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I would like to continue to find my own style of art. I've progressed since joining Drawing and Painting, however, I have a while to go before truly finding my own style.
I won't be taking Drawing and Painting next year, but I've learned great techniques from this class and I can't wait to further my skills on my own and at my own pace. I'll be sure to experiment more and more, because I've learned that's one of the best ways I can grow as an artist.

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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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I've learned from my tendancy to try to perfect everything. My perfectionism has caused multiple errors within some of my peices because I've tried to get things the way I wanted instead of letting minor details go. My perfectionism has also caused me to run short on time when working on my peices. I've had to bring home my work on multiple occasions which has caused problems when I don't have the materials I need.
I've learned to love the mistakes I sometimes make and let them grow into the peice I'm working on them. Sometimes my mistakes actually work out for the better.

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What artistic struggles did you learn from?

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What artistic struggles did you learn from?

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Through the course of this year, I have tried different techniques and experimented with my style. I think I have begun to create my own style for drawing and coloring. By copying some styles, and trying things on my own, I've found what works best for me when drawing or painting a piece.

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What is the most significant way you have grown as an artist?

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What is the most significant way you have grown as an artist?

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I believe my art shows growth throughout my pieces through my experimentation. I was hestiant to try new techniques and medians at first, but as I progressed, we can see I used more than just pencil and marker. I moved onto oil pastels, colored pencils, watercolors, and pen. I began to express myself through the different medians as time went by.

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In what specific ways does your art show growth?

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In what specific ways does your art show growth?

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Using green tissue paper, magazine clippings, oil pastel (on my own drawings), and cardboard, I created a collage based on the saying "He who doesn't have a dog hunts with cats". I thought this was an interesting saying, and so I researched it. It means to use what you have. I thought this went well with the theme of a collage. I drew the cats hunting the yak, created the river with printmaking ink, used the tissue paper for grass, and clipped out of a magazine for the rest.

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                                     Mixed Media Collage

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                                     Mixed Media Collage

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Using oil pastel, I create three pairs of figures ice skating. I wanted there to be emotion, and so I decided to change the dress' color throughout the figures to make it darker as the picture progressed.

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For my project, I used three different pictures of ice skaters. I wanted to portray emotion through my figures.

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Drawing from Life and Drawing from Artist

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Drawing from Life and Drawing from Artist

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For one, we were given famous pieces of work done by other artists. We were told to sketch those out.
For another, we were told to challenge ourselves with a live model.

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There was some difficulty on the hands, so I sketched out some examples that might challenge me with the hand and fingers.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                      Independent Figure Drawing

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                                                                                                                                                                                                      Independent Figure Drawing

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Reviews that I found helpful:

"Darken the water and sky to ensure they also impact the composition."

"Add color to the hand to create a focal point."

With these critiques, I was able to help my painting have a strong focal point and improve the composition overall.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Organic and Geometric Pen and Watercolor

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Organic and Geometric Pen and Watercolor

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These are my inspirations for the organic and geometric shapes. I ended up referencing the triangles, the giraffe, and the rainbow/silver paper.

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                                                                                                                                                   Group Mural

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                                                                                                                                                   Group Mural

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I was able to sketch in both people and some accessories while also adding in some color. I can see some issues with the legs and hands, which I plan to work on for my final project

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I'm pleased with how this figure turned out as I was able to make it seem more 3D and I used proportion techniques to help create a better sense of the pose.

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This was the first time using the space technique and drawing from a photo. I believe I could've done a more challenging photo, but I am pleased on how this turned out

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By using the space technique I was able to better capture the model. I can see the legs are slightly off, but it is definitely an improvement.

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I can tell in this practice that I had improved, as I was able to capture some features and I can see my proportions aren't as off as they were from the previous day.

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In these practices, we modeled from life for the first time, and it was more of a challenge than I expected it to be. I can see that the arm and leg proportions are off which is something I will need to work on.

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In this practice, I like the figures I chose, as they did challenge me to think about proportions, however, I can see that some of my proportions are off, and I would like to create more bold lines to define the figure.

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Using watercolor and pen,  I created a painting using both organic and geometric shapes. I decided to make it more meaningful, and make my hand create a ripple in the water that would show the sky. In the water, I reflected some constellations I made of my past pets.

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What keeps me grounded is my friends and the memories I make with them.

Thumbnails: I was deciding between my friends in a doorway from a camp, or from my sailing camp. Both had significant memories for me, but I decided to choose the one with my friends in the doorway.

Since we were required to include our feet, I did some practice in ink. I tried drawing without looking at the paper, but instead, looked at the object I was drawing.

For my final sketch, I enlarged my feet to make them a focal point.

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For this project, we were randomly assigned groups in which we would all draw on a sheet of paper. We started with drawing whatever came to mind, however, later on, we were told to pick a 'task' from a box and draw that on our mural. Later on, we had to create a theme we could all agree on and fix our mural drawings to ensure that everything flowed. Our theme was Light and Darkness.

Feather: First sketch that I thought to do randomly. We later on covered it with a sunrise made of chalk pastel. I used marker and pen for this drawing.

Lips: Part of our light and dark theme, Idecided to draw some lips below eyes done by another member in our group. I wanted to add more darkness to our mural. I used oil pastel for this drawing.

Elevator: One of the tasks said to draw your biggest fear. My fear was elevators, and so I experimented with chalk pastel to create a terrifying elevator. I used chalk pastel.

Hook: Because of some cute sushi, I drew a hook because the sushi did not flow with our darkness theme on one end of our mural. I chose to draw a hook to make sure that the light wasn't overpowering the darker part. I used marker and chalk pastel.

Feet: One task said to draw ugly feet. I decided to make them normal, but add some bandages and moles to help them stay true to the task and our darkness theme. I used colored pencils for this drawing.