Well, as you can see below, here are the projects that i have completed and had taken pictures of. All the other pieces that we were required to draw were lost in a bizarre and freak accident that was to be my Art folder.

The First picture you see, is the Still Life picture of the coke bottle which was not as difficult as drawing Samuel Kabangai, which is in the next three pictures and is not completed.

Make a list of the projects you completed
17-22 8x11” pencil drawing - your hand
31-4 24x36” charcoal drawing - self portrait
7-11 24x36” charcoal drawing - full figure
21-25 8x10” pencil drawing - still life
12x18”  PENCIL drawing - clear bottle
24x36” CHARCOAL drawing - clear bottle
MAKE UP WORK & photo/blog/artist statement

put in the link to your blog to show your work

• http://scienceleadership.org/blog/Lola_Akisnola-s_Bunch_of_Drawings
• http://scienceleadership.org/blog/Lola_Akinsola_Artist_Focus:Pablo_Picasso
  

Make a list of the projects you didn’t complete (if there are any)
8x11' self portrait

Write AT LEAST 5 sentences that describe your work and work ethic for quarter three
My work for quarter three wasn't that good. I tried but I'm not good with art so I just did what I could. My work ethic was fine though. One thing I cold have done differently was taking some things home and doing them to sped up the process. If I had done that I would've had everything done.

look at the assignments for next quarter, quarter 4 and state 2 goals you have for yourself in quarter 4.
1. Get everything done ASAP
2. Don't waist time

In the third quarter of my Art class I was assigned a different drawing every week, and, honestly, I didn't really enjoy it. It was ok, but I rather just draw in my manga every week, but here is what I drew.

The first thing I think I drew in the third quarter was my face in charcoal. It's disproportional and my eyes are girly and big but I'm just proud of the shading.



Then we were assigned to draw our hands from real life. This only made me self conscious of my hands and how old they look. I've been practicing hands for my manga so this was kinda easy. The first one was my hand and my wrist band on, but then I added a tattoo because, why not? The second one is a joke of some making a backwards L and misspelling Loser into Joser. Joser is a good band name, I should keep that in mind.


 



The next assignment wanted us to draw a person in real life, so I drew my friend Natalie. I think this drawing is an insult to her appearance and I hope she doesn't sue me when I post this on a public website. I only like her hair an shading because I get those skills from drawing manga.



The next one is another picture of me smiling my creepy smile of mine, but I guess the bad face compensates for the cool hat. Also I look very tired in this picture and my venom undershirt poking out looks kinda cool.



My next picture is my first clear container, it was a plastic juice pitcher and I probably had the most difficult time with this as I am a perfectionist and I wanted it to be perfect. The picture is anything but perfect.



My last picture is a glass vase with a piece of non edible vegetation inside. The vase nor the non edibility stop me from eating that scrumptious piece of vegetation and draw an ok picture of the vase.

One of the last painting was created by my own interest and style. This painting was just to express my feeling for nature and the spring time. 

​For the third quarter project, we were giving a task to draw different objects from drawing a self-portrait, hands, and still life to full life figures. Also the task was to draw from what we see onto different sizes of paper, from 8x11 to 24-36.This projects was to help us identify the sizes and shapes of the object that we exam and draw. Also it was a useful way to help us identify the positive and negative lights, along with the shading of the object. This project put us though a process of interacting from live objects to still life and so on to clear/see though items.

         The most frustrated thing about this project for me was the process when we have to identify the object by viewing them as shapes and the shading of the object. It was a bit of a challenge working on different sizes of paper and drawing a clear/see though objects. I really enjoy this assignment at the end because it was not easy but it help realizes a lot more about lighting and shading. 

​For the third quarter project, we were giving a task to draw different objects from drawing a self-portrait, hands, and still life to full life figures. Also the task was to draw from what we see onto different sizes of paper, from 8x11 to 24-36.This projects was to help us identify the sizes and shapes of the object that we exam and draw. Also it was a useful way to help us identify the positive and negative lights, along with the shading of the object. This project put us though a process of interacting from live objects to still life and so on to clear/see though items.

         The most frustrated thing about this project for me was the process when we have to identify the object by viewing them as shapes and the shading of the object. It was a bit of a challenge working on different sizes of paper and drawing a clear/see though objects. I really enjoy this assignment at the end because it was not easy but it help realizes a lot more about lighting and shading. 

For the third quarter, my art class was given one project per week. While timing was difficult because we only had two class periods to work on a single project, it was an enjoyable experience because I learned a lot about myself as an artist. One of our early projects in the third quarter was to look at a plastic water bottle and try to re-create it on paper. I used a VOSS bottle as my inspiration and was able to create something that I am proud of. Other notable assignments were a self-portrait, drawing of a hand, and a full body drawing. Another assignment was to draw something that was clear. I chose to draw an empty soap bottle dispenser and was able to capture the curves of the bottle and its overall size and shape on the paper. 

Natalie Sanchez

4.8.11

Q3 artist statement

This quarter in our Art two class, our main focus was working with pencil and charcoal. We were assigned to draw a series of pieces, using these sketching tools during the course of thus unit. Though some of the students in the class found this entertaining and easy, most of us found it ridiculously difficult to capture our model objects in a real light.

  The most difficult part of this quarter for me was learning how to draw and shade correctly with charcoal, especially when I had to create a charcoal self-portrait. The first self portrait that I created was completely unrealistic and proportionally inaccurate as my head was too small, my eyes came out too little, mu mouth too tiny, and my nose too narrow. I drew everything too robotically and consequently, and ended up with a portrait that did not resemble me at all. On top of this, I had to use charcoal to draw this piece, and since I am usually not good at using charcoal, this process was made more challenging. In the end, however, I tried drawing this portrait again and letting go a little. I drew exactly what I saw and tried to be realistic when scaling the proportions of my nose, mouth, eyes, and face. The end result came out much neater and much more accurate than the first portrait that I attempted to draw.

The best part in this quarter for me was drawing my large glass charcoal still life because it was the first time I dared to use colored charcoal. I was inspired to use colored charcoal after looking at one of Emma Hoeinstein’s art pieces. It was a still life of a water bottle and it looked extremely real because of the different colors that Emma incorporated into the piece. In my drawing I used blue for the light reflected on the vase, pink and dark pink for the ribbon on the vase and the shadows cast on said ribbon, brown and green for the leaf that was placed inside the vase, and brown for the wooden table.

At the end of the quarter, the class still had a little time to finish one more project, so I decided to make a presentation about the surrealist artist, Frida Kahlo and her artwork. This project was very fun for me because I was able to find out more about an artist that I admire very much.  Through this project, I learned that Frida Kahlo lived a very painful life, and that, in every one of her art pieces, she incorporated a personal message. She would usually depict the pain she had to endure in a certain time of her life through her art pieces. I presented this information on a keynote.

All in all, this quarter was very productive for me. I was able to get all of the art pieces done on time and was satisfied with each and every one of them. I was also able to learn more about an artist I had only heard about briefly. There were times during this quarter where my talent was being pushed to its full extent. I felt very overwhelmed and frustrated during this process because I thought that I was not going to be able to complete what I was being asked to complete. In the end, however, I was able to develop new skills.  I was satisfied with all of my final products.   

Here is the Link to my Frida Kahlo Presentation.