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I’ve spent the past few weeks continuing and finishing my independent project The Pack. I got all five paintings of my dogs finished. With each new painting I found it more and more difficult. When I thinK back on it though, I subconsciously did them in an order that was easiest to hardest. As I’ve said, I am not the greatest with drawing animals so it was difficult to get the shading and coloring right. I’m used to digital art so it's generally really easy to get the right color. With the three paintings I just did, the colors were difficult to get and I struggled quite a bit. I did quite enjoy this project and have really taken a liking to painting. I even decided I wanted to do a painting project for my V.A.M. 30 project. It will take time and practice but I’m sure with seeing the improvement this year I will become a much better painter. It is also nice to be able to mix different paints to get the right color. My paintings turned out really well although there are a few things I’d like to fix on some of them before I hang them up in my house. It made me really happy to do something for my family and dogs and I’m sure each family member is very happy to have a portrait of their dog even if they have passed away.
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Over the past two and a half weeks, I have been working on my project. My progress has been slow, but I have really enjoyed working with the paints and colors so far. I have my first painting done. It is of my dog Luna. This painting seemed to be really easy. The shadows and colors worked and looked alot like my reference photo. The process was pretty fast and I got it done a day before my time I gave to myself for it. Unfortunately, I haven't had the same luck with my second painting. I’ve gone over my time that I was supposed to spend on this painting. I have been finding this painting particularly hard in comparison to my first painting. With constantly comparing the colors of my second painting with the first, it has been making me question the colors to show the lighting. The first painting is Luna and the second I’m working on is her sister Malibu. So with them being sisters, they look very similar. Malibu has a darker more red fur color while lunas fur is lighter with more black in her face. I've been trying to keep this in mind while I’m painting malibu, to make sure the fur color is as close as possible. This has been proving difficult as my reference photo for luna is in darker lighting from my light fixture in my house and the reference photo for Malibu is in direct sunlight. It has been difficult to keep the proper fur color while matching the proper lighting. So far I’ve fixed this issue by defining the shadows more and slightly darkening her over all fur color. I’m almost done my second painting and have my third all ready to start painting with my drawn outline on the canvas. Over easter break, I hope to finish my second painting and at least get the background done for my third painting. While the process is tedious and difficult, I have found this project relaxing and rewarding. It is giving me the hope and inspiration I need to keep painting and continue to break out of my shell. This week in V.A.M. My class and I are starting our independent projects. This is my favorite assignment of the year. This project is one where I can choose exactly what media I want to use and what theme I want to design. This year I’m making a tribute to my dogs as well as my dog who passed away three years ago. I got the idea when I found out my dog had terminal cancer. I originally was going to do a tribute just on her and do a few paintings of her. I later decided that I wanted a variety in what I was painting and wanted to test myself. I have never excelled in drawing animals for understanding animal anatomy. So I figured this would be a good way to better my art in that field. It helps that I’m always around my dogs to figure out the shape of their head and necks. For my series ‘The Pack’, I’m going to be doing five paintings of five different dogs. Each of them look vastly different from the next so it will be quite a challenge. I will be using acrylics and doing a very smooth blended look. I’m super excited about how this will turn out and can’t wait to see the final results of my work
After a long several months in self isolation due to Covid-19, I am now finally back in school and will be updating more. Setting goals can be stressful. Setting goals about managing stress is a whole different level of stressful. But, looking at the long term makes it a little less scary. If I can set goals to better my mental health, then I can soon make goals to better myself even more. While consistency and structure help keep me in check, they also cause a sense of fear and panic, because I beat myself up if I don’t meet my own or somebody else's expectations. But by setting small goals to tiptoe outside my comfort zone, it will push me to try harder.
