1. Which project was your favorite or most successful this semester? Please explain.
The clay tile project was definitely my favorite, and not just because I felt like I was competing in FaceOff. This was a multiple step project and was fairly time consuming (but not in a bad way). The project itself was to find an animal and the biome that it lives in. I chose the Lionfish, a beautiful creature that mainly lives in the oceans off the coast of India. I had to draw and color what I was going to eventually put into a 3-D clay sculpture. After I finally got my hands on some clay, I molded different shapes and figures to fit onto a clay tile. This part, though messy, was fun, and you really got to see how something you created in your mind, then sketched on paper, was coming to life in the 3-D world. After the clay was finished and fired, I was finally able to paint it. I'm glad that my sketch was so in detail and wonderfully colored because it was the best help on what colors and designs I should use. I had to paint things over multiple times before everything was covered in the right colors. In the end, I think that it came out brilliantly, the colors really help it pop out of the clay tile. I fully enjoyed the work for this project and he outcome, I'm so glad that I everything worked out for the best.
2. Regardless of whether you liked or disliked a project, which one did you learn, grow, or developed the most from? Please explain.
I liked and disliked performing this project at the same time. It was slightly frustrating at times when I accidently clicked on the wrong tabs and tools. I followed and listened to the instructional video closely because of this. My mom is a professional photographer, so growing up I would always watch her use Photoshop so I fell like I had a little heads-up for this project. I learned about new and different tools that were available on Photoshop and how to use them. I knew how to use some of the tools before, but that was only a limited on look compared to what I know now because of this project. I now know how to use different tools and how to perform different and more expandable ways for Photoshop. This will definitely help me in the future and has already since this project because like my mom, I too love to take photographs.
3. Choose 1 piece of Art that you used skills and techniques learned from previous projects. Discuss your growth as an artist and how you incorporated these skills and techniques to create the piece.
I learned skills and techniques that helped me on this project from prior art classes throughout my schooling career. I have done two other printing projects such as this one, but for this project, we had to carefully obstruct specific details that would show in our final outcome. We had to take two photos from the internet, one of an animal, and one of a back ground that your animal wouldn't necessarily be in. I wanted to do a kind of strange animal that I hoped no one else would do, so it's good that one of my favorite animals is the Okapi (half zebra-half giraffe, a real animal). For the background I also chose that I love/enjoy, railroad tracks. The project objective was to bring out texture in our final prints, so I pulled out the grooves in the railroad tracks, and also the stripes on the Okapi's legs and the specific details makes up its face. I paid close attention to all of the details and different shading colors in both the pictures that I combined to create this print. It isn’t take too much effort, but it took enough for me to pick out the right details that would create cool textures. When I was carving out my design in the linoleum, I was sure to make the groves deep enough because I knew that if I didn't, the paint would sink into the groves and distort the outcome of the print. Also, while rolling the paint, I was sure to have just the right amount of paint and to slay it out over the parts that would show up on the paper and not to get it stuck into the grooves.
4. Which project do you feel was the least important in learning the concepts taught in this course? Please explain.
For this project, the only concept that I would consider important that I learned was the Photoshop part of the project when we had to distort the coloring of the photo we chose. Other than that though, cutting out stencils, and spray painting them onto cardboard canvases, I just find the least important concepts for this class. We had to trace out the different colors of the picture that we took of ourselves onto different pieces of large stencil paper, which was extremely easy and something that I've done before on my free time; doing it in class to me seemed to be kind of boring and a waste of time even though it was one of the first steps for the project. After we had out stencils down, we had to cut them out (which really wasn't that bad and was actually kind of fun), and we had to be careful to cut out the right sections. For the cutting phase we had to thick forward to how we were going to spray-paint it. When the other stages were finally complete we were allowed to use spray paint with our stencils onto a piece of cardboard which would act as our canvas. It was fairly easy (even though the days I sprayed it was extremely windy), and I was one of the first one to finish the project. So for this project even though there were some interesting and fun parts (like dumpster-diving for cardboard which is a great memory that I will always have), overall I found this project the least important for learning concept taught in the course.
This was one of my final projects for the art class I have enjoyed so much, and I feel that it reflects myself as an artist, the piece that I really have a personal connection to. We had to choose a background picture that we took (or someone on our family), so I chose a picture that really meant something to me. I took this picture on the ferry to Ocracoke Island, on my Kelley Cousin Beach Vacation in the summer of 2012. I was with my Dad, Brother, my cousin Kyle, his girlfriend Tori, and my Aunt Donna. We were closing in on the island after an hour ferry ride that I didn't mind too much, and a sail boat came right by the ferry. I snapped the photo which has the beginning of the island in the background along with some beautiful ocean clouds. I feel this piece reflects me as an artist because I personally love to paint on canvases and have done so before on my own free time. This piece shows how I have grown in terms of painting using acrylic paints. I have evolved in many ways that are displayed in this painting, the cloud for instance, I wasn't very good at making them come to life or even look real, but I have grown as an artist in that aspect. Also, with the land in the further background, I used different greens and browns make it look as real as it does in the photograph. With the focal point being the sail boat, I think that I did a fairly good job with bringing the eye to that point. Overall, I feel that this is the piece of artwork that I have done throughout this art class that really expresses who I am as a person and as an artist. I'm so happy with all of the projects that I have done and completed in this class and I can't wait to hang them up and put them in my bedroom and around my house to show them off. I fully enjoyed this project and it was relaxing and fun.
I really did love this class, and even though I'm not going to take Art Two next year, I am really considering it for my Senior Year of High School. Thank you for making this class so fun and allowing us to do these great and fun projects!
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