Print Making

This art project had many steps in order to complete it. First, we went to the computer lab to research an animal. I chose a butterfly, because I could I could add detail and texture on the leaves and on the wings of the butterfly. Next, we drew a full page sketch of the animal we chose in its natural environment. After that, we chose a section of our drawing that included both the animal and the background. We then traced the section onto tracing paper, and transferred it over to the linoleum. Then, we had to cut out some parts of our drawing so we could make a print out it. Cutting out the linoleum was difficult for me, because I had a hard  time making sure everything was cut out. Also, I had lots of small details on the wing, which made things tougher. After we cut it, we started print making. I thought the prink making was fun, even though mine didn't turn out to well. The mistake I made was using too much ink. The hardest part of the print making process for me, was turning the linoleum over after it had ink on it. Sometimes when I turned mine over, it didn't stay in place. Overall, I thought this project was really fun even though I made some mistakes.

Frog Tounge

Today in class, we had to watch a video on how to photoshop a picture of a frog on a tounge.We had to upload the picture first. Then we had to put the frog on the mouth. We rotated the frog, so the curve of it would fit on the mouth, next we had to try to match up the color of the frog to match the mouth. We had to go back and forth until the colors looked right. After that, we added a shadow to make it look more realistic. At then very end, we usd a tool to lighten and dark the color of the frog to make it look better.

Angry Pancakes

Today in class we used Photoshop to make an angry pancake. We watched a video, and followed along with it. We got a photo of pancakes, then used the photo of the jaws to make it look like the pancake had jaws. It was fun, and there was a point when I got a little confused, but I fixed it.

Stencil Drawing

In this project, we had to first select a picture, and then use Photoshop to get the picture into three to four different colors. Next, we projected our picture on the whiteboard, and traced each color separately on a different piece of poster paper. After that, we used a knife to cut out each of the colors to create a stencil. This was the most difficult part for me, because I had a hard time cutting everything out and it was very time consuming. Then, we painted the background a color that would go with the picture. I chose yellow, because it was one of the colors i used and if I used it, then i wouldn't have to use the yellow spray paint. We then had to start spray painting. The mistake I made was that I didn't tape down my stencil good enough, so the colors started dripping then ended up everywhere. I tried to fix it by doing another coat, but it only made it turn out worse. I thought this project was really fun, and even though mine didn't turned out as well as i wanted it to, I learned a lesson that will hopefully help me in the future with art. 

Contour Shoe Drawing

When you do contour line drawings, your pencil does not pick up from the page. We practiced this skill by drawing our hands. It was difficult, because our hands have many creases, and we had to draw them along with making the pictures and lines flow together. For the shoe, a person from our table took off a shoe that had laces. We had to draw the shoe as best we could while keeping our pencil down the whole time. It improved my drawing, because it made it look more flowing and neat instead of more sketchy like our other drawings.

IPad Drawing

 There were many similarities and differences between using oil pastels in the classroom and using the app on the Ipad. I felt like drawing the actual shape of the object was a lot easier than doing it on the Ipad, because I had more control. However, I thought doing the background was easier on the Ipad than with the oil pastels. With the oil pastels, it was easier to blend together the colors, and with the app, they looked a lot more banded then blended. One huge advantage of uing the Ipad was being able to undo a mistake you made while drawing, which you can't actually do in real life. An advantage of using the oil pastels was you had more control of what you were doing since you were using your whole hand other than just one finger. I accomplished being able to use technology to do art work. I was able to learn about the app, and use the feature to create a similar image to the oil pastels. Technology is useful with art, because it allows us to have new experiences and use new tools to try to improve on our artistic ability and creativity. By using the features of an app, we can take advantage of them to try create a similar image with what we are given.

Cartoon Skeleton

The cartoon skeleton I did was Minnie Mouse. I started this project by going on the internet and finding a picture of a cartoon. Once I found the cartoon I had to try to draw a skeleton for the position the character was in. It was difficult to try to draw where all the bones would be and what shape they were in. I had to modify the head of Minnie Mouse and parts of the body to fit how the picture looked. I learned that drawing a skeleton and getting all the bones in place was very challenging and required a lot of planning ahead of time. I learned you have to try to draw things as you see them and not how you imagine they are. I feel like I tried my best and tried to get everything in place to the best of my ability.