I am a Friend, and a Student

When I look at my finished piece of art I smile, and feel success. I know that I put many hard working hours into this project including at least two extended lunch periods. The finished product is different then I had planned it would be. I realized I am much happier with he finished product then I had planned to finish it in the begging. During the project I kept adding parts or seeing what looked right. I definitely took advice from others especially Ms. Robert's and Mr. Brooks. I am most proud of the face that i drew and the flower that I made in her hair. The flower was made out of pencil shavings. I never believed that I could draw, but when I worked on this project I knew what I wanted to draw and I am happy at how it turned out. I think that the project tells that when I walk in the room I have this story about my life so far. I think that it also shows that I have alot of ideas in my head. I wanted the art to come off as it also shows me as an artsy funky person. I like how the pictures I used for my family stands out of the paper because they are in black and white. I think the main idea when looking at this art is showing that it is a story that I am trying to tell and that it has an artsy feel to it.

Artist- in- Residence : Alenander DeMaria

I looked around the webiste and when I looked at his drawings this one totaly stood out to me. The detail in it amazes me. To me this is a very detailed house but next to it I am not really sure what is next to it. At first I thought it was a giant person with shaggy hair. This fits into his art because his drawings all look somewhat alike they all have the same idea to me. And it looks like he dosnt use much color so it fits with the others. A quesiton that I would ask him is how does he come up with these pieces of art, what gives him the idea to draw things like this.

Reflecting on Self Portrait progress

Today in class we talked in our groups about each of our projects. I got some helpful feed back on what i need to fix in my project. I had not thought about the background of my piece yet and my group helped me realize that. They gave me ideas of making my portrait stand out more then it was. I am pretty far along with my portrait but still need to work on putting color into it. I liked everyone else's ideas on there portraits as well. Some were way more creative then I could have thought of. When I explained my portrait I explained all of the parts in the book in the thought bubble. I think that I will still need at least three more classes to work on my project. But it is coming along and I am very proud of it!!