Charlotte's+Element+Study

=My Element Study=

Line Drawing Value Shape and Space Texture and form My project, extra credit.. Reflective Writing  I chose this piece because I thought that it first of all was really pretty. I have always been fascinated with this particular picture and I'm pretty sure that we had a copy of it at home at one point. I also thought that it showed what is special about Monet's work, because of the colors, the blurry lines and the water lilies. I thought that this piece would also be something that would turn out pretty and professional without being too hard or easy to make. I think that my Shape and Space is the most successful piece because of both the colors and the shapes. The original piece was very blurry, so it was kinda difficult to find shapes in the piece. But as soon as I started putting the smaller pieces of tissue paper together it kinda all fell in place and I started to find the spaces in the painting. If I had had longer time to do it, I'm sure that it could have turned out even better. I also like how you learned to look at a painting in a different way, and I think that making this picture will help me, so therefore I like it the most. I really don't like how the line drawing turned out because of the lines. The original painting is, like most of Monet's pieces, very blurry and the colors are blending into each other. This made it very difficult to distinguish were the lines were and therefore difficult to draw. I was only able to make out the lianes, or whatever they are, and some of the waterlilies because the background is so much mixed together. I think this project turned out really good if you look at them all next to each other. I think it is going to help me in the future too, because I'm now able to break a painting or drawing into smaller pieces to analyze, replicate or whatever I have to do. I think that I improved my knowledge about art in a way that would have been difficult to do in a different project. I really liked that we got to do some different things instead of just drawing or painting, and that is definitely going to help me in the future too. I liked this project and I wouldn't mind doing it again!