Rachel+L.

Watercolor Painting



My painting is similar to an Expressionist painting. First, my colors are different from real object. My roads are red, and my duck is colored in orange and blue. An expressionist artists drew this kind of paintings to express their feelings about an specific object instead of drawing real object. They draw the objects, people, and and animals using unnatural colors, brush strokes, and distortion to express these paintings.I chose duck because ducks have similar characteristics as I do. For example, ducks are noisy and loud like me. They also eat a lot of foods, do their best to get along with absolutely everyone and lastly always say hello.I chose orange and blue for duck. The meaning of orange is very active and happy like me. I am always positive and active. I also chose blue because blue represent openness and faithful. I think those two colors represent me. I used several watercolor techniques. For example, I definitely used rock salt on the duck's mouth. I used masking tape to show creative roads and bushes. Also, I used feathering to express my road and bleeding to connect duck's mouth and face. If I could do it over, I would change the color of the road. The roads are dark, so road's colors cover up duck's color. That means it is hard to recognize that the duck is representing me. My favorite part about my painting is I used lots of techniques on road so it looks more creative.

Printmaking Reflection

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One Point Perspective Rule Room Critique



The theme of my room is figure skater, Yuna Kim. I chose this theme because it hasn't been long since 2010 Vancouver Olympics were over and Yuna Kim earned gold medal from Vancouver Olympic. My unexpected environment is Alaska. I think Alaska was a good match for my image because figure skating takes place in winter. The biggest challenge in this assignment was drawing the closet in one point perspective. I drew several furniture including closet, but closet was hardest furniture to draw. The closet was difficult to do because I wanted to draw the open closet and it confused me. I am proud of my idea. The reason that I am proud of my idea is because while other people drew scary and spooky room, I drew the room of Yuna Kim. Also, I challenged myself by drawing the open closet and several posters on the door and wall. If I could change anything, I would like to make the room colorful. While many other people's rooms are colorful and nice, my room wasn't very colorful. Also, I would draw more skates, clothes, and furniture to make up some space, and make the room more creative.

One Point Perspective Wallwisher

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