Final thoughts

Two of the most important concepts I learned this semester

The first important concept I learned this semester, is how to use different marks while drawing a still life, to show lightness and darkness. When we did our still life project, we were not allowed to shade anything to show shadows or lightness and darkness. Instead, we had to use different amounts of black marks to show value. I used the method of cross-hatching to get this across and I think that it is a very useful thing to know how to do in the future art classes I partake in. At first, I was unsure if it would look good without being able to shade with a pencil or something like that, but in the end, I was very impressed with how good and realistic my shadows looked, especially from afar. Another important concept I learned was how to mix the three primary colors into many more different colors. We did a lot of assignments in which we worked with blending colors and learning about the color wheel. We made our own color wheel and also had a quiz about the color wheel. We also practiced making monochromatic colors by adding white to colors to make tints and adding the colors complement to make intensities. In the end, we brought it all together at the end with our endangered animal tile. in this project, we had to mix all of our colors only using the primary colors and white. 

Assignment I am most proud of

I think that my still-life drawing is the best work of art that I have done this semester. I really enjoyed making it and I learned a lot while doing so. This impacted my learning in the sense that I learned so much about using positive and negative space. I learned a lot about using cross hatches to show light and dark instead of just shading and I am very happy with what came out in the end.