Art Holiday Essay

Throughout this project I have discovered many things about the decisions I make in my production. The results of my questionnaires lead me to think about all the different impacts color choice can have. Using dull, dark colors make people think the artist is trying to portray something scary or serious while using many bright colors make people believe the artist is going for something happy or fun. The results of my questionnaires lead me to change some of the colors in my tie and on the birds and the results lead me to change my mark making by adding more variety and different kinds of utensils. My results also lead me to continue my use of flowers, nature and motifs I tend to use in my artworks. Something similar about the way I work in all of my compositions is my neatness and use of nature. Also I enjoy using paints in my work as well. My directions concerning representation is the illustrative aspect is that a bow tie represents a man and a human skeleton represents that everyone’s the same underneath their skin color and gender. For the artistic aspect of the composition, everyone will relate to the birds cracking the skull in their own way. It is meant to symbolize women trying the get through to men’s brains that they should be treated equally and not inferior to men just because they are a different gender. All of these things have impacted my artwork and the decisions I make in my composition.

Northern lights

Food homework assignment

Gender

Self Assesment #1

Fall 2013, Marking Period #2

Due date: Dec. 6, Jan. 17

12/5/13

So far this marking period, I believe I have participated well because although I work at a slower pace than most of my fellow peers, I have managed to get pretty much everything done while still jumping out of my comfort zone and trying new things. I am trying my best to stay with the class and still produce quality, interesting artwork. I am used to having few big projects to work on for several weeks than many small home works and projects that take about a week or two to finish. I think this new style of learning is starting to help me be more creative because I have more opportunity to think of ideas. My performance has been taken to the next level in my painting skills by using new techniques we have learned in class such as using colors to display darkness other than black. I personally have discovered that my strength is in acrylic painting and drawing things that are in front of me to look at. An example of this would be the scenery painting. I have started to expand my creativity and try just going with the flow and drawing or painting whatever comes to my mind like what we did in class. I have also begun to use materials that are unfamiliar to me to make my work look different than usual and more exciting to look at.

Scenery

Scenery painting