Christine+L.

Expressionist Painting Reflection My painting is similar to an Expressionist painting because colors and feelings that I portrayed on the painting. There was a mixture of colors that are calm and cool verses the loud and warm colors. Although most of the Expressionist painters' paintings have very bright colors and an exciting moods, but I noticed that some of them had a calming effect on me. Those is the kind of feelings I wanted to portray on my painting, calming but also exciting to look at. I chose the animal penguin, because I thought it represented me well. Penguins are playful and active and also live in large groups. I, myself, like to do active activities and prefer living or playing in large groups of friends or family members, rather than be alone. I chose the colors blue and green because blue means openness and faith while green means naturalistic. I have great faith in the people that I interact and I like playing or staying in nature. I used the technique Bleeding Was from Primary to Secondary on the bottom of my painting. Then I used bleeding on the second penguin from the left side. The technique Feathering was used on the top of my painting. I also used rock salt on the magenta color surrounding the last penguin. Wet on Dry was mostly used on all the places. I think I would change the surrounding colors on the penguins because I actually did rock salt on all of them but they didn't show because the colors were too light. I like the whole atmosphere of the project because it has a calming effect but also it is exciting and fun to look at.  Printmaking Assignment media type="custom" key="5917783"

One Point Perspective Room Critique

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//The theme of my room was a baby or a kid's room. I chose this theme because I wanted to think of my childhood and thought of what kind of room I had wanted when I was a kid, and also what other children would want their room to be like. My unexpected environment was a beach or an ocean. I thought it was a good match to my room because when I was little, I had always wanted to live near a beach or ocean. The biggest challenge that I had was drawing and choosing what kind of furniture to put in the room. Also, it was a great challenge for me to draw the Sesame Street characters on the cushion since I had to fit them in a small space. I am most proud of the mobile hanging from the skylight, the Mickey Mouse on the back wall, and how I colored my room. I am very proud of these points because I think I imitated the objects (Mickey Mouse, mobile) quite well and the colors are very bright and match the atmosphere of a young child's room. If I could change anything from this assignment, or the room I would try to think harder of how to draw the beach in my unexpected environment instead of drawing the obvious things like seagulls and seashells, and also I think that we shouldn't have been assigned at least three furniture objects. The reasons are that some people could have wanted more open space without too many furniture and for the unexpected environment, I think I was a bit too obvious about drawing a beach.//=====

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