Wimberly

Why did you make this art piece?
**I don't have a particular reason, I just draw whatever pops in my head, then if I want to draw something else, I would draw over it and see what it looks like in the end. For the leaves, I love autumn so that's the main reason and I found this awesome wallpaper with the different colors, so I wanted to try mixing colors together. ** How did you make this art piece? **For the leaves, I used regular paint and mixed the colors together. Then I used black paint and my paintbrush to make shadow, and soon I will use glitter to put over the leaves. And for my sketch I used a pencil and paper.** What is this art piece made out of?
 * The Leaves is paint and paper, the sketch is paper and pencil.**

What does this art piece mean to you?
 **It shows how I care about my work and how I want to learn more or ask for help. I want my art pieces to be the best in my ability, so I want to learn new things and apply them. My art pieces mean a lot to me because I work hard on them. **

Leaves - Half Done

Bridge Sketch

Zombie Ninja Girl?

__2nd Quarter:__

Why did you make this art piece?
** This quarter I decided to attempt a sketch of Salvador Dali. I love his artwork and his creativity in every painting he created. The reason why I tried sketching with grids because it would be easier instead of looking by eye. Also I tried this before in the past with other people and this picture of Dali with the starfish always pop to my head. He's an inspiration. ** How did you make this art piece? What is this art piece made out of?
 * First I found a picture of him on google then resized it to the size of my sketching paper. Then I printed the pictured out and drew a grid on top of it, 8 columns and 10 rows. Afterwards I made the same grid on my sketching pad and looked at each grid to draw what's in each box. After most sketching, I decided to shade a bit with a tissue and erase the access.**
 * Pencil and sketching paper.**

What does this art piece mean to you?
 **This art piece shows that it takes time to turn something into a masterpiece. You have multiple steps and the person must be patient, because it does take time to make something worthwhile. SOmetimes I did get aggravated with the grid (some squares were uneven) and erasing the wrong things, but I had to take a deep breath and just redraw things I missed. If I could finish this sketch I would, and maybe color it.

 Original Picture of Salvador Dali

Picture Resized and with Grid

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 * Grid in Sketchbook with Unfinished Sketch of the Picture

__3rd Quarter:__ **

Why did you make this art piece?
** This quarter I spent more time working on homework and projects than painting or sketching. So this quarter I only did two pieces. #1 is a picture of a greenish flower and rays behind it, it should look like some hallucination. #2 is a picture of a strawberry with wings. ** How did you make this art piece? What is this art piece made out of?
 * 1: I painted a flower and then panted rays behind it. I painted trying to mesh the colors together on the flower leaves.
 * 2: I started with the different reds in the middle and I blotted with my paintbrush. My main goal was to make texture, but I don't think it's noticeable. Then I made the green part on the top and wings. The while lines are suppose to be light gleaming off like it's an angel. Holy strawberry.**

What does this art piece mean to you?
**#1 is just something to pass time by, I was listening to the beatles and their videos are crazed. **
 * 1) 2 was suppose to be for my candy collection I was going to make a border of candy behind it and frame it, but I decided to drop it and work on homework afterwards.
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I made #1 because I was inspired by this spanish Artist Joaquin Sorolla. He made a painting of people sewing a sail together for the boat outside in the water. The shadowing looked really great and his details were very precise.======

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**How did you make this art piece?** What is this art piece made out of? Paper Pencil Charcoal Color Chalk Paper Pencil Scissors Poster Pencil Paint
 * 1) 3 I made this because I was reading my horoscope and I like the Sagittarius sign they use in the magazine. So I decided to make a collage and paint it on a poster. Then when I was looking around for colors, I found a chart that described warm and cold colors. So I chose red and orange color for the warm, and blue and green for cold.======
 * 1: I first imagine what I could paint or draw with my own skills, so I drew it first with pencil then outline it with a color pencil. Then I used color chalk and charcoal and colored it. Afterwards I used a paper towel to smear the color around to look more smooth.
 * 2: First I got a big black construction paper and cut slits on the paper horizontally and vertically. Then I used pink, green, yellow, orange paper and cut them in slits. After that I weaved the vertical slits first then the horizontal underneath.
 * 3: I made a smaller box in the middle of poster for the warm colors and on the outside is the cold colors. You can see the outline because some signs are two different colors.

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 * 1: I like this art piece because I decided to make some sun gleam off the water and on the sail I said "Hecho en Valencia". It's in Spanish because Joaquin was a spanish artist, and he lived in Valencia.======

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 * 3: Well I don't believe in horoscopes, but I like the little relics that they use, because Sagi's are bows and arrows. Plus I like it because the arrows look like their scattered around on the poster at random.======

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