You are a book

Our first project this semester was to create a book that represents you. At first I was going to create a book that showed all my interests, favourite songs, quotes & movies, but I thought this idea was too plain, so I talked to my art teacher and we discussed some possible ideas of what a book can really be. After we talked about it, I decided to go with making a sketch book and sketch different drawings of the different times in my life. Since I'm not exactly comfortable with sharing my personal life with other people, I thought I would make the sketches symbolic to represent each part of my life. To help me with deciding what to sketch, I kept thinking "if I needed to get a tattoo to symbolize each time period, what would that tattoo be?" So this made me really think hard and decide what I should draw. 

Here are my sketches:

 

Series Idea

My idea for this project is to get three canvases and paint one picture using all three canvas.

My inspiration for this project came from a picture I found on Google that I thought looked super neat!

Here's the picture:

I am thinking of painting a sunset for the background and blending it into each canvas. I'm still deciding on which colors to use for the sunset, but this will help me with my blending technique. Once i have my background done, I think i'm going to paint a silhouette of some sort in the foreground. 

Salvadore Dali Response

When I watched this video, I was really confused as to why Salvador Dali would say such a thing, because he is an amazing painter. I think what Salvador Dali really meant when he said this was that intelligent people go too into depth when seeing or thinking about something. Therefore, they have too much going on in their mind and are not able to produce a beautiful piece of artwork because they overthink it. And someone who is a bit "stupid" is able to create a great piece of artwork because they don't think about it. It comes mainly from their imagination.

Salvador Dali, is an incredible painter. He should give himself more credit, and use a better choice of words when explaining why he's a good painter.

JR Art Analysis

When I typed "JR art" into Google images, this picture immediately caught my eye. There are so many different displays of women's eyes/facial expressions. This project by JR is called "Women Are Heroes", and celebrates the heroism of women living through hardship. JR's intentions for this project was to focus on the crucial roles that women endure in societies, and who find themselves victims of street crime, wartime, sexual assault, and religious and political injustice. This project takes place in Brazil, India, Africa, and Cambodia.

"I was interested in women because I realized in the projects I'd done before – most of the time in the kind of places I was going to – it was men on the street, but it's actually the women who are the ones holding the community together." - JR

What I really like about this artwork is how each woman shows a different expression and their eyes tell a different story. You can tell many things through a person's eyes whether it be happiness, sadness, or anger. The women in the photographs all show these various emotions, and have encountered many personal burdens.

JR's artworks always send a powerful message.

Here are more pictures from this project:

Lucas Blalock Analysis

In class, Mrs. Rose showed us a video about an "artist" named, Lucas Blalock. She also asked us write down what we thought about his art work on a sticky note.

Here's what I wrote:

I think Lucas Blalock's artwork is quite strange, I honestly don't think his art should be considered valid artwork. Basically, all Lucas does is use basic Photoshop tools, such as the eraser tool, brush tool, and clone stamp to modify pictures and calls it "art". I personally think that his pictures don't look very nice, Lucas just takes random objects out of his pictures, and adds lines and scribbles. Anyone can take a picture and scribble on it and call it art.