1. I think my most successful project was the Abstract art project. Based off of psychology experiments and Goseiger, the purpose was for everyone to assemble it in different ways. I feel this led to everyone expressing their individual creativity, thus allowing it to be different every time. I feel all my decicisions worked out, though if I had to do it again I would work on the pegs more.
I would also have put more work on the background. I also would have used stronger materials. The project is a little flimsy for my tastes. The pegs also don't quite work as well as I would like.
The sizes don't quite match up. The pegs need to bigger.

2.i feel my abstract art  project was the  hardest to work with. The pegs took a lot of creativity to create. I had to come up with a million ideas on how to make the triangles detachable. I thought of Velcro , but it was too much  of a hassle. When I came up with the pegs, it took multiple tries to get them to work. I had to use hot glue and a hole puncher to make sure everything was uniform. It took a lot of tries, and some cardboard backing. Overall, it was a difficult project to work with. That us why I think this was the hardest project to work with.

3. I feel that the differences between my earlier hands and my final one is astounding. Over the weeks  of drawing hands, the slowly but surely got better and better. The earlier ones had bad proportions and tended to be misaligned. I practiced by illustrating blocks for the joints and bits. This helped me get a better sense of how a hand would be proportioned in different angles. I also used detail to bring my hands to life. That's is why my final project, a guilded hand, turned out so well. It is loaded with detail and shading. I am really proud of the proportions. That is why I think the warmups were effective.

4. I think the biggest problem with the class was the lack of deadline. Most people procrastinated until the end. I do think the creative freedom was good. I think the warmups should have been more varied, instead of one thing over and over. My art projects clearly show vast improvement in my artivity. My original projects required a lot of time and tools, while my later ones were much easier to do. I also vastly improved in shading. You can see this through my apple project, which I terribly shaded it. I also feel my sculpture project was expertly painted and sculpted. I could not have painted that as well as I did at the beginning of the year.

Abstract Art

For my abstract art project, I made an interactive art project meant to evoke the users feelings by allowing them to change the pieces to their will. Everyone's interpretation will be unique, and thus the colors change.

Project 5

For project  5 I made a box  based  off  of the famous painting Starry night. I used dark blues to get a more realistic night sky, with yellow and white for a nice contrast. The brush strokes helped give the night sky a flowing effect.

Style Project

Artist Biography: Linda Scarberry

On November 15, 1966, Linda was out with her husband and their friends. They were driving nearby Point Pleasant's TNT area when their headlights caught a reflection. They stumbled upon a bat-like creature with little to no facial features. It stared at them, and when they swerved to avoid hitting it, it vertically took off into the air. It proceeded to follow them at speeds of over 100 mph as they tried to get away. It only stopped when they passed Point Pleasant's city limits, when it turned around and flew off. After that incident, the 4 witnesses would forever plagued by the creature Nicknamed "Mothman". Linda's original drawing would form the basis for all future eyewitness reports. She became obsessed with making the most accurate portrayal possible, carrying a sketchbook at all times in case the creature showed up. She had hundreds of encounters, and filled notebooks full of sketches. A majority of the sightings consisted of Mothman peering in through the window, or hanging back in the distance. A prominent feature she always mentioned were it's bright red eyes, which appeared to be glowing. December 17, 1967, she finally finished her painting, she was overcome by nausea. She glanced out her bedroom window to see Mothman staring at her, and it flew off. Only 10 minutes later, the Silver bridge collapsed, killing 46 people. Soon after, sightings began to dwindle. She didn't see Mothman again until March 5, 2011, the day before she died. She always claimed that Mothman spared her life, as she would have died on the silver bridge if not for her Nausea.

Artwork:

Her original eyewitness sketch



Later sketches from her notebook



Her final painting