Makeup Artist

End of term 1 reflection.

For me this term was really great. I learned so much as an individual and how i can make my art work better in the future. I have learned all different techniques and how to use different utensils differently. Some things that i think will help me with future art is shadowing. I really never knew how to make something pop and look 3D but with learning how to add shadow it makes a huge difference. As an artist i find my work stronger and more sophisticated. I have noticed that i am not using all of the fun pretty colors but i have started to use black and white and its made my work look more grown up. Something that has surprised me this term is that writing about my work after making it has made me think about what i really just accomplished. Since i have been in this art class we have finished many pieces of art. I think that some of my best pieces are my camera sculpture and my model collage. I liked these because i put a lot of time and detail into them. I have run into only a few struggles. I thought that drawing the chair was hard. Though it sounds simple the simplicity was the exact thing that was hard for me. I also thought that making the hair on my most recent paper collage was difficult. It was hard to get them look nice and cut the way i wanted. Looking back at the beginning of the term i would have put more enthusiasm into the drop everything and draw. I learned a lot of skills doing that. Although it wasn't my favorite thing to do i learned future skills from it. Looking at the future i think that i need to work on shadowing.

Glass Half Full.

        When we had to make a picture of the definition of the glass half full, it was a struggle to come up with a main idea. After i thought about it i thought what i like to draw and go from there. Since flowers are what i love drawing i thought of the good things about picking a flower and the bad things about picking it. I made this on two separate pieces of paper. I have to be honest and admit that i am not 100% happy with the outcome. I think that it was hard to make the bright flower really PoP! Mrs. Robert's told me it would be good if I tried making it come out more but then the background was weird and looked funny. I agree and thought it would look better if it popped out more. I think that the stem starting on one piece of paper and continuing on the other was the best aspect. This picture was supposed to show how if you picked a flower you would be able to have it and wear it but then it would die soon after.

Chair

HOW did you find today's still life more or less complicated to draw than the still lives over the past few weeks (white paper, sticks, fabric)? Be specific.

HOW did you use some of the skills we've developed over the past three weeks drawing more complicated still lives to draw the chair with coat today? What are the


I thought todays drawing was harder becuase it was one big object that was neat. Most of the other things we have drawn before have been easier to draw becuase they werent so neat and we could just make some lines. To make the chair really come to life I added lightness and darkness to show the shadows. I thought the coat was also hard because it was on top of the chair and was wrinkled in different way.