end of the term reflection

I think I had a great term this term. I put forth my best effort. Last year all my projects were based off basketball. This year and term I tried to concentrate on other things besides basketball. I know i'm not a great art but I feel as I really improved this year. I really learned to make things look 3d and real. My biggest challenge was drawing my aunt and her son. Before this class I would tell myself never to get frustrated and keep trying.

Heroes Project

I thought about who is a hero in my eyes besides basketball star Kobe Bryant. I decided to choose a different kind of hero. One of my heroes are my cousin Huguito. He is 17 years ago and has a sickness. He is my hero because he has a positive attitude toward life even though he is in that condition. Then I also see his mom as a hero because she has been taking care of his every need since he was born. I'm going to draw his mother holding him and there's going to be a symbolic light around them to show emphasis on them two. In the background there's going to be a banner that says 17th birthday.

Symbolic Still Life (Portrait) Brainstorming

My three objects were a rock, a pyramid, and gray ribbon. These three objects represented my family. I was the rock because I am the son of my mom and my dad. On the rock it has little lost eyes. It shows that i'm still a kid. My dad was the pyramid because he the the man of our household. My mom is the ribbon because she is the one that holds our family together. I will arrange them as the ribbon first then the rock in the middle then the pyramid the third.

windows doors

For this I project I wanted to use a window instead of a door. I feel as a window could be a see through glass window. I began to think whether it should be from the outside looking in or inside looking out. I needed to decide if I want to tell a sad or happy story. My drawing is going to consist of trophies in the backround, a basketball court, and me.I decided to have me looking from my small window and having the light on my window and looking at the court. Outside it's going to be raining and look dark and gloomy. It's going to tell a sad story

what if? critical feedback

The critical feedback I got for my project was to have a huge city. I didn't really know how to incorporate the solar power in my drawing. My group said to have it around the roofs and have the air clear and clean. To have a garden in the picture to show some more of the ecosystem.

Some images I wil use is solar panels all over houses. Everybody will have a high solar panel on top of their cars. The outlets will all have solar power. Cars would probalby be going much slower causing less accidents.

First I seen a piece that had a bunch lines that look simliar to DNA then I picked two pieces which I knew that could make some sort of animal. First I thought it was a some mysterious animal then I made it like a Jellyfish. When I did my drawing I had to try try porportion the sizes because the paper I drew on was smaller.

My story as a artist was difficult at times but also fun in some ways. When I first walked into art class my story began. I knew that art wasn't my best subject coming in so I tried to come in with a positive attitude.I felt as every project we did I learned something different like for example the pour painting projects I nevered knew you could drop paint like that and it would become a cool design. Another example is when we was learning how to draw pictures with balance and symmetry. I remembered I drew my self portrait and naturally The picture was balance then on I knew I was learning a piece of art. I had many downs when I wouldn't know what to draw or struggle how to make the object. I pushed and pushed to make sure in my artwork it showed my best effort.Art will hopefully be in majority of my life. Art helped me be a creative thinker and art is everywhere. I feel as everyything that some creates is some form of art.

I loved my light drawing I felt as this was my best piece in art class. My idea was Atlas holding the world in his hands and the globe was giving off a strong light. I used the darker pencils to color farther away from the globe and lighter pencils to color in closer and used my finger to blend in all of the colors and erased some of the lighter pencils to have a lighter color.

skyscrapers

The printmaking project was really difficult for me. I could apply the paint really well but i wasn't good at lining everything up so it could could come out good. I disliked my prints because you could still see the a lot of the background in my buildings. I would definitely pick a different idea and make sure everything would be lined up and easy to cut out.

I think light sometimes can determine what kind of the mood the picture is in. one time I was watching a movie and the main character was spotlighted with the most light because it showed he was most important. I was looking at a art piece and tehy wanted shot the shelf was the most important part in the art piece so everything was dark except the shelf. I feel like light is shown what the artist wants to be spotlighted the first thing catches your eye.

I am hispanic and cool

I think people will see my art as that I show I love basketball and Everthing in the middle meant the most to me and everything out the middle was really who i just am. I had a ipod of because i liked music. I wrote what I am that's how I showed my story.

My favorite piece of Alex's is the one of the rat because of the detail and how he made bunch a little shapes to make a one big shape and the tail looks like it's going in between his legs.It fits in with his work because he likes to make little shapes into one bigger shape.
questions
was art always your passion and why?
what do you think is your best artwork?

self - portrait

I shared my my self portrait and said that I made a basketball court and that was the base of my life and then I had my I am's that mean a lot to me in the middle circle on then court then outside of the circle I had things that that didn't mean that much to me. Then I drew two flags the represented my culture. My feed back was to cut it out and add color I anticpate I will finish this in two days.

I think people make art because it makes them feel good Art is a creative way of putting how your mood is on paper. Art opens your eyes to everything around you. It helps you view things differently and creatively. Art can relive stress it shows in different forms of beauty. Theres' severals way of making art. Also art is a form of defining feelings and things you see around you on a daily basis. Art can make statements about peace and equality. Art can be made in so many ways.

The four hour project is different from the others because you usually Ms.Roberts give us directions but this time she said you could do anything you want. thought it was going to be easy but I struggled finding a idea then i started listing places like the great wall of china and the boston garden. Then since basketball my passion I decided to draw the Td banknorth garden. This impacted my work because I tried to draw the court so it looks like im courtside. First I decided to draw a square then i drew the details on the court then i made the stands and try to make the hoops 3D

my orginal plans was to have the president of the U.S and a kid from germany meet because a poor kid wanted to see how the rich lives. They do fun activities where usually in germany the kid doesn't do. The project is going good I just need to use emphasis and proportions in all my pictures. The challenegs I faced was trying to incorporate the activities using the president and the kid from germany.

goals of the human drawing was to draw from the inside out and draw what you actually see and not what you think you see. another goal was to get the little details in and get the proportions of the bodies right. I achived my goals by the waist first then going to the legs then the upper body then what the arms was holding onto. I shaded in what parts were darker then other parts. Challenges i faced was on one of the drawings i messed up on one the arms and i made a head to small so it didnt look like it was porpotioned it to the body. On one of ther persons legs i had them spreaded out because i was thinking that it was but when i actually looked it showed me that the legs were actually together.

shades of gray

The goals was to have 5 different shades of gray and to have all the objects on the table look like it on paper. I achieve my goals by using my eraser to make the outlines of the objects and then I started using dark black to the drak objects then I used the regular charcoal and shaded very lightly and then I colored the lighter objects by putting a little more pressure on the charcoal to get a meduim and then to get in the middle i used my finger and smudged the charcoal to get in between. The challenge i had was trying to get the towel on my paper but i use the eraser with 3 light lines and black the other 3 lines because the towel was green and white

Title- Nighthawks Artist Edward Hopper and he was born in Nyack,New York

year it was made 1942 medium used- oil on canvas.

2. my first impresson that its a regualr monday and 4 people are having coffee

3. Hopper was inspired by a dinner where he lived greenwich village and shows a typical night people having dinner he used night owl a term to say people stay up late edward was a artist a very good one. As a young teenager he was making his own cartoons using charcoal and oil and paint.

4. I see contrast because everything look dark except inside the dinner place. Theres also leading lines where the artist wants you too see from. I think its asymetrical because its balanced because theres another building but inside its not balanced because there's 1 person side and on the other there's 3 people.