Artists Steal Project

This mini project was actualy very fun. What we had to do was steal something that already exists (Beauty and the Beast) and create something new with it. So I decided to do Belle and the Beast as teenagers. He is asking her to prom and giving her the red rose that is in the movie. I think overall it looks nice but you can't really tell that they are younger. I think that I like the idea but I didn't execute it very well.

Stalking Project

For the stalking project that Mr. Sands assigned to us Samantha and I left a phone out in Samantha's dance and people would grab it and take pictures of their feet on it. It was different and unique and funny to watch how people interacted with her phone. I enjoyed looking at the pictures after we were done observing.

Mixed Media

I did Snow White in the apple and I was kind of skeptical because I'm not very good with colored pencils and drawing people. I didn't get much help from others. I enjoyed working on the project but I had some troubles sketching it a lot.  I kind of like the way it turned out but I'm not super impressed. I think that drawing people is not my strong point. But I know my weaknesses now and I know what I need to work on. It was an interesting project to work on and I'm glad it's over.

Sticky Situation

I really liked this piece. It's different and unique and it's not what I normally do. I enjoyed blending with the paints and getting different colors by mixing the different colors. I had to use repetition in this piece and I used it by painting the swirls. The swirls are sticky and represent the spray that comes out of the spray can. In the project I struggled a lot. I could never mix the right colors together to creat the exact same color that I had before. Also I struggle with the blending and application of the paint. While working on this I learned how to blend the paints more effectively to show value. I was pretty proud of my efforts and work overall. I tried to make my painting half realistic and half imaginatory which was a bit different for me, but I liked the risk and I'm happy with my work.

Up close and personal

In this project I enjoyed using the oil pastels. I like blending with them and adding value by using different colors. It is up close and personal of a glass of water with lemons in it. I used emphasis by adding darker values and adding different colors to the lemon to make it bright and colorful. It was kinda risky to use such a big paper with a technique that I'm not super comfortable with. I enjoyed working with this technique because of the blending. My process was long and I tried a bunch of techniques before finding the final one, but in the end I feel like it was successful.

Coca-cola can

Oil pastel was definitely my favorite. I used this for my final project too because I really enjoyed the values shown with it. It was my favorite drawing I did. I also liked how bright and colorful they were. I also enjoyed how well I blended all the colors together by layering the colors. Oil pastel was my favorite technique.

Colored pencil dum dum

The dum dum was fun to do because of it's shape. I like the shading and it was easy to add value. I didn't like how I drew the wrapper but otherwise I liked the actual candy. I liked using several colors to show the values of the candy. I enjoyed my experience with the colored pencils.