Self-Criticism of my Art Projects

So far in Art class we have done three projects.  I have taken a picture of each one and posted here on the blog. There are four parts to self-criticism of art: description, analysis, interpretation, and evaluation.  My first project was sketching a water bottle with shadows.  Honestly, I draw stick figures, so anything other than a few lines that I draw looks good to me.  This project was a little difficult for me since I am not much of a drawer.  My artistic abilities is in other things, for example, making videos and photography.  I find drawing pretty difficult.  I think I did pretty well on this project.  I tried my hardest, but I know others looked better than mine, but that is ok.  My second project was the cave art drawing.  I liked this project best since last year I did a 15 page report on cave art for my history class along with I made my own paintbrush with a stick and leaves as the brush part.  Then I made my own paint with grounded up charcoal and oil.  I painted a few rocks and showed my class.  I had some back ground with this project so that really helped.  I liked the weapons they drew in this era so I included them in my drawing.  I also liked how they chose to draw people together like families, so I included that in my drawing as well.  Since my drawing could be pretty primitive since that is how it was in that era, I feel my drawing was life-like and I did well on it.  My third project was the stone pot.  This was by far the most difficult for me.  I had never used clay before and it was not easy to do.  I watched the video several times and she makes it look so easy.  Obviously, it was not that easy.  I made my pot and it took a lot longer than I thought it would to dry.  As it was drying I researched what they painted on pots and the colors they used.  I chose a design in black and I attempted to make a gold color for the inside of my pot.  I figured gold would look cool inside a pot if it had water in it.  It would make the water look colored.  They used a lot of black, brown, and gold in this Roman-Greek era.  I do not feel my pot turned out the way I wanted it to.  It looks like a five year old made it, but I tried my hardest and it was my best work.  I really enjoy the research that goes into making the projects.  I like the history of the art, but not necessarily making the project itself.  At least I am trying and doing my best effort and learning along the way!  

Roman-Greek clay pot

I have never in my life played with clay.  Silly puddy, yes.  Play doh, yes.  Never clay.  I was asked to make a Roman-Greek clay pot.  I watched a video on how to do it several times and it is way harder than it looks. Most of the colors they used in that era was black and gold. I tried to make a cold color by mixing colors to use for inside my pot.  At least I tried my hardest.

Me attempting to make a clay pot

My clay pot painted

Trying to make a gold color with white and black edges.  

Week three in Art class

This week in Art class we talked about cave drawings and different periods in time.  Last year I did a huge project for my World Civ class on cave drawings.  I enjoyed it so much that I was excited to learn more. We had to make our own cave drawing, which I was excited about.  Here are my halfway picture and finished picture.

The pumpkins are growing bigger and bigger

So far we have one orange pumpkin and a lot of green pumpkins that are just starting to turn lighter shades of green.  Here is a picture.