Thursday, January 24, 2013

Finished Blind Contour Drawing!

I finished my blind contour drawing! I'm really proud of it although looking at it now I should have used black to color in the hair. I really enjoyed using the prismacolor colored pencils, enough to want to buy some of my own! I really liked this assignment because not only did we use a drawing to express who we are- but basic sentences that describes each and every individual. I think depending on your word choice and effort, these small sentences can hold a strong factor in the assignment.

Friday, January 18, 2013

Bowls, bowls and more bowls!

Ah, back to pottery! I absolutely love working with clay and watching it transform into beautiful pieces of art (that we can eat off of too!). Last year I really enjoyed the pottery unit just as much as I enjoyed it this year. This year is the year of the Empty Bowls Dinner! All our bowls will be on sale and can be eaten on on February 9th. This year is everything pasta themed, I love pasta! I'm looking forward to going, as it only happens once every two years, and it's for a good cause! I encourage everyone to go, not only does the town come closer together when helping people, but it's all for a good cause and who knows, maybe you might make a new friend! I can't wait to see everyone eating from the bowls our classes made!





Blind Contour Drawing

Although I am not a fan of drawing portraits, I found this assignment really interesting. For the assignment we were to create a self portrait using only a mirror and a pen. However, we could not look at the drawing at all times of drawing, and to not take our pen off the paper. I really liked this assignment because after drawing our portrait we were to add small sentences about ourselves. Some sentences I have in my drawing is; "I am flawed." "I try." "I am loved." I have not finished this assignment but I plant on it soon! The back round has been really fine consuming but in the end I know it's going to be worth it! I really am enjoying this assignment. :)

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Paper Lantern

In our Creative Arts class this assignment was to create a paper lantern based upon a season of your choice using an Exacto knife. I found this assignment really entertaining. I really enjoyed cutting the paper mainly because the season I chose was Spring and on my lantern I cut out trees. I liked all the ways I could bend and cut out designs on the tree and I thought this assignment was fun.



Sunday, January 13, 2013

Leonardo da Vinci

Born April 15th, 1452 and living to be 67, Leonardo da Vinci grown to hold a bold title of a Italian Renaissance polymath. Not only was he a successful painter, he was also a sculpture, engineer, inventor, geologist, anatomist, cartographer, botanist, writer, musician and much more! With his large fascination with his scientific studies and human anatomy, he was able to create art pieces most realistic as possible.

Leonardo decided not to use the conventional fresco methods of painting in most of his art pieces, meaning he worked at his own leisure and complete the project without the limitation of time in the way, although he was criticized for this technique, he still remains as one of the most brilliant people of all times.

Leonardo is often remembered by three of his many masterpieces, the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and Vitruvian Man. My favorite out of the chosen three is the Mona Lisa. I like this masterpiece because the lady's facial expression remains a mystery and only the artist truly knows what the lady's facial expression was really meant to portray.

I chose Leonardo da Vinci because I find it very fascinating that such a wonderful, talented artist can excel in so many other fields of subject. I also think he is interesting because not many people during those times was willing to study anatomy let alone understand it. Not only did da Vinci leave behind many masterpieces, but he left 20 sketchbooks/notebooks that eventually became footprints of knowledge and information that the future used.