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Still Life In Art

Posted by Mukhtar Stones in Art 2 · Hertz · C1 on

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Mukhtar Port Scan 15

M.Stones

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Artist Statement Q2


For my quarter two project we had to create a still life drawing, we would pick one or more objects then draw them from different angles and viewpoints. I choose to do a banana because bananas are one of my favorite fruits to eat, it all seemed simpler and easier to draw while being nicely detailed. I first picked the banana i was going to draw, part of my first step in my process was sketching it out and then drawing it. I did that then I had to draw it from another angle, and as my final step I drew it at another different angle sitting on my hat. I had no real artistic inspiration from any artist only from the fact that I want to draw a deeply detailed banana. I used different pencils for shading and lining, when it came to thinness and darkness in lines, and dark areas.


Quarter 2 Still Life

Posted by Nathan Lewis in Art 2 · Hertz · C1 on

Still life in art is depicting objects that are placed together naturally, this is what I did for my quarter two benchmark art project. I wanted my still life work to be different from others, so by doing this I decided to put random objects together that does not match, by doing this people will see there’s no limit on art so they should try their best to think out the box. I had to draw it three different times before I did the final drawing and that made it perfect. The first two drawings were horrible, but when I did the third one I started improving.

Before I started drawing everything, I thought that the star would be the hardest thing to draw, but it was actually the base of the candle holder. The star was a little challenging but all I did was payed attention to get it right.The candle holder had multiple curves in it, so I had to make sure that they were all even and look the same. I enjoyed the process of drawing everything even though it was pretty time consuming because I wanted it to be perfect, especially the string/rope with the beads took up the most time, but it was worth. I definitely got better at shading and creating more depth within my drawings.I would also add more shadow to the candle stick,because the starfish was the only thing had a shadow on it.

I must say I really like this type of art and I’m looking forward to working on more pieces like this.



Nathan Lewis
Nathan Lewis

Limited Palette Painting

Posted by Rachel McCann in Art 2 · Hertz · C1 on

For my quarter 2 project I choose to do the limited palette painting. Which is a painting with limit amount of colors. Throughout this project I used acrylic paint. What I did for my project was simple, I choose the colors white and black. Since the only color I could get from mixing the two I chose is gray (but you are able to receive different shades of gray from this). My project illustration is an eye with a city skyline. I choose this because while doing this project I was writing a poem about what I see on a daily basis. One thing I could remember seeing everyday is the city skyline, I see it from my house when I look out my bedroom window and I always see it from my school when I look out the window. Traveling from school to my house I see the city skyline before I go underground and once I get above ground. I used dark colors in this because the poem I wrote describes the darkness of everything I see. I felt as though the dark colors fit well with the meaning behind it. Since I made everything so dark I but the moon in my eye to make it feel as if it was night, because when I think of night, I think of dark colors.

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​For my quarter 2 project I choose to do the limited palette painting. Which is a painting with limit amount of colors. Throughout this project I used acrylic paint. What I did for my project was simple, I choose the colors white and black. Since the only color I could get from mixing the two I chose is gray (but you are able to receive different shades of gray from this).
My project illustration is an eye with a city skyline. I choose this because while doing this project I was writing a poem about what I see on a daily basis. One thing I could remember seeing everyday is the city skyline, I see it from my house when I look out my bedroom window and I always see it from my school when I look out the window. Traveling from school to my house I see the city skyline before I go underground and once I get above ground.  I used dark colors in this because the poem I wrote describes the darkness of everything I see. I felt as though the dark colors fit well with the meaning behind it. Since I made everything so dark I but the moon in my eye to make it feel as if it was night, because when I think of night, I think of dark colors.

RaVaana's Limited Palette Painting

Posted by Ravaana Griggs in Art 2 · Hertz · C1 on

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Ravaana
 My painting was based off an image I found on Youtube. Starting off I was only going to have three flowers, one big one and two small ones surrounding it. If you look at my painting you will see where I started with the three flowers but, that was not enough. The three flowers were nice, but I thought the painting was too plain and I decided to add more flowers to fill in the blank spaces. I chose to do limited palette meaning I could only use five colors and mix the five colors if I wanted to make more colors, my colors were primary colors which were: green, orange, red, blue, and yellow. Although I added more flowers to fill in the blank spaces that was not enough for me, I decided to fill in the spaces more with dots. 

If I could do this project again I would change the colors of my painting, my painting follows the normal natural color of flowers, but I want the colors to stand out more. In the future for students who want to do this project I would tell them to, find a picture of meaning ahead of time, and be sure about the kind of paint they want to use. All in all this project was a success for me, but I would have liked to use colors like pink, mint green, and gold. I would also add some glitter to the dots I put on my painting. 

