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JOONYON **ART** PAGE **CLASS** Printmaking Project Reflection (VOICETHREAD)

Here is a drawing of my symbol, a hawk. Expressionist painters used exaggerated colors to express their emotions, drew to freely express their emotions, and they drew the objects non-realistically, using exaggeration (aggressive brush strokes). They were much more interested in wildly expressing their feelings on their abstract piece of art, rather than drawing carefully on their realistic drawings. I also used a similar mind for this artwork, drawing exaggerated colors and expressing my own thoughts on drawing. For example, purple hawks are imaginary, or extremely rare. The reason I chose a hawk to represent me is based on several different reasons. One of them would be because they're extremely focused during hunting and even staying alone, just like me. Maybe I fool around sometimes, but most of the time I'm focused on my job and concentrates on the subject. One other reason would be that hawks specially fly high with royalty, due to the fact that not any other bird can attack a hawk. Even though I'm not strong physically, I usually like to swim with peace, not caring about other people swimming.

Focused on my drawing techniques, I used a variety of colors in the drawing, but of course the main one is purple. There are a lot of meanings together in that color. I simply used purple to represent royalty, nobility, and spirituality. It's pretty much self-explanatory, hawks (including me) match with spirituality and a mixture between hot red and cool blue. In addition, I personally liked purple as well. On the other hand, there are a few watercolor techniques that I used for this painting. First, I used the Wet On Dry technique on the wings of the hawk and the texture of the trees. Second, I carefully used the Bleeding effect on the mountains, between yellow and orange. Next, I threw in some rock salts on the background as a Rock Salt technique. Fourth, I partly used the Masking with Masking Tape technique on the sky, but partially colored blue over the taped regions, to make a cool effect of layers.

If I could do the project over, even though I appreciate this one, I could've used more interesting techniques on the beige background and on the bird. I now think that maybe the hawk is a bit boring, mostly only purple. I reason that I couldn't try all of these effects were because I didn't have much time. It's not that I didn't focus or anything, it's just the time limit of this project, that I would wish to extend. On the other hand, the part where I most liked about this project is where I experienced these cool techniques and actually used them successfully on my project effectively. Overall, I really enjoyed this watercolor project that I could express myself beyond art.

Printmaking Project Reflection (VOICETHREAD)

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Before I start my reflections, I’ll begin with some basic definitions. Positive space is simply about objects that are detailed and shaped. On the other hand, negative space would be the opposite, the shapes around the object. For example, my artwork makes the printed arrows positive, and the paper color would be the negative space. However my artwork has an equal balance of both, because there was approximately the same area of both spaces. On the other hand, my motif of the artwork was resulting as a single feature- arrows. All arrows make up many arrows, leaving spaces that form arrows. My specific meaning for these numerous arrows were basically to show the different directions you can take in your lifetime. Due to the fact that I used arrows beside perfect arrows, I did not use a interlocking design. Just like my artwork did not form an interlocking design, it’s not symmetrical. It doesn’t have any line that separates the drawing into two same parts, and honestly, I didn’t want that to occur. Now I’ll talk about my personal experiences of printmaking. Overall, I was successful at printing my artworks. However, the biggest challenge of all was, of course, figuring out the perfect amount of paint (ink) on the brayer. Whenever the amount of paint differs from the original amount (if too much, too less), the print either came out squished up, or dried up. One small thing I might want to change for the project would be being able print more. We were limited to only 6 copies, but I was actually aiming for approximately 12 copies. Although, I’m the most proud about my skills of “double-printing”. I have actually printed 2 times on the same piece of paper, making a slight offset of two different colors. It made the artwork look much more beautiful.

__My Project...__ The theme of my room is a parthenon. The reason I have chosen this special theme is because it has been my wish ever since I visited a parthenon, to actually live in a beautiful parthenon. As you can see, the room is wide and long. Also, the unexpected environment, or the background, is a wide meadow, with a huge tornado coming. Due to the tornado, the sky isn't bright blue, and I chose dark blue to represent the misty and dark sky. I personally think the environment was matching and creative, because it gives you a mysterious feeling what will happen to the parthenon soon, with that tornado. It seems real, as if you leave this picture alone for a while, the parthenon would be destroyed completely. On the other hand, the most challenging part of this drawing was figuring out how to draw the columns. The columns weren't just stickers stuck on the wall, they were real columns. Because of that reason, I had to make the column normal (front, not following the vanishing point), but also smaller as it went back. Still, I'm proud of this work, especially on the columns. I would say hard work paid off, because my deliberate thoughts helped to draw the best columns to look real. I would also thank Mrs. Digges for helping me discover the actual model of the parthenon. However, there are a few things I would've wanted to change in this assignment. For example, the drawing would be much more interesting to look at if the vanishing point as not at the center. Also, if I could, I would've drawn this on a larger piece of paper, to draw a bit more detailed on the little parts. Thanks!
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