Artist's Statement

With Quarter 2 the art pieces were different. We had to do plenty of remakes. Maybe to get more ideas from other artists. This quarter I changed it up and use oil pastels and added texture to my paintings. I spent most of my studio brainstorming on what I could create or recreate. Most ideas of art come from music to me. For examples when listening to my favorite musicians I constantly glance at their album cover to build off of.

Q2 Pieces for Art

​For my art pieces this quarter I felt very inspired to use paint as my main art material. I found that when painting I felt very calm. Holding a paintbrush and using my imagination to create art pieces felt very therapeutic for some reason.

When I started my first pieces which was the contour drawing I found it challenging since I couldn't see what I was doing, I kept trying to look but in the end I came out with very unique drawings. Then, coloring them in was also a challenge. It turned out to look completely opposite of what it was originally supposed to be, but I think that’s the beauty of art. You can draw or paint anything and it will still be right because it’s something you created out of your imagination.

Then we went on to our own choice of painting, it was around the time of holidays and I was in the christmas spirit so I decided to paint classical images you would see around the holidays, a snowman and holiday lights. I loved creating and painting these pieces. Afterwards we had to recreate a painting and I instantly knew I wanted to create a Picasso. He is one of my favorite artist for so many reasons. His artis inspiring and I find his blue era inspiring, so I decided to recreate a painting from that era. When creating this piece I learned how important it was to mix colors and blend. In the original price some areas were a lighter blue than other areas so I had to mix in some white in order to get in just right.

Afterwards, we had to illustrate a piece of writing. I knew right away what I wanted to do. I chose a J-cole song called “A Tale of Two Cities” on the song he talks about police-brutality and everything a black man has to go through. He talks about black injustice. I decided to recreate this song by illustrating one of his lines “hands in the air run it” and then “Forgive me father for I have sinned” by painting a man pointing a gun at someone else and saying the line and then above two hands praying with the lyrics next to it. In between of the two grains you can see golden bricks and this image represent the line “I know that everything that glitter ain't gold.” The bricks may be painted gold that doesn’t mean they are valuable. This was one of my favorite drawings. Lastly we had to take pictures and then edit them to show depth. I took three pictures that showed depth then edited them and highlighted and used contrast to further emphasize the depth of the pictures.


Art 2 Q2 Artist Statement


This marking period in art, we worked on many different assignments. These included: Blind Contouring, Adding Color to Blind Contour, Make a Painting, Recreate a Piece of Art, Illustrate a Piece of Writing and Edit a Photo.

The first two assignments went hand in hand. We had to close our eyes and draw something without lifting the pencil from off of the table. We then ad to color those same drawings. This was my favorite piece from this quarter, it was fun and relaxing in a way. A few of the things I drew were a stuffed animal, a basketball player and a telescope.

The next assignment was Make a Painting. We had to create anything we wanted to, we just had to paint it. I decided to paint the Dominican Republic flag, since that is where I am from. I used the colors red white and blue because those are the colors of the flag, and also used green for the leaves on the flag. I painted the letters in gold.

Next, was Recreate a piece of Art. I recreated a painting based off of ¨El Dia De Los Muertos¨, ¨Day of the Dead¨. Painting the background of this piece was fun. I mixed colors like green, yellow and brown all together. The Painting was two skeletons(a couple) which goes with the entire theme of the day of the dead in Mexico.

After that assignment came the Illustrating a piece of writing. The piece of writing I chose was an album by my favorite spanish artist Ozuna, his album was named ¨Odisea¨. The The used paint to raw the album color which included a brown stuffed bear in a hoodie, with his name in the hoodie and his album logo in black on the top.

The last Assignment of the year was photo editing. I took two pictures and used an app to edit it. I added filters and played around with things such as enhancements.

Overall, this marking period in art I drew a lot of inspiration from my life and my identity. For instance, My flag represents where I am from and the illustrate a piece of writing represents my taste in music.