Q2 Project Limited Palette Painting

Posted by Ivana Gutierrez in Art 2 · Hertz · C1 on

​    For the Second Quarter, we were able to choose what we wanted our project to be and I decided I wanted to do Limited Palette Painting. Which we had to create a painting using no more than 5 colors but we were able to mix the colors up to make more different colors. What I created was the rose in the glass vase from The beauty and the Beast and on the top, it says “Tale as old as time”. The five colors I used were blue, red, yellow, black and white. I believed that using the basic colors were the better route. I made my own canvas. I use a medium size block of wood and I use this fabric for the paint to go on. I decided to create this paint of the rose in the glass vase because The Beauty and the Beast is my favorite Disney princess movie. The background of the painting suppose to be a galaxy night. The top is black going into blue and then into purple. Then it’s the vase with the rose and some petals are falling off inside. The rose is outline red and is painted pink. The vase is traced with black. The quote is traced with yellow.  I first made my own canvas and next, I drew out the rose with the glass vase. Which was not that hard to draw. Next, I started the painting. It was a bit difficult because of the way the brushes were. They weren’t very helpful. I didn’t paint the background where the rose it at because I’m scared if I paint it, I would mess it up. So I left it white. 
The tools I basically used to do this was just a pencil,l paint brushes, paint, and paint markers.
What I’m most proud of about this project would be that I did my own canvas and that I liked the way I drew out the rose with the glass vase. If there is a chance I can change something I would change the way I used the brushes or get other brushes that would be better. 
In conclusion, I learned that creating a piece like this is pretty tough because you have to be careful when tracing lines and also when coloring it in is pretty hard. I believe if I had better brushes it could’ve come out better. 
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Gas Howl

Posted by Jordan Davis in Art 2 · Hertz · C1 on

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Jordan Davis Wolf0002
My art piece has a greyish background, there is a big moon in the top right hand corner of the paper. In the bottom left hand side of the piece there is a wolf howling at the moon. As the wolf is howling at the moon, smoke is coming out of his mouth towards the moon and surrounding it. The smoke that comes from the wolf's mouth is blue and purple. I decided the draw this art piece because I just really like wolves. When I decided the create this piece, I had the choose to either use watercolor paint or acrylic paint, and i chose watercolor paint. For the first checkpoint, we had to make a color grid, we had to choose 5 colors and mix the colors together within the color grid. The colors I made were blue, purple, black, white and grey. The materials I then used to create my piece was a pencil to draw my art piece, the a a use a pallet to hold my watercolors, I used a cup to hold my water, and lastly a paintbrush to paint my art piece. My first step was figuring what I want to draw. My second step to creating my piece was creating the color grid. My third step was drawing the design how I wanted. My fourth step was tracing it onto the paper that I wanted my final project to be on. The fifth step was painting my art piece. I got the idea from this piece i saw on instagram by a artist I really like. The only type of techniques I used were trying to paint a certain way so it could look really nice. I painted so it wouldn't look like a lot of paint stroke going all different types of ways. I didn't learn any new techniques. I'm mostly proud of my art piece with how it came out. The way the color of the wolf and the color of the background doesn't blend in with each other. The only thing I would change about my piece is the way painted it and the little mistake I made.

the silver knight

Posted by Indigo Burton in Art 2 · Hertz · C1 on

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For my art project I 3D printed a mold of a hand that was a little smaller than the human hand then I took wire and wrapped it around the hand to resemble rings and designs on the hand. I wanted to show the viewer how I could use open space and abstract designs to make a piece of art. I painted the hand half way to resemble an actual hand but left part of it blue just for aesthetics. I don’t think I would of done anything differently during this project except for my time management because I lacked on the checkpoints. During this project I learned how to use the 3D printer and the importance of contrasting colors. I’ve never made anything like this before so this was a completely new experience for me.

Limited Palette Painting

Posted by Jorge Gomez-Corril in Art 2 · Hertz · C1 on

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Jorge Gomez-Corril

Artist Statement

Ms.Hertz

January 7, 2018

Limited Palette Painting


As for my project choice for quarter 2, I decided to choose the Limited palette painting. For my painting I choose to do a Mexican flag in order to show some sort of respect for my culture and background. It is made up of three colors; red, white and green. In the middle of the flag there’s an eagle on top of a cactus biting a snake. Through my work, I would want the viewer to have an understanding of what my ethnic background is and how it means something to me. I could have chosen something else, ie a self portrait or an image of the sunset but the flag is just something very meaningful and I decided to incorporate that in my painting. There’s not a lot of times where there’s an opportunity to show off your ethnic flag and this was a great opportunity to show that off.

