When we were given the topic for our next project, it took me a while to come up with good ideas for it. After a lot of thinking, I came up with three different ideas that I was pleased with. One of them was just a butterfly that has a lot of screws and bolts in it's wings. Another idea was to have a vine or plant grow out of my phone; I thought that would be a cool concept to work with because I could make it look like nature is trying to destroy the mechanical stuff. My last idea was having flowers that were made gears. I decided to go with the last idea because I felt like that would be a lot more interesting with all the little gears put together to make a flower. Little did I know that those little gears would take so long to draw. It took me a couple of days to finish one flower. My friend, Emmaly, then suggested to me to make a different kind of flower that doesn't have to have gears in it but could still look mechanical. So I decided to make a rose that looked like it was made of metal. I even put some screws in it to make it look even more mechanical. I then put in another flower that was made of wires and screws. After I made these flowers, I thought that it still looked too plain and I felt that it needed something. So I took the risk of putting in grass at the bottom. When I look at it now, I kind of wish that I didn't put in the grass, I just feel that you kind of lose the flowers and their stems in the grass. I also feel like there could still be more added to the sky but I am not sure what still. Out of all my projects, this one seems to be my least favorite. Maybe the fact that it is all one color and it is harder to tell the difference between the grass and the stems makes me like it less.
Today we got to have some fun with the Art 1 kids and introduce ourselves to them. To be honest, I was a little nervous before meeting my mentee. My mentee was Justin and he seemed very nice. We talked about our favorite art pieces we have done, our favorite mediums, our classes, our siblings, and our latest art pieces.
The most interesting thing I found out about Justin is that he would go to Italy if he could go anywhere in the world because he has some relatives there. His blog link is http://justin-apex10.weebly.com/art-1 For this project, I thought about doing the interior of my water bottle, the inside of my storage bench with a bunch of stuffed animals in it, the interior of a closet, and the interior of my backpack. I narrowed these choices down to the inside of my storage bench and the interior of my backpack. I went with the interior of my backpack because I thought it had a good composition. After I decided to do that, I was thinking about doing it in either acrylic or oil. I went with acrylic because I just felt like that would be better for me. When I was working on the painting, I found it really hard to create the value in the top left corner of the book bag. I was trying to keep it from blending too much. If I had more time I would go back and put in the polka dots of my backpack onto the painting. The only reason I didn't add them before was because I was afraid that I would mess them up. I do like how my painting turned out overall because I liked how the shadows came out in some of my books and how the backpack doesn't just look black, it has got some purple tint to it. When I was coming up of ideas for an everyday object, I suggested to my friend, Jessica, to do a painting of a toothbrush. She didn't go with it so then I kind of stuck with the idea. So I took different angles with my toothbrush at home and this was the angle that seemed the best to me. Since this was my first oil painting, I am pretty proud of how it turned out. I chose to do a painting of my toothbrush as my everyday object. It took me a while to work with oil paints because they tend to blend a lot quicker compared to acrylic. Another thing that I found difficult was trying to paint the sink. I was trying to make it look as close to a sink as I could but it took some time to work on that. Oil paints also takes a long time to try and it got really messy at some points for me too :(( But I really enjoyed this project out of all of them so far. |
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