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.

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)












 

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. 

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. 

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.