Art

In art class, we have been working line drawings. Over the past twelve weeks we have been researching about different techniques to use in our final drawing. We did a art criticism in week six. What we did for the art criticism was we compared a Vincent Van Gogh line drawing and a Albrecht Dürer line drawing and we had to critique the different techniques they used and the differences between the artists. We started drafting our final line drawing in week six.

I started by planning out what pictures I am going to use in my final line drawing by putting all these different pictures together and putting them in different places to see where they looked their best. This is the file that I put the pictures in that I used in my final drawing:

Art Final

I think that I put the different pictures in the right places because it makes me feel like they have their own place. Some of my strengths were:

• Changing the gradation from dark to light
• The line techniques
• Showing the level in the tracks
• Showing the difference between dark vs light
• Showing the different perspectives
• The Shading
• Gradation
• Appropriate use of the line techniques on the grass and the tracks
• Showing how it gets darker as it goes back
• Stippling
• How I made the kangaroo look realistic
• Grass
• The different textures

These strengths were also ones that my peers gave me. Some weaknesses that I think I have and that my peers thought I had were:

• The lines in the sky just looked the same most of the time
• The outline of the kangaroo was too thick
• The hot air balloon didn’t have enough gradation
• Some people thought that I overused the stippling technique
• The kangaroo blended in with the ground
• The clouds didn’t look like clouds
• And for some people, I didn’t really make it clear that the stippling in the grass was the sand and dirt
• I used a ruler for the lines in the sky

I agree with the criticism that my peers gave me but some of the things I didn’t think about and it was to late to fix them. I think that I used some really effective techniques and I am really proud of my line drawing. It shows how much effort I put into my work and I really love how everybody in the class was critiquing it.

Thank-you

For the second unit in art (How we express ourselves portrait painting) we had to draw a painting of ourselves that expressed our identity with color. We had to think carefully about the function of our portrait (aesthetic, social or political). We also had to consider how we expressed our color choice. Was it going to be sad, happy, angry, etc. It could also be  The unit question was “How do our personal experiences shape our identity”, and our significant concept is “Our culture shapes our identity”.

During this unit there were a lot of challenges because I am not used to painting. But one of the things that I thought I did really well in was the camera that I drew and planning out the frame. My painting is not yet finished but I will take free time off to complete it before it goes on display. On of the things that I found most challenging was trying to make that affect of the light and dark shading. This was mainly difficult because I couldn’t get the colors perfect and when I tried to layer the colors they created big blobs of paint. Also it was challenging trying to figure out which color scheme to use whether I was going to use complimentary colors, etc. Planning the work was also challenging because I wanted to try and find the perfect style for my painting. I looked at some examples of some famous paintings for example: The scream by Edvard Munch and The Mona Lisa by Leonardo Davinci. I looked at the brushstrokes of these paintings to see if there was anything that I could try and do.

My strength in this unit was probably drawing out my painting because I made the sketch the same as my plan except I added a bit more detail to where I was going to put the eyes and mouth. My weakness was painting the eyes because I kept on painting out of the lines but I think that was because I used a thick brush or a brush that had the hair sticking out so when I painted the eye paint would go everywhere. Another one of my strengths was adding contrast to the background. I feel like the background looked really good because it was a solid color and I liked the way that it went from a nice dark-ish solid red to a light orange and yellow kind of color. A thing that I could do to improve my drawing is practice painting my nose because every time I painted the nose it ended up just being a big blob of paint.

I decided to use part of my mask drawing on my painting, meaning that I used part of the color scheme that I used in my mask drawing. But when I saw the colors I thought that they didn’t really suit my picture so I decided to look at the color wheel and tried to choose colors that were opposite each other. In my picture I drew a camera to symbolize that I like photography.

Overall I think that I did an okay job but I could have done better by adding more detail to my eyes and adding more brushstrokes so that the picture would have more techniques. Thank-you for reading and I hope that you enjoyed reading my blog post.

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