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I'm not quite sure why the quality/color of this picture is so wonky sorry about that

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December 14th, 2018

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What are your most significant areas of artistic growth? What artistic struggles did you learn from?  As you pursue art for pleasure or maybe even as a future career, what subjects or new approaches would you like to try?
This year I think I really improved with using color in my artwork; before this class I typically only worked in black and white when I was doing traditional art, saving color for digital because it's far easier to get the perfect color without too much thinking when you're drawing in a program like Photoshop. I really explored how colors interact with each other in all of the projects we did, with the chair project in particular pushing me to figure out what colored pencils combine to make the colors I want. That's another thing I improved with– I usually don't use colored pencils because I never quite understood how they blended and what undertones I needed to get what colors, and I think the chair project helped with that. I've come to love charcoal too, and how loose and relaxing it can be to draw with. I also grew in my use and quality of watercolor (though that could be due in part to the fact that I was no longer using pans like I do at home), and it's gone from one of my least favorite mediums to at least in the top three. Watercolor also taught me patience, because if you try to get everything done quickly the colors blur together and eventually just form an unappealing brown. I also learned that charcoal and oil pastel are not friends, and if I'm ever doing a mixed media project they should not be next to each other. In the future, I want to work more with color and understanding how different lights create different colored tones and shadows, and I also want to work with the human figure more.

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November 30th, 2018
More Work from a Photo

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November 30th, 2018
Work from a Photo

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November 29th, 2018
Foreshortening

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November 28th, 2018
View from Above

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November 28th, 2018
View from Below

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For concept, I wanted to in a way reverse what people normally think of when they think of text: texting, print, etc– you don't often think of handwritten letters and fountain pen cursive. That made me think of war, and all the consequences that go along with it. I chose watercolors as one of my mediums because I haven't really worked with watercolors before and I wanted to give it a shot; I really like how watercolors look, and I thought it could give me the vibes I was going for. If I could change one thing about my piece, I would try to retain a more consistent style across the three iris paintings; as I got more comfortable with watercolors I feel like my style changed a bit.

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November 18, 2018

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November 15, 2018

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November 19th, 2018

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November 20th, 2018

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Watercolor/Collage I didn't have time to get nice photos before it went on display– I can take them after they're taken down

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November 9th, 2018

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Thumbnail Sketch #3 (flowers + letters transitioning from hope to the lack thereof)

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Thumbnail Sketches #1 (intrusive thoughts) and #2 (guitar something or other)

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Watercolors

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Oil pastel

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Black pen

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October 12th, 2018

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October 5th, 2018

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(missed room picture day)

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Negative Space #2

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Blind Contour #3 (fave)

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Blind Contour #2 (unfinished)

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Blind Contour #1

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Negative Space #1

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First Chair Attempt

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Gesture Sketch #2

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Gesture Sketch #4 (fave)

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Gesture Sketch #3

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Gesture Sketch #1

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August 31st, 2018

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August 24th, 2018

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best visual link

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Acrylic Paint/Oil Pastel (top was taken in the classroom, bottom was taken on the wall)