Ashton Reigner Q2 Art

I had a lot of inspiration for my art this quarter. Everything I created has an explanation.  One thing I looked for is how I could make something that sampled things from other art. For this I looked to music and famous paintings that I felt had their own source of inspiration. While creating my drawings I used pastels and colored pencils mostly. I like to put as much contrasting color in my art as possible and these were two mediums that would allow me to do so. When I do my art though, I like to be in a certain state. When in the classroom, it’s hard for me to concentrate and open my mind up to create whatever it is I want to create. This is why I like to do all my art at home. When I’m at my house in my room, alone, I get fully concentrated and that is when I produce my best art.


Maya Kohl, Quarter 2 Artwork

For my color blind drawings I wanted to express unique coloring for simple show drawn things, to make them stick out in purpose. My blind contour drawings were inspired wit objects or people who have more details than are shown on the surface.
For my own painting, my friend who means a lot to me told me to paint a flower, like a rose. She is a rose to me, but I wanted someone deeper and darker. To me this expresses her to with me. She is so pure like a flower, while I’m dark but still beautiful. When I choose the famous already existing painting I chose it because it screamed mystery to me, that is something that always draws me into something. I enjoyed the colorful fruit to a dull colorless man.
For the illustration to a song, book passage or a quote. I wanted to draw a metaphor to one quote I try to live by, this quote was “you have to be your strongest when you're feeling your weakest.” So in my illustration I tried to portray something beautiful and weak on the inside of a cage. The cage would be your strength to aid you when you’re weak but at the same time not letting the weak parts of you, the butterfly set free.
For my photo editing photos, I chose to make everything in a portrait mode and hiten it, I used the app given to make lines in the macaroons stand out as well as other images. I choses these images because of their difference in similarities. Three out of the five images are baked goods, while the other two are of winter. Two of my favorite things, winter and baked goods.
I wish overall with this quarter I managed my time more wisely, and spent proud time on some of these assignments more than others. I used a lot of rulers and measuring for proportion, with my man with a green apple painting I measured out some of the lines making up the back and himself. With the caged butterfly for the bars I used a ruler. Which I never do. Overall I thought this quarter was full of new experiences and creative thinking I'm proud of it.

Advance Art slideshow Quarter Two

In this unit, I have created 5 different types of art creation. We start off with Blind contour is when you look up at something in a draw without look down on the paper. This was very hard for, because usually I won't make my line and curve nicely by a look at it. Then we had to add color to the cantor. As right now I was disappointed the way I color the cantor. The cantor has helped me understand how difficult an art has to work. Then our second assignment you had to Choose your own painting and I recreate a nice painting of Boohbah from my childhood so it was a great connection. It turns out to do nicely, but painting was very hard because you want to keep in line. After a look at the painting I know this was going to be great have a great connection. Recreate an art piece I wanted to do something that inspires everyone and I remember our first black president has great inspiration because how he has carried himself. President Obama has inspired me since I was a little kid. I member watch t.v hoping he was going to be our first president. Illustration from a piece art I choose one my favorite album born sinner from J Cole. The album helps me go through hard loss basketball game. Born Sinner has a true story behind every song. It a story of J Cole up and down in life. This might be my favorite assignment to do in this quarter. Photo editing our last assignment for the quarter. I didn't understand the connection between the art and photo editing. But as my editing it has a lot because you have to fix the color contrast and make people really look at one part of the photo which is call depth of the field. This assignment will help in the future because I want to go into Photography. Overall, I have learned a lot of about a turn assignment in on time. I also have reflected in my art. I have learned it's not easy to just believe in skills. Most of the art I create I have inspiration from my childhood because I can remember the good time when I use to go home and watch t.v. Then I have a conversation with my friends who gave me ideas.

Week 10 - Slideshow • Artist's statement

 

Over the course of quarter two we were assigned to create a variety of different drawings and photos, being: Blind contour drawings, colored blind contour drawings, choice painting, recreation of an art piece, Illustration of a writing, and Photo editing.

Our first assignment was blind contour drawings, we had to pick ten subjects we wanted to draw and then gather ten sheets of printer paper and draw each subject. Contour drawings are drawn from a starting point and without looking down at the paper. You figure out where your starting point is going to be, pull up the image or look at your subject and draw it to the best of your ability without taking your drawing utensil off the paper until you're completely done. For the first assignment I decided to draw items I saw around the art room.  

