ART SHOW

Coil Pot

Collage

My art piece is a picture of hands reaching through clouds reaching at sunlight. The title of this piece is Goals. The most obvious element in my piece of art would be the form. I tried to use different shades of colors and techniques to make my piece of art look original.

The media of my drawing is prisma color pencils. The techniques I used to help create this piece of art is blending and I used layers to help create wholeness.

I picture doing hands reaching for like a specific thing but I could not really decide on what I wanted the hands to be reaching for. In my art piece as an artist I tried to portray the message to keep reaching for your goals because the sky is the limit. My goals as an artist is to make all my art work look as best as possible and to make all my art pieces original as I can.

I learned that using prisma color pencils takes little skill but you have to be really creative. I think my final piece could have been better. This piece will influence my future artwork by practicing on certain skills I struggle with that would help me in the long run with my future artwork.

My art piece is a sculpture of a coils and roses. The title of this piece is The Rose. The most obvious element in my piece of art would be the texture. I tried to use different designs and techniques to make my piece of art look original.

The media of my drawing is clay. The techniques I used to help create this piece of art is coils and slabs and I used the wedging technique to take any air bubbles out of my clay.

I picture doing roses in my head and adding different designs around it. My art work does not express anything.

My goals as an artist is to make all my art work look as best as possible and to make all my art pieces original as i can.

I learned that using clay takes a very little skill but you have to be really creative. I think my final piece could have been better. This piece will influence my future artwork by practicing on certain skills I struggle with that would help me in the long run with my future artwork.

Watercolor

Cross Contour

My art piece is a picture of a landscape. It is is very close up. The title of this piece is Loss of Love.The most obvious elements in this art piece realism, I tried to use shadows of certain things and use my foreground middle ground and background to make it look real.

The media of my drawing is Water color. The techniques I used were blending with wet on wet and using wet on dry.

I saw the heart that I liked and i just drew it. My art work does not express a social nor personal issue. The emotion I was trying to portray would be more of a sad and lonely.

My goals as an artist is to make pictures look more realistic and get it to look just like the picture I am doing it off of. This piece of work did not help me reach my goal because it was challenging to get the picture to look alike.

I learned that using watercolor takes a very patient and skilled person to use it. I think my final piece could have been better. This piece will influence my future artwork by practicing on certain skills I struggle with that would help me in the long run with my future artwork.

My art work is a picture of a muscular man with no skin. The subject matter is his muscles and how it looks under the skin. The title of my art piece is Skinless. The most obvious elements in my piece of art is the watercolor and marker.

The media my artwork is made from is watercolor and marker, pencil and pen. The techniques I used for this piece of art is hatching and using the line quality to make my piece show better. I also used cross contour lines to form the body structure of the man it shows more 3D than just the lines.

The body just inspired me to do this because it looked cool. My art piece does not express and social nor a personal issue. The emotion in this piece looks like hes kind of flexing but angry.

My goals as an artist is to continue to show growth in my art pieces. Also to use previous skills and media I've used before to make my artwork look better. As of right now i have not reached my goal but I can tell as an artist that I am getting better and getting closer to my goal.

Things I've learned in creating this piece is hatching starting with thick lines and using smaller lines which is line quality. I also learned about cross contour lines that make the object look 3 dimensional it forms the shape of thing that you are drawing.

My art piece is a picture of a Raider Football helmet. The title of this piece is Raiders.The most obvious elements in this art piece realism, I tried to use dark and light pieces of magazine pages to create shadows and used my black background with a moon as my light source.

The media of my drawing is Magazine Paper and Glue. The techniques I used were to rip out the pages and cut some for tight edges.

I saw the helmet that I liked and i just drew it. My art work expresses my passion for football and being a raider. It also shows that it means a lot to me.

I learned that using magazine paper takes a very little skill but you have to be really creative. I think my final piece could have been better. This piece will influence my future artwork by practicing on certain skills I struggle with that would help me in the long run with my future artwork.

My art piece is a picture of Lebron James. He is very close up. The title of this piece is Lebron James.The most obvious elements in this art piece realism, I tried to use blending to make it look real.

The media of my drawing is Oil Pastel. The techniques I used were blending, stippling, and graffito.

Lebron James is my favorite NBA player and that is what inspired me to do a drawing of him. My art work does not express a social nor personal issue. To me there was no emotion that was trying to be portrayed.

My goals as an artist is to make pictures look more realistic and get it to look just like the picture i am doing it off of. This piece of work did not help me reach my goal because it was challenging to get the picture to look alike.

I learned that using Oil Pastel takes a very patient and skilled person to use them. I think my final piece could have been better. This piece will influence my future artwork by practicing on certain skills I struggle with that would help me in the long run with my future artwork.

Oil Pastel

Portrait

My piece depicts a young boy who looks sad. The most obvious element is value. The most obvious principle is contrast.

To create this piece I started by putting grid lines throughout my paper. The second thing I did was began mapping out my drawing. The third step I used a lighter pencil to shade (6H).

My inspiration for this piece was to see my growth within three years from my 8th grade year to my junior year. The emotion I tried to convey was a young boy who look unhappy.

My goal as an artist was to become better and improve on a portrait that I knew i could be successful doing. I did reach my goal because I felt that it looks just like the picture I was drawing from and I know that I've improved on some aspects of my portrait.

by creating this piece I learned that no matter how good you can draw there's always room for improvement. Overall I did like this piece because i can see my improvement and some things I could work on to get better. i will use what I learned on this piece for future works because it helped me make my portrait look realistic.