For Q2 Art I had the idea for the clay project to make a person for my porject taking

inperation from some games and tv shows I look at, so I came up with the idea of a guy holding

A radio in one hand and a hammer in the other, he weres a pack with tools a nd air the outfit

Is to protect aginst  harmful subscenes that could kill the person as for colors I had a palette

Of red white & black colors mixed in their to give off this govenment feel of person with the white

On him

For my project this quarter, I did a still life drawing.  The two items I drew were grapes and seashell behind it.  I really tried to focus on the texture of the grapes and capture that in my drawing.  Something I want to communicate through my piece is the detail in the work.  It is something I am proud of.

When I was working on the rough draft of the picture, I just used a number 2 pencil to sketch it out.  When I wanted to do the shading I used a pencil with a different type of graphite.  They made shading the grapes much easier.  They were a softer touch and easy to draw the lighting of the grapes. This work relates to work I have done in the past because I have done still life in the past.  It was similar techniques I had to do to capture the look of the object.  

Our first nt was to sketch a rough draft in our notebook.  After working on that one we had to make another one before starting the final product.  The first rough draft I made did not get finished.  I only got half of the grapes shaded in.  The second one I was able to finish the whole thing.  The leaves and the grapes all got shaded in.  

An artist who makes similar work to this is Willem Kalf.  A lot of his paintings were still lifes of fruit.  His are all paintings and mine is not, but they have very similar shadings.  

http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/still_life/willem_kalf.htm

When I was coloring in the grapes, I started coloring in the circle really dark, and continued to get lighter and lighter till the tip of the grape.  I wanted to get the light bouncing off the grape, and I think that captured the look.  

It took me a few times to get the leaves of the grapes down.  In order to capture the lines in the leaves, I had to color in the leaves and stop coloring where the lines would be.  That is what gave it more of a realistic feel.   Something I am proud of how the shading on the grapes turned out.  I think the shading makes them look realistic.  

If I could change one thing about this project, I would want to start the second object earlier.  I forgot that we had to use two objects, so I only did the second object on the last draft.  

Something I learned during this project is multiple drafts is an important part to drawings.  Even if you like the first  of your drawing, you should do a new one to your skills and see if something comes out better.   You can always go back to the first drawing, but if you don't make new ones you have no chance to improve.  

For my project this quarter I choses to do mixed media, which made me use different media in a way that I never have before to form one individual piece. The criteria for making this piece of work was that I had to use at least 3 different medias.

When starting to form my ideas as to what I was going to make, I started out by thinking about the different medias that I wanted to use. I thought about a lot of different things but in the end I decided that I wanted to use newspaper,string,paint, construction paper, and glue. Once I had the materials down I thought about what I wanted to make. I thought that the materials would make a good landscape picture . After that I got started using the materials and seeing how they worked together. I wanted the background of the picture to have the newspaper and than I would paint over that to make the grass and sky and things. And lastly use the string and paper to add to the picture making clouds and more grass.

Finally once my art work was finished I was most proud of how my materials work together, especially the newspaper background and the paint. I think that the newspaper background made my artwork special because it made the texture that I wanted. If I had to change one thing about my artwork it would be that I would move the sun to the middle on the horizon line. Other than that I think that my artwork turn out very well and I learned that I just have to trust the process in which I work and it will all work out.

There is three simple objects in the photo. A dark brush on the left side with many bristles. A water bottle in the middle and a regular light brush with an average amount of bristles.

This is based on my personal experiences. These items are the thing that I carry everywhere with me. This could also be considered to be part of me, my identity. Without these items I may even be a different person. I know it may sound like a scratch but it is the truth.

For this artwork I didn’t really used that many tools or materials. I had a piece of paper, a pencil, hard pencils, and my fingers. Let me start with the oddest one first, I used my fingers to gauge the size difference amount my objects and try to replicate it. Then, I used my pencil to sketch and shade my objects. Of course I used the paper to make the art.

This follows my previous work is by using less about of materials needed.

To make my still life. I first had to set up my still life. One brush on the left, a water bottle in the middle, and a brush to the right. The first thing I started to draw was the water bottle, since I felt like doing the middle object would be easier and helpful for me to draw the rest. After doing that, I made the negative space among the objects making sure the size differences were the same. I quickly made both of the brushed. Then, I added more details to the objects, later shading it.

It wasn’t an artist that inspired me to do this. It was a Youtuber 360jeezy. It was a simple fact that he had great waves and he helped others to get waves. SImple as that.

One thing I was focus on was to draw the negative space among the objects because have that you would have all of the same shapes you wanted.I started to use the negative space technique a whole lot more, and I am grateful that I am more experience with it. I liked that I improve on the art each time I made it.I wish that I could of made the wood material more noticeable because I thought I didn’t to a great job with it.

I think still life help me to gauge the difference of sizes among the objects and rely on the power of negative space.

For my Q2 benchmark, I  decided to work on a still life drawing. The goal of this project was to create a representation of 2-4 inanimate objects. This representation must be done from life, and not from your imagination. For my still life, I decided to draw a stack on books on type of each other with a piece of paper sticking out between the books. I want my work to communicate to the audience how drawing can really bring something like a still life drawing to life. This work really does not reflect my culture in any way.  However, still, life drawing has been done throughout art history.

