Collage

This is my collage that I made. I really liked how it turned out. I was worried that I would not be able to think of different things to put in my collage or if it would look ok. I was able to put different pictures in my collage that have a lot of meaning to me. I don't think no one could understand fully what my collage means. I love how it turned out. I also really like the colors that I used in my collage. I think the colors made it complete.

Metal

Recently in art class, we started working with metal. We had to first come up with a few different designs that could possibly work. Then we would sketch them and cut them out. The picture on the left is what my design is that I am going to use. I have not gotten to far yet, but eventually I will finish. I am now sawing my metal, which is hard to do, but I enjoy it.

Self Portraits

These were my self portraits that I painted in art class. For my smaller self portrait of my face, I used a lot more blue then in my larger painting. For my skin on the smaller portrait I mixed a sky blue color with dark blue and added a few drops of white. For my lips and hair I painted with sky blue, dark blue, and a little black. When I finished my smaller portrait, I liked it, but I wanted a little less of a blue color when I did my final painting. My larger portrait is a lot different then my smaller portrait. I added a little more black in that painting. But I found out that a little bit of black goes a long way! I like how my larger painting is more mysterious looking than my smaller painting. Overall, I like the smaller portrait more. It is brighter and the colors are happier looking. I like my larger portrait a lot too, but I wish that I didn't add as much black to it.

Artist Research: Edgar Degas

The artist that I chose to do research on is Edgar Degas. Edgar Degas was born on July 19, 1834 and died Septemeber 27, 1917. Degas was a middle class man from  Paris, France. Degas enjoyed painting copies of famous artists work such as da Vinci, Michelangelo, Ingres and Delacroix. He also enjoyed painting movements that humans make. He started paintings ballerinas, which has become his most famous work. I like this artist because I can relate to what he painted. When I was younger, I was a ballerina for many years and I enjoyed it alot. I like the images that I picked out because they are very graceful, the colors I think are pretty calming, I really like the texture of his paintings, I said before that I was a ballerina so I can relate to his paintings, and I think his paintings are really pretty. Something I find interesting about Edgar Degas is that he was the only impressionist to visit America.