Final Independent Project: Question

For our Final project, my question is: Who will I become? 
I decided to use the theme time, as well as my own dreams I have for my future. While brainstorming I constantly came back to my own life, and how I saw it panning out. I think my question will open up a bunch of possibilities for my final project.

Final Independent Project

This term in art, I have learned the values of color, shape, size, and angles. All of this topics have been important in the projects we have done so far in this class. In art I have learned new techniques that I think will help me with my art in the future. This year we did a drawing from observation that included blocks, cones, paper, and a table.  I found this drawing challenging because it really focused on getting the angles and proportions right. Because of this drawing I feel like I learned information on angles and shapes that I didn't know before. I learned new techniques that can help you get the right shapes for a picture. Besides working on angles and shapes, I learned more about color value, and creating shadows with paint. This was a challenge for me because it was difficult for me to get the right colors for shadows. I enjoy mixing paints and getting different colors, but using paint to create a painting it more challenging then I thought it would be. I learned that importance of placement, as well as the right colors. For years I have known that in art you make mistakes and learn from them, but this year I really got to see my mistakes and try and fix them. I know that everything I learned this year in art is going to help me with my final project and make my project great.

Reflecting on group work

This week the mural project has been a challenging one. My group decided at first to go with a concept that was putting all of our ideas into one. We worked on that for a while but in the end it didn't work out well. It started getting very messy and many of us worried about if people would understand what we tried to put on the mural or if there was any message getting across to everyone.  It has been difficult because at first when we tried to please everyone we ended up having an idea that may not please the people who have to look at it everyday. A challenging part has been deciding on what we are going to do. Once we decided to work on a new mural idea we had to decided what it was going to be about and what it was going to look like.  Four people our of the five in our group decided on something that had to do with Boston.  Even though we all agreed on it we still had problems coming up with what parts of Boston we wanted or what types of things we wanted to show. Today we finally picked a concept we want to do, but the only problem is that two people from our fiver person group didn't come to school today. I like the whole group as a whole can accomplish a lot when we agree on things, but when we don't then it becomes harder. I think that if we all try to work on one concept and we put our minds together on one thing then we will have a great mural in the end. We have some very talented people who all have different skills that may be good for our mural. We all just need to lean to balance all of our skills and make it into a mural that people will enjoy seeing.

Found Images Collage

 For my collage I have decided to make an Indian wedding theme. At my table we got a bunch of wedding magazines that had lots of bright colors like orange, pink, yellow, and red.  My group gave me the idea to cut my paper into the shape of India and put my collage on that. They also told me that I should have two people on top of the Elephant that I found a picture of. Scarlett told me that I should put a bindi on the head of the women I am using in my collage. I might try to find a picture of a women in India in a wedding that might be better for my picture.

Extending our findings from The Pour Paintings

My idea for my new art project involving the pour paintings was to look at the colors that are in my painting. My pour painting had a lots of colors like blues, greens, pinks, reds, and browns. I decided to go with the brown, blue and green colors by drawing a peacock feather that had all of the different colors. I am going to use water colors and colored pencils in my project.

Riley helped me with my project by giving me an idea to use the whole page and not just a section of it. I think that the whole page made my  project look better because I was able to put more of the details in my work. When I am done my project will look beautiful in the end with all of the colors and details I will put of the feather.