Feedback on Collage Project

• Put a big picture right in the middle over the other pictures
• anti-nature-city
• liked it and liked the shape
• big picture be black maybe??

three forms drawing

Today while I was drawing I learned that you can do a lot more with just white and black than most people think you can. You can make different shades and colors and can make something look realistic with out a bright color. While I was drawing I felt good about it. I thought that I made the shades and object shapes very well. The hardest part was the pine cone. I was making small round/long shapes and trying to make the bottom black and the top more whitish black but it didn't look like a pine cone to me. I thought that my picture was very successful in the end though and I thought I did a good job.

Extending our findings from The Pour Paintings.

My Idea is to make a close up of a pond. There was a lot of different shades of blue and green in my pour painting so that reminded me of a pond with trees and shrubs all around it. The feed back I got back from my class mates was that I should make a sky and a sun. Liza told me ideas on how to make the sun and make it reflecting and make sun beams down on the trees and flowers. They also really liked my willow tree!! (Thanks to Ms. Roberts)

Pour Paintings

It felt good to let the paint and paper do the work. I thought it was really neat to see how the shapes and lines formed on a big white piece of paper. I was surprised by how the colors mixed together and formed like a puddle of mixed colors and not just a puddle of brown or black. Most of the colors stayed separate. When I came back to my pour the colors had gotten darker and lighter and most of the puddles had diapered in to blobs or just mixes. So what I saw in the pour at first was the opposite at the end when it was dry. I am just drawing small things all over the painting and there is no story or idea in my head that I have right now.

Collaborative Drawings

I enjoyed working with only black and white colors today because it gave me a challenge because I always draw with colors. I think that having some one else draw on my drawing was a little wired. I havent really ever had a teacher tell me to go over to someones paper and draw on it. So for me if was kinda scary having someone draw on my paper and me having to draw on someone elses. When I returned to my drawing I didnt really see much of a difference except a white heart and waves. I liked the waves but didnt really get what the white heart was for. It was fine though and I didnt mind any of it.

Talk and Draw

What was challenging about this experience? What would you do differently if you had to do this activity again?
The most challenging thing about this experience was that when you were the talker you couldn't say what the object was. You had to say multiple different shapes and try to say like which way they were connected and where exactly they were on the page. I think the most challenging thing to do when you were the drawer was not look behind you. I always wanted to look behind me because my partner would say like a triangle on top of a circle and I was like What?? But I didnt! I think if I had to do this activity again I would try to move stuff a long faster and not say o thats not right or that doesnt look right erase it.

Pours: the potential of "accidents"

I really like the process in which we mixed paint and water together to make like water colors but not really. Once you poured your paint out it was out and you just had to use what you did and make the best of it. If felt kinda weird to just make lines or create a big blob of colors and have a teacher say wow that is great! But it also felt good and really cool to see the shapes and the way the paint moved on the paper. There really were no surprises. I mean other than the fact that our colors always looked and came out really well there was nothing that surprised me.

Thinking About the Artist

Anyone is an Artist. Anyone who wants to be can be an artist. To be creative means to do what you like and like what you do. It also means to think outside the box and to be stylish and unique.. I think for an artist to be creative and productive you have to find what you like best and then do it all the time. They have to come up with new ideas or see something that strikes an idea and then make your own.

Reflecting on blocks, play dough, and finger paint

Today when I heard what we were going to do I got really excited! There are not many times when people say just be a kid and have fun so I really took this time to just have fun a be a kid again. When I first touched the materials the first thing I grabbed was the play dough. I used to love to play with play dough and pretend I was   chef and cook all these little dishes for my mom and my little brother. But this time I just rolled the play dough around and made it in to different shapes and then moved on to the painting. I painted for most of the class period. I mixed colors together and when I got a cool color I just threw my hands in to it. I made about 3 hand prints and then just put the colors on the paper and swished my hands around in circles to make a big blob of yellow with red dots. I also threw in a lot of blue finger prints all around the paper. I really didn't know what to do with the materials I had so I just started going with nothing on my mind except to get my hands dirty. I felt really good with the materials I was using today I felt like nothing really mattered. Like no one was grading me on how i finger painted so I just went in a did it.

Reflecting on Picasso Quote

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." -Pablo Picasso

I think Pablo Picasso meant many different thing when he said this. I think one major thing he meant was that when we are young and a child they have big imaginations and draw anything the teacher says. But when you grow up you don't have a teacher anymore so you don't know what to draw. I think he also meant that it is easier to be a kid and want to be an artist then it is to be an adult and an artist. It is harder to be an adult because you have to make a living off of your painting and drawing and you have to worry about what your going to make and if people will like it and ever buy it.