Found Images Collage

I got my idea for the collage I am making from a brain that was connected by wires. I thought another interesting way to show that would be to do the same thing, but with magazine, instead of wires. The feedback I got from the people in my group was:
-use more colored objects (cars, shirts etc)
-try to blend the colors by putting a little of one color in the other
-use more different shades of each color

three forms drawing

I thought making that drawing today was difficult. I had a really hard time making the colors go together and "blend". Something that made me feel successful was the block. Not all of it came out very well, but I shaded the bottom part well, and I think it looked a lot better than some of the other parts of the block. I also think I outlined each shape to the best of my ability. Something I learned during the process was to use a lot of charcoal when you try to blend the colors. I thought it would have been easier to use the least possible, but I was wrong. Something else I learned during this process was that it sometimes can look really cool when you use your finger to blend colors.

Extending our findings from The Pour Paintings.

My idea for extending my findings in the pour paintings into a new work of art was to make 4 different rainbows. My plan is to have 4 loops that all are connected. After one part loops under the other, I start using new materials. I used oil pastels, and my other options are using magazine, tape, colored pencils, markers, and paint. Some feed back that I got from my group was to continue with the rainbow, and not to change the colors. They all liked how I had in between colors. They thought it made it blend and go together really well.

Pour Paintings

When we poured paint onto the paper, I thought it was pretty hard to know that I couldn't control what was happening on the paper. I sometimes started to see certain interesting shapes form, but then then the paint kept spreading and she shape went away. Something that surprised me that I saw happen was when one color overlapped another color. Instead of making an ugly brown, the colors mixed together to make another interesting, pretty color. In my picture, I think I'm going to continue making more smaller pictures within it. Since the pour wasn't all in one big place, and is spread out, there isn't one major theme. I am going to keep turning the paper around and look at it from different angles so I can find more little shapes that I can draw.

Collaborative Drawings.

My experience today making collaborative drawings was really fun, but extremely frustrating at the same time. It was pretty annoying having someone else work on my drawing. I thought that the people working on it weren't going to see what my idea was, and they were going to completely mess it up. When I originally worked on my drawing, I thought it was pretty good, so I felt accomplished. When I saw other people's marks on it, it was frustrating because all of the work that was put into it wasn't all mine. I think having someone else work on my drawing added and took away from the final result. There were some things that were added to it that went perfectly, that I would never have thought to do. Also, there were some big mistakes that bothered me a lot that could have been avoided.

talk and draw

What was challenging about this experience was both being the drawer and being the describer. It was difficult because I'm not used to thinking about art work as shapes. I always think of it the way it really is. I realized that I had to depend on my partner and believer her that she was telling me the right thing to draw and where to draw it.  If I had to do this activity again, I would try to take it step by step. When I was explaining the picture to my partner, I wasn't really thinking of each individual shape, I was thinking how everything came together. If I had to do it again, I would make sure that I was explaining each shape. Another thing I would do next time would be to ask my partner more questions when I was drawing. I could ask her if I was putting everything in the right place and using the right colors, so my drawing could have been a bit more discriptive.

Reflecting on Picasso quote.

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."



What I think Pablo Picasso meant by his quote is that a child's mind is filled with fantasy and imagination. Children can be artists when they have fantasy. This is because they can think abstractly. Children can be artists when they have a good sense of imagination because if they can imagine, they can make art that isn't necessarily real, but very creative and different. When children grow up, they tend to lose the fantasy and imagination because they start to be interested to other things.