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

Symbolic Portrait

Scott Allen

SCOOTER!!
Chocolate Milk Shake every morning
Walks Tucker around the Resivor
Tucker: English Springer Spaniel
Wine Business
College Sweat Hearts with Suzi

• Meet at a party
• Sent her flowers the next morning

Sweet
Funny
Loves Me
Photography-animals
Beats up sydney leaves buses
Iphone=baby
loves james bond
wishes he was in the FBI or secret service
eats beans out of a container
Drives a Audi


Milk shake with shipped cream and a cherry with all these things inside of it coming out of the glass and everything

Big Iphone with apps of each thing he does or eats

CRANES FOR JAPAN PROJECT

The image that stayed with me the most was the one of a boat in the middle surrounded by broken houses, bridges and just piles of wood all around it. It sort of looks like a dump. One wish I have for Japan is that the building get rebuilt fast. Second wish for Japan would be that they all heal and have a better life after then any of them had before. And my last wish is that they find at least 2 people from their families.

Getting back to materials

For the project I chose to use tooth picks because I thought it would be a challenge and I have never used tooth picks for any art project before. I also thought it would be easier then it was because I thought I could bend them and break them and stuff. For my process I just started making a circular shape with the tooth picks but since they are straight objects it turned out to be more like octagon. I then broke some of the tooth pick in pieces and chose the ones that seemed kind of the same length and glued them down as eye brows. I then just keep picking pieces from the pile I made and made the eyes then nose then mouth. I thought my finished product was alright. I mean it wasnt a master piece but I thought it was funny and I thought it was even funnier because I didn't get to finish the other side of my hair.