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What are your most significant areas of artistic growth? What artistic struggles did you learn from?  Where would you like your art to go from here?

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What are your most significant areas of artistic growth? What artistic struggles did you learn from?  Where would you like your art to go from here?

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I feel that I've learned a significant amount about realism and realistic proportions of a human face. Prior to being enrolled in drawing and painting, my idea of proportions were very off and I could never understand why. I also learned that I really love abstract and or modern art. I really enjoy looking at it and making it. I had a really rough time with the self portrait because it was really challenging, specifically because I made the naive decision to draw 4 faces versus just one. Essentially, I think I really enjoy art all together and would love to continue taking drawing classes. I would really like to get better at realism and abstract art. I want to experiment with different techniques and materials as well.

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                                                                                                                              ARCHITECTUAL DRAWINGS

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                                                                                                                              ARCHITECTUAL DRAWINGS

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                                                                                                                         CONTINUOUS LINE DRAWINGS/PENCIL DRAWINGS

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                                                                                                                         CONTINUOUS LINE DRAWINGS/PENCIL DRAWINGS

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                                                                                                                                                       ABSTRACTION

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                                                                                                                                                       ABSTRACTION

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                                                                                                                                                   HUMAN FACIAL PROPORTIONS

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                                                                                                                                                   HUMAN FACIAL PROPORTIONS

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                                                                                                                                                          CHARCOAL PIECES

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CREATIVITY SQUARED

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I chose a creepy masked family portrait for one of my projections and a delicate mandala for the other one. I drew part of the mandala on my face as my "mask". I liked the creepy aspect of the family and I have a quirky personality and liked it in and odd way. I thought it resembled imperfection in a family very well. I ended up leaving the mom a dark figure because I felt that it added to the "imperfect family". The ambiguous figure for the mother demonstrates the lack of a mother figure many children today deal with. I didn't love the way this piece came out but I am proud of what I could do. I liked my face in the mandala projection more than in the family one so I mixed the two together. I actually really like the changes I made and applied some of the critique to my work

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Explain your original source and how you stylized or abstracted from that source.

Originally I attempted a cartoon character but felt that most of my designs lacked character and meaning and were similar to pre-existent ones. I then based my abstraction off of a flower and the crying eyes and the rest of the face off of a doodle I had been playing around with. I knew that when I wanted to create an abstract piece I wanted it to be really out there and more of a modern type of art so I made the leaves and petals of the flower more of a triangular shape and gave most of the shapes in my piece harsher edges and lines.

Explain feedback you received during critique. Did you apply any feedback to your painting? Explain why or why not.

Overall, everyone who did critique my piece told em to bold the edges of the lines and various shapes in the background and to define the face more. I did go back and make the lines more defined but I did not want the background to overpower the watercolor so I ended up lightly using a colored pencil.

What is your intended compositional area of emphasis? How did you add depth,contrast, and texture with second or third layers of materials?

The flower petals and the eyeball were my intended area of emphasis which is why I purposely made the petals more bold and the eye more detailed than the rest of my painting. I originally was just going to have lines in the background but ended up adding splashes of watercolor in the background to layer underneath the lines. I also used colors that contrasted to the bold colors of the flower so they wouldn't mix with the flower. I used various materials such as watercolor, pencil, and colored pencil which I think prevented my piece from becoming too flat or boring.

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Throughout my project I made lots of intuitive and deliberate decisions and perhaps the best intuitive decision was the honey comb in he background. It gave the piece some dimension and beforehand it was quite plan in the background. As for deliberate decisions, my favorite was by far the snake body on the woman. I really liked the coloring and how it contrasted to the girls hair. I was really surprised by the oil pastels because I was not very familiar with them or with their texture and I was surprised to see you could create endless amounts of varied textures with them. I also was surprised at how realistic the snake girls face ended up looking and I was content with the result. If I could go back and change something though, I most likely would have changed the paper I was working on. I liked the color of it but the texture was very rough and didn't allow the colored pencils to go on as smooth as I wanted. I also would have changed the girls body because I was not a fan of how cartoon like it turned out.