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I chose my theme of “Peace at the pump” because everyone is feeling the effects of gas prices being so expensive. My parents are aggravated by the prices because it’s taking so much extra money to pay the gas for three cars a week. They don’t want to go any where they absolutely don’t need to, in hopes of preserving the gas. My friends and I make plans to do things and we all end up having to pitch in on gas once in a while.

I encountered the problem of how I wanted to put color to my picture. I ended up going with colored pencils because it seemed like the best choice I could think of. My pinwheel would have looked much better if I had choose something different like paint or oil pastels.

My pinwheel is successful in that I finished and the point I wanted to make was made. Another success is that it spins pretty well. But I was unsuccessful in that my pinwheel isnt as neat as it could have been if I had used something different to color it.



"Venice Twilight" Claude Monet 1840-1926

media type="custom" key="10759462" Line Drawing Value Shape and Space Digital Texture and Form I love Claude Monet's paintings. What attracted me most to this painting were the colors. I'm a big fan of all the bright, stand out colors. Also the texture of the painting, the way it looked. The way the brush strokes were so visible.

One of the biggest problems I came across was when I was glazing my texture and form tile. It was really hard to get in the creases and not get it all over the rest of the tile. I got a smaller paint brush and it helped but I still got it on other parts of the tile. Another problem I had was when I was cutting out tissue paper for the shape and space piece. I had gaps and had to go back and use a permanent to outline it so there weren't any white spaces.

My value study is my most successful piece. I was able to make the shades look almost exactly like they should. I didn't know how to add in the brush strokes but it still looks the best and is my best piece of artwork from this project.

I better understand art better now because of this project. I see that artists have to consider shape, space, form, texture and many other factors to make a piece of beautiful artwork. It's more than just drawing an object. You have to consider all those aspects first before you can get to work on actually painting.

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I chose my theme because it is something personal and close to my heart. My theme is angels. It’s close to my heart because my grandma who past away just over two years ago collected angels. She had quite a lot all around her house. I even bought her one or two myself.

One of the problems I encountered was drawing the facial features on my mask. I started out drawing them lightly with pencil. They looked just how I wanted them too. But I am not a very good painter, and when I was painting my hands weren’t steady and I ended up making the mouth two big.

I’m very happy with my final piece. My clouds look good, as well as my wings. I was also able to find a quote about guardian angels that relates to my grandma. I made good use of space and colors.

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