Printing Making Project

For this printmaking project, i decided to make a Christmas scene. I decided to make a colorful scene with a Christmas tree with many ornaments, and presents and other fun things such as the background. This project was really hard and was challenging but i finished.

I See the Light Drawing

My goal for this project was to first draw a scene from my camp which is called the final campfire. I thought that a drawing of a whole camp fire with people and candles would be a little overwhelming for my final project. So instead, I decided to draw a zoomed in picture of a candle. I used all of the types of pencil and also decided to do shading with my fingers and with a paper towel...that really helped achieve the look i was looking for.

Thinking about the use of light in art.

When I think of light in art, what instantly comes to my mind is how the artist wants to emphasis something important. For example is there is a landscape that is of a field completely barren except for one flower in the middle, the artist would chose to shine the light on the single flower to emphasize the importance in the picture. When I think of music, sunshine can refer to happy things or something that is going to help you get to a better place. Also, when people think of light it can symbolize Heaven or God. Usually when people say don't go to the light, it means don't slip away and go to heaven. Also if you go into any Catholic church and look on the ceiling there are portraits of god and other heavenly things with light always shining behind them. Light can also make the piece of art very strong because people are drawn to light!

I am me, myself, and I.

I think that my art project was not to the best of my abilities...i feel that because i basically gave up on the project it didn't really reflect me as much as i wanted to. I just think that since i spent to much time on little details i didn't get to the point where i can show myself.

Artist-in-Residence: alexander DeMaria

i like this piece because it is really cool how he can cut up paper and arrange it into a beautiful piece of art. i am really not sure what is going on in the picture but i think it is people going to attack each other and then they merge together. i think that the contrast between the off white and the gray causes you to look closer to the work. i think that this incorporates into his collection of work, because it is in the color scheme...i also really enjoy it because the way that he cuts the work you can tell that it takes a lot of time and there is so much detail.

how long does it usually take for him to make this type of art?

Reflecting on self-portrait progress

I decided to make a picture of a theater. The view of the theater is as if you are walking into the theater to find a seat. I didn't finish but drawing all of it but I was going to draw in all of the theater chairs and balconies with seats in them. In all of the various seats, I was going to draw things that represent me such as: my race, my family, my culture, my personality. Feedback that I got was to incorporate more stuff about my connections with my immediate family. I am just going to keep working and it shall be done soon.

Why do People Make Art?

I think that people way back in the beg. of time decided to draw stuff and create art because they wanted to remember something they saw in the day or if they had like a dream or something then they wanted to record what they saw they would draw it instead of writing it because a lot of people didn't know how to write. Now a days, I think that people decide to make art to pretty much do the same exact thing. Artists want to take an image that can change over time and capture it in the moment when they see it. Also art is made to show an artist point of view on something. Overall, I think the purpose of creating art hasn't changed at all.