3.  One of the most productive mini lessons was the prisma color objects lesson. Morgan explained very well on how to correctly add value to the shapes to create a 3D object, and I feel like I understood and was able to replicate it. I was also personally shown how to blend the colors together correctly, and where to place the lights and darks. Having to do this lesson three times also helped, since I believe repetition is important when learning a new medium. This lesson really helped with understanding how to use prisma colors as a medium, even though my final project was maybe not the best, I still feel like I have a slight grasp on them. (This is one of the drawings I made in this lesson, I thought it had a good range of value). 

Another mini lesson I thought was very beneficial was the four watercolor apples and the techniques you had to chose with them. The one I thought was the best was the monochromatic apple, and that I taught me personally the most. As a lesson in general it was good because learning how to use value only using one color helped me understand value more, and the importance of starting light with water colors. The repetition of the water colors was also important to learning since doing them four different times with different techniques helped me gain a better understanding of watercolor through the repetition. I felt like i was instructed very well by you on how to correctly do watercolor, and that you explained how to use techniques very well for the whole lesson, due to showing the class how you would do an apple and I think this lesson reflects that. (Below is my monochromatic apple)    

1. Out of all of my projects I felt that my landscape painting was the most successful, and completed the theme the best. The theme was to create a landscape painting in the style of a chosen artist that you had to research, and my artist was Salvador Dali. Salvador Dali was a surrealist artist of the early to late twentieth century, and I tried to replicate his style through color usage and a surreal object. The process I used was to layer a lot of paint on my canvas using dull colors that were similar to the ones Dali used in his artwork, for instance to add value to my ocean i continually added lights and darks multiple times until I got the desired blend of colors. To make my painting surreal I wanted to paint an eye in the sky similar to Dali's painting the meditative rose. I think that the eye is an element of surrealism and I was happy with how it came out. While my choice of material was quite limited, I think acrylic was a good choice for my painting, and I like the range of control acyclic gave since it let me fix mistakes I made easily, which was nice for one of my first paintings I have ever done. The thing I like the most about this project was the eyes iris I think the technique I was shown worked really well, which was to add lines across the iris then to blend them lightly. Overall I just enjoyed the project and thought it completed the theme the best out of all of my projects.  (This is the painting I did)         

4. A really great piece of artwork is Amrutha's prisma color final project which was done as the upclose choice of the projects. This artwork shows an understanding on how to use prisma colors very well, it can be seen how much value she put into the piece to give the hair a very realistic look. Her usage of colors is also great instead of using normal hair colors like brown and black, she opted for a range of dark blues, which i think was an interesting and original artistic choice that greatly added to her piece. Her piece captured the whole purpose of the project which was supposed to be a focus on the textures of an object not the object itself, and she did this by using fine lines in her piece to give off the look of hair. This is also coupled with the amount of depth in her color palate gives a very realistic look to it. The blending of her colors is also done very well, which shows she knew how to use prisma colors correctly. I think this piece was definitely above and beyond while maintaining a lot of originality. It appears that a lot of work was put into the piece and care was taken with the composition of the piece in adding the values alongside with what image she chose to base her work off of.       

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1. Describe the craftsmanship of your sculpture. (Is it neat and well executed?)

I think my sculpture is fairly neatly done, with a few mishaps. I really liked some parts that I thought came out very well namely the plate I made and the butter which look really great. The actual waffles weren’t the best executed, and the biggest problem was the spacing of the dents in the waffle, and the fact that they weren’t evenly sized. Otherwise I thought it was done fairly neatly with my paint job and glazing of my butter and waffle.
 
 
 

1. What was the most difficult part of this project?

The most difficult part of this project was making the correct colors for the waffles, I don’t really know how to make colors very well and my personal attempts ended in failure. Even after being shown how to make the correct color I still had trouble getting the color I truly wanted, and ended up just having to deal with using the colors I created.
 
 
 

1. Did your color choices work together harmoniously?

I think my colors all work very well together I used a lot of different tans and browns for my waffles which I think is pretty much impossible to not have work well together. The usage of glaze helped my butter stick out due to its shine, but the dark yellow worked very well with the tan color I chose for my waffle.
 
 

1. Is your sculpture interesting from all views?

It is not interesting from all views, I did not sculpt out the bottom of the waffles due to them not being thick enough. They only look right when not messed with and viewed just sitting on the plate. I could have though added more detail on the sides of them to make it more appealing from a side view to look at.
 
 
 

1. Describe the differences in constructing a sculpture and doing something 2D.

A sculpture is something physical and can be looked at many different angles, this means a lot more has to be taken in account for details. When you have something 2D it can be only viewed from one angle, but a sculptures can be viewed from every angle, so if they are painted on shadows and other details must be taken in account. Making something with your hands is also much different from 2D since it involves different techniques.
 
 
 

1. How did you create textures in your sculpture?

Waffles aren’t the most textured food so I tried to create the look by cutting in indents into my clay to make the waffle dents, and I created the butter to look more realistic by giving it a flowing look. Most of the texture was done by paint and glaze I used shadows in the dents to give it less of a flat look, and the glaze I used on my butter helped with the texture by giving it a glossy look.
 
 
 

1. Does your sculpture look like the actual food? How did you accomplish this?

 
I think my sculpture looks fairly realistic, especially the butter which is in my opinion the best part of my piece due to its realism. It’s pretty obvious when you look at my waffles that they are waffles, due to the shadows and the fact that waffles are a fairly simple shape. The butter looks very realistic due to the fact that I pushed it into the plate to make it look melted alongside with the glaze that was a great color for it. The only thing I think that would make it more realistic would be a lighter color choice and to have added more burnt looking areas.
 
