As I continued to work on my breadth exploration for my 2018 AP Art portfolio I started to try using soft chalk pastels. In the first piece depicted above titled "roots," because of the way her hair grew as an extension of her imagination, I took a more cartoonist approach using a felt pen and pastels. The artistic behaviors I used for this piece are "I create original art," "I develop art making skills," and "I take chances and risks." This was an original sketch I did just while messing around when I was listening to music that I then choose to expand upon cleaning it up with the felt marker and pens. I developed skills by exploring an unfamiliar medium with the pastels and I took chances by sketching something unlike what I typically go for.
My second work as part of my breadth exploration is the pointillism piece I am working on of my friend Margaux. While this is a technique I am familiar with I tried to develop this particular portrait more adding some solid black aspects. This will also be part of a larger piece I am working on that will be titled "split." The second half of it is a bright and colorful portrait of Margaux to show the side of her we are all familiar with juxtaposed with the more re severed side of her we never get to see. The artistic behaviors I used to create this piece were "I create original art," "I communicate through my work" and "I collaborate with" others which was done through our class critique and the use of my classmate for inspiration.
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For my complaint piece I wanted to explore the concept of Societies standards on women. This piece is still a work in progress and needs to be developed more, but I really like the way the concept came out so far. The complaint piece used a plethora of artistic behaviors. Some of the specific behaviors used were "I create original art" and "I communicate through my work." Being able to communicate my concept through my work was one of the biggest challenges and aspects of this project, however I think really shinned through in the end. Other behaviors that I used were "I take chances and risks" and "I collaborate with other," which we did through collaborative workshops.
To continue my breadth exploration I wanted to try to complete a reverse pointillism portrait. In order to complete this I focused on the highlights as opposed to the shadows. In a typical pointillism portrait the darker the shadows the closer together the dots would appear to form the picture. In this version however I applied the same approach but the brighter the highlights the closer together the dots would be. For this project I used the artistic behaviors "I take chances and risks" "I create original art" and "I develop art making skills" because I created a new piece in a completely new way from the norm. For the project titles "Never see, Never Will" I wanted to explore the concept of how flowers bloom. In my idea it shows an extremely zoomed in flower. So much so that you can see it is actually built with metal nuts and bolts. You can also see how it is created by a bunch of tiny iron workers building it from underneath the ground. For this project we used the artistic behaviors "I create original art" "I communicate through my work" "I take chances and risks" and "I collaborate with others" which we did through reflective, and suggestive work shops in our class. This piece is also still a work in progress so I do not have a picture of my finalized piece yet. As one of the first skill building projects of this year our class worked together to create a collaborative representation of a mural. To create this piece one of the most important aspects was collaboration and problem solving with other classmates in order to piece together the separate pieces in a fluid way. Another important aspect of this projects was developing the skills of value, shading, and scale. All of these were not only important to make the piece fit together but was also vital for creating accuracy with the original photo. This piece was a good extension of the skills we worked on while completing the task party. During the task party we also communicated through my work, took chances, solved problems and collaborated with others to create original work based off of a concept we randomly choose.
For this graphic letter design project the word I choose to do was Hero. Instead of doing a word where each letter represented a random object that started with that letter I wanted to represent my word through different meanings of the word. For the H I chose to do a silhouette of two parents swinging a child, because when you are a kid your parents are your hero's. For the E and R I choose to represent modern day hero's of firemen and policemen. And finally for the O i choose to represent the stereotypical "hero" people think of when they hear the word which is a superhero. The New Yorker CoverThis project is something I am still currently working on. My New Yorker cover depicted a beach scene with a family on their phones, looking as if they are on vacation. For my inspired work I am working on a mixed media painting with layers of acrylic paint and tissue papers.
Kinetic DrawingThis was one of the first exercises completed at the beginning of the school year. With a partner you met your hands in the middle of the paper mirroring each others movements with soft pieces of charcoal to eventually create a very aesthetically intriguing piece. Blind Contour drawingThe purpose of a blind contour drawing is to rely strictly on your skills of observation without physically looking at what you're doing on the paper. For this blind contour particularly the task was for you to use a mirror to look at yourself while drawing what you observed. Keeping in mind not to pick up the utensil being used. After completing the exercise at least three times we were then able to pick a color scheme in order to make it more cohesive. As shown above I chose to do a warm color scheme using similar patterns to try and make it more cohesive. Charcoal Portrait #ArtprofdareAs part of an online series of tips and tutorials from artprof we took her dare and created charcoal portraits from pictures we took ourselves. Using her lessons online we went through them as we created our pieces learning new techniques-- especially the creation of thumbnails and cross hatching-- that helped to improve upon our work. "Draw you future self" #artprofdare2For this dare proposed by artprof we were challenged to create a piece that represented our future without drawing a portrait. When I'm older one thing I would really love to do is study abroad or travel. I've always been in love with European culture, especially the U.K and Ireland. For this I decided to create a piece with a telephone box as the focal point for it is a widely known figure that is tied with Britain. I also wanted this to be an opportunity to experiment with a new medium of pen and ink. In the end I really enjoyed how it came out and will definitely use pen and ink a lot more in the future.