So to start, I made a goal for myself that has two baby goals to help me achieve it. I want to take steps to improve my mental health. To start, I want to work on lowering my stress levels at home by working harder in class on assignments so I have less homework. This will help me, because I know I’m bad with getting work done from home. To help me achieve this I am going to spend less time checking my phone and take at least 15 minutes where I work hard with no distractions. While I’m an easily distracted person, I’m going to take all distractions off my desk and close all unnecessary tabs on my laptop. As I can’t stay focused on a task for very long, I’m making this goal 15 minutes long for every class which adds up to an hour of fully uninterrupted work. While this may not seem like a lot, this should help me get more work done and hopefully in the future I can spend more time focused on a task. And my second goal is to start taking walks everyday. This would really help me feel better about myself and I’m supposed to take my dogs on a walk everyday anyway. I will take my two dogs for 30 minute walks each, every day. An hour walk a day seems reasonable as it isn’t too much time, but enough to get some fresh air and exercise. I also made an academic goal for myself to help me in my V.A.M. Academy. I would like to create more art. Over the 6 months up to September, I didn’t do much drawing or painting. I found it difficult to sit down and think of something to draw and I would get frustrated when it didn’t look the way I wanted. To achieve this goal, I am going to make one sketch a day in a small sketchbook. Whether it looks good or not I'm going to spend 20 minutes drawing and if I like what I’m drawing, I'll finish it. But I have to draw for the full 20 minutes even if I get discouraged. The sketch can be whatever subject, but always a pencil drawing. If I finish the piece, I will line it and color it with whatever medium I deem fit. Every Friday I will take a larger 8.5” by 11” sketchbook and do a larger drawing that I must finish. It must be done to my standards, lined and in color. I’m hoping that this will help me improve my art skills and get back into art. While making goals can be stressful because you’re worried you won’t achieve them, they are still good to put in place so you have some kind of direcion with what you want to do in your life. Art has always been a passion of mine. Starting at a young age in class doodling on my paper. Of course, since then my passion for art and skills have improved. Art takes up 50% of my free time as I improve my art and study different techniques. In V.A.M. I have been given the opportunity to create an art project with the media and style I choose. It didn't take me very long to figure out what I wanted to do. Art is one of my main passions, but I also fancy writing. I’ve been writing a story and doing character design and development since I was 10. But I’ve finally been given the time to make an art project for the characters. I am creating a series of acrylic paintings that show the characters personality and development. While the characters may change throughout the story, the paintings will give subtle hints about personality changes. Since the idea popped into my head, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the different design ideas I have as well as different painting techniques. In my series of 6 paintings I will cover the main 3 characters and 3 other important characters. This will be a challenge for me as I am not the best at painting, but I chose this medium to improve. I’ll be painting the characters from least favorite to favorite so the last one will be the best out of all of them as I will have had time to practice.
As students in the V.A.M Academy, we have done many amazing projects. Our teachers have taught us many things that we have put into our work. Some of my favorite pieces of work I have done are my ‘Who am I’ project which was made to represent me. My write up for it explained the meaning and it was a very well done project in my opinion. Another one of my favorite pieces was my subtractive drawing. It was a very intense project as it was my first time doing anything like that but it turned out very well and I'm quite proud of it. But with all the things we were doing, I realized how much I love painting. So for my second quarter of this class, my goal is to get better at painting. So I’m going to work really hard to improve on painting. I Made a portrait and I found that it was quite difficult so I might start by working on landscapes. My learning Goal for the rest of the semester is probably to focus better. I’m quite the day dreamer and have trouble staying on task so it will be something I work on. But overall this is my favorite class and the teachers are very helpful and are very understanding as well as pushing us that extra step to make our work amazing.
Hi, I’m Cassidy, I’m an art student in the visual art and media academy at my school. (V.A.M.) In the academy, I need to have a purpose to doing stuff. I need a reason. And my reason is to get better. That is why I made My own S.M.A.R.T goal. So I can reasonably get better at painting in this instance.
S The specifics of my goal, are that I want to get better at painting. I want to do this because painting is one of my favorite forms of art but I am not very good at it. You see, with painting it is very easy to accidentally add too much of one color and completely mess up your color pallet. But on the bright side, once dried you can easily go over the paint, but it is also very time consuming. This is why I want to get better at it. So I can learn to work with the mistakes that every artist makes, so that I can create beautiful acrylic and oil paintings. By myself I will study how paints mix together and different colors that get created in the process to know which colors to stay away from/keep away from each other. M My goal will be charted out. I will make at least one painting every two weeks, because I know I won’t end up doing one once a week. To ensure that i have a finished painting every two weeks I will start, and tick off my fourteen days as I go along and create my piece. Once the fourteen days are up, that has to be my finished project and I’ll put them all together to keep them safe and so I can see my improvement. As I continue this, I will understand my time and will have to work my mistakes into my work more. So it's kind of a forceful goal to help me get better. A My goal is quite achievable as I have at least an hour of free time every night that I can use for creating my paintings. Also, if I’m done with my school work early, I can paint during V.A.M to help finish. Plus with people pushing me to finish I could easily do it well, as long as I kept my mind to it. R There couldn’t be a better time to start this goal, because with the V.A.M academy I will be practicing painting and will be getting taught techniques that could help me a lot. This will also benefit my grades for my academy because I will be practicing at home and I will be able to incorporate my practice into my piece at school. This goal will also keep me occupied so it is a perfect goal to work on. T This goal will be completed by january of 2020, which is only a couple of months away. In one month I should already be able to see some improvement. But within this time I will be able to increase my abilities to paint. |
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