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The part of this project I had to finish was the hair and shirt. The hair was the hardest part of the hole project. It look unnatural and as if it was sitting on top of his head at first, but after changing how far it went down and adding some more colors it started to look better. The shirt was not to difficult and I was able to give it a lot of texture as if it were made of a material.

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1)What are your most significant areas of artistic growth? 2)What artistic struggles did you learn from?  3) As you pursue art for pleasure or maybe even as a future career, what subjects or new approaches would you like to try?

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1)What are your most significant areas of artistic growth? 2)What artistic struggles did you learn from?  3) As you pursue art for pleasure or maybe even as a future career, what subjects or new approaches would you like to try?

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1) Over the time I have been in this art class I have had the most growth in learning how to use different materials. I have been able to expand in what type of materials I used and been able to get a better idea of how to use them to create a particular look. An example would be with this last project using color pencils on a colored paper. I have never used colored paper before, yet I was able to use it to create a little difference in my work. Also with the material of color pencils I leaders how to layer and draw in a light circular motion to have fewer lines.
2) Over time I had different struggles with my artwork. I had struggled with the transfer project and not having the India ink blobbing. Also, I struggled with the hair in the final project. From all of this, I learned how to fix my mistakes, and be patient while finding new ways to go over areas. Also, I learned how to keep mistakes from happening the best I can.
3) I would love to keep trying new materials as I have been, and even different types of surfaces to work on. I would want to keep working on art for as long as I can. I do not really see it as a career for myself, but rather a hobby. I hope to keep working on art and trying new things through time.

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At this point on the final project I started to color in the face. I started with the mouth and than when from left to right as I colored. At first I started with strokes, but than feared to move the color pencil in circular motion as to not create lines. This helped to blend the colors together and the shading to look more natural. With this I as able to give the 2D picture and more 3D appearance.

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For the start of my project I chose to do a picture of my cousin. The picture is difficult because the head is actually more turned than you might think at first glance. But has some shadowing that will help it look more 3D on the page and not so flat. For the paper I chose green, so it will mach the background of the photo. Also I have never worked with colored paper before. I am going to use mostly colored pencil for this pice of are so I can really try and get the little details in.

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The nose came out with a well blended look. It had a more natural transition between the light and dark areas. This gave it a mile bit of depth although I would have liked more. I chose a natural color for the nose to try something different and I think it kinda worked. The brown-red, red, orange, black and white blended nicely.

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The mouth came out better than the eyes. I was able to give it a little depth and not have it be so flat on the page. The lips themselves came together well, but I need to still work more on having the skin around it look natural instead of forced.

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I started working with the eyes. It did not turn out as well as I liked and was smudged a bit. It needed to be a more smooth transition between the light and dark areas as well. I would have liked to make the skin colors on the two sides more matched than they are right now if I had more time as well.

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As the class continues to work on faces we start look look at 3 different parts separately. The eyes, mouth, and nose are looked at more closely as we move forward. The class focuses on the skin around these parts so they do not look flat on the page.

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Day four we had to do a more difficult face that was turned and at a more awkward angle. This was more difficult and I had
a harder time creating this face from its picture.

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On the third day the class was instructed to work on a self-portrait. For this day the class had to use a mirror to draw ourselves.

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Day two we took printed images and worked on trying to find the center. For this project we are not supposed to erase which leaves you with multiple pieces of a face when you need to move it to put it in a more accurate space.

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Here we worked on a full frontal portrait of a face no one is biased off of the picture. It is supposed to be a typical face.

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For this project the class is working on faces.

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For the final part of my project I added the yellow light and snow. A few add ons I did was the coverage at the bottom of the tree. This was to hid the mistake I made with the background bleeding into the tree. I also added more outline then I first planed. This was to make some areas like the trees stand out more and not blend in as much with the background. As well as divide the two sides so each one stranded out on its own. I liked this project for its wind range in areas that the artist could chose how they would like to portray the idea of" lost and found".

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At this point I started painting with the water color. I was still unsure how I wanted it all to look with colors and other simple details, so I started with the trees. From their I worked on the out line of the upside down girl, the lighthouse, and water. When doing the class walk around I asked for information on background color. This gave me the understanding that a dark "blackish-gray" would fit. I went a little backwards at this part starting with the smaller areas.

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For the first step I got water color paper, soaked it for 5 minutes and stapled it to a board. This way the watery water colors would not make the paper "fold up" and become bumpy. Than I sketched out the idea I had done on scratch paper before onto the water color paper.

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This was a very open pice. This artwork could be done in any way pencil, paint, charcoal, watercolor, etc. For this project you had to represent the idea of "lost and (then) found", "lost", or "found". I picked "lost and found", so that I Ould almost split my picture and give the viewer to different sights. I used water color to give a loose look.

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For my image I picked a fox and some fish. I wanted it to be that the fox was watching the fish as if about to find one for dinner. I picked to use a pencil and Indian ink for my materials. This gave be the ability to find many shade in the pice of art. I tried to have my images not centered but off to the side to change they way the art work was seen.

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PROJECT THREE
For this project we did transfers of images we found and had to go out from there and create a piece of art. The project was pretty wide open in what we could do. We had a choice of any image and from any source. Also the freedom to use what ever minerals, with them being black white and shades between. This allowed many options.

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At this point in the project I finished the water colors. Then I traced over my continues line so that it could be seen as continuous. From there I removed it from the board and trimmed the edges, so that you could not see the sample marks. Although it is continuous line it is a little hard to tell because of the trimmed edges.

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For part two I finished my drawing and prepared the paper for water color. I did this by soaking the paper, then stapling it to a board. This was done so that the paper would not have wrinkles from the wet water colors when it dried. After that I stared to paint.

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I picked to continue from our practice sectc. I picked the flowers because I felt I did a good job drawing what I saw and not what I thought a flower looked like. So at this point in the project I transferred the draft of the drawing onto water colour paper.

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PROJECT TWO PART TWO
After part one of the project we picked are favorite type of line drawing. I picked continues line for mine. From there we drew out are object we picked on paper and then chose colored pencils or water colours. I picked water colours form mind because I thought it could work well with the object I drew.

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For continues line you had to always change the position of your paper so you can more easily draw in different places. It really made you look at the object and your paper and find was to get your paper around the page and where you could find lines you might other wise not notice.

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I found blind couture to be the hardest of the three different types. It was difficult because you realized how unnatural it is not to look down as you are drawing. Also it was very easy to lose where you are compared to how the rest of your drawing was laid out.

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Negative space was interesting to do because you really have to change how your eye looks at the object, so that you fine what is the negative space compared to overlapping objects and shapes. This was hard to figure out how to find the negative space and not just draw the object itself.

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Continues Lines, Blind Contour, and Negative Space 

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Continues Lines, Blind Contour, and Negative Space 

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PROJECT TWO PART ONE
This project was interesting to do because it really makes you think about hand eye coordination. For this part of the project we had to try to 3 Different types of line drawings. and from their pick a favorite kind.

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This shows the finished product of my art. It includes the black charcoal for my background and the bright oil pastels to create the fence and sun. There are many different parts from each square incorporated in different ways.

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For the first step I used a pencil to create the outline of my artwork. After I started with oil pastel to create the leaves.

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PROJECT ONE
On this project I worked with oil pastel and charcoal.