Reflection on This Week

What do all of the activities have in common?

All of these projects have to do with control and seeing things for what they are, not as you want them to be when you draw them. With all of the projects, especially the pour, you couldn't really tell how the art was going to come out. All of these were a mix-up of working in ways we weren't used to and showing a fun way of doing art that wasn't as traditional.

Revisiting observation/desscription activity

Not much looked like the actual drawing except for the part that had a pink spot in the middle which is where the woman was. Mostly everything was missed i have to say, just because of the shape of the background objects and the way the woman's dress billowed out. If I had to do this again I would probably keep asking until it was okay to use nouns in our description.

What I See In Pours

First one:

2 blob guys
Tree
lake
splatter of blood
leg
weird bird

Second one:

aligator
face
bird
claw
foot prints
raindrops
tree with face
roots

Giving Up Control: Pours

Describe the process of creating through pouring paint you experienced today. How did it work?
How did it FEEL to give up control over the shapes u created? Describe any surprises.

Today we had to pour watery paint on to a large piece of paper and move it around. We didn't really have any control over where it went or how far it glided. It just made art and we had to see something in it. It felt fine to me because it sometimes turned out really pretty. There weren't really any surprises because I expected it to be weird.

Collaborative Art

Today we did collaborative drawing. I decided to do a penguin standing a iceberg watching a polar bear get on another one. After 10 min though, the class had to switch pictures, this happening multiple times. When we finally got back to our pictures it was a completely different story. My penguin was wishing it could swim as the polar bear drowned and the coast came to save it and the sun had shades on. I had to fix it a little bit. I think collaborative art ca be good, if not a little weird

Artist Stuff....

An artist is someone who captures everyday life and their thoughts and potrays them in their own creative way. It can be through painting, cooking, dancing or who knows what.

To be creative is to have the ability to not use the expected way or thing and to make something your own.

An artist needs to be free-thiniking, have something they need/ want to express, and willing to redo things.

Artist: Vincent van Gogh

Title: Cypresse

Date:1889

First Impressions:

I like this painting because of the swirly way he painted and the colors he used in it.

Description:

Van Gogh created this painting shortly after being voluntarily admitted to an asylum in the spring of 1889. He liked his painting because it challenged him.

What I Learned:

Van Goh was insane possibly.