Power and Beauty Webs

Essential Questions

Big Questions: How do artists develop content and ideas for their work?

Artists develop content and ideas for their work through reflecting on their own experiences, stories, images that they see, emotions that they feel and connections they make with the world. They can also come up with ideas as they do the work, and do what comes to them.

What kinds of techniques, behaviors, and habits allow artists to turn their ideas into meaningful works of art that engage the viewer?

Freedom in their art allows the artist to make their art something meaningful. Freedom lets them go down any path that comes to them even if it is a little scary to take the first step in that direction.

Alex DeMaria

I really liked his pieces of art that he cut out of paper. The detail in them was really cool and I also liked how he used spray paint.

Question: How do you have the patience to keep working on a single project that requires so much time?

Collaborative Drawing

It was odd to work this way. I liked it because I got the chance to draw the same thing from different angles which kept it more fresh and interesting. It was also frustrating because I didn't know what was happening with my own drawing. When I got to a painting the first thing I usually did was look at it and look at the new perspective I was at for a few seconds. Then I'd begin erasing things that were at the wrong angle or were the wrong size and re draw them. The process for correcting was not bad, but I had to make a lot of changes in some things. When I returned to my drawing I saw that some of my work had been altered for example the trashcan was bigger. I re drew some of the changes, but kept in mind why the had to be changed in the first place. To finish my picture I used the white pencil a lot to make things such as the toilet paper rolls lighter. I wish that I'd had more time do value because I didn't really get to my chair.

Pre-Assesment

Drawing from observation felt a lot more natural for me. I thought that it was a lot easier to do. I like having something to look at when I draw because in my head I don’t always know exactly what it looks like or how I should go about drawing it. When I draw from observation not knowing what something looks like isn’t in my way and I can at least try to make it look realistic.