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I am planning on using my piece as a holder for lots of little things in my room. I also plan on showing my friends the awesome pice of art I have made. I plan on finishing it by glazing it with lots of colors to make it beautiful. I have found only a few parts difficult and they are making the frog and making it stay on the top of the lid. Another part I found challenging was making the lid fit on the top of the vessel. The most successful part I found was making all the fish different, because in real life there are no fish that are the same. I have used the slab roller to first role out my clay, then I scratched and slipped it to make it form into a cylinder. Then I scratched and slipped it again to make the bottom stick on. Finally I used a wire tool to carve the out line for my lilypad and fish. My greenware is now waiting to be fired in the kiln.
This picture was taken in Seward, Alaska. Before I moved to North Carolina I lived in Alaska for 4 years, and this place is important to me because I went here with a bunch of my best friends and I really miss them. I found the water the most difficult part in my painting because I had to make the ripples and I did not practice that, instead I practiced the trees because I thought that would be the hardest. I feel the most successful part of my painting is the sky with the clouds because I was able to blend them out and make them look realistic. At first I started out by painting the whole canvas red, then I went over the top half with a grayish blue. Once I got the clouds and the sky down I moved on to the mountains, by first painting them white then going over the front part with a dark green. I then moved in to the water and the ripples in the water. Finally I finished by adding the trees to the very front of the painting.
In the sphere painting I learned about smooth shading instead of it being 2 different colours next to each other you blend them in. I think the most helpful of these warmups would be the shading, toning , and tint because I learned how to make different types of colors from two different colors. I learned the most from the purple, orange, and green exercise, even though it wasn’t a success, because I don’t realize that there are so many different colors that might look the same but are actually different. Some of the different way to make brown is by using colors opposite of the color wheel like red and green, yellow and purple, blue and orange, but you can also mix all the colors together and it still makes a brown.
The sphere warm up, I think helped me the most with my charcoal project because it helped me with the shading. It also helped with the lightning and darkening of areas on my hour glass. Composition is the placement or arrangements of visual elements in a work of art. Value is the lightness and darkness of tones or colors. Some pros of pencils are that they are easy to erase and easy to smudge in. Some cons of pencils is there are a lot of shades that you have to use and they don't get very dark. Some benefits of charcoal is that there are different types you can use and it is also easy to erase. Some arguments against charcoal are that it is messy and it smudges if you don't spray it. Some pros of pens is that it is very neat and there are many choices of how to shade objects. Some cons to pen is that you can't erase it and you only use one kind of pen.
The artist I chose is a French photographer named Pierre-Louis Ferrer. His photos are token in Dordogne which is in the Southwestern France Area. Ferrer uses an infrared photography technique that allows I’m to make the landscaped turn yellow. Infrared light is one type of light that is invisible to us humans. He uses filters that makes the trees and bushes pop with yellow. Human eyes are not used to infrared light (due to its longer wavelengths). The reason I chose this piece of art is because my favorite color is yellow and this photograph revolves around the pop of yellow in the trees and bushes. This piece of art inspires me because it uses both a mix of science and art and I enjoy both of those too subjects. /pierre
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