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Dominic
5/1/2019 0 Comments May 1st, 2019 I want to start off by saying that I have changed my thoughts on how I wanted to depict my political art. By drawing a baby in a womb I felt I was putting in too much emotion that said "love me". That is not how I wanted to depict this art. I wanted it to be purely unbiased and factual. That is why after drawing my thoughts on what an abortion looked like, I decided to take it a step further and make it my final project. As of late I have been working on said project and have only come upon 2 constraints. The first being drawing faces. While watching videos has helped me better understand how I want to draw one, I feel that having no emotion on the faces will make the image seem... sterile. I felt it would seem like too unemotional, and that not what I wanted to express. To state what I am trying to show in this project is simply this: I want to draw the factual process of a woman having an abortion. I thought that by doing this I would be unbiased by saying, "I am not saying you should or should not do this, I am just showing you what you will go through if you do". In this way I am not only preparing the audience for what they should expect, but also further developing their knowledge that will hopefully affect their conclusion.
The second obstacle is a much simpler one. I simply don't know what to do for a background. Of course I think I have gotten some pretty good feedback from my mom as what I should draw. She said that In order to be unbiased I should try to be as factual as ever. I interpreted this as me needing to draw a doctor's clinical setting. This is definitely not something I planned of, and I am fine with that. If I need to take time to draw outside of class in order to draw what is factual, then that is something I am willing to do.
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4/24/2019 0 Comments Wednesday, April 24 The past few days we have been working on our activism projects. In the beginning I decided I wanted to do something positive, and make a statement against people who judged other base on body shape. But after reevaluation of it, I decided that this was not the best course of action. It was too goody two-shoes. I still wanted to make a statement about the human so I looked up topic and chose one of three that I narrowed it down to. I choose abortion instead of anorexia, or diets. I decided to choose abortion because it is a trail that is a frail one, but nonetheless one I wish to tread. I want to learn more about how I can express human expression, emotion and meaning through art. After brainstorming about abortion I came up with four ideas: I could have a womb in my art, I could have death cradling a baby, I could have a baby walking into heaven, or I could have had a baby reaching for her mother as it was pulled away from her. I chose the concept of the first one, while incorporating cause for as to how I would have that be done. My evaluation process was that death cradling a baby, and one walking into heaven were both too subjective, and the latter involved religion. However the last of my ideas was something that I need much more practice before achieving. To draw an infant reaching and crying for their mother would be too illogical for me to do given the allotted time, especially with what I have envisioned. That is why I choose a more realistic approach that could be done in the given time.
My plan: I think I will 4/10/2019 0 Comments Wednesday, April 10 I think not being sick has a positive impact on my life. With the past five school days I have been able to do lots more. I have been able to practice the techniques at school and enact them at home. I definitely think I have been productive by getting what needs to be done done. While I may not be done yet with the project I am definitely reaching a point at which I will be happy with the outcome. I have further developed my project in two ways since last week. I have changed a classical chair for a dramatic soap opera chair sofa hybrid, which accentuates her body in a much more desirable manner. The second update is that instead of having the edges be edges they are part of the artwork. They are the edges of her mind where reality is setting in in a not so good way. Although it will not matter to her since she is dead. I think having her mind showing and having the speck represent the crumbling has done marvels for the overall structure of the art piece. Though the art work I have also increased my proficiency at drawing the female human body. I do think that my perspective of curvature has taken on a more realistic tone, and that my proportions have also settled into the world of reality. Another thing the art piece has done for me is help me better understand how colors really impact art. Because I have only four colors , there is a better understand for me of what they symbolize. The black is crushing reality, the grey is still reality but fading into her pristine white world of innocence. The red (that I may or may not add) is the center of the painting. It is meant to draw your eyes and it is meant to be impact-full. I should be finishing it soon and all I will have left is the paperwork.
4/3/2019 0 Comments Wednesday, April 3 Due to sickness I have been absent again, but this time I was more prepared since I stated to feel bad Monday afternoon. Knowing this I took home my canvas. By being responsible I have been able to be productive and draw an detailed outline of what my story looks like. I have made some alterations however. I found drawing a human in a chair simple enough, but making it a woman and with clothes was too much. Instead I decided to make the female laying on the ground beside the table looking at you with a mask on her face. I thought about drawing her face but still have not concluded if I want to have her looking at the audience with a sad faced mask to convey a single emotion, or to have her look at the audience with a content face that lets the audience decide the emotion. But if I chose the latter then I will be drawing the human parts of the story and painting the extra. Whatever I decide though will make me happy since it will ultimately achieve my goal of a dead love story.
