Frank Gehry is a really great designer for buildings. The concepts he comes up with are just great. The reason I chose him was because of his style and his some of his buildings are pretty popular ones that I didn't know he designed so that's pretty cool. Gehry is an inspiration for all of us and I hope you think so to. Thanks!
Pablo Picasso is a very talented artist. His artwork captures the surroundings of his life. He should inspire us to work hard, but also have creative fun while making art. I chose him because he has many pieces of art that I think are really well made and to learn more about his life. Van Gogh is an extremely creative artist. His work is very detailed and abstract and captures different parts of his surroundings. I liked all the different colors and lines he uses and it makes the whole piece flow together. I liked researching him because I learned many thing about him that I didn't know before. Today me and my fellow classmates went to a screening of "Nicky's Family" which tells the story of Sir Nicholas Winton and how he saved over 600 children from the danger of WWII. The thing I took away from this movie was that this man risked his own life to safe other peoples lives which I think is pretty brave and heroic. A message that was left from this movie was to show you that one selfless act can make a huge impact on the world. After we saw the movie we went to UNI to look at their art departments and see what kinds of things they do there. I think the best part of my day was looking at all of the creative pieces of artwork and to hear the processes that they went through to make them. The painting above was my favorite piece from what I saw there. It has to be my favorite because it shows what true nature is capturing and it reminds my where I used to live. While we were on the tour we got to listen to this thing called the quakerdale exhibit which showed how this girl goes through her life sad and depressed. There were many different pieces for the exhibit but this one piece caputred the image of when the girl was in her house and outside her window you could see police car lights reflecting off the window. It was pretty good. The one piece of artwork that I connect with would have to that nature one again I mean it just reminds me of were I used to life and it looks really nice and it captures that special message. This tour was cool and it made me have a better inside of what it means to be an artist. Really cool. The process that I went through was kind of difficult for me. In the beginning I was going back and forth between making a print or a 2-D drawing and I ended up with a drawing. My concept was baseball and the team that I chose was the St. Louis Cardinals. The first thing that I did was I found an transparent image of theirs and I hand drew it onto a blank sheet of paper. It turned out really good. Then I used their base color which is red and I used one of my favorite colors green and I made the Top half red, the middle green, and the bottom red again. On each sides of the logo I wrote "The Best" because they are the best. Above and below I wrote down players numbers and their names from a roster that I found on ESPN to give people examples of players that play for the team. One thing I was going to do was on the molina and wainwright parts I was going to write their names in gold because last year they both won gold gloves, but I didn't because yellow really doesn't show up as nice on white. The top numbers are in red and the bottom ones are in green because I was trying to incorporate the same concept as the logo had. Then on the bottom right hand corner has my name and the date it was made. Trying to be fancy. All in all I liked how my artwork turned out and I hope you do. The thing I am most proud of is that I used different types of brown's to make it stand out more and bring out my creativity. What makes this special to me is that I set up the pine cones like this in real life so that I doesn't seem like everything is all the same and bland. The pine needles I also used to make it better and I used a lighter green because that is what the needles looked like. Hope you like my artwork! The process that I went through at the beginning was coming up with a list of things that I do everyday. Once a did that I had a perfect idea of what I was going to show to my teacher as well as YouTube. The idea of this project was to make a "movie" about things that happen everyday. You also had to make sure not to include any of your own body parts in the movie and to keep the video clips between 2 to 5 seconds. |