Foundations of Art

This has been a pretty crazy year, it was my introduction to high school and public school in general. I think that this page shows a lot about my year, especially my strengths and weaknesses as a learner. This is on full display with the quality of my art. You can see that when I am invested the artwork comes out a lot better, you can see this on the scratchboard, the art history project, the sgraffito, and the linoleum prints. These are all projects that poured a lot of time and effort into because I loved the potential outcome. On the flip side, the projects I cared less about have a sufficient decrease in quality. This illustrates my weaknesses as a learner because I am somebody who won't necessarily put my all into something I don't care much about. You can see this with the zoomed show, whatchamadrawit, or beautiful oops. These are projects that I want as invested in and therefore didn't put as much work into. 

Funnily enough, two out of three of the works I just mention happened at the beginning of the year and I think this is a testament to how I have grown. In the beginning of the year my work was very simple; I really only drew with pencil. Through this class I became more comfortable with using many different mediums like charcoal and wire. Because I experience new mediums, it opened my mind to new artistic ideas and this improved my skill greatly. 

That can't be said for every project thought. I do not like my whatchamadrawit at all. I think this was the most challenging project for me simple because I did not like the prompt. I am a little bit of a snob and perfectionist and doing little funny prompts is not something I enjoy. This was a challenge for me because I did not have much motivation to put much time or effort into the final product. 

In the other direction, my art history inspired project is definitely the work I am most proud of. I am most proud of this for a few reasons. The first is this is my far the best jacket I have ever made. I have been making clothing for over a year now and I started by making bomber jackets. On everything I had made before there were obvious mistakes, crooked stitching, weird wrinkles that appeared out of nowhere, unwanted darts. But clearly I had learned from all of this when I made this jacket because all those mistakes seemed to fade away. I found my pocket making skills were actually really strong, and my pattern drafting had reached a new level. I am also very proud of how I tok my two artist and connected them in my home-clothing. I think that I pulled this off very well and I am very proud of it. 

In the future I want to continue to fine tune these skills. This summer I am planning on making tons of artwork. I want to really start to get my clothing buisness off the ground, and I want to create because it makes me super happy. I really want to spent a lot of time taking photographs. I absolutely love photography and I really want to do more so I can get better. In the long term though, I want to be a professional artist. That is a broad term and I mean it in a broad way. I want to make clothes, paint, draw, take photos, write, make movies, act in movies, and everything else. Art is something that has always been imbedded in me and it is my calling, it is really the only think my mind and body will let me do. I want to create art that reaches people and makes an impact in their lives. Impacting people is something that is really important to me, I think thai with this short time we have on earth, why not make a difference.