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End of Term 1 Reflection

At my previous school, art class was a joke. I didn't know what to expect coming to Beaver and knowing art was a major part of this school. I did not enjoy art as much as I do now before coming to Beaver. I believe that my skills have grown since the beginning of the term and I have learned what materials I am best at using. From all the projects we have done, I have learned many things. For example, I have experienced drawing from observation. I learned how to shade objects and try to make them look like their actual shape. Also,  after using all the different materials, I realized that I really enjoy using pastels. I like being able to smudge the colors into each other. Also, I was surprised to know that I like using charcoal and being able to use the white charcoal to shade the colors into each other. I didn't think I would like the charcoal because I am a perfectionist and using the charcoal means you are going to have smudges and marks on places where you don't want them to be. My biggest success and the piece of artwork that I like the most was the extending our findings from the pour paintings. I drew a flower out of pastels and had each of the petals different colors blended together. I have learned over the course of the term that I need to be able to let loose and go with the flow. I need to be able to say that it is okay if I do not like one of my artworks and be able to move on.

Overall, I have learned a lot about myself as an artist over the course of the term and am excited to see what the next term will teach me!

Chair with Coat

I found today's drop everything and draw less complicated compared to the last few weeks still life's we have had to draw. Even though the shape of the chair's headrest was not perfect, i was able to shade it to get the feeling that it was a headrest. The white paper, sticks, and fabric was much for difficult than drawing the chair because it the other still life's had many aspects to them. For example, in the past weeks, we have had to draw multiply sticks over lapping, whereas this week we only had to draw one simple object.

I used the skills of shading that I learned over the past. I also was able to make my drawing of the chair feel like a chair which i would not have been able to do a few weeks ago.

Change of Seasons

 For my glass half full project I drew the seasons winter and fall. The positive piece of the project is the fall part. It is a tree with colorful leaves on it with leaves started to fall off due to the wind. The background is a light blue so it does not take away the attention from the tree, which is also known as emphasis. I used symmetry throughout the drawing. Repetition was also used in my drawing. I repeated the shape of the leaves coming off the tree. The leaves falling off the tree used implied movement. For the negative part, I created a tree with no leaves on it and bare. Winter comes after fall and makes the trees look ugly. The trees become bare and it shows how bitter the season winter is. I used repeating lines by making the branches on the tree in the same shape. I also used a gray background so it would make an emphasis on the tree, but also have it show how bitter the winter is.