Found Marks

Thinking about drawing and painting

 Drawing and painting allows you to use your imagination. When using a camera, you can't be creative. If you are drawing and realize you want to change the color of it, you can. With digital photography, it is al lot harder to change the look of the image. 

You can tell a story by the way you draw and paint. By drawing, you can add the detail that makes the story feel realistic and complete. Painting allows you to add emotion to the painting. For example, if you are happy, you can use bright colors. If you are sad, you can use blues and greys to tell that emotion.

Artist Statement

I have grown so much as an artist this year. I discovered that I like making art and I am not being that bad at it. No one in my family is big in art but they like looking at it. I am usually inspired by my Great Aunt Dodo who is my role model. She is happy, cheerful and full of wisdom.
I have learned that I love using pastels. I like being able to blend them together and make cool drawing out of them. I think that tennis has a big impact on my artwork as well. For example, I loved making the silhouette and the tennis court in my sketchbook. Being able to smudge the tennis ball so it looked like it was moving fast was very interesting to make.
My favorite piece of artwork that I made this year was my queen collage. Camp is extremely important to me and a huge part of my life. When I can't think of what to make, I would always think of camp. Crowns are part of my summer and there are many cool things you can make out of crowns! Overall this year, I have definitely started to enjoy art! When I make art, I am able to forget about being a perfectionist and just make something that feels right.

Queens

Portrait of Great Aunt

Process Reflection #2

This week I finish my queen project. I finished the collage as the background and also glued the queen head on to it. I really like how it turned out and it was fun to make. I liked being able to find images and put them as the background and working with pastels. Even though the pastel part was not big, it was still fun being able to use them. Today I did not start a new project, instead I wrote a note on the back of my symbolic portrait to the person I made mine about. I plan on sending the picture to her in the future! Next week I am going to play in my sketchbook or work with the pastels on a small piece of a paper and just see what I am able to do when using them.

Art21 #3

I watched Transformation with the artist Yinka Shonibare. I did not enjoy his art that much. He made sculptures of bodies transforming into a character. He added clothing, motion and objects to the sculpture. The part that I found interesting was how he did not have a distinct race to the body. He did not have them be black nor white. The purpose was so it is impossible to base his work off of race. Yinka Shonibare also did sculptures of animals and paintings. He wanted to go back to the basics and start with flowers when he did paintings. I liked his paintings more than his sculptures.












The second person I watched was Carrie May Weems on Compassion. She is a photographer. She takes pictures of Africans and prints them out in red. Then, she puts a piece of glass over and adds writing to the picture. The point of her images are to display Africans past and oppressive past. I am not a huge fan of her work but I like how her photos tell a story and have a meaning behind them.