Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Teens inspired

I was inspired by John James Audubon's painting, The Birds of America, Plate #128 "Cat Bird". I was originally inspired by another painting, however when I tried to find it again, I could not find it. This piece inspired me because I love birds, and the original idea was to do either a winter scene or a bird. This painting combined the two ideas. My painting is of two finches on a snowy branch. The medium I used for this painting is acrylic paint. This painting was a challenge for me, because I had never painted nor drawn a bird before. I was originally going to add highlights to the branches but the white almost looked like snow, so I left it how it was. Also I had thought of redoing my background considering how bright it was to the rest of the painting itself, but the Orange of the birds bellies and the blue of the background where nice compliments to each other. In the end I was happy with the outcome of the painting.
(Sketch of the painting)

(My first attempt at painting a finch.)
(The finished painting)


Monday, December 15, 2014

Destruction project

For my destruction piece I decided to destroy a chalk drawing of a bird. I destroyed this piece because I didn't want to destroy any of my other pieces. My iriginal idea was to try and smudge the chalk, but that didn't work. There's was a bottle of glue on the table so I just smudged glue into the picture. This gave it a cool affect. The glue almost cleared up the smudging I did and made it so you could see the picture again. 

Monday, December 8, 2014

Artist collaborate-final


For our collaboration project, Kimberly and I decided to use minions for our project. For each day we put out colored markers and instructions. Students could add whatever they wanted to the theme of the day drawing, as long as it was only 1 thing and using only 1 color. Day 1 was a turkey.
Day 2 was a cornucopia.
Day 3, a Christmas tree.
And day 4, Santa and a reindeer.
Although students were given special instructions, not all followed. And many decided to draw something that had nothing to do with the main theme. I thought it was very interesting to come back the next day and see all the things people had done.