Farrel

=Quarter 1=



For my art project I decided to draw myself. I came up with this idea because in the past I have drawn other people, but I have never actually drawn myself before. Every artist needs to have some kind of self portrait.

The way in which I went about making this project was first by taking a photograph of my face. I then made three different sketches that were based upon that photograph. When I was done with my sketches, I colored each of them using a different sort of method. For the first one, I used colored pencils, then I used crayons, and in the last picture I used paint. Just finding the right colors to use for the various parts of my face I think was the biggest challenge of this whole project.

I enjoyed doing this project because I think that it opened me to using new ideas as an artist. It was fun to draw myself because it was probably the best way to make me notice how much there is to see about me.

=Quarter 2=

For my 2nd quarter art project, I decided to two different types ovals using only straight lines. In order to make this, I had to take a piece of paper and make a mark on all of the edges every half centimeter. I needed to use a ruler. Then, using my ruler, I had to connect the marks together. I also had to number all of the marks so that I could know which ones I was supposed to connect together. When I finished connecting the marks, I colored in the different sections so that I could make it look pretty.

=**Quarter 3**= My favorite thing to do in art class is paint. I love to mix colors together and paint big pictures on paper. This particular picture is a flag that I have designed for a future city that does not yet exist. The symbol on the flag is a pigeon in order to represent city life. I painted the background green and splatter painted some red and blue onto it because these are what the cities colors are going to be. This picture below, is the design of a tiled bathroom floor. I made this once I discovered that we actually had a jug of orange paint in the art room. I colors into it because I hate how bathroom floors look just black and white. I find that so boring. If this floor actually does come into existence some day, I think people will want to buy it for its unique design with the orange and dark blue diagonal lines and for all of the color it has in it. The middle square is left uncolored to remind people with this floor about what they are giving up compared to their old bathroom floor.

=Quarter 4=

This first picture is a collage of different animals that I cut out of various National Geographic magazines. It took me a few days to find the pictures and cut them out. Then I had to figure out how I was going to arrange them. After I did that, I could glued them onto a paper pretty easily. The last thing I did was cut away all of the paper that was not being covered by a picture.

I made this painting when I first discovered that we had orange paint. I wanted to experiment with it. So I made different shades of Orange. It's kind of hard to tell from this picture, but the big rectangles are the lightest, the squares are next, and then the triangles are the darkest. This didn't take me too long to do, I just wanted to use the Orange paint for something. This picture was made with the scented markers. I made a continuing pattern until there was no more room for it. The pattern was orange, light green, red, purple, dark green, and blue. This took me about two or three class periods to do. This painting took me the longest to do. I first sketched it out with a pencil. I drew the hills and the tree. I then painted it in with one shade of green for the grass and the leaves on the tree, brown for the tree trunk and branches, and everything else was light blue for the sky. After that, I just moved my brush in circular motions with white paint to make the clouds. I thought my painting was done at this point, but I then thought that I needed to paint some shade. So I made part of the grass a darker shade of green and the sky a darker shade of blue. I now realize that I didn't really want to make the shaded sky that dark because shade does not really change the color of the sky so dramatically. I do like it though. It looks like the tree has some kind of magical energy around it.