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I have grown as an artist this semester as adding new textures to my pieces and making my pieces more colorful, rather than focusing on one certain aspect of realism or trying to be precise. My portfolio's work from throughout the semester reveals many positive and negative struggles I have went through this semester, from learning what mediums I like to what mediums I never want to work with again, but I am grateful I got the chance to experience the medium. For example, I loved working with clay for the pinch rattle project, but I did not like using cardboard for the dwelling project as it's highly sturdy and hard to work with in my opinion. Also, I believe my portfolio represents all the different types of art I attempted to learn throughout the semester and I found what the pros and cons of using each type of medium were. I think my portfolio is an accurate relection of my development in Sclpture class as it depicts all the positive and negative struggles I went through each project and what worked, and what I didn't like to do. I find looking through my portfolio an awesome way to see how much I have improved using clay as my favorite medium and how using different mediums added depth and more creativity to what I am able to make. A piece from the beginning of the semester was my realistic pepper I created. It's something you would find growing in a garden or use for tonight's dinner to someone. It shows application of materials as it's texture and shape resembles a realistic pepper with its bumps and upwards pointed tip at the end of the piece. It shows techniques and skills as it's bright red color of the pepper add's to its beautiful composure corresponding to its dark green stem that curves side-ways when grown in nature. In artistic vision, my piece's repetition in texture imprints makes' it look crumbled and dried. In the use of principles and elements, I made my piece as it helps the piece come together, especially the red glaze's contrast to the stem's texture makes it look like an actual pepper. I showed creativity as my piece's arrangement and unity of the stem and body, plus the glaze's deep colors helps the elements of art come together, creating a balance in my piece to the eye. Lastly, I showed intuition and subject matter as I made a pepper as a rattle that related to what the project had to be about, organic and in nature, a peper's in nature and my pepper had rattles that physically shook. Now, compared to a piece from the end of this semester, my sgraffito piece shows application of materials as it was inspired from Van Gough and has sgraffito on the suns and the winds displayed in yellow, and light blue. It shows techniques and skills as it's textures are from sgraffito help to exemplify the sun and wind in a greater form, showing its depth and the color scheme corresponds to the dark-deep colored green tree that is mysterious. It has artistic vision as my piece is a mug, but is also a famous work of art that was created differently then how it was originally concerted. It's not painted on a canvas, but on clay and had to be placed roundly, instead of on a flat surface as a canvas is created. I grew through the use of principles and elements by adding more color to my pallet and doing strict and difficult glaze lines to depict a highly similar photo of "Stormy Night" on a mug. Also, I added the element of sgraffito to show more depth and texture from what the original artist wanted and added principals of it being on a mug and having it asymmetrical. I showed creativity as I made a famous piece of work on a mug and added sgraffito elements to put a twist on a well-known painter. Also, I subsituted certain colors, but still make it work and have a great composure on the final product. Lastly, I grew in intuition and subject matter as my piece relates to what my project was about and I got to make a mug while creating a wonderful work of art through the use of clay and the concept of sgraffito in the wind and the suns' depicted in the mug. Overall, I feel I highly improved my techniques this semester and found I really love using clay, whether its through creating pinch pots or through sgraffito, I made my techniques better by practice and can't wait to continue through sclpture 2 honors!
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Discuss one project where you felt you were the least successful. Explain why you felt this way. What would you do differently to change this piece?
Discuss one project where you felt you were the least successful. Explain why you felt this way. What would you do differently to change this piece?
One piece where I felt I was the least successful was my dwelling project that I created. I made a gingerbread house out of cardboard and the process was a difficult experience for me as I find working with cardboard frustrating, but it was an opportunity to work with mediums I find myself avoiding to pick to create art in. I started with creating a sketch base outline and measured its house-like structure with a ruler. After narrowing down its sizing and cutting it out, I hot-glued my pieces together and slowly added decoration to give my piece realism and look organic. I set up my design by referring to my sketch and looking at real, online examples of gingerbread houses to see how I could create this in card-board. I find my roofing and measurement of my piece highly successful as its very symmetrical and not crooked. I would have changed the amount of hot-glue I used on the sides as the hot-glue adds an interesting look to the sides of my ginger-bread house walls. If I were to do this piece again, I would change the way I made the windows as I messed up cutting it and had to innovate shutters on my house to distract the viewer from my mistake. I like my piece, but I don't love the medium and wish I used another type of medium to fully capture details that cardboard couldn't. I am proud of my piece, but I wish it could've been more detailed with using clay or more flexible cardboard to make my piece look more realistic.
Which project was your most successful? Why was this project successful? Describe the theme and or topic and the process you went through to complete the project.
Which project was your most successful? Why was this project successful? Describe the theme and or topic and the process you went through to complete the project.
I love my slab and how abstract it turned out! If I had to describe this piece to someone, I would talk about it's contrasting colors and designs on both sides, clearly showing its asymmetrical ness. I would talk about it's deepness in the in-graving swirl sides to the shiny, but vibrant teal side with hints of magenta. Also, it's texture and shape is highly contrast, with a balloon separating both sides adding to its overall composure. I like how the random shapes on the left side contrast with the dark purple, showing a light to dark senario making the piece come together. Furthermore, each side's differences are leveled within the middle with neutral tones contrasting both sides. My piece's arrangement and differences create a unity in the middle within the ballon, creating balance to the viewers eye. This piece gives me the feeling I intended for when sketching out different designs which is strengthen and finding beautiful in the most abstract places. My piece theme was being free and versatility, and it shows as my piece say's how unique something can be, while showing beautiful outside and within by it's shape or personality, etc. I judge my work's worth is the beauty of its contrasting colors, shapes, and designs that correlate to the overall composure. I feel my piece is successful as it's exactly how I visioned it to be, iconic and eye-taking, while not being overwhelming with each side's differences. It's sucessful as I planned out my piece perfectly, I sketched exactly what colors and where each part of my piece would go before touching clay. I believe planning and having a plan before you start a piece is the best way to create a piece exactly how you imagine, and to make it highly successful.
Regardless of whether a project was successful or not, describe the one where you learned, grew, or developed the most from? Please explain.
Regardless of whether a project was successful or not, describe the one where you learned, grew, or developed the most from? Please explain.
A piece I learned from was the "Altered book Project" piece I created that was inspired from a popular TV show, Wednesday Adams. I decided to make a book inspired from the TV show and my favorite scenes from Tim Button, the creator. On one side, I carved into the book to add depth and create a whole like structure, that represents the woods in Wednesday Adams. Secondly, on the other side, I created "Thing" with paper Mache to represent Wednesday's partner and a key-aspect that gave eerie feeling in the show. The black and paper theme in all adds to the composure of my piece. Some success I found was the depthness of my whole, making my piece look 3-D when you look within and that the whole never stops. Secondly, I like how realistic my hand looks compared to a Human Hand, and the shows', "Thing" hand. If I were to do this project again, I would've changed my ever-lasting whole position as I wanted it to go from right to left, not from the middle, but I still highly love it's look. I feel my piece shows the mood of eeriness to composing that its from darkness that the show, Wednesday Adams represents. I like how I kept the magazine/paper features in my hand to make it look like the hand comes from the book, adding to the eerie feeling. I feel highly happy about my piece's overall outcome. I am proud of the work I made, but I wish I would've made realistic paper trees and a paper rose. Maybe in the future I will add that to make my piece more realistic and give it more-depth. Also, I feel I grew from using this medium to make my pieces more expressive and personal, while conveying a powerful theme through my descriptions or my piece overall to empower/inspire others in my class, from TAG or just from their comments.
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