The art criticism process is describe, analyze, interpret, and judge. Describing the piece is basically saying exactly what you see in the piece like the elements and colors. Analyzing the piece is listing the elements and design principles like color, harmony, value, rhythm, etc. Interpreting the piece is deciding what it is conveying and basically what the story is that it is trying to tell. Judging the piece is deciding what you think of it and if you think it is successful, your opinions have to be supported with evidence such as skills and creativity. When I look at this piece I see a blue sky, light brown sand, a darker brown reflection of the rocks, the darkest brown is the rocks and I see some highlights on them, I also see white waves crashing on the rocks. There is rhythm and harmony in the piece, it all kind of comes together on the rocks where the waves crash, the emphasis of the piece is definitely the waves. The story of the piece is basically just a day on the beach, it gives a calming mood to me because the beach is calming in my opinion I love the sounds of waves and looking at the picture it's like I can hear the waves from that day at the beach. I don't know how successful this piece actually is, of course it's my own so I'm going to be more judgmental, but I think that adding more detail to the sand and the rocks and adding more color to the sky would have made it look way more realistic. Is copying always plagiarism or is there a grey area? Explain your thoughts. I think there is a grey area because you can use something as inspiration and interpret it differently than the original artist and change it according to how you interpret it. In the picture below, I used inspiration from a scene from the movie Tangled but I changed it and made it mixed media so it is not exactly the same but you can see where the idea is from. Regardless of whether a project was successful or not, describe the one where you learned, grew, or developed the most from? Please explain. I think the project I learned the most from is my acrylic paint landscape picture of the ocean. It could have definitely been more successful but I learned a lot about mixing colors and making textures in paint which is not as easy as it seems. Choose a place or artwork where the subject matter reflects you as an artist. One that you have a personal connection to. Please explain. The picture that I have the most connection to is my painting of the goat with the black and white background. I think it relates a lot to me as a person because goats are my favorite animals and I've wanted one since as long as I can remember. It also relates to me because it is simple and has a minimalist look and my style that I really like in a lot of things is minimalist because you can do little and make something really simple but in the end it can look cool and simple with purpose.
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For my last project I decided to create my own. I am planning to redo my room this summer so I used inspiration from that. The colors that I chose for my room theme are black, white, and gold (yes, they are the school colors, no, I did not do that on purpose). So that's why I chose the colors I did but I used the goat because I really love goats and I really want one when I get older. The first thing I did was put tape down on the areas I wanted to stay white and I painted the open spaces black. Then I made a stencil for the goat and my friend helped me hold the stencil down so I could paint it in gold.
For my piece, I used 1st perspective.
This photo was taken in Valencia, Spain. It was outside of a building but I forgot what the building was. The thing I found most difficult was making the grey arches without messing up or going outside the lines, getting the precise colors was hard as well. The watercolor warm up helped me to blend colors like how I blended the green and the blue in the sky. The perspective warm up helped me to figure out how to measure lines more accurately. My portrait is of my best friend since 3rd grade, Katie. We have been friends for more than 6 years and we met because of the fact that we live in the same neighborhood. The medium that I used was paint chips, I just cut them up into little squares. The first thing I did was sketch the picture that I had, then I did the eyes and lips first since I thought that would be the hardest part. Then I did all the highlights and shadows on the face and after that I filled in the white space with the skin tone. After I was done with the whole face I did the hair, however I never actually got the time to finish my portrait. I think that the eyes are the most successful part but if I were to do the project again I would use a lighter color for the shadows on the face and I would take more time to do the hair. The warmup that was most helpful for me was the facial proportions one because it helped me to see where everything on the face needed to be place. Even though faces are different the proportions are usually pretty constant.
The thing I found most surprising about the facial proportions was that the eyes are actually in the middle of the head rather than at the very top like I thought before. This piece shows off the theme of "line" because I included many different patterns that had lines incorporated into them.
I think my piece was successful because I made a design and all the lines showed up because I carved them deep enough. If I were to do this project again I might change some of the designs just to add more variety and interest to my piece. I may also change the colors a little and maybe do black on white instead of white on black though I do like the color I chose but I might need to add more ink to make it look not so grainy. My piece is pretty much almost finished at this point, as it has been sculpted and glazed. The next step for my piece is to fire it and then I'll be finished. My original plan included adding Mickey's shoes at the bottom and glazing them yellow but I had so much trouble with the ears that I just decided not to.
It was pretty difficult to stick the ears to the head but eventually I just cut out holes for the ears to fit into and that worked pretty well. Firing my piece also helped to give the ears more stability. I think the most successful part of my sculpture is that I was able to get a nice, round shape and though it isn't perfect, it is easy to identify what it is. The first thing I had to do was to make a pinch pot by using the coiling technique, after that I had to sculpt and stick the ears and the little buttons. To stick the ears and buttons I used the score and slip technique which involves scratching the surface and then adding some water and sticking it together. After all that was done I fired my piece and when it was done firing I glazed it and then I will fire it again to make it shiny and smooth. The place I decided to paint was Venice Beach in California. This was an important place for me because I absolutely love California and I can see myself living there someday and I hope to go to college there too; it pretty much represents what I want my future to look like. The most challenging thing to paint was the water because it is so precise yet so random at the same time and it was difficult to make the wave look alive and in action. I think the most successful thing about it is that I finally got the water to look like it is spraying rather than just there without any movement. The first thing I did was I primed the canvas paper I was using. Then I painted the sky because that is the background. After doing the sky I went ahead and did the sand and then I worked my way back to doing the rocks. Finally, after a lot of work I managed to get the water, I had to use white paint as well as a white gel pen.
From doing this color matching/mixing activity I learned that mixing the exact color you need is much harder than it seems. I also learned that you have to be patient because it is unlikely that you will get the color you want on your first try. To make brown, you have to mix complimentary colors. For example, orange and blue, red and green, and yellow and purple.
I got the opportunity to meet my mentor, she's a senior and her name is Devin. She does all kinds of art but I've noticed she mostly uses pencil and colored pencil for drawings. I think I will benefit from this by learning new skills because I have seen her work and it is honestly amazing. What I want to gain from this is that I want to learn how to make my art so much better and how to work on projects better with other people. Devin's link to her link is down below.
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