Activities Over the Past Week

In class, over the past week and a half we have described a work of art with the postcards, collaborative drawings with the penguin, pour paintings, and mapped the still life. Meanwhile, the thing that all these activities have in common is that we had to either draw or create something, but we to base it off directions or something that was already created. For example, in all of these activities, we didn't have the option to draw a painting that we wanted to, but instead we had to draw something that was unintended to be. As in for describing a work of art with the postcard we had to follow the directions from someone else, without seeing a postcard. For the collaborative drawing with the penguin, we rotated around the room and kept on drawing from another persons, without knowing what their main idea of their art piece was suppose to be. For the pour paintings, my partner and I just mixed different paint together and dropped paint on a piece of paper to see what kind of figure would show up with us just splattering paint. Lastly, with the mapping the still life, we were able to draw something that was right in front of us, but we had to draw it as that a person knew where exactly everything was. In my opinion, I really liked all these activities and I thought that my art ability got better each day.

Re-visiting observation/description activity

When I looked at the drawing that the person drew of the postcard I attempted to describe, it didn't turn out how I wished. However, the part that worked was that she drew small bushes in one row, on the left side of the paper. The part of the drawing that look like the actual postcard is the grass going in all different directions because since the postcard was a picture of a farm, there was a lot of grass, so she drew a lot of grass all over the page. The part that was missed in the drawing was the trees all around the farm and different size hills going off into the distance. I think they did not draw these objects because I described them to specifiaclly and it was to hard for her to draw these figures. The part I would do different next time if I was to do this activity would give less information on the directions on the drawing on my postcard, and go right to the point, so I can make it easy for the person who is drawing from my directions.

Re-visiting my pour painting

The images that I observed in my pour painting  were:

• A tornado
• A fish
• A volcano
• A mama bird spitting food out
• A tree
• A cloud
• A river
• Alien blood

Giving Up Control: Pours

The process of creating paintings through pouring paint was that you pour a couple colors of watery paint on a piece of paper and then it will turn into large circles or blobs. Then, you take the paper and move it around, so the colors can ix together and form a shape or figure. After, you can grab a paint and see if you can make your original shape and se if you can make it more real. It felt better to give up some control over the shapes I created because I got to see how the watery paint turned out, by just pouring it on the paper, rather than using a paintbrush and creating my own drawing and knowing how my shape turns out.

Collaborative Drawing

In the exercise in class today, I started with my drawing, which was two penguins in a marathon, just entering the finish line. Then I got up from my seat, and continued my other classmates drawings from what they started on. I first did a picture similar to a experience of Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy was spinning in the tornado in the air. Instead, a penguin was spinning in the tornado, and then I added different objects surrounding it, like an apple. Then, I came across a police chasing a penguin, and I added to the picture children tackling the penguin, as they were trying to stop it from getting away. Lastly, the last picture I had to add different designs was a picture of a penguin facing the opposite direction from a slug shell. The figures that I added was a head to the slug, rain coming down to make it have more pictures, and there was a pattern in the shell, which I added to make it a continuous pattern. Overall, I thought the exercise was very fun and I learned a lot from it!

Blog #1 by: Spencer C

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An artist is someone who can not only draw or pain pictures extremely well, but has a creative mind. They can come up with many ideas if they were offered an assignment or write down a few ideas, and make a picture. Most artists just need either paint and a paintbrush, or a pencil and crayons, and still make a great sketch. To be creative is to have a wide range of ideas and thoughts, and not only make a drawing out of them, but a poem, or essay. People who are creative can go very far in life because they can use their skills of being imaginative with many different things and activities. In order to be creative and productive an artist needs a wide range of ideas to draw different pictures, materials so they could use them to sketch pictures, and lastly they need previous experience so that they know somewhat of being an artist and what to do.