Project #8: Candy Drawing *No picture

This project was fun. It was hard not to eat the candy while drawing it, but I managed to resist. It was cool to draw my favorite candies in a 3D perspective. I really enjoyed this project. It was simple, but fun.

Making a Sketchbook

Making a sketchbook was interesting. It was cool to get to choose the paper I wanted in it, and choose the cover of it. I was difficult to get the paper to stay together with glue, but it worked out. Over all it was pretty easy to make, and its cool to create and draw stuff inside of something that I made.

Salvador Dali, the Famous Surrealist Painter

For my ceiling tile project, I chose to paint a surrealist picture. Salvador Dali was one of the most famous surrealist painters in the world. His art was unique, and very interesting. He takes objects, and paints them to do things that they don't do. I'm very excited to do a surrealist piece, although it will be difficult. It will be hard to create a picture of something that is unique, and unreal. I hope this project turns out well. 

Photography as a Career

  Photography is something I've always been interested in. I think its amazing how many stories one photo can tell. I've never really liked to have my picture taken, so I was always the one taking them. It would be amazing to have a career in photography. Its always been one of my dreams to become a fashion photographer for a big magazine because I love to take pictures of people, but I also like taking pictures of objects and landscapes. Those dreams might be a little far fetched, but I wouldn't mind having a home business and taking senior pictures or wedding pictures. It would also be amazing to travel the world and take pictures for journalists. 

  The average photographer makes between $14,000 and 54,748. The median salary that a fashion photographer can get is between $25,000 and 40,000. I honestly don't care how much I get paid. As long as I can be stable and love what I'm doing. If I went to the Art Institutes, I would probably have to go to school for 3 or 4 years. I would hopefully be working with other photographers and get opportunities to take photos for other businesses. Even though there might be ups and downs, I would still love to do this for a living.

 

 

Project #7: Aboriginal Dot Painting

This project was really cool. It took A LOT of time, but it was fun. I never knew exactly how it would turn out, so I was always excited about it. I really like the colors I chose for this project. I think they worked well. This is one of the projects I'm most proud of. If  I could change anything, I would have made the dots neater. Other than that, I feel good about this project, and I think it was very successful.

Project #6: 4-Steps to Abstraction Painting

This project took quite a bit of time. I had to make sure that each time I "zoomed in" that the decorations were still the same color as the were before. I chose a Christmas tree because, it was around Christmas time, and I love Christmas. If I were to re-do this, I wold have chosen smaller brushes to paint with. The most difficult thing about this was taking the time to paint it. Sometimes I would just get bored, but then I realized how awesome it would look when I was done. This project was fun, yet time consuming.

Project #5: Gesture Drawing

  This piece was really difficult to do. It required a lot of detail and long work.I feel like I did a good job on this, although I could have been more careful with the conte' crayons. I used three pictures of girls that looked similar, so it would flow better. If I could re-do this project I probably would have spent more time on it, it doesn't look quite finished to me. I learned that to make a project like this, you have to have a lot of time and patience.