Looking Forward

 As of right now I am working on a card for my mom because her birthday is tomorrow and I thought she would really like it if I made her a very arty/homemade-type of card or anything because she is all about homemade things. One thing I really enjoyed doing was using the charcoal and just drawing. I also really like spray painting. I dont know how well those two different materials work together but I want to try it out and just start drawing on a square piece of paper and just see where it goes. I will do this in class and if I like it come up during Friday club block and work on it some more.

Picture of Symbolics Project

Picture of Crane Making

Reflecting at the end of the year.

I think this year has gone extremely well for me. I think that I really learned a lot and became a stronger artist. I think my most improved type of art would be my drawing. At the begging of the year I drew a tree probably like a 3rd graders would draw a tree a large bottom and a cloud looking top that usually wasnt even connected. But now after all the tuesdays where we would drop everything and draw I can see the difference and draw an actual tree that has details and looks like it is a part of nature not mars. Drawing was definitely a challenge for me in the beginning but now it is one of my favorite things to do. I think that colleges, colors and using different materials are some of my strengths. Some challenges I had were coming up with good, detailed ideas. I will definitely remember everything from this class, especially that you can fix your piece of art no matter what happens and that there are so many different materials that can work with one piece.

SKETCHBOOK ARCHEOLOGY

This year I think my sketchbook has played a huge role in my artistic development. On every page there is something new and I tried using a lot of different materials as well as just free hand drawing which I really liked. I did a lot of collages and paint type materials in the beginning of the sketchbook but as you turn towards the back I start to draw more and use the spray paint. There are a lot of different style, materials, ways of drawing and ideas in my sketchbook. It really became something I used just to start drawing with out an idea and then make it in to something at the end or maybe just leave it half empty. I think I used it really well and it helped me try new things which is always fun! Some materials that sho up more then once are spray paint, magazine collages, paint pens, color pencil, pencil, oil pastel and pens. Themes that happened a lot in my sketchbook was color and creativity.

Clay Project

About my MOM

• Hard Working
• Jumping from place to place driving me and my brother around
• Loving
• In the Class room
• In the mountains
• KANGAROO IN THE MOUNTAINS
• A little rough texture for the fur mountains will be rugged and have sharp edges 
• Looking at it sideways 
• Will see the side of the kangaroo but face will be our way
• Mountains will be behind it bigger then the animal