 

1. What would you do differently if you were to do this project again?

I would make my waffles thicker and make sure that the dents were more even in size and spread. I would have also painted them a different color, I did not really like the color they came out to be and I think that’s what I did the worst on. I would have also sculpted the sides more and added detail to the bottoms to make them better overall.
 
 
 
 

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1. Who was your referenced artist for the painting? Name 4 main ideas you used from your research to create your painting.

 
Name- Salvador Dali

1. Usage of surrealism in the form of my floating eye since a primary part of surrealism is to add make a normal object abnormal by making a giant eye in the sky.

 

1. He added many subtle meanings into his artwork, so I wanted to replicate that with the eye which was supposed to partially represent the idea of big brother watching people.

 
 
 

1. In composing his paintings he used lots of flat landscapes with large skylines, so I tried to replicate that idea by making the landscape of my painting fairly flat.

 
 

1. Another element I used was his usage of dull colors, I wanted the painting to look slightly dark and dull like he used in many of his paintings

 
 

1. Describe the craftsmanship of your painting. (Is it neat and well executed?)

I think my painting is done fairly well in terms of lines in my painting. It has a clear line with little blending between the ocean, beach, and sky. The actual cloud part of the eye was not done as well since part of the blue got mixed over the white of the cloud, but I think I did the actual eye part quite well. I thought my iris had good detail and blending in it from the lines I put in it to create a more realistic look, and I thought the red lines for the veins in the eye were nearly done without blending too much into the whites of the eye. I do think I should have added more value into certain areas like the beach, but I was content with the value of the sky and ocean.
 
 
 

1. What was the most difficult part of this project?

The most difficult part of this project for myself was doing the cloud part of the eye, since I did not really know where to put in shadows to make it look 3d and fluffy like an actual cloud. It was probably the worst part of my project that I did and I still don’t really know how to correctly make clouds. I had Emma help show me to how to blend in the greys into the white of the cloud to create shadows, but I don’t feel like I really know where to correctly place them.
 
 
 

1. Describe your color choices and how they reflect the work of your chosen artist?

In my painting I chose to use a lot of sky blue, and a sunny yellow based off of Salvador Dali’s paintings that feature a landscape, for instance his painting Meditative rose. He used a mixture of warm colors for his skies so I chose a warm blue and mixed in white to look similar to how he painted his skies in his paintings. I also made my colors not to bright or dark because I wanted to mimic his usage of dull colors that he uses in his artwork.
 
 
 

1. Describe how the style of your landscape reflects your chosen artist.

 
I based my painting primarily off of Dali’s painting the Meditative Rose, and other paintings which focused on showcasing a large sky with an object normally in the center. I wanted to create something very similar to this look especially of the Rose painting. It just was a very interesting painting to me since his other painting focused on more grotesque images, and this one was quite beautiful making me want to create something in that venue.  
 
 

1. What do you think your chosen artist would say if he or she could see your painting today?

He would most likely not be too impressed by it especially considering the nature of Dali. He might point out many things that could be fixed in the painting to make it better. He might like the idea of it, but would definitely say something on the completion.
 
 
 

1. What would you do differently if you were to do this project again?

 
If I did this project again I would add more elements of surrealism in it instead of just the using the eye. I would have added a surrealistic boat into the ocean to add more detail into my painting and to make it more interesting. I would have also redone the cloud and have added more value into, and would have added some more clouds into more sky to create more value.
 
 

I lost my in progress photos on my old phone

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1. Describe the craftsmanship of your drawing. (Is it neat and well executed?)

I believe certain parts of my drawing are better executed than others, for example my left eye was better executed than my right eye it has greater value and depth in it. My piece was very difficult to create, so parts of my technique were maybe not the best due to my naivety with pastels and lack of knowledge on techniques.
 
 

1. Do you think you used a full range of values to create the illusion of depth?

I do believe that I created the illusion of depth in my piece because I used a wide range of colors with darks that contrast with my highlights to create shadows. I used different colors in the mouth to create this effect using a black mouth to really create the sense of depth.
 
 

1. How do you think you represented the style of the artist Georgia O’ Keeffe?

I believe my photo was close up enough to represent her style. My piece focuses less on the subject and more on the texture and colors of the lizard. The mouth of the lizard is the centerpiece of my work and stands out similar to how keeffe would focus on the flower petals over the actual flower.  
 
 

1. Describe your choice of colors/color harmonies and how you used them throughout the artwork.

I used a large range of colors for my work, and I created harmony in some of my pieces color schemes mainly in the beard of the lizard. I used the cream color to blend my piece together to which I would say looks similar to the actual color of the lizard. The mouth had some harmony in certain areas, primarly the purples, pinks, and reds, but the brown and orange in the mouth don’t work well.
 
 

1. How did you create contrast in your drawing?

I created contrast by using light and dark browns, as well as pinks and purples. This can be seen in my scales of the lizard I would create a scale using a light brown then go under it with a dark brown and fill it in with cream to make it have contrast.
 
 
 

1. How did you use textures, highlights and shadows to enhance your artwork?

 
I used texture in the beard of the dragon to enhance my work since the scales make the piece look more like the actual lizard. I used highlights in the mouth to give it more depth alongside shadows. I used highlights in face to enhance my art piece and give it contrast.
 
 
 
 

1. Describe any difficulties you had creating your drawing and what you could do to improve your drawing?

 
 
This whole project was insanely difficult, and I wanted to give up right away. The hardest part by far was the mouth since there were so many different kinds of textures and colors in the mouth that did not have any clear lines. It was very difficult to get the right colors of the mouth due to how different all the colors were and lack of a large of colors that were similar to it. I also had difficulty with the scales until I was shown how to overlay the darks and lights in the scales.