My theme of my book is leisure. I decided to make a hammock at a beach at sunset. I painted it. When I think of Leisure I think of vacation and doing nothing, and what is more vacation and doing nothing than laying in a hammock at a beach at sunset ? Painting was difficult. I really want to paint more. Often I made a color and needed the color an other day but I couldn't make the color then. Or I messed it up by overlaying something. At the end I was happy with my result.
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This semester I introduced a new way of teaching/learning. Students had more choices in subject matter and material choice. Explain how effective this was to you.
I thought that this was a good way to teach. I had more freedom to experiment and do what I want. I learned more to think what i wanted to make and what I was going to use to make that. I learned a lot of different mediums and visualizing a theme or idea. The theme for the upcomming project is "pressure". I had problems with thinking of what I should make. There are so manny different kinds of pressure. Air pressure, peer pressure, pressure from your parents, school etc. And how do you visualize that pressure ? In my previous project I made a big face. And I tried it again with this theme. It is a bit less original but it really makes the "pressure" in the theme visible.
For this project I decided to do it on a large scale. I wanted to fill the whole page with a big face. I first drew the artwork. and then I used oil pastels to color it. Oil pastels were sometimes hard to work with because you can't erase it.
The next project I am working on is themed: Interior and exterior. It was hard to think of a vision with this theme. I wanted to make something with a big head with something that you could look inside the head.
My Pastel one disapeared, so I dont have pictures from that one. I do have pictures of my Colored pencil work. I learned how to use and blend colors. I can use this on my future projects. This week I practiced with colored pencils and pastels. I liked practicing with color. I don't use color that often, so it was new for me. It was difficult to blend the colors but it kinda worked out fine.
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April 2015
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