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.