Throughout this blog post, I'm going to be talking about my most successful art piece, my least successful art piece, and I will be critiquing one of these using our critical analysis process.
What was my most successful art piece? That is kind of difficult to think of, one comes to my mind over the other I've done though.
The artwork I did for the poem unit was in my opinion my post successful piece of art. Visually, I really liked the way this one turned out, I loved the day sky, and the night sky, I loved the silhouette of the mountains and the trees, it was a really appealing piece to me!
Along with the way this painting looked, I really liked that it symbolized a song that I've loved all through high school! Being as this is my last year, and I've loved the song "A Dustland Fairytale" since almost the beginning of Grade 9, this was a really meaningful piece for me. This artwork will always remind me of that song, and I feel like that song will always take me back to my time in high school.
I also like how much work I put into this painting. It took me so many tries to get it just how I wanted it and I really felt like my dedication paid off. I worked on this piece for probably about 3 weeks in total, the moon itself took me 2 days to get right, but by the end there was nothing I wanted to change.
Usually, when painting, I find that I have an attitude kind of like if it looks good enough, just leave it. I know it's kind of a bad attitude to have, but I've changed so many paintings before, and I hated the way they looked after I changed them! But I decided to take a chance with this one, I really wanted to make it look like how I saw it in my head, and in the end it did! Very pleased.
What was my least favourite piece of art?
Probably the first unit we did, "You are a book". And, don't get me wrong, I don't dislike this piece. In fact, I really like it, I just feel like there were some improvements I could have done with this piece to make it a lot better.
I really liked a lot of the ideas I had, I liked a lot of the pages I did, but it just wasn't quite right. I feel like this book was taking me so long that I kind of got fed up with it and began to get a little lazy. I loved the cover, and a few of the pages, but after so long I just began to do most of my drawing with sharpie.
The finished product of my book was not what I had wanted it to be, it was not what I had envisioned when I originally thought of this art project, I had so many good ideas but I feel like I kind of just forgot about them, or ignored them or something. If I were to do this piece again I would have had a better plan, this book had around 1000 pages, and I thought that that was a good thing at first, but I ended up feeling lost in the pages.
If I were to do this again, I would probably take say 10-15 pages out of the book, and work with those, I think that all of the pages made me feel kind of over whelmed. Also, I would have gone into a page with an idea in my head of how I wanted it o turn out, I was just kind of going with whatever I thought at that moment, without thinking of the next step forward.
I also would've used more artist skills, I ended up using a lot of sharpies and markers, and that was not the original plan. I had wanted to show off all of my artistic skills in this piece, and I felt like this book didn't really end up doing that justice.
I would actually be very interested in doing this kind of project again, I found it to be an interesting challenge. However, I would go about it completely differently. I would set more realistic goals for myself, and try to follow through with those goals.
With this being said, I am going to be critically analyzing my poem piece in my next post. It was my favorite, and I have a lot to say about it!
Stay tuned!
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