Initials Perspective Project

Initials Perspective Project

In order to make this drawing, you needed a lot of practice on one perspective drawing. All of these letters go back to a certain vanishing point on the paper. One perspective drawing's only use one vanishing point; two perspective drawing's use two vanishing points as three perspective drawing's uses three vanishing points. To begin, I drew a horizon line on my paper to make sure all my letters were lined up in a straight line. I then started drawing each of my letters and made them in to block letters by using a vanishing point that was made off to the left of the paper. After I drew my letters, I added in a background for my drawing which was the ocean because I love the ocean. 

Shoe Drawing

Shoe Drawing

To draw these shoes, I used contour line drawing. To get the idea of contour line drawing, we practiced in our sketchbooks. I drew several shoes to practice for this project. When you're drawing these shoes, you're supposed to keep your eyes mainly on the shoes instead of your paper. Your pencil should barely ever come off the paper. I chose to draw my favorite shoes, my Jack Rogers. I had to wear these shoes to school every day in order to be able to use them during art and use them as a visual to draw from. After I finished drawing the shoes, I then shaded in some areas on the shoe to make it look more realistic. I drew my shoes' shoe box behind it to add to the drawing. 

Ceramics Project

Ceramics Project

To make this project, I used clay. The size of mine is about 6 inches wide. Before you could actually use your clay and start molding the bowl, you had to throw it against the table a couple of times to loosen up the molecules in the clay to be ready to mold. After you threw it against the table, you had to then roll it out with the slab roller to make it thinner. After that, I took the bowl that I was going to use to mold my clay piece, and started molding it. I molded my clay over top of the bowl so my mold was called a "hump mold". My clay piece does serve a function. You can put food in it and eat out of it if you would like. From this project, I learned that you have to be very careful with the clay and make sure that overnight there is no air that is getting to it or else it could dry when you're not even finished with it. If i could change one thing about my project, it would be to change the shape of the outside edges of it. I liked that my edges were different than everyone else's, however, they broke off really easily and did not look as neat. 

Acrylic Landscape Painting

Acrylic Landscape Painting

Starting this project, I first brainstormed then decided what I was going to paint. Once I decided on an ocean type of painting, I then gathered a collection of pictures of sailboats, the ocean, and different colored skies. I then sketched my idea of how I was going to lay out all of the objects on my paper. At first, I was going to paint a palm tree on my painting so in my drawing of my painting, i drew a palm tree. Later on, I decided that with the colors of my painting, a palm tree would not look good. So instead of a palm tree, I added a sail boat. After drawing my sketch of the painting, I then decided for a color scheme of my painting. I decided on an analogous color scheme using blues and purples. I made a color sample paper using tints and shades for each of the colors that I would use in my painting.Once i finished that, I started painting on my canvas. The first day, I painted the sky. The next day I painted on top of my sky and added the background which was the mountainous type of cliff. The next day I added the ocean, which was my middle ground. The fourth day, I painted the sand which was my foreground. Once i finished painting the basic landscape of my painting, I added details. I added the sailboat and wavy lines in the water to make it look like waves and like it was moving. The definition of atmospheric perspective is the effect the atmosphere has on the appearance of an object as it is viewed from a distance. In my painting there is atmospheric perspective. This is where objects or pieces of land that are farther away are a lighter shade. This makes them look like they are far back in the distance. In my painting i used various types of brush strokes. the ones in the sky were horizontal lines. The ones in the water were wavy lines and also dabs of white paint for the bubbles that the ocean waves form. There is a lot of value in my painting. The color of the water was darker to show a shadow coming off of the cliff behind the water. My sky was blue with some pinks and purples in it. These colors reflected in the water so the pinks and purples were in the water, just a duller shade of those colors.

Pastel Project



Pastel Project

The Pastel Still-life project was drawn with colorful pastel chalk. Each student had to bring in between 3-5 objects. I decided to bring in 3 soda cans to draw. At first, you had to draw a thumbnail sketch in your sketchbook of different ways you could lay out your items to draw. A thumbnail sketch is a small quick sketch that records ideas and information for a final work of art. Once you started the drawing on the final paper, each day you would draw one item. To begin drawing the item, you would outline it in white chalk first and then color over it and inside of the white chalk. In order to make the items look three dimensional,  you would need to use a various amounts of shading and tinting. You would also need to blend the pastel's with the colors around. There needed to be a light source on this project. This meant that the artist made it look like there was a source of light shining on your artwork so that one side of your artwork was a lighter shade of the colors and the other side was a darker shade of colors.