This week, 4/18 - 4/22

This week has been going good, I have learned how to actually collage. Even though I don't have all of the techniques or anything, I'm learning how to collage and the techniques used in the process. Right now I am working on my collage assignment for depicting an animal, well creating an animal in its environment using both collage and paint. So far I might have to say I like acrylic better than collage, just because I enjoy it better I guess. Overall it has been a good week for me.

Week 7

This week in integrated art I watched a german movie, well pretty much just looked at the pictures that were being shown. I also painted a sea scape which i finished up on wednesday, i enjoyed painting it and thought I did well on it. The parts of what I think I did well was the sun and the sky. Also I thought I did the whole refection of he sun on the water thing pretty well. I learned that when panting, you can let your paint dry and then paint near it and it makes it so it doesn't like smear. So I think all in all this was a pretty good art week for me.

Week Five

I have learned that the baroque period is a very unique one, it is more of drawing of people. If you go into a place like a chapel or something those depictions of people are usually from the baroque period. I also learn about the life of Annibale Carricci and also about his painting career and his style. I enjoyed him because he is a great painter of the Baroque period and has good style.

Barioque Art - Annibale Carracci

Annibale Carracci

            The person I will be doing my report about is a man named Annibale Caracci, this man was born on November 3, 1560 in Bologna. He was apprenticed within his family, his brother and cousin had opened a painter’s studio, so that’s how he first got introduced to art, and yes he too became a painter. He and his brother traveled around Italy studing painter’s styles and such. One of the painters they studied was that of Titan, which was an oil painter.

            He liked to paint landscapes, genre scenes, and portraits, including a series of autoportraits across the age. He was one of the first Italian painters to where landscape took priority over figures in the canvass. He made sure to show emotions as he painted and could convey an idea of what was going on.

            Annibale is considered a baroque painter because of both the time period he was in and also the fact that how he painted was just like it was in the baroque time. This was characterized by dynamic emotion, overt emotion and self-confidents.

If you were to look at paintings from the baroque time period and then look at some of his paintings, you would see the resemblance right away. From the colors he uses and how he paints to the things he paints and the ways he paints them, you would know he was from the baroque time period of art.

            When you look at art from Annibale and then look at some famous pictures by others, you can tell that how people paint people today was greatly influenced by both the baroque period and Annibale himself. An example would be paintings in chapels or many churches, so the world was greatly influenced.

            I personally enjoy a lot about this painter. How he paints emotion and vivid actions and colors in his paintings. He uses the colors to show emotion and to help to convey a message of what is going on. He is a little bit different from others of his time period because he makes sure to use his landscape at the same time when he paints a picture.

Symbolic Color

White - light, life, nothingness, God
Black - black satin, hatred, depressed
Grey/brown - earth, boringness, restlessness, blandness
Yellow - light, sun, newness, inviting
Orange - fire, heat, warmth, contentness
Red - anger, blood, destruction, extreme
Green - fertility, nature, peaceful, grateful
Blue - tranquility, rain, water, calmness
Violet - love, honesty, happiness, rich

Week 1, What I learned

I learned stuff about painting, mainly from the video we watched with that old guy. I learned about masking your painting and about not to center the main object in our pictures. I also found that making those thank you cards were enjoyable because it was a free for all type of thing. I decided to draw in apple because I wanted to see if i could put the skills from the video to the test. I accomplished it.

Recycled Project

1. I made a windmill type thing. When wind hits it, it turns.
2. I had to cut out 4 bottles. I took three bottoms of bottles and tied them to the side of the fourth. I used the plastic wrapper of the outside of the bottles I cut to tie them. I cut a hole in the bottom of the main bottle and then on the cap cut a hole and placed a cone shaped thing in it and hot glued it. I then painted it black to make it look better. I then found a stick, made one end a little pointed so it could fit good in the cone holder and slid the stick in.
3.I used 4 plastic sobe bottles, its plastic skin, black paint, a stick, and my hot glue to make it.
4. I wanted to develop the skill to think of the things around you that could easily do in place of something else. To increase my creativeness and to think more in debt on the things I did.
5. I enjoyed the whole of it, but i particularly enjoyed how i made it so the stick would turn and not move around with the usage of the cone and the carved stick. I also enjoyed how I thought of using the plastic wrap that was around the bottle in place of twine. I found it difficult to tie the bottle bottoms to the main bottle because, when the wind hit them they would twist, so i had to make to holes and put the plastic tie through that to fix the problem.
6. I thought I did plastic tie very well, taking it off the bottle with it being just a certain width was challenging but I did it well and then threading it through the bottle bottoms was another that i did well. I also thought i did the lid with a cone in it well at the same time. So i did feel I did do good on some things.

Critique: I think all around the project was good, but the thing that I think I could of done better was make it so when it turned, it would turn and not wobble. As it is now it wobbles because of how the bottom was cut out. I though that that black pain added texture and made it so it blended in more in the environment. I did try to push myself, I tried to think of new ways of doing things. As in how I tied the bottoms on, I used plastic skin instead of taking the easy way out and using twine or thin rope. When I made the project I deliberately made the bottoms a little deep so it would be able to catch the wind better and be better all around. I did follow through with what I said i would, as in what I wanted to learn, but I did not on how I started wanting to make a boat. It evolved from a boat to a windmill. Making this has made me want to maybe think more of how if want to make something I can just look around me and see all the possibilities of things I could use to make something.