The Unexpected Match

Term 1 Art Principles Reflection

This term in Art Principles has been terrific. I've been able to hone my artistic skills dramatically. Before Art Principles, I was able to draw with a steady hand, but I only saw what was in front of me, and copied it. I learned to take what I was given, and make it into a real work of art, exemplified in the Found Object Project and the Found Image Project. Also, rather than starting out precisely, I learned to take a mess of pencil marks and shape it into a realistic picture, Like in the Drop Everything and Draw with sticks. These are just a couple of skills I've honed or acquired this term. Though I've been extremely satisfied with my work, I now see that many of my Drop Everything and Draw projects are incomplete due to running out of time, but I will try to put in extra hours in the future. I'd like to thank Ms. Roberts for a great term, and I'm excited for next term.

Glass Half Full Project

In this project, we were supposed to choose one general theme and reflect its good and bad attributes. I chose winter, because my feelings towards winter are very ambivalent. I love skiing, wrestling, snow fights and watching basketball, but I hate dirty snow and the gloominess that seems to take over Massachusetts. For the positive attribute, I portrayed a skier going off of a jump. I love skiing and the picture looks fun. In contrast, as the negative attribute, I have a pair of lonely footprints adjacent to a cold, icy road. I struggled making the road look gloomy rather than peaceful, since it was supposed to be a negative. Ms. Roberts helped me a lot by telling me to contrast one side of the road more by making it lighter. I think that by using white charcoal, I accomplished what I wanted in my picture.

Chair Drawings

This project was the combination of almost every project we've done. We had to get the shininess of a vinyl chair, as well as the sturdiness of its wooden base. In addition to that, we had to draw a wrinkled coat on top of the chair. I spent too much time on my chair, so I wasn't able to finish the project, but if I had more time I think it would have looked really good.