Why Do People Make art?

I think people make are because they truly love it. Art is everything. Art is everywhere. Most things around you or things you see are somehow related to art. Art is outside in everything you look at. Almost everything could be considered are or somehow have art in it. Also over time art has started to interest more and more people. Over time art materials have gotten much more interesting which has encouraged people and especial children to start making art. This can lead to wanting to work with other materials to make other things involving art work. When children start young with there box of 100 different crayons then they are starting there talent in art. Also art is taught in school which helps art to spread more into peoples interests. Also without art the world would be pretty boring and plain. There would no longer be color outside or color in foods, or paintings on wall, or flowers or leaves or anything that is beautiful and can be an art. Art is just natural when you are doodling on your paper you make it into a design and it looks cool that is art. And also art relaxes people. It sets people in a good mood when they make something that they are truly happy with.

Reflecting on Four Hour project

For this assignment we were assigned to basically think of a project that we wanted to do and we have 4 hours to complete it. Right away I new what I was going to do. I am very interested in fashion (fashion design, fashion photography, modeling) So right away I new i wanted to make fashion designs. I have taken some classes on fashion design before and last year I did a whole project on it. Right away i opened my sketch book and started sketching out the designs. My fashion designs are not meant for people to really wear. They are more meant for an art show or the be worn on the runway. After i made four fashion designs i knew i needed to think of a way to put them together. Like paste them on paper. So i got a a piece of black paper and put the designs on it and then put on pieces from fashion magazines. This project was very different from all the others because it was very independent. We had the option to do something like drawing to making a sculpture. This project was very laid back. I liked that the final project was whatever we wanted it to be.

The Book Project....progress and planning

My original plan for this book was a story about a guy who was asleep and missed a bomb threat that caused everyone to leave the palace. He then wakes up wondering where everyone is. The story ends with the mans son running back to the place to try to save his father. So far I have only done the sketches for this because I was out sick for so long. I think that the story I made up is still an interesting and intriguing story.

Shades of Gray

Today in art we worked with different char coals and whites we started off with making the paper a shade of gray from the char coal. We then had to add in a few items that were on the table. Our task was to have five shades of gray in our art. I liked this assignment because it was fun to have different colors and actually draw some still life. Something i could have done better is add the towel i decided to leave it out of my art because it looked really bad when i put it in. But overall i really liked this assignment.

Finding Images that are Balanced

This is Radial
This is almost symmetrical
This is Symmetrical
This is Asymmetry

Nighthawks by Edward Hopper

1942

From New England Greenwich Village

Oil on canvas

First impressions:

When i first look at the painting i notice all the shadows and the lonely people sitting in the bar. I also notice how the bar is called Phillies. I noticed how it appears to be night time. Also the bar does not look to popular it only had 3 customers.

Interesting facts and history:

This painting was Edward's most famous painting. Hopper painted from the outside looking in. he cast about for a new focus. Something about that restaurant, and those figures inside, attracted his attention. Edward Hopper spent five years studying painting under Robert Henri The diner has since been destroyed

How relates to Art Principles:

In my opinion the painting is unblalanced because there is alot going on in the right side. I think that there is some Grouping with the windows in the painting. I think that a Leading Line was left out of this painting. I think that there is not one place where your eyes go straight to.

The Principles of Design

The Principles of Design..... helps artists organize shapes, lines, forms, and colors to communicate effectively

BALACE- is when the visual "weight" of an artwork feels equally distributed

Symmetry- same on the left same on the right

Approximately Symmetrical- almost symmetrical

Asymmetry- opposite of symmetry

Radial- going to be the same where ever the line is drawn

EMPHASIS- when one element in an artwork appears to be more important or attract the most attention, we say it creates

Placement- where artist put stuff

Contrast- when something is very different to what is around it

Grouping- when artist takes a bunch of elements and put them together around the thing they want people to look at

RHYTHM & MOVEMENT- how the artist guides the viewer through a work of art

Repetition- same elements (same thing repeated)/ altering elements (switch colors like a pattern) / progression (repeated but changed)/ repeating

Leading Lines- somewhere in the picture there is a line that leads us through

Implied Movement- shows literal movement, looks like moving, body position,

Optical Movement- repeat line or shape makes eye feel like motion is happening in the picture

Actual Movement- art that literally moves

PROPORTION- in art we are talking about the size relationships of the parts to one another or to the whole

Colors-

Shapes

Forms

When thinking about proportion think about how looks and think about a story or emotional component

We might use words like alot, a little, many, few, big, small, similar, etc.

UNITY- is the feeling that all the elements in work belong together

VARIETY- is achieved by introducing some differenced into the picture to increase visual interest

Reflecting on Found Object Sculptures

Over the past few weeks we worked hard on building sculptures out of objects that we brought it. To start this project we took our objects and destroyed the larger of them. I brought in a laptop to destroy. Destroying the laptop was much harder then I had expected. After i had destroyed the laptop i took the pieces and looked at them for awhile. Right away the idea of a house popped into my mind. I had this idea because I had four larger pieces that could be walls. Right away i got to work putting the base of the house down. After the house i made a wall out of a jean skirt. Then i started decorating the house. I took some outdoor materials to use as trees. Then i made a garden out of beads. After i started to decorate the inside of the house making sure not to miss details. I then had extra time so i added a garage and and a car. Overall i was very happy with the way the house turned out. If i had had much more time i probably would have used a different material then hot glue so that the project wouldn't end up with a bunch of stings everywhere. In our class discussion we got a chance to look at the other sculptures. This was intersitng to see everyone else's creative ideas.

