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Art Q1

Posted by Horace Ryans in Advanced Art · Hull · y1 Band on Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 8:34 pm

In quarter one of advanced art, we created three different art pieces. The first one was painting one a ceiling tile that would be placed in the school. The second was a fall wall hanging where we were instructed to draw something that reflect what we related to the season fall. The third was a self portrait. All three of these examples can be seen in the slides below my post.

Most of my art pieces were inspired by my adoration for seasonal men's fashion. For the first project, the ceiling tile, I think the hardest part is actually deciding what you want to draw because you only get to do one. So I chose a bow tie. To me, the bow tie represents a form of fashion that is old but never dies. After taking a look at for a while I started to realize that the bow tie looks like an hour glass. Which kinda to me represents its' timeliness.

If you choose to take something away from my art work, let it be this. My art represents who I am and what I'm about. I appreciate a good sense of style. I tried to have my art reflect on how much fashions means to me. I'm not the best artist but I know that even if I'm not great, I still was able to express what I love in one way or another.

Art Work Q1

Posted by Cristina Valenzo in Advanced Art · Hull · y1 Band on Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 7:11 pm

This quarter in art class was really fun and I really enjoyed creating these art pieces. I got to use different tool and materials, like very different types of paints, charcoal and other materials necessary to get my end result. While using these materials I also learned new techniques such as how to hold charcoal in order to create shading using pressure, or how to use different colors to create ombre-like, effects. Now as for my art I had different inspirations for each art piece.

My very first art piece this year was the ceiling tile. For me, this is the most important art piece that I have created so far this quarter. For one, my inspiration behind it was the dreamer's act movement. Around the time that this assignment was assigned Trump had removed the Dreamer Act and many immigrants were left with nothing and all they could do was fight for their rights. I am Latina and I wanted to show my support to the thousands of Latinos that had been hurt by this, so I painted the word dreamers on the ceiling tile. I also painted a moon and stars to show that to them the stars and moon are the limits. As long as one fights for what they believe in anything is possible. I wanted to create an ombre-like effect so I used the two colors of the sky, light blue for daytime and dark blue for nighttime, and created an ombre-like effect as well. Throughout this whole art piece, I used paint as my main material. I felt very proud creating this work of art.

The second work of art that I created was the fall wall hanging, this assignment was one of the more easier ones and an assignment where I had one image in mind. For this assignment, a typical fall scene was the inspiration for my artwork. When I thought of fall I thought about the leaves falling and the time change. I tried to create a theme throughout all my artwork so for the sky I also created an ombre-like effect like I did for the ceiling tile, however, I went for warmer tones. The main material I used for this drawing were color pencils. I had fun creating this drawing.

The final art piece that I created was the self-portrait. This was one of the longer and harder pieces. I really had to learn new techniques and work with materials that I had never used before to create this piece. For one, I had to use charcoal as one of the main materials and at first, it was very hard working with it but after I learned how to blend it to create a nice effect with it. I made the self-portrait by using a picture of myself as a guide. In pictures and everywhere else we have shadows, so one of my major struggles was creating these shadows in the portrait. I learned how to create shadows by using different pressures on my materials and learning to press harder or lighter when needing to create different lightnings. I also tried to use the theme of ombre again in this drawing and I decided to do it in my hair. I used black charcoal to make the ends of my hair much darker and then blending it out and making it lighter in the roots. In the end, I had an art piece that resembled me. I was very proud of completing it.

I had lots of fun in this class. It was a very joyful environment in which I felt like I could always work in and have focus in. All three of my art pieces were created with much work and inspiration.

-Cristina-Valenzo

Slideshow & Artist’s Statement - Emmett Tsai-McCarthy

Posted by Emmett Tsai-McCarthy in Advanced Art · Hull · y1 Band on Tuesday, November 7, 2017 at 10:07 pm

Artist's Statement:

The main inspiration for my artwork is anime and manga. I've always loved the style of anime, and I've even adopted a few of the techniques used in the medium. Another inspiration would be animals. Not real-life animals so to speak, but fictional animals/creatures that have real-world inspiration.

I mainly like to use pencil, but I have used pen on multiple occasions throughout my sketching career. I do want to change my habit of drawing in pencil for the sake of honing my skills in different mediums and to give my sketchbooks more "color". Speaking of color, this marking period was the first time I've actually used multiple colors to fill an entire page on my sketchbook. I can't exactly remember any other time I've used different colors on more than just a character so this was new territory for me.

I spent most of my time doing the assigned art project during our "studio time". There was the occasional point where I took a break and did homework, listened to music, and/or read a book. When doing work outside of "studio time", on the other hand, was very annoying. It wasn't because it was hard to draw in the conditions (since I finished most of my work in class) but it was because it was such a nuisance to take a picture of my art pieces. The lighting would always be bad, sometimes using Snapseed (a photo editing app) would make it look worse, a whole bunch would go wrong basically. I would mostly put the blame on my phone since it's such an old model and its functionality grows weaker and weaker by the day.

One of the most important things an artist wants a viewer to understand is all the hard work he or she put into making their masterpieces and I hope you see that in my work. So please enjoy the slideshow!

Quarter 1, Final Project

Posted by Kayah Chisholm-McVay in Advanced Art · Hull · y1 Band on Tuesday, November 7, 2017 at 7:07 pm

In quarter one, I created a variety of things, those things being: Fall wall painting, Self portrait, and Ceiling tile. Many of these projects consisted of; paper, pencils, paints blank canvases, pictures from online, and the imagination. My process of making these pieces was much more than just following the instructions and using the right materials. It was about drawing something that related to me, and meant something to me, while still following the directions. In addition that, if a picture did not have meaning, it was then part of my job to find meaning in that picture, and make it meaningful. Which included editing, and re-drawing.

Each project out of four in total, I learned from. The ceiling tile taught me perspective. How even though you see one thing, not everyone is going to see the same thing you do, but instead something totally knew. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing or a good thing, itś something we do naturally. The fall wall painting taught me, to not let myself down. For the fall wall hanging, I took one of the easier ways out, and did a quick 2hr drawing, and submitted it. Which was fine, but didn´t get me the grade I could have gotten because I took the easy way out. I told myself not to take the easy way out, and to the drawing last minute, but I ended up doing exactly that. The self portrait taught me, appreciate myself more. When drawing my self portrait I had to pay close attention to details on my face and clothes. At first I didn't like it at all, but soon I like it. I realized the things that I would call my ïmperfections” aren't imperfect, they are parts of who I am and they are perfectly me.

I feel that art is more about the youself within then what you see on the paper. It's about the process that counts, when you look at the picture you can't see the process that was gone through, you only see the finished product. The behind the scenes process, including influences is what produces the meaning of your art piece. Art can teach you many things about the art itself but most importantly it can teach you about the world around you, it can even teach about you. However art means different things for different people, honestly art is what you make of it.