1.) What new skills did you learn or what did you improve on during this unit? I learned how to draw waterfalls, and that most of the water is foam. I also learned that I hate oil pastels, and that it's hard to blend them because they clump up. The only good thing about oil pastels is that the color goes on solid and the white is helpful for mixing colors. 2.) How has your thinking about what original art is changed? My thinking hasn't changed much. It is fine to take and reinvent ideas, or take ideas and make your own art with them. Physically stealing art, like taking someone's work and saying you did it, is wrong, but being inspired or working off of it is okay. Taking a photo and using it as a reference is all right, too. 3.) What challenges or successes did you have during this unit? Would you change anything you did if you could go back and re-do it? One of the challenges I had was drawing the land and the trees. It was hard making everything look like it did in the photograph, and there were times where I felt like the project looked like a little kid drew it. The waterfall is something I'm actually proud of, and the cup is okay, but I'm not satisfied with the shading on the inside. If I could re-do it, I would definitely go in with a lighter hand. I didn't know the oil pastels could clump up so fast. I would definitely put less black in the shading of the cup.
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For the final project on space, I painted a saltwater fish in a goldfish tank with watercolor paints. I thought it would look interesting and out of place with the freshwater fish. The project I chose was "realistic space," and I think I did as best as I could at the level I'm on now to make the picture look as real as possible. The background was the hardest, because for some reason, certain areas wouldn't let the paint stick. First I used watercolors, and when those didn't work, I used acrylics, but the acrylics didn't work well on top of the watercolors. I think I might have wet my brush too much originally. I learned how to shade with paint this week. To make the yellow on the bottom fin look shadowy, I mixed purple in with the yellow. I also used green with the pink for the same purpose. I really liked doing the goldfish. I think they were the most fun, and ended up looking pretty good. |