thumbnails.

Changed my animal to a toucan

Thumbnails!

My animal is a seahorse and the predominant characteristic I am focusing on is it's head and neck.

Thumbnails from class!

I Understand!!!!

Depth of Field is the range of distance with in an object that is acceptably sharp. This varies depending on the camera, a perture and focusing disctance, although print size and viewing distance can influence our perception of it. Everything in front or in back of the focal point begins to lose sharpness.
Now that I understand, i look forward to taking amazing pictures with great depth of field!

Information Location

If you are looking for some information concerning what was done in class, or what your homework is, or when things are due, please be sure to check Edline. I am posting every day with a short report of what we accomplished during the class. At the end of that report is listed what is due for homework and when it is due. The report can be found under the section titled CONTENTS, under the heading "Today in class we..." Click on that and you will be able to see each day's report.

Handddssss!

One of my hand pieces. I chose to do a collage because I love finding all the different peices that make it work. Overall I'm happy with this one.

ink drawing

This is my ink drawing not to happy with it. The values look off to me and the composition also. Working with ink was challenging since you can't erase your mistakes.

Background?

An ink picture of a girl in a swimming suit. i think i could have gone darker in places but i liked how the face turned out. didn't know how to do the background without all the ink bleeding into the girl.

Some heels are too high

here is one of my foot sketches that i put a lot of detail and time into. used my ebony pencils and graphite. (was in a cousins wedding and i liked the shoes.)

Question?

When did you want us to bring in our assignments?

It's been busy here lately!

Several of you seem to be busy! That must mean school will be starting soon.
hmmm... what would summer assignments look like if the kids didn't wait until the last minute to get it all finished?
I'm also wondering... What kind of assignment would you do eagerly, or willingly?
Maybe I need to rethink the whole thing. or.. Maybe that's just the nature of the summer experience.
I'm just sayin'....
Any thoughts, anyone?

A Time in My Life

... building the tree house with my brother and my Dad. I am not happy with this at all. I would like to re-do it. Here is the problem: I used Guache and colored pencil on this poster paper. They did not work well together at all. I didn't even want to fill in the faces of the people. It was a disaster. Any suggestions?

Oil Pastel

This is my oil pastel landscape of outside a restaurant I went to in Michigan. My family and I go to this restaurant every year and every year I look forward to seeing this view.

Self Portrait

This is my self portrait. I didn't know how to rotate it? This wasn't what I first had in mind to do. I thought painting a face would be kinda scary but it turns out it wasn't that bad. (This was done on two separate canvases. The black streak is just the background. Its not part of the piece)

uurs

country music

this was the still life with music but i used acrylic paint instead of ebony pencil (sorry mrs brauer!) i chose acrylic paint instead bc i feel the sturdiness represents my family more..this being my family room. i listened to country music bc i felt like that is also family oriented.
sorry its tilted

finished

so i decided to completly turn my peice upside down..literally

earrr

i like ears

need help again

once again i need help..the idea of this piece was to draw my feet..but only my left one. I drew 2 left feet to represent my dancing skills..enough said. what i need help with is the background. i was thinking about doing little feet to represent a feet pattern..but for some reason i dont feel totally committed to doing that..if anyone has any suggestions for a background please let me know!!

Has anyone done Number ten??

I went down to Sawyer point. I was there for probably 4 hours. I did something... It could be art, but I want to hear what everyone else was thinking of doing?

Schools starting! Can't wait to be in the best class ever!!! Art!!!

Have you noticed?

I haven't posted any comments or critiques lately.

I am trying to hold my opinion, hoping that some of you will begin to talk about each other's work.

I'd like you to begin thinking, dissecting, suggesting, cheering about what you are seeing from each other.

The more you write, the easier it gets. So, jump on in and share your opinions.

I will not judge for right or wrong answers, but would love to read some discussion!

unrealllll

Okay, so this turned out pretty good. I used newspaper, acrylics and sharpie. I'm really happy with the colors in this but i feel like somethings missing.

finally, my first post: moody still life

I've been so busy with school i've only been able to work on things a little at a time. But I'm finally done with one of the assignments. yay!

Something Unreal

This one turned out a lot differently than i originally saw it. It was supposed to be just a girl standing by a road at sunset except a little trippier. But as always i decided i wanted a little drippy paint. This is the nearly finished result. I'm going to be adding a real 3-D paintbrush in the girl's hand as soon as i figure out how. Anyway it's brighter and more detailed than it looks but i am generally satisfied with the finished result. Any suggestions?

Oil Pastel Landscape

This piece was particularly difficult because the pastels didn't like the water color paper i used but it turned out a lot better than i expected. It's a portrait of the bridge in downtown loveland by the canoe rental thingy and was taken from inside a canoe. It was really frustrating to get exactly right but i think it turned out well.

Unreal!

Ok so this is the Marc Chagall assignment! The nouns and verbs I used were swim, clock, float, wind, grass, and building. I had a lot of fun thinking of ways to make it look unreal, and overall I had fun doing this assignment!