The First Days of a New Life

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End of Term 1 Reflection.

I think some of the elements of art class are to go beyond your comfort level and just be you and have fun with what your doing. We make all different kinds of art and different pieces that create a bigger picture in the end. Like drop everything and draw. We draw different objects every week but we are always using the same elements and thinking the same way.
I feel like this term has been really fun and a great learning experience for me. I really enjoyed learning new ways to make my art look better and ways to make things I never even thought of.  I think I learned the most from drop everything and draw. I don't really like just standing there on Tuesdays and drawing but I think I learned the most from it in terms of making objects look real. I can make them look like they are in front or behind or darker or lighter. I can make objects look different from each other even though they have the same shape a size and are almost identical by color and material I use. I think I have grown by learning how to use different materials in all of my art work and not just using a pencil or marker. Like using oil pastels or cutting paper in to collages to make the same picture but in a different way.
I think I have been able to let myself go and think outside of the box on each of our projects and my biggest success so far has been the oil pastel that I did at the beginning of the term. I learned so much about how to use that certain material and used it to my full advantage. I really really like the picture I did and my parents want me to take it home so they can frame it! My biggest challenge I think has been some of the drop everything and draw pictures we were drawing and the found object sculpture. The drawings have been hard because I don't feel like I am the best drawer and so I kinda gave up sometimes and the found object sculpture was hard because I didn't really like my ending product and it didn't really come out how I wanted.
I think I still need to work on drawing and not getting frustrated with myself and also just keep thinking outside of the box and being creative. Other wise I really enjoyed art this term and thank you for your help with everything and I cant wait for the spring to come!
P.S. Make sure Emily is going to be helping out and teaching MY class because I really want to do stuff with pictures and photo shop like she does.

What money can do and cant: Glass Half Full

 The concept of my work was to show the good and bad of having a lot of money. I talked to Emily for a while because I was kinda stuck on an idea of what to do and we were talking about being hurt and then how much it costs for surgery if needed. And then we got on to the subject of money and how it can be really good and buy you a lot of things but the bad side where money cant buy you happiness.  I had a little bit of trouble making the man that was sitting on the bench and making him proportional to everything else in the picture. Its easy to draw objects in parts and then add them together so that they look like they are all attached. I didn't get much feedback from anyone really. I mean I talked to Ms. Roberts but she only helped me with drawing the man.

Chair With Coat

I felt like today's still life was harder. I had to be more precises and there was a specific way to draw the chair with the coat over it. I thought that it was harder also because there was less in the still life itself. More detailed but less objects. I dont think I used any of the skills I learned in the past couple of weeks. I got really tense and wanted to draw everything perfect. Once I got to the coat I used the fabric as help and was more flowy but other than that I didnt use any skills that I have.