3/27/2019 0 Comments Wednesday, March 27 This week I have caught up on most of my work from last week and have managed to start envisioning my storytelling project. I think this might be “original” envisioned art. I will make a woman laying in a pool of blood, in a white chair, holding a white rose, next to a white table, on white tile. It will be a story of a woman who fell in love, but the love was fake, hence the white, and her lover killed her. I will be productive and accountable by taking this home to add details that I want to add. I think this will be tragic art. With this I will have no problems communicating through my work with this. I think it is meant to communicate that you begin to spend time with people who you know are not the best, yet you spend time with them anyways and get hurt.
3/25/2019 0 Comments Monday, March 25 To say I was productive would be a lie. I was sick for three of the five days that we worked, and essentially I got nothing done. However for the Monday and Friday that I worked I learned, and did a couple of things. Monday I... don't remember anything, it is kind of foggy. Tuesday was worse, and then I went home before 3rd period, then only got back Friday. So Friday, Friday I was introduced to mood through color. I am learning to Solve My Problems through time management. Once I was introduced to the things we did over the week I was able to understand most of it. Using what I hope will only take Monday and Monday after school, I hope I can catch up with Art. I understand the concepts, except for the adding to the sketch notes, but by being productive and asking questions I can solve my problems and catch up. I hope to have more to write about in my next Journal.
2/22/2019 0 Comments Friday, February 22This past week I have been working on my abstract project plan. Through my abstract project I have developed my art making skills, and I have taken risks and grown. I have developed my art making skills by learning to change the normal color of things, and their shapes. Before I would not have done this because it would not sit well with me. And in addition I hate making squares to circles, but in this project I plan on doing things like that. I have taken risks and grown by using abstraction in general, and doing this like making collages for the first time, or changing the shape of my canvas. Through these risks i think I can make something truly nice. Overall I am having fun doing something I normally wouldn't do.
2/6/2019 0 Comments Wednesday, February 6 I believe that this week I have used the art skill of communicating through my work. I find that I like to take time to notice details, or observe the small elusive white dot in a white corner. With my shape I paid a lot of attention to detail, while at the same time experimenting. I wanted to see what it would be like to focus on one side for a while and to do the other in 1 day. The result was interesting, and noticeable. I really made a difference paying attention to detail. My orange and blue side was filled with more white than I would have liked, while the green and purple was very detailed. The g & p side drew my attention in, and made me follow the moment of the shape's shape. Whilst the o & b was just spazzy. Overall I think combining the shapes was a nice touch. Using something something everyone expressed their creativity into, and combining them all really is poetic. I really enjoyed the thinking behind this project, even if we did end up missing all lot of the work days. To summarize, my shape turned out to what I thought it was going to be, the project was fun, and the end result was nice.
1/16/2019 0 Comments January 16th, 20191-16-19
This reflection is going to be about my elements of design sketch notes. I started my sketch notes by looking at what I would be doing, a.k.a. I looked at the elements. The first things I noticed is that there were seven, and only one needed color. That is why all of my elements are black and white except for color. I also wanted to show that all the elements revolved around the title "Elements of Design" so that explains that. Also in relation was that I wanted to show that all the elements go or flow together which is why I made it the way I did. One thing I could have done better was that I could have made a rough draft, that way my spacing would have been better. Also I was productive and accountable by staying after school last Thursday to finish. Overall I enjoyed this project, I learned that many things I had already done before-specifically shading. 1/9/2019 0 Comments First Week of Art Foundations1-9-19 Productive and accountable- I definitely think I have room to improve in productivity since sometimes I take too much time deciding on how I want to customize my letters , size, or colors. I know for a fact that I can be accountable... on certain subjects. But for this class I will definitely pull all-nighters to finish customizing my journal.
Develop Art Making Skills- Since practicing thing you want improve in usually improves your skill. I plan to work a lot with clay to improve techniques, learn techniques, find my specialties, and to learn knick-knacks. Take Risks and Grow- When making pottery deciding whether or not you should follow your plan when at the cost of modifications, or go astray is a risk, and I will more than likely make many of those. Communicate Through Their Work- I think my work reflects my personality well. I like to take simple moments in life and make them interest. Just like I like to make details in places where there is white. Goal- My goal is to improve my skill at clay, specifically details and hand crafting. My short term goal is to improve my straight lines. |