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Current artist: Olechska

Master Artists: William Huggins

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William Huggins was an English artist who specialized in drawing animals. Huggins has many animal art but his tiger masterpieces inspired me the most. When it came to fur texture, mouth and eye. As for Olechska, his art was entirely unrealistic but the shaping of the animals faces provided much needed influence for my own pieces shaping.

Overall, if I were to redo this piece, I would make the hair texture more realistic, and fix up the the ear and top of the head. I also might experiment with a background. 

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My Master Artist was Hannah Hoch. I liked her art because she used many different pictures in many different shapes and forms. Her collages are also very political so it was interesting to examine and figure out what was going on in each collage. My current artist was Kara Walker, who inspired my collage.

This collage was different than any other art I normally do. I have experimented with collages before but I haven't had much practice. I actually really enjoyed creating this piece and will definetlty do more collages in the future. One thing I wish that I had done differently in this piece was my use of only magazine pictures, besides the colored pencil eye. I hope to incorporate more colored pencil into my future collage pieces, as well as photography. I hope to also use my own photography in my future collages.

Overall, I learned a lot about different forms of art and hope to incorporate what I have learned into future pieces.

     Mandalas were created in the service of Buddhism. They were produced in Tibet, India, Nepal, China, Japan, Bhutan, and Indonesia and date from the 4th century to present. Mandalas later became present in Hinduism, New Age Spirituality, and other religious practices. There are three types of Mandalas: Sand, Healing and Teaching Mandala. In Hinduism, mandalas are a tool to view the spiritual universe, and represent the cycle of occurrence, reoccurrence and existence. Mandalas offer balancing visual elements, symbolizing unity and harmony. The meanings of mandala depend upon color, geometric elements and culture. The goal of the mandala is to serve as a tool on our spiritual journey as it symbolizes cosmic and psychic order. Mandalas have been used by many different cultures.

     My master artists was Robert Smithson and current was Stephanie Smith. I was drawn to the mandala art because the small detail and flower like shapes looked fascinating and fun to draw. As I began to draw it I began to truly appreciate the immense time and detail in the mandala. I used saturated and bright markers to add brightness, personality and life into my art. I really enjoyed experiencing this type of art and will definitely be practicing more of it in the future. I would like to experiment with different mediums, such as colored pencils, watercolor or acrylic paints. As I continue to experiment with mandala art I hope to get better at the immense amount of detail apparent in the art. 

      For this unit I drew a self portrait. My current artist was Cindy Sherman. I studied the way she blended and shaded the skin and tried using her styles in my own drawing. I also used Frida Khalo's self portraits  for inspiration. I admired her use of color and how she implimented that into her art. 

     This project ended up proving to be more difficult than I thought it was going to be. I used a reference photo and tried my best to dictate the shapes and color seen in the picture. I did about five rough first sketches that never seemed to quite resemble my face right. I then decided to attempt starting towards the center of the face and working my way out. This tactic proved more successful. My facial shape still didn't perfectly resemble my own but I was ready to begin the coloring process. Blending until I found my skin tone proved to be a very difficult process. Colored pencil was my medium for this piece so my skin appeared more grainy than it does in real life.

      Overall, this piece proved to be a process of lots of trial an error. I  plan to try and recreate this piece in the future and try for a more successful outcome.

     My work of art is of facial features that are independent from one another, which I made using colored pencil. After sketching and studying some of my current and master artists, Lee Hamond and Leonardo Da Vinci’s facial pieces, I felt compelled to practice some for myself. I was inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci because he made very beautiful sketches of human features that truly reflected realism. I wanted to create images that used realism, so I decided to use colored pencils because I felt they were best to use for the immense detail. 

     There is no focal point for my piece because I did not care for composition, I simply wanted to study the specific parts of the human face and capture them each individually. I also decided to include many shadows to add depth to each of my sketches. While working on this piece I mostly had trouble with creating the skin tone colors and making it blend in a natural and realistic way. I have not drawn many pieces with realism so this was a learning and experimenting experience for me. The style/ art movement used by my current and master artists really helped me to understand the blending and movement of my piece.

Unit 8

For this unit I chose to draw using the realism technique. I chose this technique because I hadn't had much experience r practice in drawing realism art so I wanted to try and experiment with something new. y medium I used was colored pencils because I felt that they would best allow me to add detail and depth to the piece. Colored pencils are also the median that I feel most comfortable using and when trying a new type of art style I tend to choose more comfortable medians to use, and vice versa. My master artist was Gustav Courbet. Their art was a different type of realism than the soda can that I drew but it was helpful to look at his art for reference when it came to shading and using color. My current artist was Katarina Vinova. Her art focused on more modern objects so her art gave me a lot of inspiration, considering the fact that my art is very modern as well. Overall, I was pleased with my piece but I do think that I could do better in the future with shadows and adding depth to make it pop and look more realistic. I feel that my art right now looks very flat and not close enough to the 3 dimensional soda can shape I was going for. 

My work of art is of a closeup flower. I made this piece by using colored pencil. After sketching some thumbnail sketches and studying my current and master artist's work, Yayoi Kusama and Georgia Okeeffe, I began sketching my flower. I was inspired by Kusama because she has done some flowers in a technique that I have not seen before, and it really fascinated me. I was also inspired by O'keeffe's artwork of closeup flowers because she used more realism in her flower pieces. I decided to use colored pencils because I felt that they would really help me capture all the detail of the flower that I wanted to in this piece. 

     My main focal piece is the center of the flower, that is where most of the detail is.I also used bright and saturated colored pencils to have the flower appear more bright and cheery. I added many different colors to the petals, mainly including red, pink, purple and yellow. I liked how these colors all contrasted with one another.I also added many shadows to add depth to my piece.

     I have not drawn many flowers before so this was a very new experience that I enjoyed. I have a few critiques for this piece but I hope that with more practice I will get better at this style of art.

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