4/17/13
For this project we had to paint a still life of something that we enjoy doing, something that represents us. For me I really enjoy running, I run track and cross country for the high school and I spend my weekends, summers and winters training for these seasons. It's a time when I can get out all my stress and frustrations, learn big lessons and such to use in life, and make lasting friendships with my teammates. To capture this used acrylic paints to create the still life portrait of my distance racing spikes and my bib numbers from my races. I accomplished my goal in boy just painting them but in capturing the roughness of the bottom of my shoes. There is a lot of texture in spikes that are a big part of what sets spikes apart from other shoes, hence their names. I captured the "rough and tough" of running with the "controlled messy" paint strokes.

For this project I had to find a picture of an aerial view of a landscape to recreate with acrylic paints. I wanted to and did find a picture that included various distances, depths and a contrast of colors. I believe that I was able to accomplish the task of creating a painting to look like the original picture. My final holds many different elements, my favorite being the sun rays that bring out depth.

In this final I used chalk pastels to capture the color and blur of the picture. After I took my picture I was able to blur and adjust the colors to a different hue of colors. In my picture the base color is yellow, my favorite, but I was able to tie in the yellow in the whole portrait and bring in the reds, oranges and greens. I believe that I was successful in this project because I feel like the final captures the goal. My final seems creepy in the shadows and how it comes across, but the colors that I used are warm, ctreating a juxtaposition within the piece.

This project, at points was somewhat a challenge for me. I have never done a piece like this before and often in self portraits I tend to focuse a lot of my attention to the details. I had to challenge my self in blurring the image of my face. It helped as we edited the picture we took and was able to blend it and switch it to black and white. I think that with this final, in the end, I was able to figure it out and work with the charcoal successfully by blending the different shades together to capture the elements of the picture and in the assignment.

For my final project I used oil pastels to capture my facial expression accurately. This final achieved the goals that were set for this project by using colors that were able to express my emotions in the picture on paper. The color variation adds emotion and movement.

-The first project for Advanced Art this semester is an emotional self portrait. In these self portraits we have to express our faces dramatically. When we draw the self portrait we need to make it evident of the emotion really make it clear and "come to live." For this project I thik that it would be fun to do a bright happy one, but I want to challenge myself and try and capture a deeper more sad emotion, something that is usually opposite of what i am normally like. This something that I have not really done before and look forward to doing.