This project was my favorite and most successful of this semester. I was happy with the outcome, and the process of making it was fun and educational. The carving and spray painting were both fun, so it wasn't like one part of the project was fun and the other was horrible. We had to focus and have precision with the exacto-blade and the spray paint to be able to make a good looking final product. At the beginning, it was also fun to figure out how you were doing it and what areas would be, in the end, spray painted or "white". The reason I thought this was my most successful project was because it was enjoyable, entertaining, and turned out amazing. It was also the fact that it wasn't too easy, like drawing a bug or pinecone.
I learned and grew the most from our landscape painting. From just this painting alone, I improved on my painting, blending, and sense on how a landscape painting should look. It was a hard project, and required a lot of precision to make it look good in the end. I screwed up many times, but it just taught me what not to do next time. I had to learn, with no prior knowledge, how to make clouds, trees, water, mountains, and highlights look correct and lifelike. In the end I finished with a reasonable landscape painting, but more than that, I finished with knowledge of what to do and what no to do next time I run across a similar project.
I used many skills I had learned in previous projects to create this clay salamander. I had previous knowledge of how to mend the clay and paint the objects from when I was very little. I learned how to blend colors and create 3D looking objects from art one. These two together provided an advantage for me going into this project. It was easier for me to paint the objects, as well as make them look good at the same time. This project definately shows a growth in me as an artist. It presents my techniques I have learned, as well as how precise I use them.
This project was the least important in learning the concepts taught in this course. We didn't really use any prior skills we had learned, we just stuck cups in a shape. The cups kept falling out of the fence, so we never really had a full picture of what we needed our final product to be. Basically, we wasted a lot of cups and reached a lot to place the cups in the right place. It was also freezing, so most people didn't want to be placing cups outside on a fence in unison with freezing to death. Overall, it was a failed project, and we didn't use many, if any, techniques learned previously in art one.
The reason I have a personal connection to this picture is becuase I'm a funny guy and this is a funny picture. Another reason I feel connected to this painting is because I love fruit-faced people, especially the canteloupes. I have a humorous personality, and one day this just came to me and I said whatever and made it. I had to photoshop the fruits onto the family's heads, but that didn't take too long. It reflects me as an artist because I like making pictures of funny and humorous things, because that's my personality.
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