The cartoon skeleton sketch was probably my favorite project this semester. It was one of our very first projects we tackled after drawing a few sketches of the human bone structure in our sketchbooks. We choose a cartoon character to trace into out sketchbooks and then had to determine what their skeleton would look like. When first presented with this project, I wasnt sure how mine was going to turn out because while I enjoy sketching, it's probably not my best form of art. I was also a little skeptical because drawing the human skeleton was not my favorite thing we did in the class. As we were working on it I was very pleasantly surprised with how it was turning out. I really enjoyed drawing the intricate bone layout and coming up with what I thought it should look like. While it took a long time to draw all of it out, I thought this project turned out to be one of my best.
I really think I learned alot from doing the print of a lionfish. While the end product may just look like a stamp was painted and pressed onto paper alot of work went into that project. First, I had to leard what textures would look good together and contrast well. For this I did the striped lionfish and spotted coral. After all the tracing and sketching was done and I figured out how to get the drawing sketched onto the linolium, we had to learn how to use the carving tools to take the picture take on the paint. This was difficult to choose the right size of carving tool that would get close details while taking out a good, even amount of linolium. After that, I had to choose which paint would show up good with what color paper. This was a learning experience as well in contrasting colors and paint. This project taught me alot about many different art stlyes.
The octopus clay tile was our final project and I felt like I incorporated many techniques and skills from this year into it. I used color contrasting with the warm color shades and cooler purple and blue tones in the octopus and ocean. Texture was used in the coral as I carved lines into it to make it look more realistic. Value was also used. I blanded the light purple top of the octopus into the darker tenticles. While my octopus was already 3-D, the lighter coloring on the top made it took even more realistic. I also added gold tones into the end of the tenticals and blendedit up into the top. I also blended some of the ocean tones so that the blues would look more realistic. I really liked how this project ended up and I wished we would've had more time to work with differnt clay projects.
I feel like I learned the least from the contour shoe drawing. While some of the contour drawings we did like the hand one for example when we couldn't look at the paper and tried to draw our hands were interesting, I can't see myslef using this technique in the future. Not being able to lift the pen made the drawing really difficult. I feel like I could've done a better job and drawing if I could have drawn it regularly by picking up my pen. This technique was also not useful in any other projects we did. Possibly with more practice this shoe could've been more successful. It was hardest for me to not be able to draw an outline for the shoe first and maybe that's what threw me off. There were also other projects that looked alot more realistic because of shading and values and this one didn't have this. I think my other projects turned out much better and built on each other.
I had a personal connection to the landscape painting. The ocean, sand and sky came from a picture I took from where we have a beach house. I took the picture last year and really loved the colors in it. I wanted to add something else other than sand and water so I added some tree covered island mountains on the horizon. I got the inspiration for that from some pictures I took in Jamaica last Christmas. I loved the mixture of two different but amazing island pictures and putting them together I felt turned out good. The light colors of aqua really remind me of warm weather and vacation even when I'm in school. This is also one of my favorite projects because of the calm and relaxing feel of it.
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