2D Artist Reflection

I learned a lot of new things this semester. Like how to edit pictures, do a collage, and look at different artists and what kind of art work they liked to do. One of my favorite things this semester was the Masters Study. I liked it because I got to look at different artists I didn't even know about & made their art my own. I also liked doing the collage piece, but I was kinda lazy with it. But if I took more time on it, I think it could have turned out really cool. I didn't like doing the photo editing thing, because I don't like editing photos & I din't really understand the point of it. I enjoyed using more of the materials we used last semester. I had fun taking an art class, and would like to do it again next year. I'd like to take advanced art next year. Now that I learned how to use all these techniques I have some good ideas I could use in that class. I would like to use more materials such as; pastels, just more things on paper, maybe paint.

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HDR, Sharpen, Overlay

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Orton, dusk, intrepid

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Colors, Sharpen, Exposure

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Overlay, Exposure, Sharpen

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Colors, crop, sharpen

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Exposure. Edifice, Sharpen

Before

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Crop, sharpen, paint

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film grain, time machine, dusk

Pop Art

I chose to do pop art by Andy Warhol. The tools I used were sharpie marker, pencils & hot glue & scissors. I liked doing pop art, but I would have liked to spend a little more time doing maybe a cooler subject. I liked how you could choose something simple and make it into something big. If I could go back & change something about this I would have used different colors, or something other than sharpie, like paint or pastels.

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Focal soften, Focal zoom, Pixel

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Sharpen, Colors, Exposure

Collage Picture

I made a collage of a tree. using things such as string, pastels, buttons & beads. I wish I would have taken more time & used it more wisely cause I actually had a really cool idea for this project, but since I didn't use my time wisely I had to make it really quickly. It actually turned out kind of cool. If I were assigned to do a collage again, I would do more of a collage of pictures & magazines.

Surrealism Painting

This is my surrealism painting I really like how it turned out. I used paint to paint this painting with. If I could go back and change it I would have taken more time to actually do it. I like how it turned out though. I used paint brushes.

Pointilism Painting

I made a pointillism painting of an elephant. I used paint & hard brushes & a colored pencil to make my painting. I really liked doing this painting, because it was actually really fun, & it didn't take too long to do. If I could go back & change something about this drawing I would have taken a little more time on the back round. I am really satisfied of how it turned out though.

Square by Square Painting

This is my square by square painting. I had to draw out all the squares. I drew out the tree, then I mixed paints & painted all the squares. I really did not like this painting, because it took to much time & it's really not my thing. If I could fix anything I would take more time doing it.

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.