reflecting on the first full week

the four projects that we did this week were, describing a work of art, collaborative drawing, pour paintings and mapping the still life. these all related to each other because in each case we couldn't do things the way we normally would and we could never really be sure how it would turn out in the end. in each project we didn't complete control in one way or another. in the describing art you could never be sure how the other person would interoperate what you wrote. in collaborative drawing someone else may not have seen the same thing in the picture as you did. in pour paintings the paint really did what ever it wanted. lastly in mapping the still life you couldn't just draw what you saw like you would normally you had to change this around. 

re-visiting observation/description activity

What parts of their drawing look like the actual painting?

the skeleton on the top of the bed was the only thing that kind of looked like the real painting and the back round clouds looked like the painting too, sort of.

What was missed? What parts did they not get and why?

the way the bad is sort of like a bunk bed didn't make it into the drawing and the lady sleeping in the bottom part of the bed. those things probably didn't make it into the painting because i wasn't descriptive enough or i didn't choose the right words to describe what was going on.

What would you do differently if you were to do this activity again?

i would be more desciptive and make sure to go into detail about everything in the painting and what view the painting is being drawn from. 

re-visiting my pour painting

Imagery in the pour:

1. fireworks

2. a shoe

3. the Eiffle tower

4. peacock feathers

5. a snake

6. car (station wagon)

7. a dogs head

8. ants walking in a line

Giving up control: Pours

today we did painting where we didn't know how the paint was going to look when it was on the paper because we poured it on. my partner was Lexie. our first painting was yellow and red and we tried to sort of splatter it on the paper. we liked how that looked so we did that for our next 2 paintings which were purple and blue and then black and green. it felt kinda cool to not really know where the painting was going to go and i really liked the end result.

collaborative drawing

it felt very different having other people work on my art. it didn't exactly go in the direction i was thinking but then again i was just sort of doing a random abstract art drawing. after i went and painted on other people drawings i can back to mine and it was really weird... i had to paint over a few things that i just thought didn't fit at all. but in the end it was ok and nothing went horribly wrong. but if i was doing a piece of art i cared more about i definitely would not want other people working on it as well.

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What makes someone an artist? (An artist is someone who...)
Someone who is creative and expresses themselves through painting, drawing, photography, writing and any other type of art, and is not afraid to share there opinions with the world through something other then words.

What does it mean to be creative? (To be creative is to...)

To be creative is to just use your imagination and express yourself openly to the world.

Describe at least 3 or 4 things an artist needs to be creative and productive. (An artist needs...)

An artist need materials to work with, a good space to work in and something to inspire them.

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Side Lecture at the Metropolitan Museum

Max Weber

1961

First Impressions:

I really like the colors and shapes in this painting.  I think it kind of looks like its reflecting off it self in the painting.