Reflecting on Your Artmaking
Journaling about your art making is important. It helps me step back and recognize unconscious decisions I making. Younger students I have reflect in Artsonia informally. Here I am using Weebly for mine, eventually my advanced student will do this as well. This is my example. I reflect throughout the four step process: inspiration, design, creation and reflection. I look for emerging thoughts about where I can take ideas, designs, materials and developing themes/concepts.
Four Step Art Process: Inspiration, Design, Creation, Reflection
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Playing ShyInspiration
When Mason was in his car seat on such a lovely Fall day he had this very large leaf he kept playing with out the open window. These leaves came off our neighbors yard. As I checked on him in the mirror he c played peek a boo. The light coming through his window made the leaf look radiant Design . Snapped a pic on my Phone which made out my design. I color corrected and noticed all the colors art b play in the shadows on his face Creation I used oil pastel I layered with the light body color then the compliment color followed by the body color again. I mixed them by blending light coats as I applied in circular motions they blended. Reflecton. A previous moment inspired by the play c of light as well. Truck lay down a light color before darker shading so it doesn’t her trapped in the paper. Theme Thoughts for future work perhaps a series of the kids in the car. Perhaps show the passage of time to them in their teens and being out of touch with us. Like the zooming in and hidden face. If repeat that compositional element Playing Shy 8.5x11. Oil Pastel. 2017 |
Driveway Dandelions |
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INSPIRATION
Developing an art project Mind Map We start by doing a Mind web to see what’s been “on our mind”. We ask ourselves WWWWWHow questions to investigate ideas to be more detailed and thought about visual images too. Circled idea. This choice has to do with the fact I get to identify as a sister to someone. Check out the theme Identity page Brainstormed circled idea I chose my sister whom I’ve met this year she spent her childhood in Fillmore while I was less than an hour away in Olean. I started to brainstorm list items that I could use for imagery. I chose dandelions because they seem to grow in the cracks of my driveway and you can’t stop them from thriving. And I’ve bed. Gardening it seemed to float into my mind I identify with them and chose them to stand in for myself and my sister. Driveways are the homes for roads. . I listed quite a few items but ultimately decided to use google maps as my canvas. DESIGN Consider Composition I thought about the law of 1/3rds to keep items out of the center. I drew them facing each other to add a narrative. I used two reference pictures that had the right angle for each. As I worked I noticed the roads seemed like roots linking them together and emphasized. I thought how deep dandelion roots went into the earth. I included an older dandelion to represent my mother. CREATION PROCESS and EDITED
Consider materials. I struggled at first with materials: satelitte image or road? oil pastels or colored pencils. I liked the slick laser jet so started with that. The oil pastel were see through and the slick pages of the laser jet made material choices challenging. I defined them with scratching in with a drawing pencil. I used acrylics because I could stack them with the oil pastels on top and went over areas that were transparent. I used a medium to add a thicker texture REFLECTION I could always do again and transfer a road map image to a piece of wood, then paint on top to make it more lasting. The paper isn't archival that its on. After i I looked at it some more I added more to the right dandelion to balance the composition and titles it to add more weight to the right. I added some pebbles in the crack of the earth to make it look like a side view I scraped off the lines on gray cement between the dandelions. I wish I had kept the white mating cleaner. |
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Theme: Identity, metaphor
Queen of heart(s)
theme: identity, storytelling, contrast
INSPIRATION
My busy life. Two distinct sides. I chose the concept of a playing card as my inspiration. and used it to show the two sides of my life In showing my identity. DESIGN Single me is holding the tulip a symbol I use quite often for my children because of a memory. The Mom version of me looks tired, makes my favorite spaghetti sauce that I see as nurturing. , I am loved by my husband even though I am not the prettiest when at home . I used colors and shapes to show the difference between dramatic action with red sharp shaped background versus the, blues and calming curves. In my composition I chose to show her off center with one arm up and one arm down. The arm that became down became a hand used in the other person later created. I also wanted to create a diagonal with my two people instead of having them directly start to show more action with that diagonal line. I allowed my hair to flow and trees to go beyond the inner frame of the playing card This added a sense of freedom. My busy yourself has space more constrained by the inner border and is compressed. CREATION I feel that a sheet of paper in half and I drew myself roughly with an arm up in an arm down. Arm down I determined would be used as the app hand on the other side. I flipped and transferred the first image onto lower part of the paper. I began to draw the first side. The lines ended in the middle of the paper and from there I transformed them into something different on the other half. watercolor pencils were used first as watercolor then as sharper detail. I didn’t feel it looked graphic and off like a playing card would so I outlined in black ink REFLECTION What would it be like if I made each family member their own plane card to show family as my identity instead of the two sides of my own self. Future project ideas! How can you use contrast, balance principles of art to help you show the facets of your personality. How will you use line, shape, color to set the mood? |