1. Describe the craftsmanship of your drawing. (Is it neat and well executed?)
I believe the craftsmanship of my drawing is fairly decent. I feel comfortable with the execution of my idea. 2. Skip 3. Describe your choice of colors/color harmonies and how you used them throughout the artwork. I used a lot of cooler tones throughout the piece, but for the most part tried to keep the colors accurate to my reference picture. I Used warm tones in the pastries to show the bread under the icing/powdered sugar. 4. How did you create contrast in your drawing? I kept the background darker to make the pastry box draw the eye more. 5. How did you use textures, highlights and shadows to enhance your artwork? I used highlights to show the clear plastic parts of the bag and the pastry box. I think my highlights on the box are a little muddled but I am very happy with how the highlights on the bag turned out. I also used shadows to show depth and how the items were stacked. 6. Why did you choose a particular background color to mount your artwork? I wanted to continue with the cooler tones of the piece, and believed that having the counter white like it was in the photo would make it difficult to differentiate between the counter and the pastry box. 7. Discuss the importance of understanding the media (prisma or pastels) and acquiring the skills necessary to create a successful project. I definitely wouldn’t have been able to make this piece without all of the practice we did with prismacolors. Our lessons and practices with opacity really helped me feel more comfortable and understand where to start on this piece. Understanding how to layer prismas really helped make this piece feel successful. 8. Describe any difficulties you had creating your drawing and what you could do to improve your drawing? I think I still have trouble with keeping my lines light and consistent. It especially shows in wide areas that need to be filled, like the background counter. I am still struggling to think of the colors in my piece in layers so they end up coming out muddy sometimes.
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These are the compositional sketches for my Look What You Can See Through project. Originally I was deciding between a composition with wine glasses and a bottle of dish soap, or a composition with a pastry box and a bag of donuts. I tried five different compositions with each idea, then settled on one of my pastry sketches. I then made a larger sketch and started planning out what colors I would be using.
This was one of the drawings we did focusing on elements of opacity. I had never used colored pencils in a serious drawing before this and found them very difficult. It is taking me a long time to get used to how slowly you have to go when layering colors. I am also struggling with the idea of adding colors that aren't seen in the subject at first glance. I do enjoy the colors and the potential colored pencils have, but I think I need more practice before I'll really be comfortable. I do feel like I better understand how to show transparency in my art.
This was my first drawing using chalk pastels. I found them very difficult to get used to, but I loved the vibrancy of the colors. It took a few drawings to get used to the way chalk pastels layer and blend, but I did end up really enjoying them. For these drawings we took pictures of eggs in dramatic lighting and then drew them in chalk pastel on brown and black paper.
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