Artists Create original art
-think creatively
-develop original ideas
-develop original ideas
The new theme I am making an artwork under is "Pressure." I started thinking about pressures I personally face or see in day-to-day life. What first came to mind was the stress of school, the pressure placed on me to be social and interact with others, and a cube of solid, condensed air particles. The last one was trashed almost immediately because I couldn't possibly grasp the beauty of science AND explain the pressure behind it and as for the first two anxiety ensued the very thought of those examples of pressure. I began with looking at people stressed out and noticed a common theme: an open mouth, wider than a snake's mouth while eating a baby. I then proceeded with googling "people with open mouths" (and not in the way I usually do ;D). I found inspiration a photo that showed an image of someone with their mouth open so wide their face seemed to disappear completely as they bite backwards onto themselves. What I got from this photo was that the mouth is the focal point of stress and should also be in my artwork. I made a block print of an open mouth with swirl-ys coming out and settling around the mouth. I chose to pull a print off of it in the color black to give pressure a darker sense *ba dum tssss.* Next, I used water colors to decorate the practice print. I wanted my artwork to demonstrate the beauty that can come from being under pressure, so I painted colorful blotches around the print and coming out of the mouth.
artists develop art making skills
-learn techniques and processes
-explore media
-explore media
I used watercolors for the first time on my latest artwork. After a few practice strokes, I noticed that there was a darker pigment where I placed my paintbrush on the paper and where I took my paintbrush from the paper. I was a little concerned about them drying with the darker spots still visible, but I actually liked the way the darker section seemed to lay over the lighter section. I asked a girl in my class, Makayla, to pick the colors for the splotches so they would look less planned out, a fatal flaw of mine. I wet some of the sections before I put the watercolor on to make them look even different.