art 1 portfolio

1. The landscape painting was my favorite because it involved painting which I was waiting to do all semester. It was fun because I like painting things, I don't know why I just find it fun. Although I couldn't do as well as I had hoped I would (because I did it all at once at home) I think it still came out okay considering my skills in art. I didn't know how to draw the yellow flowers so that frustrated me alot. Also the supposed trees in the back turned out bad because I really had NO idea how to put them on there and make them look good with paint. But overall I had fun with this project becasue again, I'd been waiting to do this so it was worth it.

2. I learned the most from this project because it was one of the first projects we did and it really showed me what I was getting myself into that semester. I liked it because it was different from what I usually do/see, so it was a good experience. Also because I had no clue what to do in the beggining I had to use my head to figure it out. One or two thngs I didn't like about it was how I had to look at the picture and figure out where I had to put the bones and how to shape them and whatnot. The ribs were the most frustrating part because I couldn't get the 3D part down so I just kind of drew these oval things.

I used what I learned from other projects on this like how to draw lines and make shapes and make it all look somewhat realistic. My growth as an artist has come a long way from the beggining of the semester. I feel like I can do a lot more than I originally thought. This class made me realize I can do way more than I thought I was capable of and in that way I have grown.

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The project I thought was least important was the stencil portrait because it didnt really seem to me like it involved art in a major way and I couldn't learn anything about art from it. It didn't seem like it would help us get better in art in any way. So that is partly why I didnt finish it because I just didn't have the desire or drive to do it. It frustrated me because it was such a process and I was just lazy and didn't want to do it.

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I don't know if we can use the same picture twice but this project reflects me as an "artist" because it is not a good drawing but it isn't bad either and it shows that I can actually do something decent in art. It shows that I shouldn't underestimate myself because looking at this painting..it isn't horrendous. So it lets me know I can get better and make paintings that look realistic which is one of my goals in art. I have a personal connection to this painting because, I don't know, it is my favorite thing we did this semester and I plan on putting it up somewhere in the house if my mom doesn't do it first.