Monday, September 20, 2010

5 Artists

1. Vincent Van Goh
      One reason why I like Vincent Van Goh's art is because all the colors and shapes in his paintings always seem to swirl and mesh together to create a one of a kind painting.


2. Andy Warhol
      He is one of my favorite artists because he paints everyday, sometimes overlooked items, and turns them into a bright and colorful unique piece of art.


3. George Seurat
     I like George Seurant's art work because his paintings look so light and fluffy and happy. He only uses tiny tiny dots to paint them, and that definitely takes a lot of skill and patience.


4. Pablo Picasso
   One reason why I like Pablo Picasso is that his artwork is unmistakably, his. There's not really any other artist like him out there because his style is so unique.



5. Leonardo da Vinci
   Leonardo da Vinci is an all around amazing artist. He's impacted the world so much with his new ideas and paintings. A reason why i like his paintings are because they look so life like, and the shading on them is unbelievable.




Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Right/Left Brain Videos

We watched some videos in class regarding the right side of the brain, and the left side of the brain. The first video we watched was saying how art is changing in the 21st century, and how artists need to keep up with the changing times by taking more digital drawing and painting classes.  I didn't really understand this video and what it had to do with right/left brain.

The second video we watched was saying how the world needed to exercise the right brain more in education. It said that information is usually taught by repetition, which is a left-brained way of learning. It also said that schools always pound facts and figures into your brain, which there's nothing particularly wrong with. I think that they were emphasizing that right brain, artistic classes are just as important as left brain, informative/programming classes.

The third video we watched compared the right brain, the artistic brain, with the left brain, the programmer brain. In the video they showed an example of a person crossing the street. They said that you needed your programming side of the brain to accomplish that task, more than your artistic side of brain. I learned from this video that left brain people tend to always follow the rules, and do things how they've always been trained to do them, while left brain people don't always follow the rules but they explore outside of their boundaries.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

What did I learn from each drawing exercise?

Self Portrait:
  My self portrait didn't look especially like me, but there were some things in it that somewhat resembled me, like the hair and kind of the eyes. I liked this self portrait though because it has turned out better than ones that i've had to draw in the past. While drawing this picture I learned that I don't like drawing people very much.
  
Person from Memory:
   For my person from memory drawing I decided to draw one of my cousins, but in the end it didn't end up looking like her at all. Or any of my cousins, even.  Theres nothing in this picture that I like, but I learned that it was really challenging to draw a person from memory. Because every person is unique, and its hard to capture their different eye shapes, or smile, or face shape just from your memory.

My Hand:
   I think out of these four drawings my hand was probably my favorite one. Its not my best work of art, but  I was the most pleased with how it turned out to look in the end. I liked how I drew it kind of at an angle, and not looking straight down on it, like when you trace your hand. My favorite part about this picture was my thumb. It just looked nice how it was turned to the side and all. My other fingers needed some more help though.

Upside-down picture of Igor Stravinsky:
   When i was drawing this picture, I was mostly trying to focus on drawing all the shapes and lines, rather then finding an object like a hand, and just drawing mental image of what i knew was a hand. This was kind of difficult because sometimes all the shapes and lines didn't line up correctly or weren't the right proportions. In the end the drawing looked pretty ridiculous, but I learned a lot from it.