For my still life drawing, I decided to keep my picture blank and white. I wanted to challenge myself to see if I can just use charcoal pencil and sticks to create a realistic drawing without any color. I wanted to put together a still life representation that I know I could incorporate wide ranges of values, lines, and textures within my drawing. In my drawing, I tried using different shading techniques. Each book had a different type of shading work. I did blending, stippling, hatching, and smudging. My current work relates to my previous work because I have completed a still life drawing before. The process was pretty much the same for the current art project I am work on now and the one I have done previously. In my opinion, the process for the still life drawing was very simple. I say this because I chose the still life drawing because I already was thinking about what I wanted to draw when reading over the project description.  After that, I knew that I just had to gather my objects and being doing a preliminary sketch in my sketchbook to see if I liked what I wanted to draw.  Artists who have similar work to mines would be a famous painter named Willem Kalf. He was a Dutch painter who was known for his still life drawings. An example of one of his most famous still lifes would be http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/57562/

A certain technique that is important in a still life drawing is how detailed and realistic you make the drawing. You want to make the still life drawing come to life. It's it important to know how you different values, lines and textures in your drawing to achieve your real vision. A new technique I learned and experimented with in the process of making my art pieces was manipulation. I had learned this by manipulating different art materials to create different effects in my drawing. I am most proud of my shading work. I feel like I spent the most time on that than anything else in the drawing. I really wanted to make it look nice. I  would personally change the size of the paper for the project. I would probably make the paper size bigger because I think it would look better in my opinion. I learned that I really enjoy making still life drawing. It a fun way to play around with different art techniques.

For my quarter two project, I did a still life drawing. The drawing was of my glasses laying on the table in with it’s shadow projecting below it. Behind it lies my phone on top of a pencil that can not be seen. It’s shadows are present as well. When drawing this, I wanted to make the view seem like a real life image and realize later that it was drawn with pencil. For this, I used ebony pencils. The 4H was used to simply draw out the objects while the 4G created darker lines which were used for shadowing or making other lines more defined. My finger was used to give the illusion of shading.

Comparing this to my last project, self portrait, you can see a difference. That project was more personal, where I could add certain features to whoever I was drawing to give a certain theme or meaning. I used colors, added different features, and didn’t use my face. This project was more restricting because you could only draw what you saw. No adding or picturing what you think something should look like.

When creating my piece, I first drew my glasses. Second I worked on shadowing. Then drew the phone, followed by it’s shadowing. Lastly I reviewed my work for any lines I could make finer and shadowings to improve.

An artist that inspired me was Emma Gennet. I like how she draws her images on a black background. Visualization was an important skill to use in this project as you needed to be able to draw what you see and not what you think you should see. If the technique is not followed, then it’s not still life. A new technique I learned was using different pencils to give darker lines. And I’m most proud of the phone drawn in the background because I believe it was well done and it gives perspective to the glasses. In the end this was a great project that taught me more skills still life drawing. Although if I had to do it again, I’d recommend more time on the final drawing.

Link: http://www.emmabennett.info/(Click paintings)

The art piece is a greyscale image of a kitten looking off to the viewer’s left of the image. The background of said image is blurry and nondescript, highlighting the subject. The charcoal is used

The main tools used were a Charcoal Pencil, and a White Chalk Pencil. Starting with the simplest use first: The White Chalk Pencil was used to show highlights in the piece and create some of the lighter greys in the image. The Charcoal was used to create texture, show dark areas, and to create negative space.

The work had no true message to showcase, moreso a showcase of skills learned, and the subject. The piece pertains to the importance of the subject, my kitten fittingly named “Cottonpuff”. Having that kitten was a big deal for me, as I went from hating cats all my life to suddenly being extremely infatuated with this small animal.

The use of the chalk and then the charcoal to make the lighter greys is integral to the piece, without it the true hinting of the colors of the cat wouldn’t be able to show.

This entire piece could be a new experience, I had experience with charcoal but nothing this extensive, moreso on the “i made a few strokes” scale. And white chalk was an even knew-er experience.

This isn’t much of a departure from things like the last piece. But this is infact my first proper drawn from photo piece, nothing too special to be entirely honest.

I had no real inspiration, I guess the softness of the image pays homage to a Frank Frazzeta (here's one) piece, or a Nora Suko piece (here's one).

I’d change the size of the image, I wish it was larger, the small size slightly chokes the image

I learned a lot. This was a very interesting foray into not only drawing from photograph, but into multiple uses for Charcoal, White Chalk, and into drawing nonhumans.

I’m honestly most proud of the accuracy the piece captures, it look a lot like the original photo, and I like that

For this project, I drew a still life drawing of  a vase and a seashell . In this work, the two objects that were observed to draw and shade the values and contrast of the two objects. This work really does communicate any personal experience this time other than it shows how I have possibly struggled to do things such as shading. The tools that I’ve used were a regular pencil that I used to sketch and outline the shape of the objects.  Then I also used the various of shading pencils to create a greater effect for the drawing. Also used an eraser to touch up and fix mistakes. I don’t really have any previous work that relates because I usually would add color to my drawings but this time I didn’t. I wanted to try to shading in a different way this time around. My process wasn’t as long as the other things I drew. I really didn’t experiment with trying to draw and practice with other objects other than the vase and seashell. Each time I drew it again, I noticed that I got better at identifying the things about it. So by the time it got to finishing the final product, I felt more relaxed and comfortable drawing it because I was finally able to resemble that original objects.