Helena+J.

 Reflection on My Water Color Painting!

//This is my painting.//
First of all expressionist comes from expression this means a person who expresses. So expressionist painting must mean a person who uses expression in a painting. Expression is one’s feelings. To make this simple it just means that expressionist painting must be people who put lots of feelings into their painting to show their audience what they or what the painting is feeling right then. My painting is similar to an Expressionist painting because it uses bizarre colors to express itself. Like I used red and orange for my desert which is bizarre because usually deserts are yellow. But I wanted to express myself making the desert look fiery and angry, like it was in fire. This is one of the things expressionists do to express their feelings, using colors. I drew this to express anger, sadness, happiness, and hope. Everything around the camel is in fiery or dark and gloomy but in front of it is a ray of hope which is expressed in white. It shows that the world can be a dangerous place but if you have a goal, there is always a path to follow. The animal I drew also isn’t cartoony. It is figurative like all expressionist painting should be. I chose a camel to represent me. Camels have to endure the desert which is hot and dangerous but they live and cope in the harsh environment. Even though I am not in a harsh environment, I have been to many other environments and cope with it. But even though they have to live through the desert, they sometimes need someone to guide their way like the people who ride the camels. I have many colors to express myself but most of the time I am happy. That is why I chose yellow to represent me because I enjoy going to school, playing the piano, and try to think everything positively because it helps me endure anything. I also chose blue which is on the bottom side of the camel to say I am not always happy. Rarely am I mad but I am sometimes sad, I miss my friends from America. This is my seventh school so I always have to find new people which isn’t that easy. I also have to worry about the future, we might move...again. That is why I choose yellow and blue as my two colors. I chose dry brush for my desert because it gives out the rocky texture showing how harsh the desert is. I did graduated wash for my black background sky to show how black goes to white, going closer and closer to my goal. I chose bleeding to express the camel, yellow to blue which are the colors that represent me. I also chose wet to wet for my swirls showing that everything around you can change, the design has different colors to show that. The swirls shows the feelings of people and environment around you can change. I would like to change my color for the red swirls. It blends in with the red desert which make them pop out in to your eyes when you see them. I like the theme of my project. Like I said in the beginning it shows there are hardships around you but you have to move forward toward whatever goal in life you have and the more closer, the brighter it you will see it. I do wish that I could have improved at my painting skills to express this.

 Voice Thread of my Printmaking Project! media type="custom" key="5917911" One Point Perspective Critique! //This is my One Point Perspective Drawing.//

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For the past few days in my Art Exploration class each one of us have been working on our One Point Perspective Drawing. The theme for my One Point Perspective Drawing is classical music expressed in musical instruments and notes. I chose this theme because I enjoy listening to classical music and playing music on my instrument so I wanted to express that by drawing this. My unexpected environment for my drawing is an amusement park. This is a good match to my music theme because noise is the opposite of music and there are lots of noises heard in an amusement park where everyone rides roller coasters, Ferris Wheel and have fun. My biggest challenge for this assignment is thinking of what to do for my unexpected environment. For a whole hour I have been thinking of what to do for my unexpected environment because I couldn't think of anything opposite from music. I believed everything was tied to music some way or the other so any other environment won't be "unexpected". I tried drawing a ghost house for my background but my drawing was already inside of a room so it didn't work out. A dark forest would have been to black and dull while a computer room would just look boring as an unexpected environment. Drawing a colorful and beautiful scenery didn't look good at my already bright colored music room. So that is why I came up with an amusement park which has more noise then music. The most I am proud of of this assignment is the door, the stairway, and the bed. I like the door because it is a flute with music notes coming out. This looks creative and fun to look at. I also like the stairway because it is a piano stairway which also looks unique and wild. The harp bed looks uncomfortable to sleep on but it is fun to look at. If I could change anything about my drawing it would be the color of the wall, the floor, and the carpet. For me, orange looks to weird for a wall color especially when my theme is classical music. If I could erase and redo it, it would be black or brown to make it more old and classical. The orange wall also blends in with the merry-go-round that is part of my unexpected environment. I first colored the floor blue then it looked my room was on water so I colored brown over it. Now it looks like sand on water which looks odd against my harp bed which is brown. The drum and stick carpet looked a bit dull and it looked like no one could guess what it is before I told them what the carpet looked like. Other then that I think my drawing is okay.=====

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media type="custom" key="5274775"This is the sketchcast of the 3 rules: overlapping, shading, placement of drawing, and size. I used overlapping size and placement of drawing. It is a coke and flower.