Reflection of the Marking Period

   In the beginning of the marking period my thoughts were very different then they are now.  I was not confident in my work at all because most of my classmates have taken art before so I was very intimidated.  As we began to get more involved, I became more relaxed. Everyone else understood where I was at because they had felt the same thing in their first year too.  I was more comfortable with my projects because instead of being embarrassed, I was slowly being able to laugh and learn from my mistakes rather then dwell on them.  The "shifting" moment for me was when we began to do our self portraits.  This moment made me understand more clearly that some people will be better at other things then me but maybe I will be better then them at other things.  The self portraits are very challenging and frustrating for me. Some of my other classmates are very good at drawing but it does not come easily for me.  I still try my hardest because I know that the more I do it, the more I will learn and become better. 

Self-Portrait Progress

   About a week ago, my class was assigned to start a self protrait drawing/painting. A picture was taken of each student then printed out to refer back to througout the entire process. The portrait itself was much larger then the printed picture and took me about four days to complete.  There was no shading involved because we had to trace it with a sharpie.  Part of that large drawing was retraced on a smaller piece of paper to practice painting.  We were allowed to choose any color we wanted to paint with (I chose a light blue color).  I am still working on the small painting but many of my classmates are finished so they moved onto the inking part.  What we have to do in this section is paint a thin ink layer over our dried painting then dry that and wash it off.  Doing this gives the picture a washed out look which completely changes it.  I am tooking forward to finishing the practice paper so I can start my final picture.

Traced large copy

Painting my smaller copy

Fruit-Pencil Still Life

   I felt more connected to the pencil still life drawing compared to the more recent projects my class was assigned to do.  Being able to shade and highlight the real features of the actual apples and oranges allowed me to not only make the drawing look real but also help me add style and personality to every section of the fruit. One thing I liked a lot about the pencil still life compared to the colored pencil apples was that I was able to go back, change, and erase whatever I didn't like.  Not being able to erase made me feel really stuck, especially when I put a color down I decided I didn't like.  Having to mix more colors just to correct the mistake color aggravated me to a point where I almost wanted to give up.  The whole time I was working with colored pencils, I was worried about messing up; however, when I was working with the regular pencils I felt very free and relaxed.

                                                                 picture of fruit:



unfinished drawing^



                                                                

Welcome to my Blog!

           Welcome to my page, everything about this year is already starting many new experiences and memories.  Hopefully by me creating this blog, I will be able to share these experiences with all of my followers.  I will try my best to keep everyone updated on the new, exciting projects we will be starting in HTHS creative arts.  I have attached a couple photos below to help show you what goes on and to give you an idea of how we work in our class.

 This is me working on one of my paintings.

This is a picture of my table's work station.