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For my first piece, I chose the piece that I created for my mom for mother's day.
There are two artistic behaviors that are met with this project. The first one is "
I create original art".
I used my own unique ideas to create this piece. I wanted to
incorporate different techniques to create a piece. I like the way the
water color turned out on the newspaper, and I am fascinated by the fact
that the acrylic looks like oil pastel. I discovered that I enjoy
doing multimedia pieces and I hope to continue experimenting with them. I
already had somewhat of an idea of what I wanted it to look like, but I
didn't know what to do for the stems. This brings in the second
artistic behavior, "
I take risks" because I didn't know how
sewing thread as the stems would turn out. I had never done anything
like this, actually sewing thread into the canvas (I wasn't even sure it
was going to work). But I tried it anyways and I think it turned out
pretty good. By combining both of these behaviors, I think I created a
unique, risky original piece of art.
The second piece of art I chose was this painting,
Again, I can connect this art piece to two artistic behaviors. The first behavior is "
I developed my art making skills".
I used acrylic paint and I think I learned new techniques with painting
and mixing colors and showing dimension in my paintings. I definitely
improved with my transition of colors, as shown by the colors of the
sunset. Also, the dimension I was able to show in the church, I didn't
expect it to turn out so well. The guitar was interesting to paint,
especially when I was trying to paint the wood. I feel after this
project that I learned a lot about painting with acrylic, creating
different methods to do each different style, and I learned a lot about
colors too. The second behavior I experienced with this project was "
I solve problems".
I encountered a lot of challenges while painting this. I had to re-do
the entire sky because I had mixed the right blue-purple color one day
and I could not get it to match once I tried mixing it again. So I
decided to re-paint what I had already painted and finish the sky in one
day so I didn't encounter the same problem. I like the blue that it
turned out to be. The guitar was challenging, and at first I couldn't
get the lines to show that it is wood. However, I was able to obtain
some painters tape and I taped of the guitar so I could get the smooth
lines to show that it is wood without messing up any other portion of my
painting. Overall, I learned a lot from doing this painting.
One piece of art that I wish I could "do over is my text art project.
Although
I think it turned out looking cool, I wish I had made a more
interesting design. If I had to do this project over, instead of using a
whole bunch of tear drop shaped pieces, I would use different shapes
and just a different design. Also, even though the warm colors versus
the cool colors creates an interesting contrast between the two symbols,
I feel that it doesn't blend well. I would try and be more spread out
with the color distribution if I had to re-do it. When doing this
project, I didn't realize how small scale I would have to make it.
Again, using a more interesting design would have most likely allowed me
to make create it at a larger scale, so that is another thing I would
work on. I wouldn't change the medium or subject of the piece though, I
like the overall idea and that I was trying something new.