The tools that I used to create my work were; acrylic paint, brushes, pencil, eraser, cup of water,  newspaper, palette, cloth,  paper towel, wood  and a palette knife. First  I had to sketch an outline of my flag with pencil and eraser. Then, I cut a piece of wood and used it as my base while covering it with a cloth and painted it white (with special paint)  so it would have a white base. So when I was ready to start painting, I used acrylic paint because I thought it would stand out more than water colors to draw out the details in the flag, the brushes were used in order to do this and I used a variety of sized brushes. The cup of water was used in order to clean off the paint after I was done with it and then I would use a paper towel to clean off the water. After I was done with my work, the last step was to sit it on top of a newspaper to let it dry.

My current work relates to my previous work because they both had to do with my connection that is close to limited and non existent with my ethnic roots. I am not well connected with my background and don’t have a large understanding of my culture so I thought that by informing myself and creating this work, it would encourage me to have a better outlook on that. I am most proud of how this work came out because I was expecting it to be much worse that how it came out. This was an interesting experience to go through and choose my own project. The only thing that I would change about this project is the amount of colors we were allowed to use. Some people can’t limit themselves to 5 colors in one artwork. Through my completion of this project, I’ve learned that it’s not good to waste your time on other things while instructions are being given and always use your time wisely because those were two things that majorly negatively impacted me.


Extrater(race)trial

Posted by Santana Outlaw in Art 2 · Hertz · C1 on

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The painting I created is a black girl’s head just kind of...floating in space. I saw a picture on Instagram and it inspired to create a picture similar to it. I created this to embody the complexity of black women. I chose the limited palette project, so it was a bit harder to create the vision I had with 5 base colors. I used paint brushes that are able to hold acrylic paints. They were either detail brushes for the linework and accents or they were basic round or square brushes that helped me cover the entire surface. This whole piece was created on a canvas that I provided on my own.

I’ve always created pieces that were meant to catch an observer’s eye and that were mainly about black women, since I’m one myself. I’ve made basic galaxy pieces before, but I never knew what to make the main focus of the piece. I actually have never seen an artist do a piece like me and it’s hard to think about a past artist that has similar work, since my piece seems like a more modern style. There are some things I need to work on like shading, making the stars look like stars, and the distant galaxies look like galaxies. I’m most proud of the scarf on the girl’s head; the ombré effect that I gave was meant to just fit into the whole piece. I’d change the shooting stars and the planet below the girl. It was all kind of rushed, so it wasn’t the best I could do.

At the beginning of the project, I thought it’d be the easy way out. I figured a limited palette wasn’t hard, until I realized there were up to 5 colors I could use, and then the colors they make after mixing them together...which weren’t the greatest. I’m not the happiest with this, but I made a similar piece at home with more colors and, of course, I liked it way more. I wasn’t limited to 2 hours per week, and limited to my color choices.


3D Turtle

Posted by Bahiyah Corbin in Art 2 · Hertz · C1 on

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​For my Quarter 2 project, I chose to do Sculpture/ 3 dimensional. I wanted to create something that I would be able to use outside of school. I chose to create a 3 dimensional turtle. My turtle has a rough texture for its cell. The inside is a darker purple/black to bring out the bring green color of the cell. The eyes are yellow to compliment the bright green cell. I would like my work to communication strength, stability, and persistence. Personality a turtle is one of my favorite animals. For this project, I wanted to do something more out of the box. Usually for my projects, I chose something more simple with no meaning. With working with clay for the right time, it was many trials and errors. I was about to work with clay tools to give my turtle certain textures and features. Using Paint for my sculpture is something I usually do for previous projects. 
While creating my sculpture I noticed during my test model, the legs were not sturdy enough to stay once the clay dried. I noticed that putting water on your finger tips helped a lot when it came to modeling the clay. Modeling the bottom of the turtle and the cell I believe was the most difficult and time consuming part. I used clay tools to creative a rough texture like an actual turtle. A certain technique that was very helpful during this process was putting water on my finger tips to help better mod the clay. A similar artist who inspired my work is Lakeside Pottery. Something that I am most proud of about my work is it being sturdy and strong. If I was able to change one thing about this project it would be the size, I would like my sculpture to be a little bit bigger. In conclusion, while doing this project I was about to learn many new techniques and how to work with new tools.

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