Shades of gray.

• The goals for today's drawings were to draw form observation and start by erase some of the black. and then make the objects on the table and then make, use five different shads of gray in the picture.

• I achieved these goals very well because i completed the drawing and had 5 different shads of gray very well.
  

• The challenges that i faced while doing this assaignment in class was using the different shades of gray with the objects becuase alot of the objects were white or a light color. there for i had a little trouble. but i just did what i could and i think it came out really good.

Studying Nighthawks

• Title: Nighthawks.
• The artist's name: Edward Hopper.
• Where is the artist form: Nyack, New York State
• The year it was made: 1942
• What medium was used to make the work: paint.
  

2. Write your first impressions of the painting. What do you see?

• I see a dinner a few people a street and stores on the other side of the street, i also see the way the light in the dinner and the street light hit the side walk. i see the writing on the top of the dinner, and the coffee cups in side on the counter.

3. Do a little research on this painting (there's lots of info on the web about it). Try clicking here or here if you need a little help. Who was Edward Hopper? Why did he make this painting? What is it really all about?

• The painting was inspired by a restaurant in New York on Greenwich avenue, the dinner was destroyed. this painting shows three lonely customers at a dinner late one night all lost in there own thoughts. Some believe that this painting shows the loneliness of a large city late one night.
  

4. Now...as we study the principles of design this week add your analysis of the painting to your post. Describe HOW the artist uses The Principles of Design to communicate his ideas. Be as specific as you can in your description.

• This artist uses the light to balance out the picture and the placing of the picture depends on the light. also he draws you in by using the lighting as a line to view the people and the street corner.
  

Finding images that are balanced.

This shows the symmetry balance because you can cut it in half and its the same. therefore the balance is focused on the middle of the picture.


The light beams on 5 different areas which balances out the brightness and the area of where it hits.


The objects on the left make yup for the light coming through the window and hitting the girls face.


two men on each side make the picture balance towards the middle.

The Principles of design

1. The principles of design
- are rules that are hopefully made to be broken at some point.
2.Balance: is when the visual weight of the art work
- symmetry: When you draw a shape it means its the same on the left as it is on the right.

-approximately symmetrical: Its almost symmetry but there are few objects that are different.

- Radial: It doesn't matter were you draw the line its still the same top and bottom

3. Emphasis
- placement: were artist place things matter.
-contrast: the color, shape, design are different.
- grouping: when an artist decides to put a bunch of elements they want to focus on.


4. rhythm& movement
-repetition
- same element
-alternating elements: is you can change the color and shapes.
-progression: is a repeated element that gets from small to large or large to small.
- leading lines: there are lines that lead yo to take different paths.
- implied movement
- optical movement
-actual movement

5. Proportion
- size relationships with in the picture.
-color -shapes -forms
- when your thinking about proportion in your work is emotion, story or the way it looks.


6. Unity
- we are using these principles of design anmd everything works together.
7. verity

Reflecting at mid-term.

Through out the first term I think i made great progress because i enjoy making and creating art I also started the term really excited because were weren't getting any homework but once we got the first homework assignment I thought the class was corny but after we were getting homework i started to see how it was not hard and was short. I also made progress because in the penguin project I didn't really like what some of my classmates drew on the paper. But i got over the fact of what they did, i looked at the final project and it wasn't what i really had in mind. I also made progress bye working with Sophia on both the robot BOB and the race car track. We worked good together and made two really cool sculptures.

Reflecting on Found Object Sculptures.

BOB was inspired from Sophia's mettle heater, which we had no clue what to use it for. Then we started talking and looked at the materials we both had and decided to create bob the robot. We used many different shapes and patterns and colors to create bob and as you can see it came great.

In your own words, describe what the goals for today's drawing were.

The goals for today were to draw from observation and it we had to draw quick with, draw how the light was hitting the different bags with the different objects in them. We also drew for about 35 min, and had to make the bags look like they either had hard or soft materials in them.



How well did you achieve these goals?
I achieved this goal fairly well and I think i drew the objects in the bag with expression. an example of that is i drew the objects that had a soft material in them with more of a gray and soft color and vise verse

The Potential of Found Objects

In other words how or why did the artists choose the objects they did? Use specific examples from the pictures below.
I think the that the materials the artists used to sculpt with were chosen because they were inspiring and sparked an idea within the artist. It could also be that those were the only supplies available at that time.

The work of Ingrid Calame

Who Ingrid Calame is

Ingird Calame is an artist that tried to make her own drawing out of there drawings that she had traced and adds her own thought and perception on it to make it her own.

HOW she makes her paintings

She makes her paintings by tracing, coping other peaces of art that are messed up of really cool graffiti tags. After she traces the different makings she goes back to the studio and places them over each other to see what they form. Then she colors them in with color pencil and then makes another drawing and paints it.

WHY she makes her paintings the way she does

She makes her paintings the way she does because she enjoys taking shapes from all forms and sizes and creating something new using those shapes. Also as a little girl she wanted to make drawings of what she thought the world looked like and know shes making similar paintings.