Progress Reflection 1

This week has been the beginning of the end of our time together. Everyone is in a different spot in their work. In a post on your blog describe... 

What did you accomplish this week? 
 This week I finished my clay sculpture, came up with my idea for my independent project, and I am rapping up my symbolic portrait.
What challenges did you face? 
This week the clay was the hardest for me but I am glad it is over now. Also creating the curly hair in my symbolic portrait was complicated and frustrating. I am now excited to see how it ends up.
What are the next steps? 
Next I plan to finish up my symbolic portrait. Then my group is going to spend a class on the mural and then begin my final project.
What do you plan to do in the week ahead? 
In the week ahead I plan on finishing my symbolic portrait, beginning my final project and finishing the mural. 

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Art 21 Reflection

Julie Mehretu
Creates abrstact paintings with densely layered amounts of paint. She does this by going to different places and creating a map like immage of it in her mind or on paper. She does this is many places and adds them together. This way she is making a map of "history." Its hard for me to relate to this artist because I have not done very many abstract paintings. I think that her type of artwork would be a lot of fun though because you are creating something new out of things that already exist. I also think that putting a lot of different colors on top of each other and see how it ends up could be a lot of fun. I am sure that there is more technique to it than that but still that is very different than most other artists I know.

Florian Maier
Is a landscape photographer who digitally changes and enhances him photographs. His inspiration is old photographs, how they used to be taken, and how much the technology has changed. I can relate to this work because when I have taken photography classes before I have enjoyed using manual cameras and going through that process. Also I think that I would be very cool to be able to fly to all different parts of the world to capture the beauty. One of my favorite things about Florian Maier is that he can take these beautiful picture and then is able to turn them into different colors or black and white to make the image more simple but it does not loose its beauty.

Sketchbook

This year my sketchbook has been a place for me to go and explore all the ideas swearing around in my head. It has helped me develop ideas for my artwork. Also some of my sketchbook ideas have been incorporated into my work. In my sketchbook there is a lot of patterns and collage. These are both things I really enjoy. Also one of my favorite things to do in my sketchbook is try mixing different materials to see what they end up like.

Initial Reflection

Freshman year in art we have done a lot of different projects. Every Tuesday we spent time drawing a different still life. This was not one of my favorite things because drawing in detail is not something that I enjoy. I also did not enjoy making the sculpture because manipulating the "junk" was not easy for me. I loved all the painting and I would consider that one of my strengths. Painting relaxes me and allows me to express myself more than some of the other projects. Collage with magazine and news papers are also something that I enjoyed. I love being able to take something apart to create another thing completely different. I will leave this class thinking about different ways to incorporate art into my life and when given the chances I will defiantly continue to create art.

Art 21 Reflection

Jeff Koons 
His art work is about connecting with others. He likes that he does not know what is going to happen and what the reactions of people will be to his art. He tends to work on his computer to vary the color in photos before they are made into larger paintings. He also works with many different materials. He even creates floral arrangements. I could relate to Jeff Koons because he seems to be someone who likes to try new things using new materials which is something that I also enjoy.

Mary Heilmann 
Wants her art work to cause trouble and to make people think about it. As she grew as an artist she began to love collaborative work. Her art work is about putting emotion that can read to other into the art work using many different techniques. Her simple ideas become obsessions and she spends hours working and thinking about them. I can relate to Mary Heilmann because when I get really caught up in a piece of work I want to make it the best that it possibly can be like Marry.

Symbolic Clay Sculpture Portrait Plan

I chose my great grandpa because he is someone that I enjoy spending time with him. He is a person who anyone can talk to and has a wise answer. He is kind, respected by all, and coragious. All of these characteristics reminded me of a lion. For the background I plan to put him on a hill which shows his power even more. Ontop of the hill he will be sitting down and reading a book of stories to represnt how he likes to tell stories from the past to friends and family.

Visiting artist: Hamlett Dobbins

I like this painting of Hamlett's because it is a painting that can be interpreted in  many diffrent ways, what does the dragon have to say about anything? Dragons are a creation of emagination. Then there are words on the side which at first glance does not fit with the rest of the painting. By doing this you have to think about how the two things might fit together. 

My question for Hamlett is that when he is having trouble finding inspiration what does he do to get that back?