Second, the colored contour drawings were done off our previous contour drawings, more specifically we had to take our contour drawings we had drawn for our first assignment and color them. I colored my country drawings with multiple colors, and gave some contour drawings a background. I specifically did that, to make the drawings more appealing to the eye. One thing I took away from these two contour drawings, was that not everything is going to turn out exactly how you want it to turn out the first or even the second time. Although, you may want to change your idea or subject your, sometimes it’s best to stick on the same path (as said in the direction about keeping you pencil on the paper at all times) and find a better way.

Third, was the choice painting, you were required to choose an art piece of interest, and paint it on a medium sized canvas, which is by far larger than 2 pieces of printer paper put together. I chose to paint a monster from the Tv show called “The Mist” because it seemed very cool and interesting, also the monster was the main part of the Tv show, and due to my strong interest in “The Mist”, I wanted to find something that would respable the whole Tv show. One thing I took away from this, is being able to go deeper into detail with whatever you may be analysing or drawing. For instance, I didn't just draw the base or an outline of the monster. I drew the outside fog, and I painted the fog with a mix of black, gray, yellow, and white paint, to give my painting a more supernatural feel. Overall I put as much detail as I could, to show and give you the feeling of what was happening in the moment when this monster appeared in the Tv show.

Fourth, we had to recreate a piece of art, this piece of art can be anything from a drawing you found online to a drawing or painting you or someone else did last year.  I recreated a painting from a famous artist. This was a painting of a complex multi- colored forest with deer throughout the painting. Instead of painting the original painting i decided to draw it with colored pencils, because it was easier. After doing this drawing, I realize that even the most complex art pieces can be done just as well with the simplest materials.

The fifth assignment consisted of illustrating a piece of writing. Meaning you have to find a piece of writing whether that's in a book or online, and illustrated in anyway you prefer to illustrate the writing. For this assignment I chose to illustrate the quote “Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out”. I illustrated this out in the form of a drawing, because while words get a point r message across well, I think portraying a message/point through a picture makes the message even more powerful than it originally was. Something I took away was the ability to better portray a message through a detailed drawing.  

In conclusion quarter two brought a lot of new perspectives into me life. Last year quarter I learned about time management and being precise. Whereas, this quarter I learned about not being perfect but doing the best you can do, drawing/creating exactly what is asked to be created, making due with the materials you have to make your art pieces, etc. Most significantly I learned how to tell a story and a meaning throughout the simplest and the most complex pieces of art.


Quarter 2 Artist's Statement

For this quarter I we worked on pieces that I really enjoyed. I was able to wrok on blind contour drawings, painting from reference, recreating a piece of art, and creating an illustration from a piece of writing. 

The assignment that I was the most unfamiliar with was the blind contour drawing. I had never heard of that style of art before and I was nervous to try it. The hardest part about it was making sure that I didn't look at the paper while I was drawing. Once I kind of got t enough of it and was finished my drawing I was afraid that they didn't' look like they were supposed to look like. But when I looked up how professional artist did blind contour drawings I knew that they were not supposed to be perfect. My favorite Blind contour drawings that I id were the portraits of people. 

My next favorite assignment was recreating a piece of art. For this I decide to pick my Aunt as my artist. She has been crocheting since she was a young child and she has perfected her craft.  About 8 years ago she taught me how to crochet and it has been something that we have been able to bond over ever since. One of her specialties are neck cowls so I decided to make one of those. 

My next favorite assignment of the quarter was making an illustration from a piece of writing. As soon as I saw this assignment I knew what piece of writing I was going to do. I picked my favorite short story called The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell. It was written almost 100 years ago but I still love to read it. It is about a man who gets stuck on an island with a crazy hunter and his servant who play the "most dangerous game" and hunt people. So the story follows him surviving through their endeavors to kill him. Since there are three character sin the book I decide to draw those three men. I have never actually drawn males before so I had to look up how to draw their bodies and muscles.

All in all I really enjoyed the assignments of this quarter and I look forward to the assignments and adventures of next quarter. 


• Artist's statement • Slideshow embed • Blog

This quarter I focused on creating art that described how I felt in the moment. Whatever came to mind, I just made it. A lot of the art that I created during this quarter were based off of television shows that I watched.

