1. How do you describe your artistic style/perspective? How do you define success as an artist? What do you find most rewarding about being an artist? What are some of the most important skills you draw upon to create your work? What are some of the most significant things you've learned through art-making? My artistic style/perspective for these art pieces is symbolism. The first art piece is called the butterfly effect where shows butterflies flying in the air near plants and the sun. The second art piece is my favorite candy as a child and I wanted the audience to reminisce on their childhood by looking at these candy bars to think about there good times when eating candy. The way I define success as an artist is if you feel that you put all your heart into the art piece you made. At the end of the day, everybody has different art pieces and yours might not be spectacular as there's but if you felt that you put all your heart and soul into the art piece that's all it matters. The most important skills that I create in my artwork is texture and highlighting the art piece with bright colors to make it pop. The most significant things I learned through art-making is shading and clay making because I never focused on that type of material in art and it amused on how important it is.
2. Look at your body of work over the semester and choose 2 pieces that show your growth as an artist. Discuss each piece and how you grew in the following areas: application of materials, techniques and skills, artistic vision, use of the principles and elements, creativity, intuition and subject matter. The 2 pieces that significantly showed my growth is the still life piece and the pen/ink piece. The still life piece was one of the first projects we had to do in Art 2 and I was lacking a lot of areas in this piece. My artistic vision and creativity was not creative it was sort of plain. I was just drawing and not putting creative ideas into the piece. My techniques and skills in the piece was OK I could of done better shading and tracing in the piece to make it more neat. The elements I used in the piece was just shape and lining whereas I should used space and texture in the piece. I think I did OK with subject matter and intuition because I wanted to make the whole piece look like a still life. The piece that showed significant growth is my pen/ink piece. My artistic vision of my piece was butterflies flying in the spring including a sun in the back ground and plants where butterflies flew on and over in the piece. I the right amount of materials which was tracing pencil and pens. I used my creativity by drawing patterns on the butterfly and making them into different shapes sizes and shapes. The techniques/skills I used were drawing different patterns on the butterflies which included dots, hearts and different type of shapes. In this piece, I used a lot of principles and elements which includes shape, form, space and value. The subject matter and intuition in the piece was perfect which was butterflies flying in the spring.
3. Reflect on what your portfolio (all work you created through semester) may not reveal about the semester. Do you think the work in your portfolio is an accurate reflection of your development in the class? How and why? From my first piece I did in Art 2 to my last piece, I can say that I showed very significant growth in the class. The first piece I did was tracing an animal, landscape, a famous place, and a hand. The pieces were OK but didn’t show a lot of creativity. The last piece I did was clay food which as carrots and celery with peanut butter on a plate with acrylic painting on it. From my first piece to my last, I never thought that I would be able to make celery and carrots and a plate out of a clay. As coming into this class and seeing all the pieces I’ve done from the tracing piece to the clay piece I can say that all the pieces on my portfolio shows an accurate reflection of my development in the class.
4. Choose 2 mini lessons that you felt were the most beneficial in your learning for that particular project. Include photos of these and explain thoroughly. Do you feel you needed more instruction for success? Explain or did you feel that the instruction given was enough to ensure success? Explain. The 2 mini lessons that I felt were the most beneficial in my learning was the pen/ink patterns lesson and the painting value chart lesson. The pen/ink value chart lesson taught me that there many patterns you can make but you need to have different shades/values in the patterns. I did not know that it was possible to have value or shade in the your pen and ink patterns. That mini lesson helped me a lot during the pen and ink unit and taught me how to value and shade my pen patterns. The color wheel lesson helped me understand the different type of values and shades in the primary colors like red, blue and yellow. I used this lesson to perfect my clay foods painting so I could use the right shades and colors into the piece.