1.)My most successful project was the one i did in prismacolor pencil. The theme of this piece was to do something inspired by/ in the style of georgia o'keeffe. My topic is one of the flowers from my neighbors bush out front, i was debating what to do for this project when my dad told me to go wonder around nature for a little bit, i wanted to do something colorful and at the time of the assignment the flowers were the brightest things out there. This assignment had three different choices of medium to use and i knew i didn't like water color and i didn't want to get messy with pastel, so that left prismacolor which i'm glad of now cause i love this piece. i think i did an excellent job of blending and the colors i use just pop right of the page The shadows look amazing and the water droplet is beautiful. I probably should have made it smaller, it would have used less of my pink pencil, but if i had made it smaller than i don't think i would have been able to draw the petals as they should have been. I would do a layer of pink than red or purple than pink again and the colors never seemed to blend so i went over it with white, which blend the colors wonderfully, than repeated till i deemed it fit this beneficed the piece because it appered seamless and real which i really appreciated.
2.) The first piece that i think shows my growth as an artist would have to be my pen and ink/ perspective project. This was may first time using pen as a medium. Most of my pieces is done in the technique of stippling, which absolutely killed me, obviously there are things i would change when/if i use penn again but the hypothetical piece should turn out better than the first because of all i learned when doing it. The other piece i think shows my growth is my painting in the style of a famous artist. Before this class i really tried to avoid painting at all cost and the mini projects and the final project really helped me improve my painting skills so the the paint went where i wanted it to go and not somewhere else. But beside the precision of my strokes my blending of colors really improved the sky i did on my painting is my favorite part of the whole things with the ocean being a close second.
3.) The apples in prismacolor pencils really helped me learn how to blend out the colors and how to create depth by adding colors you might not actually see. i believe more instruction could have been given about how to blend the colors out with white, when we learned about coloring with prisma the AP students were teaching us and only one person said it and only in passing. though i heard it and did it, i didn't completely understand what i was doing, but i knew and understood enough to successfully complete the final project and make it look good. Another mini project i found beneficial would have to be the replication painting. It really helped my skills of blending paint because when i did the color wheel the blending to get the secondry and tercnary colors was kind of fiffy