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Where would you like your art to go from here?

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Where would you like your art to go from here?

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This is my last class taking art, but I do not intend for my art to stop here because I do paint or sketch art as a hobby at home. I believe that art has so many ways to outlets to express emotions and beauty. Therefore, I am able to use art to cope with my doubts and emotions like I have in the past. Art is not only a hobby of mine, it is a part of me and will travel with me forever as I go on in life.

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My artistic struggles mostly tied into my habit of rushing through projects. I constantly had to force myself to slow down and actually look at the art piece because I often glanced at my art and rushed through it without committing enough time to it to focus on the small things. I grew to know that all the small details is what helps the art piece grow into a whole as one unit giving it more life. With more small details, the more unified the the art piece will become.

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What areas did you find yourself to have the most significant growth in?

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What areas did you find yourself to have the most significant growth in?

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I found myself to becoming more aware of the detailing when observing art, like the shadows and creases/wrinkles of clothing or on the general body of the painting. The more I was able to incorporate those small details into my art pieces, I became more aware of the where the light was hitting the the body of my painting and the proportionality of the art I was painting. For instance, in my portrait project, I was having a little trouble balancing out the proportionality of my face along with the spacing between the eyes. I also defined the lines of my face a little too much and they ended up looking like wrinkles instead of creasing and shadowing of my face. After a few failed attempts of editing each detail one at a time, I was able to achieve a much better picture of my face.

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In thees exercises, we first used a picture we picked out and tried to sketch it the best we could. BUT the catch was we had to draw it UPSIDE DOWN. At first, I thought this exercise was going to end up terrible. But, it ended up going very well! The objective was to use the right side of our brain so we drew what we saw. Therefore, our brains not being able to pick up an actual image forced us to draw every little detail and shade our drawings. This exercise helped me open up my mind to a different  perspective on sketching. After looking at my drawings, I was more conscious of the little details and the shading that went into the sketch. Afterwards, I was fairly meticulous with the shading and proportionality.

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I used my hand as an observation art piece. I tried my best avoiding to look at my hand for what I "thought" it looked like and tried to study my hand's details, like the creases, my fingernails, and the proportionality. I then implanted a rose inside palm of the hand. The blooming rose had an eyeball which looked eerie. It was not exactly what I was going for, but I enjoyed the outcome because it was something I had not expected. I then continued the rose's vines wrapping themselves around the hand. The vines were suppose to puncture the hand letting the blood seep out. But, the blood was not detailed enough to correctly identify it. It kind of looked like ketchup to me. I missed a lot of details in this art piece and can reflect now on what I could improve on. I see that I am missing a LOT of shadows and used only one shade instead of using darker and lighter lines.

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At first, I intended for my growth project to be a child with a bunch of tattoos on his back to show that even as an adult that appears to be an adult with these tattoos and independent looking, he is still is a child within. I did not like where the art piece was going so I abandoned that project and started fresh. I then used used the back of the project to have a color scheme, going from light to dark in comparison to the beginning of life to the end of life. At the dark side of the rainbow, I painted a picture of death and a child on death's doorstep. But, on the opposite side, I painted a cherry blossom to show that the beginning of a new life is when life is blooming, like the cherry blossom tree is.

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For the self portrait sketch, I used a photograph of myself (that Mrs Stevenson took in the back room) to show the distinct shadow and proportionality of the face and shoulders. I had some difficult placing the eyes, the mouth and the nose but after a few failed attempts I was able to successfully work things out. I planned on using the technique of shading in the shadows with oil pastel and paint the whole thing with ink to have a an absence of ink where the oil pastel. I drew in bubbles of where the shading were and filled them in with different colors. I made sure to highlight the areas where the light hit my face or hair. I used the color blue for my hair because I enjoyed the contrast between the the light blue and the navy blue because I can see the at it stands out in the overall the view of the art piece. I chose purple, because I wanted to go for a fading purple into a hot pink to show the shadowing of where the light hits my face. Additionally, I used gray for my skin tone to let the other colors pop out a little more. But the hoodie, I colored in orange because I like the color orange...and I thought it would also go well with the purple and blue in the color scheme. The end product turned out better than expected because the clashing colors stood out better than I would have ever imagined!

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What inspired me was the effect of a person's stare is able to puncture one's being (metaphorically). I wanted to focus on the eyeball's pupil staring the viewer down giving them goosebumps. (Like the one pictured below) I also added the rose and blood for effect because blood and the color red symbolizes death.

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What inspired me for this art piece was shadows of silhouettes and the shadow of death. But, I also wanted to incorporate some color so I implemented a watercolor rainbow in the background. In the brighter side of the rainbow, I painted a cherry blossom, because I think of a tree blossoming when I think about a birth of a new life. Cherry blossoms also symbolize the beauty of life.

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Using the right side of our brain to practice observe an object portrayed for what it really looks appears to be was pretty tough. We used an exercise in which we had to look at the subject we were drawing and kept our eyes up avoiding looking down at our paper to really get in the tiny details. It required a few days of practice to get the hang of it and soon enough I was making progress Practicing these drawing using different angles and shadows really helped exercise my brain on using imagery instead of logic.

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What inspired me for this art piece was the art of shadows and hands. As I passed the art galleries I did not notice much of the art because none usually stood out to me. But, the ones with body parts caught my attention, especially the art pieces that had to do with hands. Something inside me felt like hands were had a way of expressing emotion through the placement of the fingers and wrist angles. I started out my art piece out with sketching shadows of my hands in different positions, then overlapped some over the other. (I used a mask and a water bottle just for a little more variety) Afterwards, I drew in different types of art styles in each one using different material to represent the unique preservation each hand has in its own placement and position.