Final Exam
- Which project was your most successful? Describe the theme and or topic and the process you went through to complete the project. Were the choices you made regarding material, size, technique, etc beneficial to enhancing this project. Please explain.
- 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.
[Left] (Style in another artist project) I'm not the best at painting, so this project help grow my range and helped me to create more value through it. It helped me use 2 point perspective in my painting to show value and space. This piece also helped me learn how to use pallet knives and brush soap. It also helped me be more creative and see things inside of the world that normally people wouldn't see. This project has taught me more than I thought, but it is one of the weaker pieces I have done.
[Right] (Color pencil project) This project help grow my love for 2D art. It helped me create value by using shades and tints, then blending them together to create an ombré affect. It has also taught me that to bring out the full saturation in the color pencils you have to use a colored paper. Also how to create value with color and not only in pencil. This has shown my abilities to create value in using color, and the ability to re-create my own pictures. This also has helped me use colors that aren't in the reference photos to create a more aesthetically pleasing art piece. This project has shown more of my strengths and less of my weaknesses. But it has helped me grow in the areas I needed, like creating a picture without using the whole photo.
- 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. (if you do not have a photo for this just answer the question without one)
[Middle/Right] In the perspective lessons we learned three different perspectives, which taught us how to draw in each of them. This taught us how to use a vanishing point and a ruler. In this lesson I feel like I needed no more further instruction, the lesson was done well and I learned what I needed to know.
[Left] Another beneficial lesson was the color pencil lesson. We learned how to create value using different shades and tints. We created Spheres, boxes and cones to show value and show the light source. I believe that this was also taught the right amount, and needed no further instruction.