Miranda's Work

Miranda's Work 9th Grade Attacking Art 2011

First Semester Exam

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    This project  consist of filling all the paper with different colors and shapes. We use plenty of materials for the product like: color markers, color pencils, pencil, eraser, white paper and our imagination. The goal of this project was to make lines all over the paper and then when figures were created by this lines fill them with different colors and different styles of shading. We were supposed to use 4 different types of shading and then the rest of figures we can fill them with any color and any technique we want. This project was extremely fun and easy because i like to do it, its interesting how a simply white sheet of paper can be converted to an art work and you can see how the work advances by each time you paint one figure. 
    I think that my performance of this project was extremely good because first of all I try to do my best putting lot of effort in the project and taking the time I need and not wasting it. This project was not difficult at all but i have some weakness by doing it, likewise, I have some strenghts. Some of the things that was kind of difficul for me is doing the shade from light to darker and specially when I use color pencils for it. This was difficult for me because I have not practice too much of shading and I do not know exactly how to do it therefore is right, so I use my own criteria to perform it. On the other hand, my strenghs were plenty, I take advantage of the time I have and I try to do it little by little so at the end when is due I do not have to work a lot. In the same way, I take advantage that I really like to paint so I do not have trouble with it and it does not stress me. If it is for me i'll do plenty of projects like this because they are not so long and they are fun to do it and you look the time to do it.

My Island Map (San Sebastian)

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    This was a big project we do in class which take us plenty of time to finish it. The project consist of making a map of yourself putting important things about your past, the present and the future. This project was presented in A3 cartuline but before that we do some drafts so in the final draft we have no errors. At first we use our notebook to do the draft in which it was included all the colors, the symbols and the names. For the final draft we use water color materials and paint the exact draft we do in out notebook into the A3 cartuline. The goal of this project was to reflect our life in symbols for example: i love to play tennis so I draw a tennis court and a raquet representing that in the present I love this sport. In the project there were some especifications, we have to had land fitures like seas, mountains, lakes, trees, etc, we also needed to have symbols that represent importants moments in our past live, importante moments we are living now a days and imoportant moments we want to live in the future. 
    This project was a little more difficult and more challenging for me. My biggest weakness was to paint with water colors I have never liked to do it and in my opinion I am not good at it. Painting was my biggest challenge in this project and this is because I have always liked to paint very detail and organized but when painting with water colors everything was a mess. As I have some weakness I also have some strengths in the project, I use my time wisely so I do not have to take anything for homework and I have the time necessary to paint and draw as I want. In the same way, another strength is that my first draft was well done and it have all the names, colors and symbols so for my final product I just have to follow my draft and that make things easier for me. I really like doing this project even though I am not so good painting with water colors I am glad to know how to use them and the techniques for an easy use of them.

Sketch (city)

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    This picture is an sketch I create as a Journal entry. Here I used materials as pencil, eraser, paper and shading. My goal was to do a beautiful center of a city where a church is located and small houses are next to it, with a little park in front were children could play without any danger or preocupation. I get the idea of drawing this when I go to a trip on Italy which was pretty similar as this picture, very old, beautiful, peaceful, a great place to relax and life. I have always like to do works like this because I like to draw with this technique of no completing the drawing as it was quickly. 
    In my opinion, i think i do a great job doing this sketch even though it take me a little long to do it and made some repetions. My weakness was to draw straight each thing and that everything match some things were bigger other smaller some were darker other lighter, but at least i could do it even though i repeat many times. My strength is that as i already said i like drawing so i can take any time to do a drawing because it donot bothers me. In the same way, a strength is that i have the image in my head so i know what i am drawing and what my result would be.