I can honestly say that I enjoyed crocheting the halter top the most. Making the halter top involved doing something that I love, crocheting. Crocheting is something that helps me relieve stress, so I took the opportunity with open hands. Another good thing is that I was able to use the halter top as a project and earn credit for it while also profiting off of it. 

Anything that involved me coloring was something that I somewhat disliked. Usually when I draw, I like to keep my artwork black and white. Unfortunately, some of the assignments required me to color them in for the final presentation. I am not the best at shading things so that frustrated me a bit and the overall process is just so time consuming. 

This entire quarter was pretty hard and stressful for me but I can say that I am proud of the artwork that I produced. Growing up I was a big fan of art and I somewhat got that spark back creating artwork this quarter. Hopefully I can keep up the good work and allow other people to enjoy my artwork as well.

Advanced Art Slideshow


During this quarter, the majority of the art we drew was created by us. In the beginning of the quarter, we drew blind contour drawings which is a concept artists use to practice their drawing skills. Blind contour drawings are when you're looking at a an object and not at your paper and you attempt to draw the object as best as 
you can. My other drawing after the contour drawing was a painting of my own creation. It represents how wounded the world is, and all we really do to fix it is "put a band aid on it." Metaphorically. 

My personal preference for materials for materials and techniques is using larger paintbrushes to make soft undertone for the base. Let that dry. And then from there paint a lighter color on top. I do this because sometimes, colors don't mix very well. So instead of mixing them in a pallet, I just paint over what's already there. 

• What important things happened during making art the quarter?
Something important that I learned is that you can make magic out of your mistakes. In my "Heal the World" drawing, I first attempted to draw the ground, I also attempted to draw first. But, turns out, the brown was more of a darker red. So instead of starting over, I made the red a little lighter and made it blood. It saved me so much time and frustration. 


Art takes time. You can't rush it. I tried gunning through my assignments thinking that they were good enough to turn in but looking back, there are always improvements to be made. 

Week 10 - • Artist's statement

Throughout quarter 2 we have created 6 different art pieces for every week. For the first two weeks I drew 10 different images without look at what I was doing called the Blind Contour. The things I drew was Rihanna, Freddy Krueger, Michael Jackson, Batman, Hulk, Cam Newton, A Demogorgon, and Pennywise. On week 3 I colored them all they best as I could to bring the picture out. Next, on week 4 the assignment was choose your own painting. I choose one of my favorite game covers, Mortal Kombat. I painted it the best I could for it to look similar. On week 5&6 the task was to recreate a piece of Art. I wanted to test my skills so I decided to challenge myself a little by drawing a very detailed eye with shadows. For week 7&8, I personal think was my best piece of art yet. The task was  to illustration from a piece of writing, meaning we had to recreate a piece of art from a game, song, movie etc… I made J Cole the rapper album cover and it came out better than what I expected. For my last week 9, the task was to photo edit a picture with deep depth of field. I decide to edit two pictures because I enjoyed it a lot and they came out look really good. I made the lighting much better and brighter. I also added color to make certain things stand out.
One of my most important sources of ideas for art is just google images because you could type in a type of art and show you a lot of them you can choose from and they come out to be very creative. I sometimes outline the image for it to look neat and then do my own coloring, and sometimes I redraw the whole thing myself if i’m in the mood to. But, when I do redraw the whole picture I change somethings around like color or the way it looks if I think it look better.When I draw I personally like to use mechanical pencils because unlike a number two pencil, it doesn’t draw out after a certain time of using it. During this time I don’t think I learned anything new or different but in the future I plan to, to better my drawing skills even more.To make my artwork I sometimes use the projector. I would put my image on the projector and outline it on to my paper and do the rest myself.
I use my studio time wisely most if the time by starting my art right away and planning on what I want to start with and how I want it to look. But, I honestly can say I sometime work on other assignment to stay ahead in school.Overall, I really enjoyed this art assignments this quarter and hope for even better ones in the future that I can test my skills to.

Week 10 Art Project -Brendan Barnes

For week one we did blind contour  drawings and it was kind of hard for me because I was so used to looking at the paper when I was drawing. Then I didn’t really understand that it was supposed to look messed up so I was throwing a lot of the really bad ones in the trash and starting over. For week three we had to color in our contour drawings and I forgot to submit my work so I was walking around with a zero for it but once I realized it I quickly submitted it.

