Last blotches of paint on, it’s finally over! I’ve learned so much over this project and I can’t wait for all the free time I’ll have now that the paintings are finished. I had to last-minute redo the water on the beach painting because my mom accidentally dropped my wet paints onto the canvas so the waves are redone choppily, but overall the painting is alright. Honestly, though, I’ve come to have huge regrets in choosing painting just because I was thinking about how much I enjoyed painting as a child. I actually almost hate painting full pieces, but I absolutely love drawing and dabbling with watercolour, and plus- I’ve already made two realistic drawings of two of the people’s faces that I chose to draw. If I had decided to think harder into other options something like those then I wouldn’t be so bad for being a perfectionist because fun fact; I spent five full classes doing one corner of clouds on the sunset beach painting since I couldn’t get them to look realistic. But then there’s another side to my regret towards my chosen medium- I now really want to develop my painting skills at home as a whim! Then I will be able to paint portraits quickly without aching over small imperfections. It’ll be just like drawing a familiar object like an eye- I know where lighting belongs so I can quickly sketch it, and I just need to learn the same Overall, This project was interesting but devastatingly time-consuming. No more art-all-nighters!
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I think I might have a new hobby; biting off pieces too big to chew. This project is honestly just really helping me see a really bad weakness of mine which is my unhindered perfectionism, while I’m doing skies especially. I will avoid doing detailed skies again since if you have to fix one small spot you have to redo basically the entire sky to smooth out and make the colour blend in. I’m still in the fairly early stages of my second painting out of four but I will do lots over Easter break The first painting needs revisals but I’ve gone through and read a couple of pages and watched videos on painting and some on doing art quicker which will definitely change the game. I’m contemplating lowering the painting number down to 3 and ditching the last one so I can have three better-quality pieces, but the canvas is already paid for so I wouldn’t want to take more from the Academy without giving back my efforts. All in all, it’s going fairly well and I’m excited to see how everything will turn out in the very end. This whole year we’ve been told about the independent project where we get to choose any art medium that we have come to like and make a unified series of different pieces of art using that medium. For mine, I chose acrylic paint, though I didn’t just come to like acylics, I’ve loved them my whole life. I’m going to use the school acrylics to make four realistic, background based paintings with each one capturing a scene including each of the four most amazing figures in my life; my mother (of course), my kind friend, Tinika, who moved away, my lifelong friend, Kaila, who is endlessly caring, and lastly, my best friend, Chris, who could make anyone laugh on the spot. These people have given so much of their time, effort, and love to me and I really want everyone to be able to ask who it is in the paintings so that I can ramble on about how great they are and make the poor person that I’m talking to wish that they had a friend as cool as mine all are. But really, these people are really great, honestly, the best people I’ve ever gotten to know. If you’re interested in reading this next stuff, its pretty much about my design plans and information like that.
I’ve asked everyone that I am painting for some of their favourite colours and their favourite places and things, whether or not these places or things are from real life or are fictional. One of my friends told me to either paint her by her grandmothers grave or at a nice beach. I’m making their figures fairly small compared to the setting that they’re in so that I can bring attention to the things they love rather than just painting their physical appearance. I’ve talked with my friend Kaila about it in more depth and she decided she wants to be in the sky scene of Your Lie in April, a sad but critically acclaimed anime series, and she wanted to be wearing this pretty flower crown because she was wearing it the day that we took a really funny picture together. I’m excited to make my friends’ imaginations of being in their favourite place come to life, and I’m doing it on a nice, big painting so that they can see the whole surrounding world. I hope they love it and I can’t wait to see how it goes. I have a serious problem. I’m incredibly slow at everything. You name it; I’m slow at it. I work on making myself faster at doing basic tasks every day, yet I still am not even as much as average speed at things I do all of the time. So based on my utter slowness, my two goals are to run 6k in one hour, and secondly, be able to complete 3 art assignments during only classtime. I’ve spent every single lunch except 1 inside working on art and I take it home to do it every day, yet I’m the slowest person in the class.
To work on my running, I’ve joined the Croxford Runners and I’m going to be running… yeah no. wWalking my dog almost daily, going to nearly all the practices for running, and I’ve been eating healthier to support my body since it’s often running. Why I’m practicing running is because I would like to join the rugby team but it takes a lot of cardio,. iIt’s also an easy way to lose quarantine weight, my dog enjoys running with me, and lastly so that I have better endurance during everything else since running also trains the mind. To work on my art speed it might be difficult since I don’t have time to work on it since I’m constantly doing hours of art homework every day. I could use my homework as practice but then it would be extremely low quality so I would have low marks and low self-esteem, so my solution is to work on muscle memory in other classes. So always having another piece of paper by me during lectures and repeating shapes and curves over and over again quickly and doing it while not looking. The outcomes of achieving this goal it that I will have time to work on other goals since ill be spending my time after school doing them instead of art, I won’t have late assignments, I will get to enjoy art instead of loathing the homework, ill have time to see friends, and I can make more art pieces since I’ll have more time. |
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Sadie SanfordAn Airdrie citizen that you might have seen doing something embarrassing Archives
May 2021
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