. 

For my last project I made a flip book showing chage through and caterpillar changing into a butterfly. The flip book symbolises not only how fast a caterpillar changes but how people change as well. In the flip book it shows the caterpillar slowly progressing into a cacoon then cracking into a butterfly.