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1. The steps to critiquing art are to: a) Describe the artwork by giving details about the piece as best you can, look at the colour schemes, pictures, images, etc. Think of it as if you had to describe the piece to a friend over the phone. b) Analyze the artwork by looking at the lines, shapes, colours, textures and space. Look for specific things in the piece. c) Interpret the artwork by looking for moods, or stories that might be told in the piece. Look for ideas that are represented. d) Judge the artwork, is it meaningful and successful? What are your personal opinions on the piece, do you like it? Would others like it? 2. The piece I made is a two-in-one piece that is made out of a human girl and Saturn. The girl's hair(other then the tips) and "hat" is in black and white while her face and tips of her hair are in colour. I used prisma coloured pencils to make layers to try and make it look as smooth as possible. The girl has her eyes closed and a content look on her face. she has orange and red eye shadow and lipstick to make the rest of it pop. The background is solid black with blue, white, and purple paint splatter to kinda make it look like a galaxy and stars. Saturn's ring acts as the brim of the hat, but isn't quite connected so it still looks like the ring around Saturn. There are some textures in the piece made by the prisma colours. Some parts look more smoothed out, like the ring around her head and her face, while other places, like the hair, you can see more of a bumpy texture that makes it look more like an unsmooth surface. She has a content look on her face, giving her a pleased look about being alone in the universe and relaxing. Since she has a content look on her face, I know she is content or pleased with something. She is alone in the piece, making it seem like shes enjoying the silence and solitude of being alone in space. I feel like this piece came out successful because it looks well done and like there was time put into it. I feel like I could have done better with the colours and that i should have stuck with having colour or it being black and white. I personally like it and how it is different then anything I've seen before and I feel like other people would enjoy this piece. Sketchbook: pick any warm-up from your sketchbook that you found beneficial, interesting or simply felt you handled well. Describe the activity and reason for selecting it above the others. Include photo. One of the most beneficial warm up I've had is the sign language hand sketches. I've always had problems with drawing proportional hands and this helped me a ton. I practice a lot with this warm up on my own time too. All we had to do is make a letter in sign language and draw our hand on the paper. We started from basic shapes and blocks, to smoothing out the lines and adding details. I selected this above the others because drawing hands was a huge problem for me and now I can draw them very well. None of the other warm ups helped me this drastically. Medium: which medium did you most enjoy working with and why? Which medium did you not use but wish you had explored? Include photo.I most enjoyed using paint in this class, it was fun, and even a little challenging. I also enjoyed using it because it is tricky to get the right colour or shape on your canvas and I like a little bit of a challenge. I wish I had used oil pastels a bit more then I did. I mostly only used them for the sphere warm up and I feel like I should have used it a little more because its fun and easy, and even takes a little time to use which makes me feel like I'm more intrigued in whatever I'm using it for. Pick two pieces that show how you have grown as an artist. Compare and contrast how you’ve grown, how the projects are related, and what you thought of each. The two pieces that i feel like show the most growth is my two-in-one(TIO) piece and my portrait piece. The first thing I notice I've grown in is the proportions of the face on each of my pieces. The shapes of the facial features are pretty good in my TIO piece, but i definitely feel like i should have made them bigger and closer to what a human face should look like. In my portrait piece, the facial features are much better, closer, and bigger then they were in my TIO and overall make the face look better. The projects are related by them both being based off a human. The TIO is just a human girl mixed with Saturn, making her look like shes wearing a hat, while my portrait piece is human because it's a portrait. I'm proud of both these pieces because the TIO was made before I got a lot of the skills that I used in my portrait piece, but it stilled turned out the way I wanted it to.
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