Final Exam Questions
1.
Which project was your favorite or most successful this semester? Please
explain. My favorite and most successful art
project this semester was my stencil. It was very fun to make and it didn't
take much time after I got started. All I had to do was change my photo
threshold using Photoshop which made it look black and white. Then I took a
photo of my bridge with a camera that was plugged into a projector and I traced
it onto a poster board. I then cut out all the black parts of the photo using a
xacto knife, and added colors and values to another piece of paper that was
covered with magazine clippings. The paper that had magazine clippings was
painted over with watercolor, and then lightly spray painted before I did the
final spray paint in black. Doing this helped so when I laid the stencil on top
and spray painted it, the bridge ended up looking detailed. Even though I
messed up little parts on the bridge, I think the project ended up looking good
and many people liked it.
2. Regardless of
whether you liked or disliked a project, which one did you learn, grow, or
developed the most from? Please explain.
The art
work I grew most from was most likely my shading. We used oil pastels to do
shading early in the semester, and it started off looking easy. We had to use
several shades of different colors such as light
blue, a darker blue, and a
really dark blue. When I first attempted the shapes I was
shading (such as circles, cones, and cubes) were harder than it looked. We
redid the shapes several times, until we eventually had to do a final copy. By
this time, my shapes were looking rather good, as long as I didn’t mess up the
colors and I made sure to blend them. Blending was most likely the hardest
part, because I rubbed the colors together, particles from the oil pastel would
fly all over the black paper, which was very visible. On the bright side
though, when the whole shading lesson was finished, I could shade my shapes a
lot better than what I shaded like before I joined art 1.
3. Choose 1 piece of Art
that you used skills and techniques learned from previous projects. Discuss
your growth as an artist and how you incorporated these skills and techniques
to create the piece.
The art piece that I made that used previous
skills from projects was my game drawing was my game board. I used shading
under the game board, as well as two point perspective. The reason shading
helped me with this project was it made my game board look more real. If I
wouldn't of used shading and shadows my game board would've looked like it was
just sitting on the page. Also, shading helped on my Jumanji game card which
was lying on the table. Using shading also helped the viewer see where the
light source was coming from. I now use shading quite often, because it’s very
important to making my art look realistic. Also, it gives everything in the
drawing value and depth.
4. Which project do you
feel was the least important in learning the concepts taught in this course? Please explain
I think the least important concept that we learned was when
we had to do the value portrait. We had to first blindly pick a photo and that
ended up being the person we had to draw. Mine luckily wasn’t too difficult,
but the procedures to getting the portrait done were difficult. What we had to
do was take the black and white photo and put a piece of tracing paper on top
of it then we had to circle every spot on the photo that was different
shades from the spot beside it. This made the portraits look like a collage of
dots. That in my opinion was the least important thing we learned because it’s
easier to draw grid lines on the picture and in your notebook and draw it that
way instead of trying to shade a bunch of circles different colors to make our
drawing look like the picture. Even though the idea sounded brilliant, it didn’t
work as well for me and I would’ve rather learned to draw people a different
way.
5. Choose
a piece of artwork where the subject matter reflects you as an artist; one that
you have a personal connection to. Please explain your choice.
My art piece that reflects me most as an artist would most
likely be my butterfly flower printmaking piece. This was a very detailed piece
of art, and it took a lot of steps. First we had to draw the photo in our
notebook. After that we traced the drawing onto tracing paper. Then we traced
it onto linoleum to be cut out using a gouge tool. This tool had
changeable parts with bigger and smaller spoon-shaped cutters. This kept the
printmaking look detailed and gave it perspective. Our first time we printed
the linoleum we covered a paint roller in black paint and sampled it once or
twice (depending on what you wanted to do). Then we picked out a color of paper
and a color of paint to use on the printing. We did 5 prints on our selected
color of paint and paper, and turned in the best one. I think this reflects me
because it shows the color pink, which is my favorite color, as well as a
butterfly on a flower, because I’ve always loved the little things in nature
such as the butterflies and small plants.
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