On week 4 I had to paint, I chose to do perry the platypus  because he is my favorite character from a tv show that I watched when I was a kid, I had a lot of fun working on it because I had to mix the colors together to create the colors that I really wanted. Week 5 and 6 was my worst week this quarter because I tried to recreate the American flag but then I left my flag in my locker and since we had a lot of snow days I was not able to really work on it so I didn’t get a good grade on it, but I choose to do the American flag because it is a symbol itself but within it there are multiple symbols, I just find that to be really cool.

The assignment for week 7 and 8 turned out to be the best artwork I’ve done probably in my whole life, I chose to do Chief Keef who is one of my favorite rappers that are from Chicago. I feel like I did it perfectly. I got points off because for some reason it was turned sideways on the pdf but not on the normal google doc. Week 9 we had to edit a photo and add depth of field to it. To me it was a good way to end off the marking period. I chose to focus on a picture that said “Neither God” and it didn’t take my long to do that but the picture had to be 2 hours of work so I spent the rest of the time add special effects to it.

I would also like people to know that I don’t consider myself to be an artist but I honestly do feel way more confident about drawing since I joined Ms.Hull’s art class, I make sure just to try and have fun with it. For every single one of my pieces of art I never once said I couldn’t do it and I just tried my best.


Final Project Q2-4 - Artist’s Statement

 Artist’s Statement:
For Quarter 2 Advanced Art class, I created drawings, paintings and edited photos. For week 1, the assignment was to do contour drawings and I choose viral and related topics that were currently going on. These topics include Pennywise from the movie IT and the dancing hotdog from Snapchat. Two of my favorite pieces of art created was week 4, choosing your own painting and week 5 and 6, recreate a piece of art. Week 5 and 6, I recreated a piece of art by the artist Noe Two. I felt like this piece was personal and I did better because it was someone that I admire, Aaliyah. As for my recreation of a piece of art for week 4, I painted a water bearer with different shades of blue. I got the idea from my zodiac sign which is aquarius and the sign for it which is a water bearer. 
I would like people to know that I take my art is personal to me and that I put a lot of effort into each assignment. I like to choose personal topics for my art work because I want to express how I feel about certain topics through my art work. For example in week 7 and 8, I completed a illustration piece from a piece of writing. The photo I used In this piece of writing was image was from album cover. I made the photo larger first. Then I traced the image and colored it in.
 Most of the equipment I used was, coloring pencils, markers and paint. I used markers to outline my art so that it can pop out. Them I would use paint or markers to add some color to my artwork. In week 1 for my contour drawing and coloring, I used different colors to make my contour drawing better. Using these different colors allowed my drawing to be more colorful. Instead of using the colors that are supposed to be for each picture, using different colors made my picture more aesthetic.  

