Personal Logo

 This is my personal logo that we made in the beginning of the class. Before we could make it, we had to come up with things that described who we were. We also had to come up with a way to write our initials. When we were done with that, we picked one of each that we liked the best and put them together. I like music, so I decided to use headphones and music notes for mine. I also decided to use all three initials and chose a pattern for each that I liked. We started out drawing it in pencil, then we went over it in marker. We did all of this on a large sheet of paper, and when we were done with it it was scaled down so that it was just a small logo. I chose this piece for my blog because I feel like it's my most personal piece of art that I've done in the class. I think that this is what describes me the most, because it's all about what I like.

Print Portfolio

For my Print Portfolio I had multiple prints. One of the things I did was make a print and use water and markers to make a water coloring out of it. For this project, I started out with my blue print on a piece of paper and colored the background with blue marker, then went over it with a wet paintbrush to make it look like a watercolor. After that I colored the fins with a brown marker and drew them outside the boundaries of the print and extended them until they went off of the paper. Then I colored in the spaces on the shell pink and expanded his shell and the coral onto the rest of the paper. I made one print on vanilla paper. Another on was a textured piece of paper, and for that one I used two colors, blue and green. On one print, I drew cross contour lines on it using blue and green ink and another I made by putting blue and green ink onto a table, drawing a design in it, and pressing paper against it.

Pastel Still Life Project

  I planned my composition by gathering five objects that represent me and setting them up, then I used a view finder to find a view that I liked. I used my viewfinder to find a perspective of the objects that I liked, then I made a thumbnail sketch. A thumbnail sketch is a small-scaled sketch that shouldn't take long to make. It gives a general idea of how your bigger piece will be drawn. I made my items appear three dimensional by using value. I did this by using a variety of tints, shades, and colors in each object. My light source was created by shining a light on my objects to create shadows and highlights.

Acrylic Landscape Painting

  For my Acrylic Landscape Painting, I used a complimentary color scheme. The colors that I used were orange and blue. The first thing that I did for my painting was find four drawings that I was going to use; one for the sky, one for the hills, one for the water and one for the tree. Then I taped my paper to a piece of cardboard, and after that, I started with my sky by painting it a few different shades of light blue. Then I put in clouds and started painting the hills with different greens, tans, and browns. When I was done with that I started on the ocean with a darker, grayer blue and when that was dry, I painted the island and the boat on top of it. The last thing I did was paint my tree with greens and yellows and browns and add more detail onto my boat. For my light source, I decided that it would be coming from the upper left corner of my painting. I used different types of brush strokes as well. For the water I made my brush strokes more wavy, for the hills they were sloping down, and for the island and the sky they were straighter. I used a fan brush for the tree and just dabbed the paint on with it, and for the clouds I used a sponge. I also used a toothbrush to add speckles of rocks to the hills. I created value by adding different shades of color to my project. I added shadows to my boat and the tree and I put in different shades for the sky and the water. Atmospheric perspective as when the saturation of an object lessens as it gets further and further away. I created this by making the colors of my further objects a little more dull.

Ceramics Project

  For my Ceramics Project, I made a square bowl out of clay. My bowl is 3 in. tall and 4.5 in. wide on all four sides. The design element that was most stressed during the construction of my project was form. The techniques I used were slabs, pinching, modeling, and slumping. The function of my bowl is to hold food and/or miscellaneous items. I created my design by drawing what I wanted on a piece of paper then shaping it with clay. By doing this project, I learned that it's very important to smooth your edges and that I should go more slowly with some of my artwork. If I were to repeat this project, I would make sure that I smoothed the edges more thoroughly and I would paint my red clay on more carefully.