Tuesday, December 2, 2014

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. 
 

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

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.

Monday, October 27, 2014

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.

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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: 


Friday, June 6, 2014

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. 


  

Monday, June 2, 2014

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. 

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Kendalls Art-Print- Making

1. Artist Create Original Art.

For my art, my table decided on the theme of  winter. At first I thought it was a dumb idea, but then i came up with different ideas such as Christmas trees, presents, a snowman, and more. I wanted to be different and creative so i came up with the idea of making ice skates. I thought it was going to be hard though, and it was! I used my own unique ideas by choosing the colors wisely, and i thought that doing ice skates would make me seem different than other people that did snowman's. While making the ice skates i used different sources such as the internet by going on Google and looking at different ice skates that i could do. I also asked my friend Rebecca to send me a picture of her skates( shes an ice skater). and that helped me a lot too.

2. Artist develop art making skills.

The art making skill that i learned was of course print making. During the process of it all i learned that it takes patients to actually put the ink on the paper. It took me a while to understand how to line everything up so that it would be perfectly on the ink i put on before it, but i soon realized that it wont be perfect and that even if it isn't perfect the imperfections could still make it look good. While making my print i tried to use all the positive and negative space that i could.

6. Artist solve problems 

Like i said before, my biggest problem was not being able to line everything up correctly so what i did was i lined it up the best i could and then at the end i put a little bit of paint over the black to make it look better. During this i learned that it isn't always going to be perfect you could still make it look good by doing your best. Every time that i messed up i just tried to fix it. I feel like my work turned out just fine as i got to finishing it.

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Kendalls Art- Style/Color project


5. Artists collaborate.
 For Phoebe and I's style project we decided to do it together and we wanted to do something creative but still make it a parody, so we thought of different painters and we came across Leonardo Da Vinci. When we both thought of doing the last supper we had to decide if we wanted to draw it or take a picture of it, but we thought taking a picture of it would make it more of a parody. Phoebe and I had a hard time getting every body to corporate and listen to us while taking our picture, but we had the help of one of our other friends to help us tell everyone what position they had to sit in. While studying Leonardo Da Vinci and his paintings I discovered that in the Last Supper he used horizon line, VP, and one point perspective to make it focus on Jesus's face.


1. Artists create original art. 
For my Color project I didn't know what to do so I went on Pintrest to find some ideas and I saw the crying eyes that drip of paint and I loved it. So I tried to find out some ways to make it my own and different from the original because I could only use the primary water colors, so what I did was I just made every color that I could mix together to make it look more colorful. I picked the crying eyes because it showed lots emotion. Such as Sadness,  and happiness(because of all the different colors).







4. Artists take risks. 
 This is the one that I need the most help in because when I choose my art I can never choose something original. Also I never seem to challenge myself and do an art work that might help me improve. I keep doing the same techniques and I don't see myself improving. And for my blogs I feel like I can improve more too. While I was working on this project I tried to be unique and different but I don't know how that turned out, and while I was working on it I messed up so I tried to fix it and make it look a little better by putting red paint around the eyes, and that helped a little because it showed another emotion, anger.

(I didn't know how to flip the picture around)












 

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Kendall's 'Land or Sky'

Artists Communicate Through Their Work.
When i worked on this Land or Sky project i tried to make it as creative as possible, so first i had to choose land or sky, and i chose land. This piece of art describes me very well because it shows how simple i am with my art work and with how i think about things. When i was working on my art work the issues that i came across was making everything be proportional. This artwork is intended to say that land is just a plain simple thing but it could be more exciting if you wanted it to be. 



Artists Develop Art Making Skills
While i was working on my artwork i used a lot of different art techniques that i didn't know before such as burnishing my chalk pastels together. While i was using the chalk pastels i realized that the colors i was using didn't look together, so i had to use different colors to make the grass look realistic. I also had to think about my proportion sizes. I had to make everything look about the same on each side(which was pretty hard to do ). Ms. Purtee also helped me make sure that everything lined up at the top, so she had me put a dot at the top of my paper and made sure everything met at the same point at the top. At first i made the road really dark black but then i though about local color and tried to make sure everything was a realistic color. All of these art skills helped me understand the importance of art and how artist have to be careful and patient when they paint. 




Artists Collaborate
As i was working on my artwork i thought of different ideas i could do and my first thought was to do a mountain with a river under it, but then as i drew i realized that it got harder and harder. When i was trying to mix my colors together to make the river a good color blue it didn't turn out so well. And when i was showing everyone at my table my artwork they thought i should change my ideas, so that when i came up with the idea of the endless road. 







Thursday, February 27, 2014

Kendall's Two in One


6. Artists solve problems. 
  When i first started working on my two in one i tried coming up with different ideas that i thought were creative, but as the days went by i noticed that other people started having the same idea with the globe inside the eye. So i tried to think outside of the box and then i tried to make it unique and different than everyone elses, so that s when i drew the apple inside the eye(as a pun), but then i realized i was that good at drawing eyes so i decided to try something else. 





4. Artists take risks. 
When i decided to change my idea and try something else i started using pinterest for some ideas and thats when i came across a picture of a pear and a light bulb. When i saw the light bulb i tried to think of things i could do to make the light bulb stand out and i tried to make it different than the ones i've seen on pinterest. so thats when i came across the idea of a light bulb and a hot air balloon.





2.  Artists develop art making skills. 
 After i came across the idea of doing a light bulb and a hot air balloon i started working on it and i tried to remember some of the artistic things i learned and then i tried to apply it to my picture such as using value. I tried to use value in my grass by making the green go from light to dark. Then i tried to use value in my light bulb but then i realized it wouldn't look good so i just gave up on that. But over all i really like my art piece and im proud of what ive done. 

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Kendall's zentangle


5. Artists collaborate.
For my zentangle I tried to be as creative as possible  but at times I kept having problems figuring out what to do next. At my table Nivi and I shared some of our ideas together and we used some of the same designs that we both thought of. I also asked Christie for some help about some of the little things I had to do and then all of us talked about how we could make ours a little bit better.





7. Artists reflect.
As I was working on my zentangle I kept looking back a couple of times to see if I could improve or do something differently to make it look better. Every time I looked at it I knew that I could do something to make it look different than other peoples. When I stopped for a second and realized what I was doing I felt proud of myself for trying new things and doing designs and patterns that probably wouldn't have done before. When I read all of the critiques that my classmates wrote about my zentangle it made me feel extra proud of myself because of all the nice things they said.



1. Artists create original art.
Before I started my Zentangle I had to think about the choices I had to make such as what shape/outline I could do or if I wanted to use colored pencil or sharpie. I wanted mine to be different than other peoples sop I had to really think about it. For my inspiration I just thought of things I liked so that's how I came across the flower, and for the zentangle part I just googled different zentangles and used some of the ones I found for inspiration.