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

Start of a Long Lasting Ritual

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.

Found Object Sculpture Reflection

Sailing Away

The sculpture my partner and I made is suppose to be a sailboat on the water sailing away. When you move the gears, the sailboat moves back and forth. Whoever is viewing the artwork then gets the feeling of an actual sailboat sailing away on the water. The process of making this sculpture was fun! We had to find all the right shades of blue for the water, and find something to create the base of the boat out of. I loved having to search for the objects we needed, and being able to think of a way each object could be used. One struggle we encountered was the gears becoming lose and falling off. At one point during the process of making this sculpture, the gears to make the sailboat move fell of. We tried to glue it back on, but it took a gluing to make the gears stay back on and still work. The most successful aspect of the project was having the boat move. I believe that people enjoyed that part the most.

Relaxing Scenery

In my project, there are many mountains overlapping, with water at the bottom of the page, and a sky with white, fluffy clouds. I got my inspiration from two photos in a National Geographic magazine. One of the pictures that caught my attention was a waterfall. One of the ideas I got from the picture was the blue water at the bottom of the mountains. The other picture that I liked was a picture of tall mountains with clouds covering the peek of the mountains. From that picture, I got the idea of creating mountains and having clouds at the top of the paper, but not overlapping with the mountains. I loved being able to play around with the different colors from the magazines, and cut parts out that would look good in my picture. Also, I enjoying having to look through different magazines to find the same color that I found in a totally different magazine. Overall, I liked this project and was proud of the outcome.

Found Image Collage

I was inspired by two pictures of nature. One was a picture of mountains, tall in the sky, with clouds around it. The other one was a water fall. On my collage, I am combining the two pictures and creating a landscape. I have a sky, with blue and clouds, that I cut out from random magazines. Then, I have mountains that are solid colors that I cut out. On the bottom of the page, I have blue covering. I am going to add white to the bottom to make it look like a waterfall. The feedback I got was really helpful. My group told me i should add birds to the sky, and put details on the mountains. I am going to add paint, or markers onto the mountains to add specific detailed.

Pour Painting

The pour painting activity was really interesting and fun. First, you mixed water and paint together to form "watery" paint. Then, you poured the paint onto a blank piece of paper. You could either have a little control over the placing of the paint, or you could randomly drop the paint. I did a little bit of splatter paint on my painting. I stood up, and poured the paint from a  higher level so i had no control over it. It was interesting to see what shapes the paint created and what direction they went in. Also, I liked being surprised in the shapes that I saw, because I had no idea what they would form like. I was surprised when I was the paints combine together and form a swirl between the two colors. I thought they would combine and create a different color.
When I came back to the pour painting the following day, I saw that the colors were changed, and it looked completely different from what it looked like the day before. I could see shapes and images in my head when I looked at it. For example, I was able to detect a sailboat in the middle of the painting, and the shape of a fish attached to the corner of the painting. My painting is not fully done, I could add more pictures to it.