Reflection of My Year so Far

Already its the end of the marking period.  It feels like just yesterday was the first day of school. When I walked in to art for the first time, I didn't know what to expect.  I had taken art in middle school with the same teacher, but I was told it is very different. Even without knowing what I'd gotten myself into to begin with, overall I'm really happy with my first marking period. I learned many interesting techniques.  One that I especially liked was the gloss medium transfer.  A gloss medium transfer uses gloss medium to transfer the ink from a magazine page (or any paper with ink on it) onto another paper.  I think this is such a fascinating technique that creates an amazing result.  I used this method in my Next President Collage.  Moving on from this topic, I think I've improved a lot in my artistic ability this marking period. Not just in learning ways of creating art, but also becoming more confident in my work.  I think one of my biggest problems is not being sure of my ideas. This marking period I really had a chance to see what I can do and how great my ideas can turn out. Also if you remember from my first post I mentioned two of my goals for the marking period. One was to learn new things (I think I've pretty much driven home that I learned something) and to improve myself by opening my mind to different kinds of people. I believe that I've done a good job at satisfying these goals and I hope the rest of the year is just as successful. Until next time, Au Revoir!

Next President Collage

As you probably know the election is right around the corner.  My art teacher assigned us to create a collage having to do with the election and topics that are being discussed among the candidates. I decided to try to "talk" about the environment and a combination of mine and Obama's view.  I started off with a back round o f grey with a circle in the middle to represent the swirling pollution and the bit of hope for clean energy.  I'm not crazy about this piece, but I still like it. I think I didn't like this as much as my shoe drawing is because I was never sure of what I wanted to do or if it would work out the way I would like it to. I think over all I'm happy with the result and I'm also happy that I learned new techniques of transferring ink. I'm looking forward to seeing this in my book.

Shoe Drawing

As I said before I am assigned to write this blog for my art class at my highschool. This post is about the shoe drawings we did. My teacher told my class to bring in a pair of shoes to add to a pile for our table.  I decided to bring my old pointe shoes. I began by making a rough outline of the shoes I decided to draw.  To make my focus a little clearer I used a "path finder." A path finder is a small peace of paper with a square cut out in the middle so you can focus just on the specific shoes that you're drawing. After about two weeks of shading and adding detail my product was the picture above.  I'm really proud of my work. I didn't know I could draw something like this.  Sometimes I got discouraged, but I worked through it and made something that, to me, is truly beautiful. I hope that I can continue improving through out the year and make more great pieces 

Welcome Post

As you can probably tell I am not a very experienced blogger. I was assigned to write this blog for my art class (I think I'll be posting pictures of the art I do).  If you're looking for a blog where one pours their heart and soul onto the paper then let's just say you've been warned. But if you want to stick around I'll be saying plenty of awkward sentences to complete my assignment and entertain my "audience."

          Any who,  hello... (awkward) my name is Cara and I'm starting my freshman year of high school. So far all my classes have been going pretty well (as well as school can be).  For my art class, as I mentioned before, I am to tell you my goals for the year. Usually when teachers ask me these kinds of questions I respond with a "What is this future you speak of?" I guess I just don't like the thought of growing up and leaving everything I know and love (omg I'm so deep).  One goal for my art class is that I would like to learn new techniques and improve in general.  We are making sketch books with paper that we stain with watercolor.  Soon we will be drawing shoes! I think we have a great project planned out for us.  I can't wait.  Another goal of mine is not necessarily school related, but still very important to me.  In many schools there has been a lot of talk of bullying and HIB and I, like many, hadn't really taken it seriously.  I really opened my eyes this year and saw things I never did before.  Just because you don't see kids being shoved up on lockers... it's the little things that hurt more. The dirty looks, talking behind people's backs, and many other things. I want to do my part this year to not be that person and to pull up a chair to anyone. Also if you do have a problem with anything talk to someone. They really do want to help you and listen.  I hope you enjoyed my first post (and it completed my assignment).  I'm sure I'll be posting again soon so until then, Au Revoir!