Quarter 2 Artist Statement

Quarter 2 Artist Statement 
Thea Risher 

Over the course of this quarter, I made many different pieces and styles of art. These included blind contour drawings, a painting of our own choice, a recreation of a famous piece of art, an illustration from a piece of writing, and an edited photo. Because they were all very different, the process was extremely different for all of the pieces. I used many mediums I had not used before, such as watercolors or photo editing tools. In this artist statement, I will review everything I did, as well as how I grew as an artist. 
It started with the blind contour drawings. For this art, you had to draw anything you could see without looking down at your paper or raising your pencil from the paper. At first this technique was difficult to me because I felt that they needed to be perfect. Once I got the hang of it, it became easy to just draw with my instinct and let it look funny. It showed me that art does have to be perfect or meet anyone’s standards, but could also be fun and stress-relieving. I drew mostly the people around me, myself, my hand, and my hair. I began to enjoy the freedom and simplicity of it. We had to make 10 of these, then we had to color the blind contour drawings as best we can. I used a combination of markers, highlighters, and colored pencils to do this. We could use our eyes for this, so the color ended up making them look more polished and pretty. I used different color schemes for the different drawings, and I really enjoyed the final product. Next piece was my favorite of the quarter, which was any painting of our choice. I chose to use watercolors, because I was curious about how they worked and had never used them before for the most part. I painted a path in a forest, with different colored leaves. I made the branches with a very dense brush and darker brown paint, then made the leaves with washy oranges and reds. I finished with sparkly watercolor paints. I learned that a little bit of water can go a long way. I really pleased with how it came out, considering it was my first time using watercolors. The next assignment was to recreate a piece of art by a famous artist. I chose to do one of the famous still lifes by Paul Cezanne, because I admire his work and technique. I originally wanted to use acrylic paint to recreate his painting, but could not capture the detail the way I wanted to. I ended up having to start over, and decided to just try sketching it. I liked the sketch much better, but I had to work on it at home because I wasted a lot of time trying to use the technique of acrylic painting. This piece was one of the most difficult for me because of changing mediums in the process, but the end product turned out very good in my opinion. 
The next art piece was an illustration for a piece of writing. We were given a lot of freedom in this assignment, so I decided that I wanted to do an illustration for a song. The song I chose was Pink Matter by Frank Ocean. For this illustration, I wanted to do the silhouette of a woman surrounded by pink watercolors and full of galaxies in the middle of her body. I started by painting the background, then drew a woman’s profile on top of the pink layer. The profile was difficult to draw, so it took a few tries. Then, I colored her in with black acrylic paint. Once the paint dried, I drew white stars and galaxies and such. I thought this was a very fun art piece because I love music and was glad to incorporate my love of music into my art pieces. Lastly, we had to edit a photo. This was by far the most difficult assignment for me. It was the only one in which we had to edit a photo online, and I had a lot of trouble with this. Twice I completely edited my photo, only to have the photoshop app crash and lose all of my work. It would have been much easier to edit if the software was not faulty. Nevertheless, I think this was a learning experience because I had to learn to operate different photoshop tools, which will be useful for my future. 

Week 10 Art- Project- Sharron Norton

In the second  quarter of my art class, we were giving 5 major assignments and these art pieces resulted in the finishing of blind finished contour drawings, creating my own art piece, remaking of a famous piece of art, illustrating from a piece of writing, and photo editing . During the process of this task to complete, my creativity was unleashed. From these assignments, I was able to truly have faith in myself as an artist and test my resourceful talent that has been hidden for so long.

My artwork is about the excitement of exploring with your eyes, mind and spirit the unique and the mysterious. The work that I create in Mrs. Hull’s room is created to have immediate impact and long lasting power, personally for me, atleast. My art pieces are very meaning for to me because its about  doing what I never thought I could do that I never thought I would actually had the time to do before. And from the process I completed in every class period, the paintings and art pieces had  engaged me  by their power of color, motion and imagery and  eventually moved me  into a sense of wondering and curiosity. Right then and there, I was beginning to be pulled in--to be involved in the process of discovering all the variety of shapes, the dark and light spaces in between them, how they're connected, float or seem to move fast across the paper. And to my surprise, I would return the next class period  to the painting and find new insights and associations with the imagery that I would then add to me  overall sense of experiencing the original beauty of the creative process. When completing I knew once placed in my room, that they would  energize it and me as well.

Looking past the obvious, close observation and engagement is major key during the process to making art work.  The challenge is to see beyond the distraction of  self- doubt and to just go with flow. Capture the  uniqueness within yourself and your work. The advice I have for others is enjoy your experience and don’t deprive yourself from greatness. Even if your spend an entire class period just pondering multiple ideas of what you want to create in your assignment, that's fine.  It may not seem like its progress, but let me tell you it is. The process of creation is in a constant state of decay and renewal. I say this because you won’t have anything unless you bring your artist side to life. Set it free to explore and be open minded to trying new things. Even if it may seem unusual.  My goal is to inspire those who to discover beauty in unusual places.

Q2 Art Slideshow - Ethan Larrabee

Our first assignment this quarter was to create ten blind contour drawings. I mainly used pictures of various musicians along with a few other things such as my own hand. When coloring, I used colored pencils to try and mimic the original pictures though I tried some more abstract color choices as well. The whole thing was sort of a rushed job like most of my art assignments. For the painting, I actually didn't have access to paints, so I once again had to use colored pencils. For the flames, I used a mix of several yellow, red, and orange pencils.
For the recreated piece, I found a photo of an old alley and added some characters of my own using pencil. I orginally wanted to ink it and add more detail but I unfortunately ran out of time. For my illustration piece, I used lyrics from a song by Queens of the Stone Age and created the drawing with pencil, inking it afterwards. As for the photo editing, I used the "painting" assignment from ealier in the quarter. I wanted to try and bring the flames out a bit more from the rest of the light and create more contrast. Unfortunately, I have very little experience with photo editing, so it ended up a bit of a mess.

