week 7

This week we have been painting seascapes from our imaginations with watercolor, the object of my focus was the effect the people have had on the earth or the land. The reason for this was so that min could be special no one else had the same focus. And wen you think about the earth and beaches or seascapes or whatever humans have had a massive impact on their surroundings building removing and replacing everywhere and anywhere as they see fit.

week5

This week we finished up our stent in baroque art with one page essays about random artist and toda we have graded ourselves on the portrait we have recently finished. now we are about to start drawing the ocean from memory.

Baroque Art - Francisco De Zurbaran

            Francisco De Zurbaran was a 17th century baroque period artist. He was born in the year 1598 in a town in Spain called Fuente de Cantos. He practiced his art long and hard from a young age. Finally in 1614 he got his apprenticeship with a Spanish artist by the name of Pedro Diaz. This was all good until 1617 when he decided to move to Llerena which was an important city at that time. He lived in Llerena until the year 1628.
           Little was know about the defining characteristics of his art. However it is know the he was just a painter and he painted many pieces for churches and cathedrals. He is also well known for his portraits however few of them are still around because he was known to be private and didn't keep records the same way someone else might. On the 17th of January in 1626 he did sign a contract with a monastery in Seville to do 21 paintings in a span of 8 months.
           This artist is considered to be a baroque period artist because of the time period he lived in he was comissioned to do art by many people for many reasons he was not really known for one work in particularly. In fact it is said that his works quality greatly deteriorated as he aged and like most artists he died crazy and alone abandoned by those he loved.
           Zurbarans art was mainly portraits so the effect he had on art in general was probably very minimal. The question I was supposed to write about in this paragraph really doesn't apply other than the fact that most of his art was fairly dark and portraits of his employers I don't see how that could produce much of any effect on anyone else.
           In summary I have learned about this small time baroque period artist who specialized in portraits and lived in Spain. He died in 1664 in Madrid, Spain.

Symbolic Color

White- Empty, Endless, Colorless, Bland
Black- Dark, Alone, Empty, Scared, Dreamlike
Grey/Brown- Bland, Dismal, Depressing, Earthy
Yellow- Sunshine, Brightness, Warmth, Sour
Orange- Warm, Heat, Thirsty, Fruity
Red- Bloody, Impure, Death, Communism,
Green- Fertility, Strength, Beauty, Life
Blue- Sky, Wet, Protection, Firm
Purple/Violet-Beautiful, Sweet, Happy, Secretive

Week One- What I learned

This week we have been focused on water color and i think i have even gotten a little bit better. We made a card for Mr. Ben Ashlock an Mr. Steve. For Ben my card as a painting of a man sleeping because that kinda went with hat he was saying about not being able to sleep we as a young child. For Steve i made a card with a picture of a Sun Heatig up the sky like he heated up our classroom.

Critique my project

Critique your project in terms of the Principles and Elements of Design. Be specific. Did you push yourself to learn something new? Did you make deliberate choices in making and designing your project? Did you follow through with what you said you would? Has it made you want to learn more in that specific area?

-i didnt really push myself that hard to learn anything new
-i did not make deliberate choices i just went with the flow
-i did not follow through with my original plan my plan changed many times
-i have learned a lot more in the field of container making now i have the understanding to make many things similar to this

1. First of all, what did you make? What is it?
2. Write out your process in detail - how did you make it?
3. What tools, materials, and equipment did you use?
4. What skill were you focused on developing or learning?
5. What did you particularly enjoy about the process? What was challenging or difficult?
6. What do you think you did well on with this project?
1.A  cylindrical container.
2.I cleaned out the pringles can, then cut off the top of a bottle then glued it onto that top of the pringles can with hot glue, then I used mod podge to glues strips of magazine paper to the outside of the can reinforcing it and putting on a paint able surface, and finally a painted three coats of black paint to the container.
3. A pringles can, water bottle, scissors, magazine paper, mod podge(?), hot glue gun, and black paint + brush.
4.Painting.
5.I thought it was funny how many times my ideas changed on what I should make but hard deciding on which of my ideas to use.
6.The container is well put together i dropped and realized it was stronger than i knew so i did a few tests on it and came to the understanding that it was strong.