Learning Success Week 4

At the beginning of this week the class went out to the Art Gallery in Papakura to look at the exhibitions that were up for display. We left the school in two vans one driven by Emma Mclellan and the other can driven by Caryline Boreham.

'Recovered' was basically about memories that you can receive from seeing or touching an object. Life for me when ever I see someone riding their bike I always think about when my dad first taught me how to ride a bike and how that day was a special day for me that I can never forget. They say that memoies never fade just the people that you experience those moments with and I honestly feel as if thats true, because even though you might not be thinking about the past all the time once you see something, feel something or hear an old song the memories come rushing in like a storm of waves rushing into cliffs. 

'FirstComer' by Caryline Boreham and Renee Bevan were photos that I found interesting because in a unique way there were showing the importance of 'Identity.' Caryline talked to us about their project and how it was just a collaboration that they decided to work on for fun, I believe. It was hard for me to understand her as she spoke to us because with me I'm still trying my best to get what everyone's saying with the accent its hard for me to understand at times. 

Another thing that we went over today was about Photoshop and the main tools that we would need to start off with. I found it easy at times because everything on Photoshop is easy to find. I looked up some pictures that people have used photoshop for and it blows my mind sometimes because it just seems like a lot of work to get your photos to look a certain way. 

Learning Success Week 3

This week we talked about lines and how there are different types of lines, not only that but the different ways you can use those lines or dots to add value to your art work. One thing that I found interesting was the 'Continuous Line Drawings' because it made me think 'what kind of drawings can come out of this type of art work, you can't possibly make many art pieces out of this.' So I decided to look up 'Continuous Line Drawings' on google and found out that what I thought about it was wrong. I added a picture of a continuous line drawing that I found interesting but couldn't find out who the artist was. I found this piece interesting because I always found Marilyn Monroe as a strong willed woman who I look up to in almost everything that I do and so to see someone do a portrait of her in one line puts me in awe. 

Another thing that we did was we started discussing Photoshop and the main tools that can help us the most. I never used Photoshop before so everything that we went over in class were all new to me. To me, I feel like Photoshop is easy to use as long as your paying attention to the person thats showing you how to use it. 

Drawing From Nature Week 3

On Wednesday we started off class by going to the park behind our school building. Our task was to draw something up close like a leaf for example. After we drew an up close picture we were supposed to draw the same thing but from a distance and after that task was came the landscape task. I realised that drawing from real life objects such as nature is not my thing but i do try my best. I found these tasks difficult because i'm very picky when it comes to drawing, if i don't like the way it looks then i'll either start over or give up. Something that i did enjoy was when we were using the Charcoal to draw the plants in simple shapes. I never used Charcoal before but after using it that day i would actually want to use it a whole lot more as i do my work. I think its just the way that it comes out pitch black and then makes it easy to make value with. 

On Thursday ( today ) our task was to go outside to the park to find some leaves to draw. We were supposed to take our leaves and find a way to transform them into patterns. This was a difficult task to me because i didn't quite understand what we were supposed to do exactly. But i think that it was supposed to be something similar to this picture at the top of this paragraph. I'm not sure if what i did for the leaf pattern task is what was expected or meets the task but i can say that i enjoyed doing it. Drawing in a larger scale is difficult but it was fun painting it with the food coloring even if the colors started running out.