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.