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I just should have spent more time on this sketch instead of playing with the colors

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I think I prefer drawing the figure as opposed to the space around it, but I did find this exercise helpful and it may have improved my sketches a little bit

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I really hope this was the first sketch I did because it is by far the worst, I made her look like a thumb on accident :

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I feel that this
drawing had
the strongest
proportions
but could still
be much better

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The most significant change in my artwork from the beginning of the semester to now is the amount of time I spent on each piece. I would consider myself a perfectionist when it comes to art and so I like to redo things until they look as perfect as possible, which takes a very long time. The first piece took me almost two weeks to complete. I believe this was because I wanted a particular color green that was hard to achieve. The very last piece on the other hand took me just under 4 days! I personally feel that this is a huge improvement and I think I even like my most recent piece more than the other. I have known since the beginning of the semester that I am most comfortable with and enjoy acrylic paint. I used this semester to refine my skills with the paint, learning how different colors mix and how water can wash it out. I absolutely love art and while I am very critical of my work, I try not to take it too seriously.

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For this project I decided to use blue and orange as my complimentary colors. I knew that for my next independent project that I wanted to do a seascape, so naturally blue was a nice choice. I love the very bottom of the painting where I was able to create a sandy grey using only the blue, orange, and a little bit of white. There are a few brush marks on the canvas that bother me but other than that I am pretty happy with the piece and the short amount of time I spent on it.

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Complimentary colors

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Rubric

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Subject: Nature/landscape
Media: Acrylic
Technique: simplify
Composition: Repetition

My piece was based off of Anahata Katkins work though I really worked on the composition in opposition to her pieces. At first I thought that I would use other colors and have the painting be a little more free flowing. Though to keep up with the repetition I decided to place the pots accordingly and use each plant in a way as to take up as much space on the piece. I feel that this was probably my strongest point because I am really letting the viewer look around the whole canvas. I have known for a while that I am not a very fast worker but this piece specifically took longer because of the range of colors used. In the future I think I should pick out colors beforehand so that I am not spending so much time going over and redoing parts of the painting. Overall, I felt that the piece was really fun in and innocent way and forced me to think about how the viewer would look at it, not just myself.

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"My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing" -Marcel Proust

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Deconstruction/ reconstruction

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This piece took a little longer than I had hoped, underestimating how difficult the holes and tissue paper would be. I also wish that the charcoal would have created more of a contrast against the bright yellow paper; this is why I added in the splatter paint to make the yellow "stars" flow more smoothly.  I also feel that the book overall is a bit disproportional in comparison to the "sky". What I felt worked in the end and I lied the most was almost the complexity of the whole piece and how the dark grey worked with the various colors throughout.

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I believe I improved most when working with texture across various mediums. I also challenged myself to go outside my comfort zone and use a wider variety of colors (as you can see from the images above: starting with grey, then skin tones, and ending with colorful flowers).  On the other hand, when experimenting with texture, specifically in the architecture assignment, I found that I am my strongest when working with paint, rather than charcoal or pen. I have a higher level of confidence when working with paint that I lack with other mediums. I can't say for sure whether or not I see art as becoming a large part of my life but find that it is a nice form of self expression that does not necessarily need to be shared with others.

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4 categories used:
Subject: nature exploration
Media: oil paint
Technique: manipulation and variety of texture
Composition: use of repetition and variety

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In this painting I used a combination of a burnt umber, a true yellow, true blue, and a more maroon color.  After experimenting with the colors, I found that the burnt umber/sienna really made the grey appearance into a more familiar skin tone. Instead of using these colors to create a portrait, I decided to use the range of skin tones as light rays coming from behind the silhouettes of birds. I believe that the gold crowns on top of their heads really brought all of the informal pieces together.