Quarter 3
For art I addressed standards developing craft, connecting, responding, and perform, produce, and present artistic ideas and work. To start my art learning I drew some figures, and found that the things I needed the most work on were faces. Then I drew a page of faces, lips, eyes, and noses. After I observed what made some better than others.
After this I played a little with mediums. Trying coffee painting, gouache, and watercolor.
Then I started drawing figures with garments using markers, gouache, and pencils.
I explored the differences between clothes, fashion, and wearable art through google searches.
Quarter 4
An Excerpt From My Narrative
The past two summers I have taken fashion drawing courses at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. I wanted to continue this learning in the Pilot program. I started the 3rd quarter sketching the female fashion figure. Then moved on to fabric and garment rendering. I chose this order since before I draw clothes I need something to put them on. I quickly realized my faces were the things that needed the most work. Embodying the saying, "Practice makes perfect," I drew a page of faces. After that, I decided to break them down even further, and in a smaller notebook drew a page of lips, a page of eyes, and a page of noses. Then once I felt like I had a solid foundation of the figure I moved on to drawing garments.
Each time I draw a garment I draw a figure as well, rather than tracing an old figure so that I continue to improve my figure drawing. I am also putting these figures on tracing paper so I can look at my figure drawings, and garment renderings separately. I am currently played with mediums, including gouache, watercolor, coffee painting, and markers. The coffee painting I did a few different pieces with the medium, but never ended up applying it to my designs unfortunately. I am addressing the art standards develop craft, connect, respond, and perform, produce, and present artistic ideas and work. The works I have created from the third semester are an example of Developing craft, as well as Perform, Produce, and Present. In the fourth semester, I pulled in more from the standards connecting, and responding. The third quarter I did very little of these standards. I did this by looking at artists work and writing responses to it, as well as creating a connecting piece. My connecting piece was about systematic racism in our society. This piece of course also included the work I had done earlier in the semester around developing craft. As well as perform, produce, and present. I had one part that had two black women crouching, they were holding up white figures. This was symbolic how certain employments support others. Those employees that support the people higher up are often people of color. I then drew a line of figures that were of different races to show equality.
My proficiency in the standard of connecting was shown through this piece. My proficiency in responding was shown through all of my responses to other artists work. My proficiency in developing craft and perform, present, and produce was shown in my physical art pieces. I think that as artists we are always improving upon these skills and there isn’t really a way to be proficient. Everyone can draw an apple, but everyone's apple will look different. This is what makes art interesting. Improvement is the thing that in my opinion ultimately makes someone proficient.
Each time I draw a garment I draw a figure as well, rather than tracing an old figure so that I continue to improve my figure drawing. I am also putting these figures on tracing paper so I can look at my figure drawings, and garment renderings separately. I am currently played with mediums, including gouache, watercolor, coffee painting, and markers. The coffee painting I did a few different pieces with the medium, but never ended up applying it to my designs unfortunately. I am addressing the art standards develop craft, connect, respond, and perform, produce, and present artistic ideas and work. The works I have created from the third semester are an example of Developing craft, as well as Perform, Produce, and Present. In the fourth semester, I pulled in more from the standards connecting, and responding. The third quarter I did very little of these standards. I did this by looking at artists work and writing responses to it, as well as creating a connecting piece. My connecting piece was about systematic racism in our society. This piece of course also included the work I had done earlier in the semester around developing craft. As well as perform, produce, and present. I had one part that had two black women crouching, they were holding up white figures. This was symbolic how certain employments support others. Those employees that support the people higher up are often people of color. I then drew a line of figures that were of different races to show equality.
My proficiency in the standard of connecting was shown through this piece. My proficiency in responding was shown through all of my responses to other artists work. My proficiency in developing craft and perform, present, and produce was shown in my physical art pieces. I think that as artists we are always improving upon these skills and there isn’t really a way to be proficient. Everyone can draw an apple, but everyone's apple will look different. This is what makes art interesting. Improvement is the thing that in my opinion ultimately makes someone proficient.
After reflection on the third quarter I knew I needed to do more work on the standards connecting, and responding. Staying with the focus of race from the rest of my study, I chose to respond to black artists and their pieces relating to race.
In addition to this I responded to a piece about race by a white artist.
I had the opportunity to go to the MET's exhibit of Heavenly Bodies, so although it did not relate to the race portion of my study I chose to respond to some of its pieces as well.
I created two inspiration boards, and explained my reasoning for choosing the pieces I did. Unfortunately I didn't get to do much with these.
And of course I kept drawing...
I created this two part connecting piece. The idea of the image was that people of color are given less employment opportunities, and education opportunities to allow them better employment opportunities than white people are. This results in people of color taking the jobs that support the people higher up. For example, a janitor. Without clean offices how can wallstreet run?
A screenshot of the total hours in my time log as of 6/13/18 is below. I would not say that in anyway this is an accurate timelog. I often forgot to log, or chose not to when I did anything for less than 30 minutes.