Close-up abstract football

• I create original art

    I thought creatively during this art project because I used my own pictures. I also developed my own original ideas because I took five pictures of a football I had at my house. I used my own unique ideas in my work by using my own pictures and zooming in on them. I did use a source of inspiration for this project because my brother plays football. I also took my own pictures. Then cropped the pictures after I took them. 

• I developed my art making skills

   I learned techniques and processes as part of this project because I drew the main outline then I drew all the little circles to add texture under the brown color. For this project we had a choice of either colored pencil, chalk, and or piled pastels. I choose colored pencils. I did learn new techniques or processes as part of the work for this project by taking my time drawing all the little circles and mixing the colors together to make a perfect brown shade. 

• I take risks

    For this project I did try something that I wasn't sure about for this project. I was not sure about the little circles and if they would show up or how they would look. I did pick a material or technique that was new or different over something that was familiar because usually when I draw I do not draw a lot of details. Since this project was so close up I had to draw a lot of detail in order to be able to tell what the object in my drawing was.

Clay 2014

• I developed art making skills

   For the clay project we had to make a good and each table had a different theme. My tables theme was dessert. For the theme of dessert I choose to do a cupcake. We had to make the food item out of clay. This was my first time using clay. I did gain skill in this art making skills because I have never used clay before, and so now I know how to use clay.

•I create original art

   I used my own unique ideas in my work because I created the cupcake myself. I also decided to paint my cupcake pink for the frosting ,and for the bottom I painted it brown for the wrapper. I found a picture on Google and tried to recreate that image out of clay. I then combined it with my own ideas because there was part of the cake showing I just painted all of the frosting and nothing showing under neath it. 

• I take risks

I did try something I was not sure about because I had to learn how to paint all the little details and add the value on the cupcake. I did pick a material that was new or different because for this project we had to use clay, and I have never used clay be for so it was fairly difficult for me to figure out how to form the cupcake and all the little details. 

Media

I'm •Jolly Rancher- Oil pastels 

For the jolly rancher drawing I got a red jolly rancher, and I had to add value and color my drawing with oil pastels. I started out by outlining my drawing in pencil. Then I added a light shade of red on the whole drawing. Then started out adding a darker shades, then getting lighter and lighter. Then I traced the letters onto the candy colored them in white then added blue around the letters. The wrapper was a deep yellow color so I started out by adding yellow, then orange then yellow again and mixing the colors together as I added the yellow. This media was my second favorite to use it was not as messy as the chalk but not as fine as the colored pencil.

•Peppermint- Chalk 

For the peppermint drawing I had to add value and color my drawing with chalk. I started out by outlining my drawing in pencil. Then I added the white stripes on the peppermint. Then added the red stripes on the peppermint. The wrapper was clear so I had to use white and add value where the wrapper was folded. This media was my least favorite because it was so messy, and it got everywhere. 

•Dum-dum- Colored Pencil 

For the dum dum drawing I had to add value and color my drawing with colored pencil. I started out by outlining my drawing in pencil. Then I added a light shade of white. Then I outlined my worlds and details on the wrapper. Then added diffrent shades of blue and black where the wrapper was folded. The media was my favorite to use because it was so fine and thin and it wasn't as messy as the chalk or pastels.