​This assignment was to to take 200 photos. Out of these 200 pictures we were to find the 5 best ones. I used Photoshop to edited the 5 pictures I had chosen. For some I had used color boosting effects, black and white saturation. Then others I used alpha to take away the picture from the background, then had another layer from a rainbow picture used from www.google.com. As for another picture I used the text input tool to add text into a picture. Which also had a gray label created from the marker tool.I liked using the Photoshop program as an editor. I love working with photography. This assignment was really fun and I worked very well with it.

I got into the work I did because of the assignment list, some of the work I enjoyed more than others. for example, I hated the self portraits, but I loved the choice art work. This quarter, my goal was to do work that I enjoyed and have fun while doing it. Last quarter, I tried to do all my work and just get it done and over with. But, this quarter, I just wanted to enjoy my artwork for what it was, which is why I didnt complete al of my assignments. I felt as though me enjoying my work, and putting my best work out was more important than rushing though and not being proud of what I was doing. In essence, quality was more important than quantity. 

During the course of my work, I make decisions as I go. If I feel as though I need to use a charcoal pencil instead of a graphite pencil, then I switch . If i feel as though I need to use a marker in a pastel drawing, I will ask Emma, or just go with the flow and either love it or regret it later. I always use the same type of paper, but when I choose my themes, I have a very awesome technique . I put the thought in my mind of what I am suppose to come up with as a finished product, and then I start with a pencil, and just go to town with that piece of  paper. My goal for next quarter is to not oly get all of my sketches and drawings finished, but to also enjoy my work. 

Although I am not working on anything right now, I am always thinking about how I can transfer my thoughts, emotion, and inner self into my artwork. I want to be able to transfer me emotions into my artwork, but for people to be able to appreciate and understand it.   

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Copy A Master

Copy the master was super interesting and a great project. I finally realized I can draw. This piece made me gain more confidence in my self. It's hard copying someone famous. So ms. Hull told us to find an artist any where or internest, in a book, etc. So i went to the shelf in her room and grabbed a book. I seen this strange but interesting photo by a guy name gamboge. So I got a 24x36 piece of paper, and then printed gamboge picture out of the painting. So I grabbed charcoal, and started with his big head, made sure the shape was right. Then I added the detail I seem such as his hat, nose, slim mouth, hands, glasses and cigarette. The hardest part was the shading, with out seeing natural light I had to copy where the artist shaded. I finished this in 3 hours. I loved this drawing, and the effort I out into it. I could have added color to add my own flare to it.

Copy & Master-

For this project, what had to be done was finding a picture online that interested me and drawing it. This drawing was to be copied and mastered in order to make it look exactly like the original. For my drawing I felt as though my drawing looked like the one I chose. 

For this assignment that I decided to do was "the persistence of memory" by Salvador Dali. The reason that I chose this picture was because I really felt like it was something that I was able to draw. I saw the picture as something that was very inspiring. My interpretation to this was that time is something that can either be used wisely or not. Throughout this assignment, I felt as though the time that I used for this assignment was not used as wisely as it could have been. It shows that a person has to persistence with their work as time passes by if not a person can end up taking long to do the things that have to be done and wasting time. I worked on this picture by first drawing it and then coloring it with coloring pencils. I attempted to shade this well, but although it wasn't my best piece of work it was the best I could in the moment with a limited amount of time. A future consideration that I would do is making sure that I shade better and use either oil pastels or paint the paper so that the color is more vibrant and looks better in terms of the shading and quality. 

For this assignment we had to take 200 photos of anything and edit them using photo shop.After we took the 200 photos we chose 5 of them to edit. I explore photo shop using different effects to make my picture fun and exciting. Even a simple color boost can make a picture more appealing. Some pictures a random and others are of me and my friends.

For this assignment we had to find a 2-D art pice and redraw it to best of our ability. This project had no limits and you could draw any drawing from any artist. My picture is from a book I found in art class but I'm not sure what the name is. In the picture is a wall with words on it and in the background a building from a distance. I recreated this drawing using pastel colors and using a series of high lights and low lights. Also fading was a major step in the process of recreating the drawing.

​200 Photos and Editing 200 Photos-

I largely focused on this assignment because I was a very camera shy person before this assignment. I decided that I wanted to take a challenge, therefore I decided not to omit this assignment. From the 200 photos I took, we were told to take 5 pictures and edit them. When editing these pictures I did different effects that would make my pictures look cool. Being so that I also wasn't good at editing this assignment was beneficial to learning how to do so. I didn't only take pictures of myself, considering that many of the pictures were of my surroundings as well. Since, I didn't like taking pictures before this project I decided to take 5 pictures of myself and edit them to put on the blog. The edits resembled my life and my feelings in some terms from the stages I went through throughout doing this work. Below I decided to post the before and after pictures.

 

 


The public links to my 5 photos that are edited,that be seen in larger format/the original is posted below as well as 200 or more photos that were taken throughout this art semester:
http://db.tt/hV135LKA      http://db.tt/ZhpfxTPe   http://db.tt/0LDbBgIk     http://db.tt/ao0MzARO     http://db.tt/ZU77z5lA

http://db.tt/thRHguXw    http://db.tt/PNSwvORa  http://db.tt/NO0HTYA7  http://db.tt/tUPQTMwg   http://db.tt/toQjMQkN
 

The class had to go online and find a interesting craft that they wanted to create. I chose a number of crafts and two of which did not turn out the way they should have and those two were the snow globe and duck tape stool. The one I decided to show to the public was my mirror. I used mod podge and fun colored paper on the wooden part of the mirror. This was really fun because I love doing arts and crafts.