"The Roadside" |
Required Question: This project was challenging yet really interesting and fun. This is my favorite piece that I did this semester. This is my first time in an honors art class. I really enjoyed it although it was very challenging. For this piece, I was inspired by 2 pictures I had taken in the NC mountains. I couldn't decide between the two images on the left, so I combined the 2 of them. I used the rocks and road from the first picture and put them on the bottom of the second picture. I think I was very creative when I chose to combine the two images. The trees and the sky/clouds in this painting challenged me a lot. I was using oil paints so it was very hard not to blend them all together and turn into mud. The rocks are my favorite part of this painting. I used different values in the rocks, I painted with a darker gray to make shadows and a lighter gray for the highlights. For the clouds, I tried to make them look fluffy and textural. I enjoyed this challenging but interesting project.
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Question 1: My portfolio has many different pieces of work that I've done throughout this semester. I started out as a beginner, not knowing much about painting except for what I had learned in Beginning Art with Ms. Purtee freshman year. The watercolor painting of the flower on my left is the very first piece I did in this class. It looks pretty rough - not a lot of detail and it is just very plain and boring to look at. To the right of the water color painting, is my most recent painting. I've improved a lot. Mrs. Rossi taught me so much about painting, and I really appreciate it. I learned all about how to paint with oil, acrylic, and water color. I had barely explored any of these styles before. So yes, I think my portfolio definitely is a good reflection of this semester. It shows my strengths and weaknesses, and how much I've improved throughout the semester. Thank you Mrs. Rossi!!!
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Question 3: I felt I was the least successful in the Watercolor project that we did. Water color has never really been my thing. I was the least successful in this project because I didn't try my best to make it look realistic or detailed. To change this piece, I would add more detail into the background, and I would try to make it more realistic. Maybe I could add more plants/leaves/trees in the background. There is too much of nothingness in the background. A problem I had while painting this was that I kept using too much water. This ended up tearing up little pieces of the paper and these pieces were getting mixed in to the paint. I had this problem especially in the middle of the flower. This was also the first main piece that I did for this class. I wasn't as experienced as I am now with paint, so I struggled a lot with this water color painting.
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Question 4: These two pieces show growth from the beginning of the semester to the end of the semester. The oil painting on the left shows improvement from the apple that I did at the beginning of the year. My blending and highlight techniques have greatly improved. On the apple, the highlight does look as realistic as the highlights on the apples, pear, etc. in the other painting. My creativity grew a lot between the two as well. The background in the apple painting is very boring and not detailed at all. The background and the detail I put into the other painting is much neater and nicer looking. There is much more value in the painting on the far left than there is on the apple. There are different shades of green in the pepper and green apple, and also different yellows/oranges and reds on the red apple. The texture isn't really there on the apple, but it is on the other painting, it looks more 3D and smooth. These two paintings can be compared very well because they are both of fruit.
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Question 5: I really enjoyed these two mini lessons. The painting on the left of the pumpkin was painted with a pallet knife using oil paint. This was the first time I used a pallet knife to paint. It turned out really good I think - I liked using the different oranges and reds and yellows throughout the pumpkin. The paintings on the right are using the acrylic wash technique to paint fur. This was practice for our animal portraits, this practice really helped me learn how to paint fur better. This was using many many layers of acrylic paint on top of each other. You start out with a dark base color, and slowly get lighter and lighter with each layer of paint. It is really effective - my favorite is the fur on the bottom left and top right. With both of these paintings, I was able to learn many new things that helped my success in other paintings using oil and acrylic.
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