Assignments and reflections
Assignment 1:
Zentangle Exercises
The Zentangle Activities were used to demonstrate the ways a student can use the elements of art to create a product. The images reflect an aspect of design and creativity by having a set of rules ( four different designs, having areas divided by straight lines, no color ) that the student was supposed to abide by and make their own art. Evident in the pieces above are line, shape, form, value and space.
Assignment 4:
Modified Contour Pinecone
The modified contour pinecone drawing was used to teach the students to pay attention to the shape of what they were drawing; how/where to place lines and to concentrate on how an object ACTUALLY looks - not how one may think it looks. Elements used: Line, Value, Shape.
Assignment 5:
Elements of Art Jingle:
"Silly Carl the Triceratops Found Seashells Very Long ago".
Shape, Color, Texture, Form, Space, Value, Line.
Shape, Color, Texture, Form, Space, Value, Line.
This jingle is simply supposed to help students remember the names of the elements of art.
Assignment 7:
Hatching/Cross Hatching of Pinecone
The Pinecone Cross-Hatching assignment was the first time trying shading styles such as hatching, cross-hatching, and stippling that the class experienced this year. Personally, was was really difficult wasn't the shading techniques but still just dealing with drawing the object proportionally.
Project 1:
Gyotaku Fish
The Gyotaku Fish was the first project of the year. The procedure for making such a product includes finding a fish (real or fake) and painting their surface, then pressing them onto a paper. In this manner one may document their catches - or make them into artwork! The colors used in the picture were mostly picked for aesthetic purposes, but the black specifically was used to make the picture "POP" and add contrast to the other colors. Elements included: Shape, Color, Form, Space, Value, Line.
Assignment 8:
Color Wheel Discussion
The Color Theory was created to organize the colors available to an artist.
- The colors connected by the dark line are the primary colors - colors that can't be created by humans.
- The secondary colors (connected by a grey line) are those that are made by mixing primary colors together.
- Warm colors go from yellow to red violet (counter-clockwise) and the rest are Cold colors.
- Complimentary colors are those facing directly across from one another. When combined they'll produce black. For example, Yellow and Violet above.
- Analogous colors are simply those that are next to each other. For example, Blue and Blue Green.
- Intermediate colors are combinations of primary and secondary colors, such as red-orange or yellow-green.
- A color triad is a grouping scheme where colors are used in a painting that are evenly spaced from one another on the color wheel. The primary colors are an example of a color triad.
Assignment #8:
Preposterous Crosslinks
(Turned in during class without taking pictures, will update later)
Assignment #9:
Realistic Graphite Drawing
(Art 3 did not have to complete)
Assignment #10:
ECU Reflection
Did not attend.
Assignment #11:
Suminagashi
The experimenting with Suminigashi was a unique experience to have in art class. While difficult to get used to because of issues with how to get a sharp image or with water causing stains on the paper, the product(s) of this art form can potentially be very creative and aesthetically appealing. The Process: 1.) Take inks and set on surface of water in any arrangement one desires. 2.) Spread ink around with the end of a paintbrush or an object like it. 3.) Dip the entirety of the front of your paper into the water and remove somewhat quickly. dry to front by dabbing with paper towel.
Assignment #12:
Substitute Prompt Work
For the time that the substitute was here I chose to do the prompt that asked to draw my shoe. I was wearing a PF FLYERS classic shoe that day.
Assignment: Notebook Making
(no pictures currently)
Making notebooks was a bit of a different project from what our class was used to. We started by making a pair of "covers" from the suminagashi paper. Then we folded paper and attached them to the covers to make a small notebook! These were very aesthetically pleasing and fun to do.
Assignment: Freestyle Painting (progress, to be updated)
In the final couple days of the class I shall be finishing this canvas. Currently, what is pictured above is just a background for an image that will be imposed onto it. I'm currently thinking of having this image be a picture of Leonardo DiCaprio from The Wolf of Wall Street or of another celebrity/icon. The paint itself was applied with a palette knife, my favorite tool for painting because i enjoy the rugged look it gives to the picture.
Assignment: Spring Concert Card
This card was made for possible use by Epiphany to market the Spring Concert. Made with pen and colored pencil.
Assignment: Yearbook page high-contrast portrait
This high contrast portrait, made on a recycled page of the school yearbook from two years ago, was created by stylizing a picture taken by a camera of my face. From there, I picked the dark parts of my features and that is what is shown in black.