Chair With Coat

How I found today's still life less complicated then the still life's over the past few weeks was that I think everything came together. Over the past few weeks, I learned a lot and I think today I used everything I learned and put it all together. I think I still could have done better but I think it turned out well using everything I have learned. How I used some of the skills we've developed over the past three weeks was remembering how I made a mistake in my last drawing. I tried to think about how I messed up, and tried to do the same thing, but in the right way. Some of the skills were blending, emphasizing, and drawing the big picture.

Pile of Sticks

I don't think my artwork went as bad as I thought it would. I spent a lot of time looking at the sticks and less time looking at my drawing. I did this because I wanted to be sure I was putting everything in the right place, so it looked as much like the pile of sticks actually did. Making the drawing was really easy in the beginning. I just colored everywhere where I saw sticks. When I was finished with that, it became more tricky. I had to take the thinner pencil and try to draw in individual sticks. I was expecting my outcome to be worse than it was. As I was working on it, it didn't look right to me. I kept making parts lighter with the eraser, then making the parts around it darker with pencil. At the very end when I took a step back, I think it looked better than I thought it did when I didn't look at the big picture.

The Changing Still Life

Three things I you had to do to accomplish the goal of keeping up with the changed that were happening and keeping the drawing looking like the still life were: being neat, making sure everything is in the right place, and coloring in certain objects so you can see what is what. It was helpful to be neat because that would prevent erasing. The erasing was the hardest part I think because it made everything so messy. Making sure everything was int he right place was also important. I had a couple times when I almost didn't have enough room on my page. Also, a lot of the things that I drew were way to close up, so everything else that came in front of it didn't look right because there really wasn't room for it. Coloring in certain objects was also important. It helped to distinguish which object was which. When you colored them in, it didn't look like one big blob, it looked more like different objects.

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.

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.