What is art? Art is any form of expressing emotions or thoughts or creativity. Most things in my personal opinion can be characterized as art. Art isn't only painting, even though many people characterize it as that. Art can be a beautiful song, a dance, or a clay sculpture. Everyone has their own definition and style of art. Why do artists make art? Some artists make art because they are unsure of any other way to release all the built up feelings inside them. Maybe the artist is grounded or going through a divorce or anything; they release that anger by throwing paint at a canvas. Or if someone is in love then they can make art by doing a portrait of the person they love. Artists make art for many reasons but I mainly think it is to express what they are feeling or thinking about at the moment. What is the point of this class and what do you get out of it? Every kid in the world should have the opportunity to take an art class. For my own personal reasoning, my sister has always been considered the "artsy" kid in the family, but this class helped me realize that I can make beautiful art using different styles and materials; I just needed a good mentor (like Mrs. Sudkamp) to help bring out my artistic side. The point of the class is to be meditative, to help you find yourself and your own personal style. |
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I was inspired from the original piece because I decided to make mine completely opposite of how the original was. The original was all about using materials from nature and showing natures beauty. Yes, my piece is about nature, but no my piece doesn't use any nature materials. It's using all materials found in the trash that could be polluting out world. It's showing how the trees are dying and the world is being disgraced. Patrick's sticks is a large 3D art piece shown in the museum's café. The art work will never be ruined for many viewers fear the twigs will die, but the artist made sure that would never happen. I have seen it in person, and it is much for detail oriented than you are led to believe. Born in Oklahoma in 1945, Dougherty was raised in North Carolina. He earned a B.A. in English from the University of North Carolina in 1967. From this assignment, I learned a brand new variety of mediums and how to use them. There was different techniques for each box. This piece was successful cause it helped inspire me for future projects because I now know how to use different materials. If I were to do it again I could you different colors for the boxes. The purpose behind my destruction was based off the word life. Life is a constant cycle of creating then destroying. I created the clay fish then using a baseball bat I destroyed it and used the pieces to make a new art creation. For this assignment, I worked with Gregory Hall, Shelby Poliakic, and Nathan Davis. I created the plot and made all the small details out of clay, such as SpongeBob's mouth, ties, legs, and arms. Gregory was in charge of making the animals and moved all the characters for each shot. Shelby was camera lady and also made the main character. Nathan made the big prop, the pineapple, he also made SpongeBob's body and assembled a lot of the characters.
I solve problems. My group couldn't come up with an idea of what to do for the project, so I thought of the idea of doing a underwater scuba diver who meets SpongeBob and using a medium of play-doh. When challenges occurred, I was able to turn to my group mates for help or suggestions. It was unplanned to add objects that weren't made out of play-doh, but it turned out really cool. For example, I had the idea of crumpling construction paper to use as the ocean floor. I reflect. During this project I stepped back and analyzed towards the end, I knew we had to spice it up so I told Shelby about my idea to have the paper "Nee Hoy Minoy" character demolish the main pieces of our project. Our group didn't really think about long term affect, we just rolled with the punches and I think this project turned out awesome. The problem I was solving in my piece was my choice of medium. I have never worked with watercolor paints before so I decided to give it a try and paint my dog using them. A major obstacle I had to overcome was how to mix colors, they are very loose and I learned that a little paint goes a long way. During this project, I developed my art making skills. Mrs. Sudkamp suggested I watch some YouTube tutorial videos about how to paint grass using watercolors. It really helped me learn how to properly shade and use certain fluid brushstrokes. I gained skill and will gladly be using watercolor's again in the future. I Have a Global Awareness of Artmaking I found inspiration for this piece from my own mom who is a professional artist, she has painted my dog and other peoples dogs many times before and they always turn out beautiful. So I decided to try to test myself and see if I could even come close to painting as good as my mom, Kim Maselli. I used technology to find a picture of a dog, I would've painted my own dog but she has dark brown and black fur so I was too nervous to try to add details with dark watercolor paint. I participated as an art community member by using nearby artists as inspiration and motivation to make my art as good as it can be. We Collaborate During my work process, I asked my friends in the class about if they thought my dog and background looked realistic and creative. My awesome teacher, Mrs. Sudkamp, helped inspire me to try bold things like adding new colors to the grass or using different techniques when painting with plain old watercolors. |
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