Pour Paintings

For starters, I liked the base of my pour painting because it was simple, neat and involved virtually no pouring. I guess that was my downfall, because I had nothing to work with when I realized what the project was actually about. My paper had been stripped of creativity, but I was determined. I thought it looked like an birds-eye view of roads, or a map, so I drew dots to represent cars. Red splotches came to become car wrecks, drip starting points became rotaries. I felt pretty confident until I realized, "Something has to be causing all this chaos." That motivated me to draw a monster that had been eventually taken down by military efforts, but wreaking havoc in the meantime. Bad choice. Bad bad bad bad bad choice. After that had been added, it looked like a crappy doodle from third grade. I couldn't bear to look at it anymore, so I put it away. I really regret adding the military scene in the middle.

Talk and Draw

Today's activity was particularly challenging. It was called "Talk and Draw" where a set of items were set behind us and we essentially had to draw a still life based on the description of the picture by a partner. In my case, I had a group of 3. The drawing was quick and easy, and didn't turn out too bad. However, come my (and my partner's) turn to meticulously describe the scene which was set up, trouble arose. We argued over who were to describe it. I personally thought I should, because I described quickly and accurately, and so I did for most of the ordeal. The end product was decent.

Collaborative Drawings

I'd say that my experience with the collaborative drawings didn't teach me a whole lot, considering the way  my original picture was created. Before we knew we'd be switching pictures, I happened to have given my picture a fairly strict story line through words, signs, etc. Therefore, after two people had drawn on my work, the only thing that happened was color added, as well as some other small details. I wouldn't say I was disappointed, considering that my picture wasn't ruined or made a mess of, but I found it interesting how confining a story line to art can be. I'd say that if we did anything along these lines in the future, I wouldn't add words, as to spoil the freedom of a lucrative canvas.

art principles 2010-2011: Reflecting on Picasso quote.

art principles 2010-2011: Reflecting on Picasso quote.: "Today we read this quote by Pablo Picasso: 'Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.' On your blog..."

It seems what Picasso is trying to stress is that all kids have massive creativity. What he's communicating makes a lot of sense to me because in my mind, we, the students of Ms. Robert's art class and art classes all over the world, are the theoretical kids. As we grow up, our creativity is stifled with manners and assimilation into adult society. Picasso is saying that true artists keep the spark of creativity handed to them at birth, and use it to make a metaphorical fire: the art we recognize as masterpieces.