Final Exam

1. I would say that my favorite project was the mache hand thing.  I liked this because it was fun to get our covered with petroleum jelly and have to slide our hands in and out.  I liked it because it was messy, but it was an easy clean up.  Unfortunately I did not get to paint it because I was sick but that would have been enjoyable as well.  It was also cool because the material felt good going on to your hands.  It was rather intriguing   I would think that would be fun to do again except maybe with a foot or something else. That is why it was my favorite project.

2.  The  project I've learned the most from was the perspective project.  I learned the most from the perspective  project because I figured that this is the most applicable in real life.  For example, if you look down a street in real life the closest buildings will look bigger than the further away buildings.  I personally love being in big cities and drawing realistic city streets was fun for me.  I enjoyed all of the measuring and lining up and erasing for the buildings like that.  The details were a bit confusing but other than that it was enjoyable to me, especially when we went outside.  I learned a lot from the perspective.

3.  The art that we used other projects for was the shading project.  I learned from all of the cubes and cones and the value scales that we had to practice shading.  I learned about light sources and the shadows and the way things get filled in and learned to NOT BE AFRAID OF THE DARK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  It was also enjoyable picking the object that we wanted to to do realistic shading, and it was cool bringing it to life.  Another thing we did to bring this to life was shade the back of the original copy so that we could put it in our sketchbooks by tracing it.  It isn't exactly tracing but it makes it look more realistic than a straight lined outline all the way around the figure.
We also used perspective, because some of these pictures were at an angle with shadows and shading.  This helped us not to use stored images to make something as if you were looking straight at it.  This is the shading project that encompassed a lot of the other things we have learned in the class.

4. The project I felt was the least important was the plaster mold project.  It had nothing to do with anything we learned that school year.  All we did was wrap our hands up with this stuff, it would make something like a cast and then pull it out.  Although it had nothing to do with anything we had learned this year it was definitely one of the most fun things we had done in the class.  It was carefree and took up time when we finished all of the other major projects.  Unfortunately I was sick when we painted them, but mine still came out cool and I loved doing this overall. It was really fun.

5.  The art I have a personal connection to is the sketch of my face.  Obviously I have a connection to it because I drew myself.  It reflects me as an artist because there are so many features on the face it is very difficult to draw.  It is very tedious with all of the proportions and measuring and light sources.  It really showed the talent of me as an  artist because taking all of this into account leads to a very complex piece of art.  Although mine didn't really look like me, it definitely looked like a real person due to the facial structure and all of the features.  It really showed me what I can do, and with a little bit of practice and instruction, I can be a good artist.  So this is my piece of art that shows my capabilities, and that I have a personal connection to.