Reflection

I really like how my art projects turned out this semester. I learned how when you paint you can make different textures by using the back of your paint brush, or adding salt. I also learned when we did the color wheel, when we did the experiments it gave me lots of ideas to put in my water color painting. My favorite project that we did was the zentangle. I liked how with that project you could start out with a simple idea, and add little designs & turn it into something big. The scratchboard was another one of my favorites, because it was a challenge coloring the opposite things in. I didn't want to do the oil pastel drawing at first, but when I was finished it actually looked really good. The thing I didn't like about using the oil pastels was that the pastels would smear, and I would have to go back and redo some parts of the picture. My least favorite project would be the self portrait painting. I didn't like drawing a picture of myself then putting it into the posterize effect. I enjoyed using the scratch tools, paint, and oil pastels. I would like to use those again for second semester.

Self Portrait Painting

This is a self portrait painting I did of myself. I used a pencil and some paint. I don't like doing posterize, so I didn't really enjoy this project. When I put myself in the posterize it made myself really black.. I would like to do this project over like nature or something else other than myself.

Water Color Painting

This is a water color painting that I did. I used a mechanical pencil, water color paint, and paint brushes. I learned that you can make different textures with the paint just by adding salt. I liked how the flower turned out, and the water around it. I didn't like how when I would drop a color on a part of the painting it would make it messy & I would have to go back and color over it. If I could change anything about it, it would be the subject, I would draw some other piece of nature.