- When I thought about power, the first thing that came to mind was black power. Acknowledging the fact that there is lots of history and meaning behind black power. I felt that it was only right that I represented that in my artwork. I decided to draw a fist attached to a pick and including a peace sign in the middle to all come together and give off that with black power also comes peace.
- When I started working on my artwork, I was thinking about how my actual artwork was an actual hair pick. It inspired me to do something like this because I take my race and culture very serious. To know that I was doing something that has a big history behind it made me very determined. The end result wasn't what I expected because of the medium that I chose, but the overall thing I was impressed with.
- I appreciate and cherish the race that I come from and the history behind it. Black power is for sure a slogan I will say, because I am very self determined. To do something so inspiring is very personal to me. I'm proud of how majority of my artwork was me actually just drawing it myself. This was definitely another personal piece that I will cherish and always remember.
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For my self portrait, I decided to make it personal for me. I outlined from my shoulders up and inserted words that people have told me and thought about me. I chose the colors red and blue, like heaven and hell. The blue words were positive words that I thought about myself along with words that others thought described me and the red words were negative words that others have said to me to bring me down and words I often got from family and friends.
I created this because all of the other pieces of art work that I've done weren't really as meaningful or personal as this one is. I'm actually expressing words that I would never want someone to know have been said to me, in this piece of art work. Knowing that some of the negative words are no longer true and I've grown as a person inspired me to do this. I expressed this by putting some powerful words that truly do describe me as a person. So all the words inside of me are words that I used to be, words that I am, and words that I intend to be as I grow as a stronger and better person. All the negative words are just my motivation to be and do just that for myself. All the positive words out way the negative words. Joseph Wright, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768, oil on canvas, 183 cm x 244 cm (72 in x 94.5 in)
Artist Take Risks.With this artwork I definitely stepped out of my comfort zone and tried something different and what I saw as hard. I used water coloring as my background and trying to create lifting to form clouds to make them look like clouds was difficult. Also creating the collage was somewhat difficult. I tried to involve things that had some type of relationship with the sky and water because they both come off with that light blueish color. I was satisfied with the pictures I chose but a little disappointed with how the background came out but I will continue to take my risks when it comes to my artwork. Artist Collaborate.I was completely clueless when we were assigned to do realism. After awhile Mrs.Barnet did help and inspire me to do a type of collage of pictures. She then showed me some of her own work and I then decided to put things together that involved water and the sky because I then wanted clouds involved as well. I proceed with my artwork and then asked how to do lifting to form the clouds I wanted to put into my artwork. After trying I must say due to the fact that I couldn't get it how I pictured it to be, I just allowed myself to go with what I had already done.
I decided to do something that I thought was light and could float as well. I put together light in weight and light in color. Putting those two together, I ended up deciding to make floating heart paper lanterns. Trying to decide what to create was very difficult because light meant plenty of things and I am satisfied with the choice I picked. I had a black background and made the lanterns 2 different shades of red, an red-orange and a dark looking red. Towards the bottom you can see the lighting from the flames inside the balloon. The mixture of colors was white, yellow, and red. It eventually turned the colors to a flaming looking orange and ended up going well with the artwork.
When I started working on this I had help trying to blend the colors of lighting inside of the lantern. After catching onto what was being shown to me I did look at my artwork in a different way, a better way. The thoughts that ran through my head when making this were if it was going to come out good, if it was going to even somewhat look like what I was trying to make, and if I'll like it personally after I was done. To me I accomplished all of those things, proudly. I chose to use oil pastel because I felt like that would make my artwork look more realistic and also make it glow. I have used oil pastel in the past, but not so much to where I know exactly how to work with it and make things blend well. This artwork made me once again feel more comfortable with a different medium and help me gain experience using it as well. I learned how to blend and even outline with oil pastel. This artwork help build me to become a better artist and allowed me to take a risk and come out of my comfort zone of using the same mediums. Improvement is definitely being made and I am very open and accepting of it. My piece that I decided to create and put together was a speaker with colorful music notes and swirling vibrations coming from the speaker. When I thought of sound the first thing that came to mind was when I was in music class and we learned about music notes. That time in my life helped me reflect and create the piece that I did. I felt comfortable enough to go so simple but also have my artwork obvious enough to show that I'm giving off the big picture of sound.
When I made my artwork, I used simple color pencils because I felt it was only necessary because my work was so simple. It was hard creating this because once I did what I wanted to it, there was still something missing from it. It was so noticeable that there was something miss or something needed to be added for that extra relief of look. The end result was not what I expected but because I couldn't find what was missing from my artwork, i just felt the need to just go with it and leave it how it was. I'm fine with the way I turned in my work, but I do also know that there could of been more things done to it and theres still room for improvement. Something that I did because I was just into it, I used 3 different colors for each section of the music notes because I just felt like doing something different. I learned from this piece that I have the ability to do a lot, I just have to be in to take the consequences and go with the risks and learn from those. |
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