Reflecting at the end of the course.

My experince in this class was a interesting and fun experince. I experimented with my skills at a lot of different style of art, I found that I was good with some and struggled with some projects like the printing picture project and the untraditional self protrait. I had a lot fun with the clay and the junk scultpure. This year I had practiced at looking artworks from different point of view and that is something that i will have with me forever. I may bit use art in my career, but I practiced my ability of looking things from different point of view, and that can apply to nearly any situations.

I am passionate, active, and complex.

I am passionate about my activities which include mountain biking, snowboarding, sailing and reading. I am complex because I have dual parts to my complex personality, as you can see by the flags representing my ancestry (British and German), my soft and tough sides, and my quiet and active sides. I love the thrill of mountain biking and snowboarding at the same time I love reading, and playing with dogs. I also love the outdoors, especially sailing across the ocean during summers and zooming through forests during winters while relaxing indoors and reading all year.
I used the bold colors of the flags for the background of my work of art while it shows my family's background. I also intentionally put objects beyond the edges of the paper to show my risk taking side where I go beyond limits.

Reflecting on self-protrait progress.

We explained and discussed our portraits in class, all of us did not finish our projects, so we shared our plans for it. We liked eachother's projects and gave eachother some feedbacks, they told me to finish it and maybe expand the drawing, and add more snow to the picture. I needed to do that and finish it by adding my picture, and the drawing of a sailboat as well the drawing of books and dogs. I estimate that I would need at least three more classes to complete my project.

Reflecting on the 4 Hour Project.

I was the only person to do the still life drawing with the charcoal background. My technique was different than others because I had to draw backwards, using an eraser. I have to make the general shapes of the objects at first and then use a charcoal and chalk make the shapes to look real life like. I also used a lot of shading technique to make the objects 3- Dimensional. I had a hard time with proportions of the objects halfway through, I have to redraw some objects. It was sometimes frustrating. I did not complete it. I was happier with my former work, the one the class did together than this one. Firstly, I did not complete this drawing yet. If I had more time I'll be happier.˙

Reflecting on the 4 Hour Project.

I was the only person to do the still life drawing with the charcoal background. My technique was different than others because I had to draw backwards, using an eraser. I have to make the general shapes of the objects at first and then use a charcoal and chalk make the shapes to look real life like. I also used a lot of shading technique to make the objects 3- Dimensional. I had a hard time with proportions of the objects halfway through, I have to redraw some objects. It was sometimes frustrating. I did not complete it. I was happier with my former work, the one the class did together than this one. Firstly, I did not complete this drawing yet. If I had more time I'll be happier.

The Book Project...progress and planning.

My original plan was to create a simple and short story about a man with a prize show dog. A rival dog owner pays a thug to steal the dog so it wont beat her dog in the big show. I created a sketch of the story in my sketchbook. My first picture went really well and agrees with the rough draft sketch. I faced some challenges like making the rival dog owner 's arm and hand to stick in the right angle. I made a lot of mistakes but eventually I figure out how to make it look correct.

Drawing the Human Figure Inside Out

Today was D.E.A.D. (drop everything and draw) day again, and we were to draw human figure, displaying the proportions of the body. We were not to draw the details, but to draw the figure quickly and make sure the proportions were correctly balanced. I think my figures was okay, of course it not perfect, I think I have some trouble making the head proportional to the body. Maybe a bit more practice would help.

Shades of grey.

The goals of today's drawing was to bring the objects on the table to life. We are supposed to draw them by using a paper with a charcoal dark background and make shapes and shades with a eraser. I find it was quite difficult to draw the transparent bottle and find the right hue of white for the pots. I was not exactly satisfied with my work but I generally did well on it.

Reflecting on Found Objects Sculptures.

The first object that inspired me to make my sculpture the way it is was the bike seat. It looked like some kind of animal's head with the snout pointing down. It reminded me of a cow and a dog. From that I decided to create some kind of creature, and I did not want to create a regular animal so I created a creature with the combination of qualities of a dog and a cow. I made it out of a stereo and parts of a mini bike. I expected my sculpture to be about this size and color. It basically turned out what I was expected with minor changes such as the wheel attached to the top of the tail and the grill at the neck, but it just made the sculpture better in my eye.

Keeping Up To The Changing Still Life.

Keeping up to the changing setting of the still life pose on the table was really difficult and tiring. It is hard to erase every thing and drawing something else in its place over and over. It created a giant smear on the paper which irritated me. The three most difficult thing I had to keep up with the changing still life was erasing a lot over and over when something is taken away or overlap something else, and drawing the object over and over when something is taken away or added in the front of it. Lastly, the most hard thing was to try and keep the objects proportional to the table and drawing it in the right size.