Imagery

I really had no idea what I was trying to draw at first. Then both objects were something that were an obstacle. "You might feel trapped but there is always a way to get out",

This is a Will Smith Portrait, Chuck Close Style. This was difficult because I don't know how to do shading with pastels. It took me a week of class to draw and had the colors into it. There was a lot of empty white spots is still had to fill in. The teacher taught all the students a new technique with baby oil. We were able to spread the color to fill it in and got darker. It also helped with the shading on his face.

When/why did you start?
in college, she took a painting class and liked it.


Why did you choose to be an art teacher?
Because she could and she likes working with kids.


What type of art are you most into?
Photorealism


What is the best part of being an  art teacher?
seeing all the amazing art the students make and it inspires her


If you could go back in time would you do anything different?
No because she is a professional artist and loves her job


Did you have any challenges in your career?
yes, when she went through the turn around process and was fired and had to reapply to get her job back


What's your favorite thing you have ever created?
her kids charcoal portraits


What is your favorite piece of art someone else has created?
she loves all art


Did you have difficulty choosing what you wanted to learn while in college?
yes because she never found anything that had clicked other than art.


Do you have any advice for people entering the art education profession?
Be open minded.

                          "Every child is an artist... The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up" - Pablo Picasso. Art is any activity or product made by humans in a visual form for aesthetical or communicative purposes, expressing ideas, emotions, or in general a world view. Art is important to me because I can draw my emotions anyway I want. it might help someone else understand the way I feel because you cant find the words to explain your emotions.
                          What I need to understand about this topic is the techniques I can use to paint or color a drawing. I know I can change the lighting of the color adding other colors with it. I just need help how I can paint it  on paper from dark to light. other than that my drawings with shading come out really good.
                          Some books that I need will be "Coloring Animal Mandalas" because it would help me choose what colors to use. I could probably find another good book at Michaels or any other  art store. I could even use Google on the internet if I don't have enough money to buy the book. the expert I will interview is my art teacher Ms. McPeak. she is an expert because she has painted for a very long time.
                        What I will show during the blog after the research is some of my colored paintings. I will also tell you how I was able to improve my way of coloring. this project is valuable because I already know a bit of techniques and have my teacher guide me through it. This will be successful.

"Tick" drawing is a very graphic style of hatching, consisting of very short parallel strokes or “ticks.” Because the marks are so small and short, you can almost pile them on top of one another to create density, without worrying about crosshatching. This style often works best with a thicker pen to increase the graphic quality.

This one is called Wrapped Animals. I added a little extra in the background so it wouldn't look as empty. The way to do this one is to follow these steps:

1) Select an animal portrait.

2) Complete a light line drawing that is accurate and uses up at least ¾’s of the paper surface.

3) After viewing the slides of this project (anchor set/best practices), begin drawing in the contour lines that will be used as guides for your wrapping. Make it a weaving type style/pattern . The "wrapping" should vary in length and width. This should be done to both create contrast in the weaving as well as work with the patterns of dark and light in your original image.

4) Once all the pencil work is completed, carefully go over the lines with pen and ink. Fill in the negative spaces with ink.

5) Begin shading the wrapping with your pencil. Think of how the light would work with the bottom, middle and top wrapping. But be careful to not smear your work.

6) Complete your drawing by completing lifelike eyes and possibly teeth

I made this drawing in art class. We had to do a shattered value theme of any object we wanted. This is my favorite drawing because it looks sort of like a broken mirror with shading all around it. The way you can do this is by following these steps:

 

1. Select a subject of which you can make a contour line drawing. Focus on a single object, such as a car, insect, person or fish. Draw that subject to fit 12 X18 inch paper

2. "Shatter" the subject in some way by breaking it up with lines or shapes or patterns of some sort. These lines will overlap your first drawing. (There are numerous methods you could use…be creative. Think of various ways that lines break up objects: shattered glass, wavy lines of water, spiral lines as seen on a snail shell, geometrical divisions of shapes.) The objective is to create more shapes in your drawing, like a giant puzzle.

3. Create two value scales, one in divided squares, and another which is graded evenly from black to white.

4. In your drawing, focus on each individual shape you have created, and apply the entire range of value (from black to light gray) in each shape. Proceed from shape to shape, deciding which part should be the richest black and which should be the lightest gray. Sometimes you may want to alternate from one shape to the next. You may also want to vary the direction of your shading inside your object from that outside your object in order to emphasize it.

5. Fill the entire paper with values, including positive shapes of the object and negative background shapes.

This drawing took me about 5 hours or so because of the shading. To draw him, I printed a picture of him from the computer. I then had to grid the copy of the paper 1in. all around. After that I made another grid on a bigger sheet of paper but this one was 2in. I then had to draw every square from the smaller grid to the bigger sheet of paper. It was somewhat difficult because the copy of DeadPool was dark so I wasn't able to see the detail of his suit. I always start from the bottom because I then know where he stands on the paper. If I start from the top the whole body gets slanted to the side or the body looks smaller. I drew him because it was my friends present for his birthday. Now he has it in his room hung up on top of his T.V.

Being Behind

I had no idea how to start this project when it was given to me. I somewhat had an idea but wasn't sure of it. Me and my partner wrote down a couple of ideas; doing a poster, a powerpoint, or an app. We then both disagreed on the poster because we might not have enough room to add what we wanted to show the people. We would have also needed to add many other poster boards to it if we went into that direction.

For our power point idea, we could add as many slides as we wanted. My partner wants to talk about how to play the string instruments. She is going to add a few music notes to show the audience how it looks like. She also wants to show instructions on how to play certain instruments to see which you prefer on playing.

For my part, I'm adding a couple of my drawings. I'm also adding a couple of different types of drawings there are to see what type the audience is into. I'm not sure if I should add tutorials because I have no idea how to edit and make it look better. Well thats all for today, thank you for your time.