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How does your artwork explore artwork explore the theme you chose?

For my project, I chose the theme "paradox". A paradox is "statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality, expresses a possible truth", which essentially means that it is something that seems to go against to common sense, but may still be true. Some examples of a paradox could be sayings like "jumbo shrimp" or "the beginning of the end". In my piece, I tried to convey the idea that two worlds-- seeming to be unrealistic and going against common sense-- can exist at the same time and be connected through something that symbolizes the truth. In my work, the ladder that connects the opposite worlds symbolizes the truth. As I was brainstorming ideas, I felt that the separation of the two scenes went along with the theme, but there was a missing element that would enable me to express its full meaning. I decided that in order to convey the "paradox" idea, there had to be a "real" object or something that pieced the two together. Also, in case the audience's eye was not drawn as much to the ladder, I tried to incorporate the light source of the piece more, in that I painted the rays from the sun seeping through the water and bleeding onto the forest scene. This was another factor that connected the two worlds. Overall, the main symbol that brings the piece to a full circle is the ladder-- it symbolizes truth because, without it, the piece is separated. But with it, it enables the audience to see that this fantasy place is, in reality, the truth.

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Thumbnails for our Theme show

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As hard as it was, I really enjoyed this project. I had never been limited to only 3 colors on a piece of art, so I felt challenged in the sense that I had to use trial and error to achieve the colors I wanted to color with. I'm very happy with how this piece turned out, especially since I struggled at first when trying to blend colors. I eventually found that blending with a pencil blender or a white colored pencil enabled me to blend easily.

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12/17: Work in Progress: Portrait Project

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12/17: Work in Progress: Portrait Project

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Here I have finished the whole body of my mom/brother. I thought about what I wanted to do for the background, and decided to stick with using colored pencil instead of using something like watercolor or oil pastel.

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12/15- Work in Progress: Portrait Project

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12/15- Work in Progress: Portrait Project

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Here is my final portrait project in progress-- I've finished the main features of my mom's/brother's face.

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This piece was a lot of fun to put together! I enjoyed the freedom of the project and how you could almost do anything and relate it back to Lost and Found. I also liked the range of the materials that we could use, and it was really cool to see some of the other ideas that people came up with. (materials used: collaged pieces of magazines, oil paint)

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11/28- practice with full body proportions/sketches 

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11/28- practice with full body proportions/sketches 

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Here is my final piece. I had trouble at first with blending the colors of the background, but I was able to find a blender on the day of the final and blended the colors more evenly. (materials used: colored pencil)

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11/28- practice with profile drawing/proportion of faces

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11/28- practice with profile drawing/proportion of faces

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11/29-- more practice with faces/proportions

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11/29-- more practice with faces/proportions

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10/4- Thumbnail sketches (cont. line, negative space, blind contour) 

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10/4- Thumbnail sketches (cont. line, negative space, blind contour) 

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Here are my updates of my sketches for my final continuous line piece.

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11/28- practice with creating egg shapes for sketches

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11/28- practice with creating egg shapes for sketches

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11/28- practice with profile drawing/proportion of faces

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11/28- practice with profile drawing/proportion of faces

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This piece felt somewhat more challenging than the other pieces that I've done in the past. I found it hard to try and incorporate my own drawings with the actual transfers and often found myself out of ideas on how to arrange my transfers. However, I did enjoy learning how to transfer images during this project-- it's another thing I can add to my list of art skills. (Materials used: ebony pencil, charcoal pencil)

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11/21- Upside Down Right Brain Exercise 

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11/21- Upside Down Right Brain Exercise 

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This is my upside down practice drawing-- it turned out a lot better than I thought it would! This exercise was really cool to try and it definitely works.

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This is the first stage of my oil pastel drawing. I started on the bottom portion, but then found that it would be smart to start at the top of the drawing to avoid smudges

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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 semester I felt like I really improved on my face drawings. In the beginning of the semester, I did an oil pastel piece in which I incorporated a face-- now that I look back at it, I realize my proportions of the eyes/mouth were wrong. Not to say that it was bad because I am still proud of that piece, but I have just realized that I have improved a lot when it comes to drawing faces. For my final project, I did a portrait of my mom/brother, and the proportions are much more accurate than my first piece of the semester. I learned a lot about how to use certain materials, and how to use composition to make a piece more interesting. I also learned how to fix something/make something new out of your mistakes. For example, when my lost/found piece was not turning out the way I wanted it to, I decided to use paint as well, which added the density/contrast that I was looking for. I am not considering pursuing art as a future career, but I definitely want to continue to create new pieces. In the future, I think it would be fun as well as a challenge to try abstract art, since I normally do more realistic pieces. I also think I would enjoy getting to work with paint more, and do more landscape pieces. This semester, I got to use materials that I haven't used before, and through each piece, I was able to learn something new.

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Here is my finished continuous line piece. I decided to re-sketch my final drawing because I found it difficult to find more spaces to incorporate shading in my original sketch (right). For my final piece, I used watercolor and outlined in black sharpie to create value.

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For this assignment, we had to combine elements of two squares that were cut out from a magazine. I used the girls face, and took the "starry" look of the right square. I also incorporated color schemes from both squares that bled over into the middle and bottom sections of the drawing.

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9/22 - Artwork in Progress: Continuous Line

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9/22 - Artwork in Progress: Continuous Line

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This is the pencil drawing of my continuous line project. I will be outlining most of in with black ink, and shading with watercolor.

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For this piece, I used oil pastel for basically all of it, except for the eyelashes in the middle portion-- for that I used a black charcoal pencil.