Julia's Q2 Art

A lot of the art I created in this quarter were different versions of art from the same assignment. Namely, these were 10 blind contour drawings, 10 blind contour drawings with color, and 10 versions of a picture of a chicken I took on a road trip to Plymouth through different filters. Two more pieces of art I made were a recreation of The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh and an illustration of my interpretation of the Parting of the Red Sea. I also painted a picture of the sky, but I didn’t have enough blue, so I used purple, red, and a bit of green. This is why I named the painting “Improvised Sky.” I come up for inspiration for art the same way I come up with inspiration for stories: they can pop into my head at any time. I could just be minding my own business, when suddenly an idea hits me.

I used my same strategy of drawing a rough draft in my sketchbook, and then making the good copy on a separate piece of paper. I still prefer colored pencils, but using paint can also be fun. I learned that experimenting with different filters and frames on the same photo can make two completely different and really cool. An example of this is using the night vision filter and the film frame to make a scene of a chicken in a documentary filmed at night, and using the monochrome filter and the old photo frame to make an old and somewhat spooky black and white chicken picture. I still use a sketchbook to draw out rough drafts and ideas.

I spend my studio time working on my current art assignment, or on something else if I’m already done. I learned that you don’t have to draw something to make art, you can just have some fun with a few photo filters.

Artist's Statement

For this quarter I created from recreating a piece of artwork to photo editing. I recreated two types of flower, cherry blossom and a read morning glory flower. In the photo editing I used photos when I went to Venezuela. I got pictures of myself with the background with the sky on top of The Avila mountain in Caracas. I also have a picture of my uncles because they perform for the people, and tourist that go there. The important source is being observant of what you are trying to do because you can’t just do whatever. Well for my experience I need to be observant to recreate something or take a good picture. I used snapseed to edit my pictures, and it’s a very useful app because you can select points in the picture to make it better in that point you picked. Also my phone was a good tool because it has cropping pictures and adjusting brightness.

My preferences is editing pictures to submit a work if you need to take a picture because you can edit the brightness, contraction or anything else. The material I prefer is color pencils and markers because markers are great to mark lines and coloring in with color pencils. I did learn a new technique, using the projector to copy a drawing. It’s the best thing ever because you can be a skilled drawer or not and still us it  it’s so helpful. I didn’t use special tools this quarter but I learn about a eraser that is used to decrease or blend a drawing. The studio time was spent productive even if it wasn’t art, I would be doing work from another class after I was done my artwork.

My important thing happen was communicating with the teacher because if I was communicated with her I wouldn’t been marked late. I try my art pieces  to connect with me some way, the photo editing was about me and my country Venezuela and my uncles that have been there for me and trust. The artwork is from an anime I used to watch and my uncle has a cherry blossom flower tattooed on him so that inspired me. When I chose my own painting I wanted to do something from my childhood so I did Mickey Mouse and the gang when they were babies.


Julia's Q2 Art

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSHE3pl54mj8CcEDSrsyqhZJyxbL7msoD4NeP9e_T5yiOrnWUXNfwwL-7E7gg99sagnbsnwiFytXXBt/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

A lot of the art I created in this quarter were different versions of art from the same assignment. Namely, these were 10 blind contour drawings, 10 blind contour drawings with color, and 10 versions of a picture of a chicken I took on a road trip to Plymouth through different filters. Two more pieces of art I made were a recreation of The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh and an illustration of my interpretation of the Parting of the Red Sea. I also painted a picture of the sky, but I didn’t have enough blue, so I used purple, red, and a bit of green. This is why I named the painting “Improvised Sky.” I come up for inspiration for art the same way I come up with inspiration for stories: they can pop into my head at any time. I could just be minding my own business, when suddenly an idea hits me.

