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I worked a lot on trying to make my colors symbolic in this work. The face is white, meant to show purity, and the dark red hair is meant to provide a very stark contrast to the almost entirely white face. The dark red is meant to show a deep passion. The red is juxtaposed by the bright green shirt that she is wearing. The deep passion juxtaposed by its opposite color green shows an opposition to the deep passion. The nebulous background with colors mostly unrelated to red and green are meant to show the "outsider" status of the figure in the portrait.

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I would say I made the most progress as an artist in these portrait studies I worked on observational techniques, proportionating techniques and shading. I experienced the most trouble using subtle shading to create shapes like noses and lips but quickly got better at this by doing my upside down drawing and looking at the shapes of the face more objectively

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This is another musical piece meant to symbolize growth by showing how the pain that an artist goes through in perfecting their craft is necessary to become a better artist. This was my first time working with watercolor so I learned a lot and experimented a lot with different textures. I also experimented with combining mediums like colored pencil and watercolor. This helped me develop more contrast between different colors and shapes. I struggled with composition and representing the theme in my work in a clear and concrete way, but I learned a lot from these shortcomings in this work.

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This is the first piece I was ever really proud of. My work with all the observational studies really paid off in this drawing. I experimented with different drawing surfaces to symbolize the different phases of growing up. It begins white to symbolize purity and slowly becomes more and more "tainted". In this work I would really have loved to make the color in the top right section more pronounced and to have better proportions for the different desks. I'm very proud of how my shading techniques developed in this piece

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Some challenges that I faced in my botanical garden drawings were capturing the detail of organic materials with contour line drawings. I feel that I grew a lot as an artist by working on my perspective and proportions when I'm outside the classroom. Drawing while standing up also proved to be a challenge. My bonsai drawing was particularly challenging because a tiny tree has so many tiny details. This helped me develop my vision of colors.

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These are a series of observational drawing exercises that I did which include continuous line drawings, gestural drawings, and a shaded and detailed work. These helped me make a lot of progress as an artist to be able to recreate what I see on paper. I learned better control of my pencil and how to trust myself with not looking at the paper while drawing. The continuous line drawings helped me develop the way I look at objects in that i'm better able to draw shadows and observe larger shapes. Gestural drawings helped me develop the way I orient objects on the paper. It helped me get better angles and proportions to different objects and odd angles.

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I knew going into this class that I wanted to make a synthetic abstract musical piece. I got the opportunity with this shadow prompt. I tried to represent Jaco's music by including 3D pieces to bring the art to life and stark color contrasts and colors. The 3D pieces give the art the life that is in Jaco"s music. Smooth and dynamic shapes show the way some of Jaco's music lightly flows while the grey string and fan blades show a more chaotic and faster pace.

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Oil Pastel, Colored Pencil, Chalk Pastel

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Pencil

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Oil Pastel

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Pencil

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Watercolor

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Charcoal, Pencil

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Colored pencil

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Pastels

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Paper, pen

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Paper, Pen

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Pen, Paper

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Oil Pastels

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Mixed Media, acrylic paint, gel medium, strings, MDF