Intermediate Drawing and Painting Final Reflection

Here we are at the end of the course...you have made a variety of different kinds of drawings and paintings over the past few months. How would you sum up your artistic experience this term? On your blog share what have you discovered and learned about:

• the world of drawing and painting in general.
• your technical abilities in drawing and painting.
• your interests in terms of subject matter and content...what you have to say as an artist.

This term has been a wonderful artistic experience for me, and a not so great one. Wonderful because I learned how I work best in art which is alone I am just too easily distracted. Also I learned to stop trying to make an object in a picture and instead just do the colors and shading the object would follow. I also learned that no matter how many ideas I got I should just stick with one or else I would never finish the project, and that the most interesting idea is not always the best one. I also learned that liking the project is not as important as finishing it. This term was not so great for all those same reasons, I only learned the lessons from making the mistakes. The biggest thing I learned about the world of drawing and painting in general is that it is not what I had originally thought. I had always viewed art as something a bit less serious, something that was more a side project, now I know that art is a lot more serious(again a lesson learned by making the mistake). As far as what I like to make, I have learned I like making art that is more wild, the more fun, but also the longer it will take. About my technical artistic abilities, I learned I am a pretty decent color mixer, can be good at placing objects, and that shading objects is not as hard as I had always thought.

Artist-in-Residence: Alexander DeMaria

In response to the work I can only think of one word: WOW the detail is incredible. The art is so well done and intricate. The detail work is what makes this art pop and at the same time what also draws me to looking at the image as a whole.

Question: Where do you get the inspiration for your work?

Answer: They all build on each other.

Question: What do you do if you make a mistake?

Answer: I cover it up somehow.

Drawing from observation skills.

We've covered a lot of territory in our first two and a half weeks together.
Take a look at the drawings you've made so far and think about the skills it took to create them.
On your blog describe several of these skills (at least 3) and how you put them to use in your drawings.

Three of the skills I needed to do these assignments I needed to be patient, be attentive to detail and be creative. To make these "masterpieces" I needed to be patient enough to start over like with the table scape or be willing to work on one drawing for a long time like with the black and white table with pine cones on it. I also needed to be attentive to detail so one object was in the right spot like with the table or the shading of the crumpled paper drawing or even the details of the textures in the zoom drawing. I also had to be creative for the black and white table drawing to think of how to do the textures.

Collaborative Drawing

How did you "deal" with each drawing you approached?

I first would look at the drawing and the objects and figure out what seemed off. Then I gently tried to fix the problems while keeping the bulk of the drawing the same.
What was the process for "correcting" what you saw?
In the drawings what seemed off was the spacing of the objects. To fix the spacing I would play around with the spacing of the logs, which took up most of the space of the drawing. By doing that the spacing would seem better while the bulk of the drawing was the same. There also was something missing or something that was seen that really should not be seen and that only needed some minor erasing or a few lines.
How did it feel to return to your drawing at the end and to see what others had done to it?
What did you have to do to finish your drawing?

After looking at my drawing and seeing what others had done, I felt better than I thought I would, because I knew that I had done the same thing to other people's drawings. To finish my drawing I mainly had to flesh out the skeleton of the objects and fix angles.

Pre-assessment

The drawing the felt more natural to me was the drawing from observation even though the imaginative drawing was more fun. It seemed more natural to me because to draw something I need an image of it in order to draw it.

END OF THE YEAR REFLECTION

My greatest accomplishment in art is clearly the amazing glaze job on my clay sculpture.

My biggest struggle has been putting my clay sculpture back together and making it amazing again. In fact it is so amazing it deserves another picture

I have made the most progress in art on drawing the proof is in the sketch books

Clay Sculpture

The most successful aspect of my amazing sculpture is the glazing job which is so amazing that it makes me cry.
I would not do anything diferently if i were to do this again because the cracks add character to my sculpture.