I am Me!

I think the strengths of my work of art is that it gets a message across of who I really am. I get to tell the most important aspects of my life, but in a piece of art. If someone I did not know very well would look at my artwork they would know that I come from an Austrian background, due to the red and white background, and would also realize I spend most of my time with my friends, family, and playing my favorite sports. While looking at my art, the parts of my story that come through the most is my heritage. I tried to make that part stand out the most because my Grandma was a very big believer of where she came from and always wanted to continue her proper Austrian ways. The artistic choices that allowed this to happen was that, since a orginial Ipod has color on it and people choose an Ipod that is their favorite color or that represents themselves, I decided to make the background of my Ipod the color of the Austrian flag. Those colors represent myself the best, since it is where my family came from and it is who I am.

Artist-in-Residence: Alexander DeMaria

I chose to pick one of Alexander's newer art piece's called Collecting Honey. Immediatly when I saw this drawing it reminded me of a picture being in a children's picture book. It made me think of all kinds of crazy ideas that came to mind. For instance, if this picture were in a book, "Could the story be about a fox in a lonely desert and going to collect honey for him and his family?" When I look at artwork I love think of how the artist came up with this type of drawing and it leaves me pondering. This type of artwork fits in with his other newer pieces because many of them look like he was trying to draw his own utopia. However, this type of drawing does not fit it with the others as much since they are very complicated and "busy" within the painting. In Collecting Honey Alexander chose to draw a very basic drawing, but also have a very clever story line with it. If I have the opportunity to ask him a question I will either ask Mr. DeMaria, "What was he thinking at the time when he drew Collecting Honey?" or "Why are many more of his older drawings in color, while most of his newer sketches are in black and white?" I am very eager to hear the answers of DeMaria and what he has to say.

Reflecting on Self Portrait

While discussing my work, I was able to share my self-portrait with my group and the progress that I have made throughout this term. They thought that my story was much better than it was on the first day I started and when I finish it they think it will come out very well. As for my work of art, my group could tell what story I was trying to tell by looking at all the tiny details that was showed on my self-portrait. The feedback that they gave me about my work up to this point was to cut out by drawing at the end so it could look more realistic. Also, they told me to make it more colorful so it could catch other peoples  attention easier. The only thing I still need to do is connect my pictures with string on the headphones. Approximately, I need only either one or two more classes to finish this project to be done!