Refection

General Art: Drawing from observation helps with drawings and paintings with imagination.

Technical Stuff:
Different Materials give the pieces of art a different feel. Like when I used acrylic paint for land and water color for the water on a planet.

Interests:
Things that don't exist. Something that no one has seen before.

Candy painting.

I like the final product of this painting I was proud of. I like how detailed I made it and I was interested by all of the work that it took to make this. The hardest part was defiantly the candy wrapper, it was the hardest thing that I had to to, and I still don't think that it looks like a candy wrapper and I really like how the gumdrops turned out.

Self Portrait

Sorry that the picture is sideways, but this is the self portrait project. This is my hand putting continents on a planet, with cities that were made up myself. This is supposed to show that I like to make things that are entirely my own. I did not like the projects that said that we needed to find a picture that would help us with the drawing, and this was the only one where it was not a requirement to have a picture. The names of cities were names that I mostly made up a long time ago and one of them even is one of my dog's names back words. So I made the planet somewhat of a map to show that I can design a whole planet if I had to (and had the time).

This is the drawing I made for the newspaper project, and the drawing that we did in the sketch-book. There is something about the sketchbook picture that I like more then the final project, but I think that it is just that the people are not in proportion, which was a large part of the project, but I am over all happy with the finished project. I like the floor, and how much detail that I put into the floor, this is probably the project that I spent the most time on, but the least time planing, I just knew that there would be pipes on the floor. It is hard to see in the picture, but it is supposed to be a government hanger with aliens captive making a time travel device. I didn't put much time in trying to make this clear, because I kind of wanted it to be left to the imagination.

Place Project

For this project I decided that the most interesting place that I could think of, was one that did not exist, that no-one has seen before. I started the project having no idea what would be outside the spaceship, but I wanted the things outside of the spaceship to be in color, and the stuff inside the ship to be black and white, to show that what is outside the ship is what is important. Taus had some influence on the panting, because I wanted purple water, because it would be interesting, and I wanted to know what color the water had. He said, "Why not make a peanut butter and jelly planet, with the water made of jelly and the land made of peanut butter. Well that is what it turned out to be, although I don't call it a peanut butter jelly planet. In retrospect I feel like I should have used a smaller brush to paint the stars, because they seem to large to be real, but it not such a big deal, due to the fact that the place isn't real in the first place.

Alex's Art Responce

I found the art that Alex did fascinating. Taking an object and adding detail that does not have to be there and changing the interpretation entirely. Like when he made a potentially frightening creature made of roots and trees. I was also impressed with the amount of detail that was put into the drawings with an exact-o knife. If I had one question to ask Alex it would be, "What inspired you to do this kind of art?"