colored pencil, chalk, and oil pastel project

This project was more difficult than I thought it was going to be. The chalk was my least favorite project to do because it smeared everywhere and looked sloppy. It was harder than the other projects to get the direction of the mint but it was the easiest to get the value through. This is because I would smear the two colors together with my finger to let them blend better. I was surprised with the colored pencils because I usually don't like using them. I don't like how they make the object have stray likes and not just one color. Coloring the lollipop helped me find a way to make the object colors collide. I also really liked using the white colored pencil because it helped make the colors blend better. I am most proud of the Jolly Rancher I made. I think I did a great job with the value on the candy piece and the side of the wrapper before the yellow part started. The oil pastel was also easy to use because it blended the value in a unique way. I liked this use of coloring because the candy looked like one big peice that was colored together.

Jasper Johns Project

I had the artist, Jasper Johns, and I decided to paint like him because he was very unique. He always had an American flag in his artwork and painted very thickly and spotchily (random strokes everywhere). I thought I did a very good job of replicating my artist with the flag because there are thick strokes randomly everywhere and there are still some white spots on the page because it is not a super detailed or perfectionist type of work. I also glued splotches of  newspaper everywhere in the background to make the painting have more texture and make it look more dirty and messy like Jasper's. The hardest part of this piece for me was the eagle. Drawing it wasn't as hard as making sure I have the right value in the right places. Also it was hard to paint because the eagle is not actually just plane white, it is dirty in some places and is darker around the eyes. Overall I was very proud and happy with how the project turned out and I shocked myself with my capabilities.

perspective project

I really loved trying to figure out what I was going to draw and taking the pictures of the eno. It turned out a lot better than I thought and I even shocked myself with the turnout. I had a hard time drawing the legs and trying to color it with the right value. I also thought I did a good job with the perspective of the picture. The eno had a separate vanishing point and then there were two other points on the side. This drawing is also personal to me because I took the picture in my backyard and i'm happy how it turned out looking just like the picture.  

Print Project

I thought that this project was more complicated then I thought it would be. It was hard to figure out what parts would be with the ink or without the ink. What I did first was draw my pictures in the small rectangle. I thought that this was the hardest pert because I had to make up everything from the beginning and make up what the texture would be. I also had to trace the picture on the linoleum and then cut it out in the right pert. My favorite part about this whole project was printing it out. I liked mixing some of the colors together and making it look very cool.     

pancake face

I thought that this project was fun a first. I liked smearing the pancakes out and I also likd croping the jaw face out. but twards the end I got really angry with this assignment because my computer was super slow. I also had a problem with the earasing part because my back ground was dark. But overall I thought that this was a very cool picture to make and I liked this assignment.  

stencil project

My stencil did not turn out very good at first. The first time I started, I accidentally got the wrong type of paint and color and it got all wrinkly and dark in only some area of the final part. I had restarted because I was not happy with how it was staring to turn out. My second and last time I made turned out better. I used all of the right colors and everything. But then when I was done I thought that it would look better if I fixed one part on the stencil. I knew that that was a bad idea because it made part of the eyes all wrinkly too and colors overlapped. I learned that you should not always want more and more because that could lead to something that was worse than what you started with.

Contour Line Shoe

My drawings improved with contour lines because now I was able to draw more of the texture. At first I thought that it would be difficult because we  couldn't lift up the pencil, but it actually wasn't that bad. Also I think that drawing without lifting your pencil up helps with poportion because you are not drawing at different times and with different sizes each. One of the hardest parts to draw on the shoe was the stitching lines because those are basically dotted. Instead, I just drew darker and then ligther on the stitches tso hat it almost looked dotted. I think that the shape of my shoe was not the best but I did a good job of making the shoe look more 3D and using contour lines.