My favorite medium to work with was clay. I favor clay over other mediums because I enjoy using my hands with work and I work best with my hands. Making the clay tile project was very fun. Working with clay was intriguing, but also difficult. It was difficult because I wanted to perfect every shape on the frog. I had the most trouble with the eyes on the frog. Making the body of the frog was interesting. This is because it was easy to build it originally but adding the detail increased the difficulty.
This piece describes me as an artist best because I love sunsets and all the colors involved in them. I also love the picture I based it off of. That sunset was really pretty. I also enjoyed doing this project very much because I like painting and we got to choose a picture that one of our family members or that we took. I think have that personal connection to the piece really made it interesting. I really enjoyed the colors that I was able to create for this painting because they were deep colors and they werent simple colors that would take 2 seconds to create. I took time in creating them. This piece really was fun to create and I really enjoyed it. I chose my most recent perspective drawing and the perspective drawing from the beginning of the year. This shows my growth because I didn't know how to draw in perspective at the beginning of the year and now I am a good perspective drawer. My creativity has gotten better since then too. The drawing from the beginning of the year was of the corner of the room that was directly behind my seat. I chose this corner because I had the clearest view of it. And the more recent drawing is a post-apocalyptic city. I chose this theme because it seemed like it would be fun to draw and it was. I think my overall skills in art have improved over this year. I feel like I was least successful on the black and white drawing. This is because I didn't finish it. I did not know what to do most of the time. I also was not very comfortable using the X-Acto knives. This is because the knives were very sharp and if you made one wrong move then you messed up your piece. I would change many things about this project. The main thing I would change is the design of it. It doesn't look that good to me. Over the course of this semester, I would have to say that my oil shapes drawing was my best. The oil shapes were fun to make because there was a different technique needed for each shape. The choices I made, regarding the colors, made this project look really good. I think if I had further instruction on how to make shadows on the shapes. This is because while making the shadows, I was a bit confused. I am happy with how the drawing came out and I would do it again. |