What makes this place important is the fact that it is the West Coast and I like the West Coast a lot and it is a fun place and a lot different from the East Coast. What I found most successful about this piece is the texture in the sky and the shape in the palm trees and how they look like they are flowing with the winds. What I would change is to add more detail in the palm trees and make the light poles in the background more even and straight. I picked water color as my medium for this piece because this picture looks a little blurry and seems like it would be better with water color than acrylic.
I chose my football championship trophy, a picture of me as a baby, and a nike running shoe. The championship football trophy represents my passion for football and the pride of the fact that I am decent at it. The picture of me as a baby represents my youth and how I've grown since then. the nike running shoes represents that I like to run and I like to collect and wear shoes. What I found most successful about my piece was the detail in all three objects and how the color in the background went along with the color in the objects. What I might change would be to add more detail in the trophy, and maybe add something else little hanging on the picture frame or in the background. I picked acrylic for my still life because the still life seemed more complex than the idea of place and I am better with acrylic than I am at watercolor.
My mentor's name is Devin and she is a junior girl. Her weebly blog link is devin-apex-18.weebly.com which is where she posts her blogs. The art classes that Devin has taken are Art 1, Art 2, Art 3, and right now Art 4 or AP Art. Devin's medium she is interested in is either pen or paint, which are also my favorites. What I am looking for from this art mentor thing, is that I am able to get better at art from someone who also had to get better and that has the same interests of art as me.
I morphed a foot/leg and an alligator. I morphed these two because I wanted to do a part of the body, and I saw a hand and a tree, and I was going to do that, but then that would of been stealing. So I chose a foot and an alligator, because why not? My process with this piece was easy at first with drawing the outline of the foot and the leg, and then I made the scales, which were easy because they just random shapes that were squarish. What got hard later on, was deciding whether I should have continued the scales up the leg or just make leg hair designs like a normal leg. So, I decided to do the scales, and I then made the eye; which was a little challenging, but then I saw a picture of an alligator eye and got the hang of it. Thirdly, I made the nostrils which were not hard, and they looked like the toenails of the big toe and the pointer toe. Lastly, I had to think of a background for the alligatoe, so I just made a body of water, a river/ocean. I made streams of waves, and added lining detail to the water. What I found the most successful was the scales, the eye, and the shape of the toenails/nostrils. What I might change in the future would be the water, or the outline of the toe and foot.
There were different advantages and disadvantages to each three mediums that I have worked on. The advantages of the pen medium were the fact that it looked neat and the pen gave the drawing a good outline. The disadvantages to the pen medium were that if you made a mistake, you could not erase it. The advantages to the pencil medium were that you could erase any errors made and you could have more detail in your drawing than in pen. The disadvantages to pencil were that if you made a dark mark, it would be hard to erase. Another disadvantage was that your outline in pencil wouldn't be as neat. The advantages of the charcoal drawing were the different highlights and shading created and the background. The disadvantages the charcoal drawing has is that it smeers and it can get all over the place. Another disadvantage is that it is hard to erase if you make a mistake.
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