1. Which project
was your favorite or most successful this semester? Please explain.
The stencil project was definitely my most favorite project we did this year. It was challenging yet fun. It also incorporated several things I enjoy like using photoshop on the computer. I'm a big computer nerd so when I heard we would be using photoshop I knew instantly I would like this project. Also, this project specifically took a lot of different types of art to make i.e. photoshop, watercolors, spray painting, stenciling, collaging, tracing, and cutting. This always made the day new and exciting and not boring and old. I also like what I did with the project specifically too. I love how I used the national geographic photos for the background to show how the titanic was about culture and travel. Overall this project was just exciting and I looked forward to working on it everyday.
2. Regardless of whether you liked or dislike a project, which one did you learn, grow, or developed the most from? Please explain.
To answer the question, I definitely developed and grew the most as an artist from the chalk project. As an artist I'm pretty sure most artists like sticking to themselves and expressing only themselves as individuals but the thing with the chalk project was that it was a group assignment. So I also had to incorporate the ideas and expressions of the other artists in my group. I had to accept what they saw as art and they had to accept what I saw as art. Another thing that I learned that helped me grow as an artist is that I could have the community actually in the art itself. Before, I had thought that art was to be admired and looked at from a distance but with this project I learned that you(the people) could also be in the artwork too. I loved that it was interactive and it really shows how art is just placed under one definition. Another thing to enjoy about this project is that it isn't just mine. I had to work and cooperate with other people who I'm sure had different ideas of the final piece when we were in the planning stages but I'm sure they loved it just as much as I did after we completed it.
3. Choose 1 piece of Art that you used skills and techniques learned from previous projects. Discuss your growth as an artist and how you incorporated these skills and techniques to created the piece.
The print project was the project where I already used techniques I had learned in the pass. In 6th grade art class we had done a print project very similar to this one. We had to draw our topic drawing and transfer it to transfer paper then onto the print. After transferring it to the print we had to cut out the black or white depending on drawing. After finishing our cuts we rolled paint and painted the front of the print and transferred it to colored paper. So nothing in this project was new to me. Even though this wasn't a new project I still did grow as artist. I think you always grow and learn something new about yourself whenever doing art. I mean art is never the same ever. It could be the same techniques and everything but art will never turn out exactly the same. Kind of like a person in real life. A person never has the same ideas or personalities as the next person but people are people and art is art.
4. Which project do you feel was the least important in learning the concepts taught in this course? Please explain.
The anamorphosis project was a project I just didn't understand. I don't know why we did and I don't know what it meant. There was really no way for me to express myself in this project. The concepts just didn't affect me at all. I feel like it wasn't necessary to do this project. I liked using the photoshop to stretch and alter the picture but I didn't like how we were just transferring the picture to drawing. We had to copy the squares matched to the sqaures on the photo. There was no expression and no learning. It was just copy and paste basically. It was pretty much everything that art wasn't about in my opinion. No expression not being able to do what we wanted. We had to follow the boxes and copy them. So I personally will try to forget this project ever happened.
5. Choose a piece or artwork where the subject matter reflects you as an artist. One that you have a personal connection to. Please explain your choice.
I believe that this artwork reflects me as an artist and as a person. I chose to use a photo of a chessboard because for a lot of people, they feel as if they are just a pawn in a game but others view themselves as king or queen. I think a chess game can basically show all the levels of a culture or community which is why I have a connection to it. I'm a part of a community and culture and I know where people fit on the board. I know where I fit on the board and I know where to people sitting next to me fit. I know that others may not move up on the board and I know that others will reach the other side. I think life is just like this. People will change while other people will stay the same. This is why I have a personal connection to it.
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