Why Do People Make Art

People make art because it lets them and helps them express themselves in way other than words. Art is also sometimes pleasing to the eye and makes you happy when you have completed something you are proud of. Art can be used to tell a story or it can be used to document history. People use art to show there opinions, feeling, and as a pass time. 

Reflect on Four Hour Project

This project was different than all the other projects we have done because this project allowed us to work with what whatever we did, and we were allowed  to use any materials. My process started with observing other peoples work for inspiration. Then once i got the idea of Yandel I looked a picture of him on the internet. Than I began to draw the face. Once i was done i waited a day and then went back and made any changes I found. 

The Book Project...progress and planning

My original plan for my first page was a scene where a father is walking into a war vehicle going of to war, while his wife and children watch from the distance. I have not finished my first page but sp far my plans have not changed. Everything is going well but I need to pick up the pace. 

Studying Nighthawks

Nighthawks-1942

By Edward Hopper an America artists

The painting is very detailed. I see a man and a women sitting at a bar with one other women. There is also a bartender and a street. The painting is very balanced because of the colors chosen. 

Edward Hopper is an American artist who lived in cape cod during the 1930's and 40's. He was a very famous and talented artist who married a model. He made the painting Nighthawks to resemble a restaurant. The painting is really about three customers all alone in the bar feeling lonely. 

He puts Emphasis on the yellow door on the back by making it a bright color on top of a dull color. He balances the picture well by focusing on the people on one side but also using a bright color to even the balance out on the other side. There is no rhythm or movement.

Finding Images That are Balanced

The Artists Habitat

An artist is someone who expresses anything thinkable through a visual, or hearable representation. An artist is someone who can express them selves and describe something in many different ways. Being creative means being able to think about everything in two ways, and being able to see what others don't see at first. 

Giving Up Control: POURS

To make a pour painting you had two pick several colors of paint pour them onto a blank sheet of paper and tilt the paper to move the paint around. It felt weird and somewhat frustrating to do something where I had almost no control. Surprisingly enough, the paintings in the end turned out beautiful and the only way could could have their unique beauty was by letting go of control and leaving it up to physics. The paintings were very good because the paterns and shapes and mixed colors, could not have been accomplished if there was control in what you wanted the outcome to look like.