Keeping with the nature observation theme this painting was an inspired piece expanding from the sketches and observational drawing i completed. As well as incorporating techniques from a class I took part in this is my artistic expression of what the bases we learned in this unit. This drawing above is an example of one of the many sketches I did to work upon drawing what you see. With a heavy focus on nature, This specific one is of my front yard from the viewpoint of a side window. These exercises were useful in helping to notice the placement of things in relation not just to other objects, but the viewpoint your looking at it from. This drawing was created after researching on an artist named Robert Bateman, for i was inspired by his very realistic approach to animals works of art. This apple drawing above is an example of one of the many challenges and exercises I completed while going through this first unit. It was a drawing challenge using only prisma colored pencils. Working upon not only observational skills, but the building of colors to achieve realism. As an artist one thing I enjoy greatly is challenges. I love to build upon skills and personally have been trying to work a lot to achieve better realism in my pieces. This eye drawing was one of the challenges we completed in this unit observing from a video how to do it. This is one of my many variations of this drawing and is a challenge I actual do quite frequently. For my final piece in this unit I wanted to take a detailed observational drawing I did of a tree and attempt to put the texture of it in play in a large scale acrylic painting. As well as using skills from a class I took this is my artistic rendition of the project and I am quite happy with the results. Normally I would say my skills are much stronger when I draw, so i really wanted to take a risk with this piece. Working on how to build colors use acrylics differently. This sphere drawing above is another example of one of the many drawing exercises we did throughout the unit to build upon and develop skills. While it seems like a simple exercise this drawing was actually quite hard for me because I shaded it using just the motions of my pencil and cross hatching. attempting to build upon the skill of using less blending and "smudging" from the tortillon. Other written parts completed with the summer work. Question 2 - How do contemporary artists observe?
In order for a contemporary artist to observe the world they really need a lot of patience. The videos I watched showed that not only must you be patient but that also there is no way to ensure you get an expected result. These videos encouraged me to take my headphones off and keep a joyful eye on the world. You never know what you could find. Another concept explored in the videos is ‘going the distance’. You can’t give up just because you get your first no or are told that someone doesn’t like your work - you need to keep going and let your art tell your story. Famous Artists Observe Part One I choose Robert Bateman as my artist. I find his work to be compelling due to his ability to capture the life and movement of the animals he paints. The realism is stunning and something I strive for in my own work. As I went through his galleries online I saw one picture after another that spoke to me. Even his black and white work comes to life, jumping off the page.I would definitely hang his artwork in my house as I enjoy his subject - animals make me happy.I found it interesting that for him ‘painting is not a hobby, it is my labor, athletes and writers would say the same’. It is an interesting way to look at art. My inspired artwork from him is a realistic drawing of an owl. I have never drawn this amount of realism when it comes to animals and enjoyed the challenge of building up the fur. As well as building up the facial features. #1 - Contemporary Artists Steal The main idea behind the video I watched was to “copy, transform, combine”. In other words there are no new ideas just new ways to pursue them. I found it interesting that he claimed we are all just reinventing things that have already been done and I’m not entirely sure I agree with that. He says ‘everything is a remix’ and yet I am pretty sure that there will be new things invented in my lifetime. I am interested in the concept of ‘owning’ an idea and what that means to artists. I liked that in the end he didn’t take it too seriously and told the audience to just ‘begin’. Fair use questions: It is legal because only a part of the original image was used and the rest was different - even if the concept was the same. The second is legal for the same reason - only a part of the original image was used and then altered to become a new piece of art. The third picture of Eeyore is not legal because the image is copyrighted and nothing has been changed. Parody - An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. In art we can create our own pieces of original art by creating parodies of art we like or find inspiring. Changing it to make it our own, but drawn from a piece as inspiration/muse. Appropriation - The act of taking something for one’s own use, typically without the owner’s permission. In art this would be ‘illegal’ to copy someone’s piece as your own without permission. Re-mix - Mix (something) again a different version of something by combining multiple things. In art this would be like taking the style from one artist and the subject from another and combining them to make a new original piece of art. Copyright basics - printed guidelines To avoid copyright: Don’t use Pinterest Always change it up when using inspiration Make it your own Use photographs you’ve taken as inspiration For this piece I choose the character of Tinkerbell to draw. Instead of the Disney version everyone is used to I used inspiration from an artist who draws characters and updated Tinkerbell to have a more teenage look. After I sketched her I tried to paint her in a cartoon-like style. This is not my normal style, I am definitely trying something new. This piece was more of a learning moment. I tried to do the characters in a different way - making them seem younger - on a ‘starry night’ inspired background - but felt the characters ended up looking too much like the characters as they are.
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AuthorMy names Cassie, I am currently a senior at Millis High School and this is my online version of my AP art portfolio. Archives
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