I used my same strategy of drawing a rough draft in my sketchbook, and then making the good copy on a separate piece of paper. I still prefer colored pencils, but using paint can also be fun. I learned that experimenting with different filters and frames on the same photo can make two completely different and really cool. An example of this is using the night vision filter and the film frame to make a scene of a chicken in a documentary filmed at night, and using the monochrome filter and the old photo frame to make an old and somewhat spooky black and white chicken picture. I still use a sketchbook to draw out rough drafts and ideas.

I spend my studio time working on my current art assignment, or on something else if I’m already done. I learned that you don’t have to draw something to make art, you can just have some fun with a few photo filters.

Z's Artist Statement

Hey! This art class has honestly changed my view for the better. I see art so differently now, being able to take your time and making art pieces you are actually passionate about shows what art is meant to be. I have learned how to use multiple forms of materials to make these pieces. The first two pieces are blind contour drawings. The task was to draw without looking at the paper. It was very difficult at first to not look, but I soon got the hang of it. My blind contour drawings are simple, but I’m proud of me being able to step out of my comfort zone. The next task has to be one of my favorites. This was the “Choose your own painting”. I enjoyed this so much, out of all the things I could have painted I felt the need to draw something from my childhood. In art, I always like to incorporate a piece of me. I love Winnie the Pooh! He is such an amazing character, especially for younger kids. He really used to teach me how to be patient and loving. I decided to do him big because I wanted to be able to hang it on my wall. I drew him, outlined him with black paint, and continued to paint the inside. Once I finished, I was proud of how well it turned out. Afterwards, we had to “Recreate a piece of Art” . This assignment was a little difficult in finding exactly what I wanted to do. I knew I didn’t want to do something that everyone would typically think of. I researched graffiti and found one I actually liked. I knew it was going to be hard at first, but I pursued my idea. I, then, found one I liked. I drew it onto the paper with a pencil, used a black marker to outline the shading, and colored the rest with crayons. My next piece really touches my heart. It’s an illustration of a writing called “My Island” by Lee. I really wanted to do something that illustrates my island. This poem speaks on so many things that I am very passionate about towards my island. I drew everything with pencil and simply outlined everything with a marker. It was simple, but I believe once you know the backstory it will touch you. The last assignment was to take a picture and edit it. I did a simple water bottle photo. The edit was simple, but it looks really cool. The fading of the bottom and top of the bottle makes it has a very nice effect. & Once again, this is me; Zeniah Navas.

Diary of a Wimpy King: Not-So-Royal

http://https://scienceleadership.org/people/ksdavis21

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-2KsJ0FfP07NF1q1Exe759dbPpaKdcrmWLbm7TmYTw0/edit?usp=sharing​​

My partner, Kavina Davis, and I created a parody of Macbeth from a high school perspective. A dramatic and witch-filled high school but a high school nonetheless. With Macbeth portrayed as a witty 17 year old boy and his girlfriend, Lady Macbeth portrayed as an evil and manipulative 17 year old girl the classic Shakespearean story takes a remarkable twist with appearances from the three witches or the three lunch "ladies", Principal Duncan, and Mr. Macduff - the grouchy history teacher.
We chose to approach the project from this perspective as we believed that it would be an interesting way to retell the play and to put a more modern and comedic spin on the entire thing. It was enjoyable to build off of one another's ideas and have fun matching up the centuries old characters with high school stereotypes. Not to mention actually drawing the characters was also enjoyable as we were taking an incredibly complex play and combining it with a children's book we both read when we were younger. While one would assume the two books are complete opposites, the archetypes matched up incredibly demonstrating that, despite how many years pass, some literature will always remain relatable to whoever is reading it.
We first came up with the idea of a journal from Macbeth's perspective, then, reminded of a line from the play, we decided that "dwarfish thief" and "wimpy kid" were somewhat interchangeable insults which is how we came up with the title "Diary of a Wimpy King: Not-So-Royal" for our short story. From there we used the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series and art style as a basis for our own short story with character such as Macbeth and Macduff - drawn acting out the story as described in the text. We knew from the beginning that we wanted to have some fun with the story seeing as we had spent 4 or so months scrupulously reading it. And I believe that we did.