Fabric Drawings.

Today's drawing was hard. I thought that it was harder than the other ones that we have done. It felt really hard to get the fabric right and to make it have curves and the way that it folded I couldnt get it right. I dont really like how my drawing came out in the end for many reasons but mostly because I cant get the fold or crease or anything right. It was really different from last week because the sticks each had a specific shape but if you didnt get it perfect and drew a thick line with a little round tip it still looked like a stick.

Principles of Design Research

Frida Self-Portrait on the Border between Mexico and the United States".  In this picture the artist used many Principles of Design in many different ways and had so much detail in every inch of the picture.
This artist used asymmetry for balance. For example, she has America on one side and Mexico on the other, which are very different. She used Placement and Contrast for Emphasizes because the woman is very big so you notice her but there is so much detail in the picture that you notice everything in the back of her as well. Repetition and leading lines for Rhythm and Movement. I think this because there are lots of lines and shapes that lead you to another shape or another line which then leads you to another place. So it just all adds up. And lastly, the woman is big and the buildings are small so it shows distance, which is proportion. 

Found Object Sculpture Reflection Discussions.

Mine:

• Change eyes from acorns to googaaly eyes
• Put the ears on hinges so that they flap
• Put felt or fluffy stiff all over the elephant so that it makes is more 3D

Liza and Sydneys Camara:

• Shinny
• Flash
• Really nice
• Lots of glue

Pile of sticks

Today was ok. I kind of just drew up a bunch of lines and then tried to make sticks out of them. And as I was going I added more lines and erased some that didn't go anywhere. I didnt feel great about the drawing just because I thought nothing really looked like sticks and it just looked like a bunch of lines even at the end. I think the outside sticks that were by themselves looked really good because they had the most detail.

Found Object Sculpture Reflection

Name: Elephant Man


Liza took apart an answering machine during class and I saw a old telephone that I thought looked like a trunk. The answering machine was shaped as an elephants head and so I got my idea from those two peices. I really enjoyed making my object by I got frustrated because I felt like it didnt look like an elephant for most of the time until it was all the way done. I discovered that you have to wait till your completely done to see your finale good results and almost all the time the way you want it to look it will but you have to be patience and work.

Mid-Term Reflection

I always go to my work ready to start something new or continue on whats already there with a good attitude and to do hard work. I do get frustrated sometime but I usually just call Ms. Robberts over and ask for help. I am always ready to work and I think that I have an open mind all the time so Im open to all the work that is put in front of me. I am really happy and excited about the work I have done so far in class. My favoriet piece that I have made so far is the one of the pond with the reflections on the water. It is all out of pastel and I really liked working with that type of crayon. I think it came out better than I had imagined because I thought it was going to be a big mess of colors but it actually turned out really well and I like it a lot. I think I have done really good on the projects that we have had. I always try my hardest to get them to perfection and I think I have done that with all my projects so far. The work I have done outside of the class room has also been really cool. I am trying to be creative and work with different materials and make different pictures. My favoiret is one that I just made and its just little pieces of paper from magazines but they are all different shades of colors and I put them together as a collage and by color/shade. The drop everything and draw Tuesdays have been up and down for me. I have gotten frustrated most of the time because I dont feel like my looks right or i dont get to finish or just something goes wrong. But I am getting through it and I think I have gotten better since day 2 of Tuesday drawing. 

The Changing Still Life

I didn't really like today's activity because everything kept changing and I was getting frustrated with myself and my drawing. I think to accomplish this project you have to keep your drawing light and simple. You cant try to do all the detail and make everything perfect which I did and didn't work out well in the end. Looking back on it I would move faster also becauae Ms. Roberts would add something and I would take my time and then she would add something else and I would still be in the other object so I then had to rush on to the next one and then the next one.

Im Done, What Do I Do

I think that this project is some of my best work. I really like the Idea I came up with and how I organized and did my final piece. I did and met all the parameters of this project and finished kinda early. I took my time though and make a good connection between 2 really different object/things in the world. My class mates said a lot of good things about my project and they really liked it. They liked all the colors and the contrast that I had in it, between the nature and the city.

Nature Vs. City
The concept of y project was to capture nature at its closest basically. I took a bunch of cut outs of objects in nature really close up and then on top i put a city. It is opposites from close and far away. I didn't really struggle while making the project because it was easy to find pictures the hardest part was at the very begging when I was trying to figure out what I was gonna do and how I wanted everything to be laid out. I think collage and colors were the most successful parts of my art piece.