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For this art project, I drew a replica of lady Pink and smith art therapy. After I did my artist study project on lady pink, I was very fascinated by her work and her style of writing. I decided to redo this specific project of hers, because the colors are very vibrant and the piece was also very complex.Due to the complexity in this piece recreating it was a challenge, but I accepted the challenge and completed it.

The first approach was to color the drawing on a canvas, but unfortunately when trying to transfer the drawing to a canvas it did not look neat enough, because of that inconvenience, the plan changed to cutting out the drawing and gluing it on a black canvas.

The process of this art piece has its ups and downs, but it was very fun. It required a lot of curved lines, but the most difficult thing was drawing a the two dragons on the forehead, especially the one on the left, which is my non dominant side.

This project was also very time consuming and required a lot of focus, just to get colors fully distributed and lines drawn to perfection.

The materials used were; paper,pencil,colored pencils,canvas,x acto for cutting the drawing out, paint for the canvas and paper glue to glue the cutted out drawing to the canvas.

For my project, I decided to work on Cornelia Baltes’s artwork. She is a unique artist and her artwork contains different colors and shapes. For this project, I decided to go out of my comfort zone and do a design that was similar to Cornelia’s. I decided to draw a hand and next to it, it was different stripes. The colors I used was Yellow, Purple, and Black. The reason I picked yellow and purple is because the purple makes the yellow pop and the black was for outline. I started off sketching with a pencil and later when I was done, I use acrylic paint. The colors and shapes with similar to Cornelia’s art. There isn’t anything specific about the hand, I thought it would go together and it did. The one thing I would change about they project is to probably use another bright color.

When you first look at my work you might think it's some kinda graffiti mess and it has no meaning at all but that's not the case. My artist Jean Michel Basquiat has this kind of graffiti style since he is a graffiti artist. His artwork you might not get just my looking at it for a few moments but after a deep look you can understand it. Firstly i think most people will see the eye on his forehead that represents the third eye. This represents a sign for people to find knowledge beyond what they are told, And also explains why his eyes and mouth are closed . Don't believe what you see and don't trust what other people say. The only 3 tools i used to create this , Colored pencils, Crayons, and Sharpie marker. I drew most of this with the Pencils because of the sharp tip it was better for the detailed work and the crayons to fill everything in. This also added color that i couldn't find with the pencils lastly i used the sharpie to make certain things bold like the crossing of the eyes , mouth and the third eye.The thing im most proud about this work is when i show people some people understand but most don't this doesn't necessarily show if someone is smart but it shows if someone is woke . being woke means you are self aware on the left side of the face you can see BWSW this means ‘Be woke stay woke’’. From this project i learned that artwork doesn't have to be visually arrtractive for it to have a deep meaning and for it to catch peoples eye.

Ever since I visited the Barnes Foundation a few years ago I fell in love with my favorite artist, Amedeo Modigliani. I like his simplicity and abstract drawing of people. This would include his dramatic exaggeration of people’s narrow/long heads and necks. For someone like myself who does not have much knowledge of art, Modigliani’s paintings are very identifiable compared to other artists’ works.

In the art piece I selected (“Jeanne Hebuterne with Hat and Necklace”) a woman is positioned in the middle of the space looking off into the distance. There is a window in the far corner of the picture and possibly a sofa on which she is seated. She is wearing a simple hat, a necklace, and a blouse. Her right hand is draped over the side of the couch in a relaxed position.

With this piece I tried to replicate the original sketch but changed the color scheme. The original was kind of dark and gloomy with earth tones.I tried to experiment with my palette by trying different combinations of colors.  In my sketch I tried to use brighter colors that had contrasts of warm and cool tones. I also chose to eliminate some of the elements in the background so I focused more on the woman’s face and body.

In conclusion, I am delighted with the finished work. I felt I put a good amount of time and effort into really looking at the original and then trying to reinterpret it in my own way. I feel that I successfully created the picture I had imagined.

For the Q4 botany benchmark, we  compared 4 different types of gardening and to create more food secure future in our community. I think the project was interesting, but for more so the tower garden part because it seems like the most effect out of all the ways to garden to me. Styles of the tower gardening, urban farming, crop rotation and self-water systems all seem like better ways to garden in order to make the plants grow healthier and more tasteful.

For the Q4 botany benchmark, we had to compare different greening projects that can create a more food secure future for our community. I thought this was an interesting project to do because I got to learn about different gardening methods that help benefit the society. I learned about tower gardening, urban farming, crop rotation and self-water systems. These 4 different growing methods play a crucial role in food security. After researching 4 different growing methods for plants I wonder what will the future bring for more greening projects that are even better than the ones we currently have and use now for our plants.

For my quarter 4 benchmark we had to create a drawing is[iyedes by or similar to our artist study artwork. I decided to create a drawing that was inspired by  Käthe Kollwitz drawing known as ‘’ Woman with Dead Child’’ I decided to create a sprawling based of this crawling because I wanted to challenge myself and see If I could draw a person. The person I drew was a girl crying on her knees in a dark room. I did this because in the ‘’ woman with dead child’’ drawing there is a woman holding a child in her arms crying.

I want to work to communicate to my audience that the things that I draw play a role in my growth as an artist.   The tools I used to create my art piece was charcoal sticks, smudge sticks, and pencils. I used the pencil to draw the weeping girl in the corner. I used the charcoal to darken the room. I used the smudge stick to lighten some parts of the room. This artwork is similar to previous artwork I have made before because I have drawn someone crying before. The only difference is that in the previous drawing I drew a person's face with tears coming down it. In my current drawing, you don’t see the persons tears you just seem them curled up in the corner in a dark room.

The overall process of the drawing was fairly simple. I didn’t take too much time to draw the person it took about 20 minutes to draw. The thing I spent the most time with was drawing the one point perspective of the room and cooling it with charcoal. It took a while with the charcoal because I Keep leaving fingerprints on the drawing and had to keep calling the paper again. An artist work who I was inspired by and has similar work is Käthe Kollwitz who I did an art study project on. This is the images I was inspired by that I wanted to create an image similar to https://www.artsy.net/artwork/kathe-kollwitz-woman-with-dead-child. A certain technique is import to this work is different shading techniques you can do. Learning about different drawing textures can really bring a drawing to life if it is done right. I learned different shading techniques I can do with charcoal sticks.

The thing I am most proud of in my work in the person I drew. I thought it can out really nice and also like how the person in the corner is the only source of light you can see in the dark room with no windows or light.  If I could change one thing about this drawing it would be to have made the girl I little bit bigger in the drawing because she looks really small. I have learned that learning about an artist and drawing in a style like theirs can show you a new type of art style you have never done before and may enjoy.