Reflecting at mid-term

So far in art class this year i feel like i have improved my art skills very much. So far the main part of what we have been learning is to be open minded, work on the process, and sometimes not even care about how the art looks. I feel like some things i have improved on is being less strict on my art. If I messed up I could look at it and then just make the mistake a part of the art. I feel that i need to work on planning out my art in my sketch book. In the begging of the term we talked about what it means to be an artist and to be creative. After talking about it and hearing everyones idea i learned that an artist can be many things and is not just someone who is amazing at art. Some of our projects involve partners and some involve switching your art with someone else. Those are the projects that teach us to step outside the lines and be more open with our art. On Thursdays we have a drop everything and draw day. Lately Thursday's have been hard and frustrating for people because the task is very complex and involves a lot of flexibility. Now that is is half way through the term we are supposed to grade ourselves. I think that i am pretty much very attentive in class but i should work a bit more on being open minded and contributing to the class discussion. My favorite assignment so far was the sculpture project. I loved the process and how we took a lot of time to make this. I was also very proud with my result. A more challenging assignment was the penguin one. We were not sure what was going to happen with the project but it ended up that we had to switch art with other people. Over all i have been very happy in my art principles class and I hope that the rest of the term and the next term goes as well as the first.

What's in the sack?

Today in art we were supposed to draw a set up of bags filled with things that we didn't know. We were given paper an eraser and char coal. We were supposed to start the project generally and get more specific. This task was very hard especially the getting specific part because its hard when all u have is char coal. One of the hardest parts for me was when I was drawing the cardboard box. The box didn't exactly come out how i had planned. I realized my box didn't exactly have the right shape. Also its very hard to erase char coal because its so dark. We also were not supposed to look at our art as much as the set up. And also we were not given a whole lot of time to complete this task.

Still Life

Today in art class we had to draw with charcoal and then we had to take out some of the things and add more. This task was very hard because quickly things changed. Also we were told not to look at our drawing to much and not to care about how it looked. I think this may have been a scary thought for some of us. Somethings we had to work on to try to keep up with this was to quickly erase, quickly sketch, and most of all pay attention to what was changing in the still life. Another part to this that was hard was that erasing coal is not the easiest task. By the end our drawings had all sorts of eraser lines. We started off with one small plate then lots and lots of objects were added. By the end on the only thing that was still on the table was one small flower.

sculpture art

In all these pictures the artists chose pieces of things that they decided to make a sculpture out of. This objects can basically be whatever they want. They don't have to have any certain features to be part of a sculpture. When someone made the lamp that is part of the dog sculpture now, they probably didn't think that it would ever end up in a sculpture. All the artist had to do to find the objects was find something that somehow inspired them to make a sculpture out of it.

Ingrid Calame

This piece of art caught my eyes right away. It is filled with so much color it is almost over whelming. This art clearly has many different shapes in it.

Does this seem familiar?

I have certainly never heard of seen this kind of art.

Who Is Ingrid Calame?

Ingrid is an artist who definetley has her own ideas about art. She used her own creativeness and puts emotions into it.

How se makes her paintings

Ingrid will find a shape of some sorts such as a spill of graffiti. She will then trace it one a transparent paper. She does this several times and lays the outlines on top of each other. She then starts to fill in some color.

What she makes the painting the way she does

She makes the paintings this way becasue its her way of being creative. She also puts emotions into her art.

my first art crtique

Today in art class we critiqued other peoples are story's. I was told that my story was filled with alot of color and had an interesting story. Getting critique was really very helpful. I almost wish that i had gotten the critique when i was working on the project so i would know what to change and make better.

Art question week sep 20-25

In the four art projects we did in art class this week they all had a sort of different creativeness in common. They all invloved us to somehow step out of a comfort zone and be creative and adventurous.

Re-visiting observation/description activity

Lexis postcard was called birthday. The art that the person drew with the directions did not have much resemblance to the postcard. The two people were left out of the drawing along with most of the surroundings.

What do i see?

Orange-Red -Yellow painting

jelly fish

elephant

Blue-Green-Yellow

mushroom

long finger

little animal

little random shapes

face

Giving Up Control:Pours

Today in art class, we mixed paint with water and poured it onto a large sheet of paper. The colors mixed together and formed interesting designs and nice colors. Then we moved the paper so that the colors would mix and the paint would spread. Alex was my partner and we created three papers with different colors and interesting designs.

Collaborative drawing

How did having someone else work on your drawing add to or take away from the final result?

Today in art, we were given some materials and a paper penguin. We were told to think of an idea and start making a picture out of it. Then, we switched drawings with people and they worked on the picture how they thought it should look. Then, people had to cover up what they didn't like that someone else had added. Having someone else work on my art made it have a different outcome then i thought it would. At the end, we tryed to correct it how we wanted it to look.

art questions

What makes someone an artist? (An artist is someone who...)

An artist is anyone. Anyone that likes to do art is considered at artist. Many people are artists in different ways even when they don't know it. Dancing, cooking, singing, acting, and more are all arts as well.

What does it mean to be creative? (To be creative is to...)

To be creative means to just have an idea. Any kind of a creative artsy idea is creative. Creative is stepping out of the lines and going beyond the obvious in making art.

Describe at least 3 or 4 things an artist needs to be creative and productive.

An artist needs an idea, material, and space to be creative. The main part to being creative is having an idea. An artist needs materials to make the creative art. Also to make art artists need some sort of space and scenery for the making of the art.

"Four-Leaf Clover"

Charles James

1953

First Impressions: i love fashion! I think the dress is really interesting because it's old, but could still be worn to an event now.