one. looking back over the course of the year, and your blog posts, which project or projects were the most engaging for you? Where did you fully own your process as an artist? where did you get lost in the material or the making of work?
two. you have had a year of tremendous artistic growth. where do you see that you have grown the most? think about the studio habits as you answer and explain--observe, stretch and explore, craft, express, understanding the art world, reflect. which of these areas do you feel the most comfortable with? how do you see that comfort showing up in your creative practice?
three. course evaluation. which assignments were the most successful? which assignments were the most frustrating? What are one or two things that Mr. O/Ms. Seal do really well? What is one important piece of advice that you would offer your teacher so that they could make this class better?
one. An engaging project we did was the collage project with Camille. I loved getting to scour through pages of magazines to find imagery to use in my piece. It worked best with my style of gathering inspiration and then having it come together in the end. Similarly the "daily practice" project was really fun because I was trying something new every day, getting to experiment with different media and use my intuition a lot more than formal editing and planning skills. I fully owned my process in the times where I was forced to work quickly. The daily practice project allowed me to experiment with a wide range of interests and helped me to build up my body of work. Rather than having a long drawn out project where I would probably end up doing things at the last minute, I was able to have an objective and meet it within one class. I'm not sure if there was one project that I got completely lost in. However, I really enjoy the gathering and making of images as a part of my process. I get lost in sketches and line drawings and the work that happens before the "final" piece. (Often times that work becomes my final piece through collage or other ways).
two. I have become more familiar with how I work and why I make the choices I make. Overall I have a better sense of my artistic process and I am coming to realize some reoccurring themes throughout my work. I feel comfortable sketching and expressing myself through my work. I see that comfort with sketching and creating and expressing come through in mark making, and again in the work before the final piece. (Also I really enjoy the crafting part of etching. I loved the Goya piece, it was one of my favorites).
I learned that sometimes I frustrate myself when processes are longer than a couple days (ie. photoshop or etching). However, I have slowly become more comfortable with mixing media and using photoshop. It is a tool that offers refinement and opportunities for improvement within my work. I hope to learn how to leave more time at the end for editing and helping my art to "live up" to its full potential.
three. The defining artistic process projects were very useful to me. I think the artists as activists project and self study project were successful. The hero's journey project was a little frustrating for me, but that was mostly because I was experimenting with photoshop. Mr. O really gave us time for critique in group and individual settings. That was immensely helpful. Whenever I felt stuck, he helped me to articulate my intentions and reorient myself. I would make the artist's process/statement projects in the middle of the year, so that we can then use what we've learned about ourselves for the second half the year.
notes. from artists as activists project critique
The bottom image is intriguingly drawn; great imagery; reminds me of Kathe Kollowitz – the interaction of the collaged people watching Need to work on the negative space – too much white? Collage is working – How do you work toward resolving the interaction or the tension or the sense of “unity” between the collaged and drawn elements What about the sense of activism – there is a them of religion: controlling architect of god with angels in upper image Bottom has clear religious iconography; something about society The demographic of people in the lower; unifying all these people through suffering: dark or macabre shared experience
two. you have had a year of tremendous artistic growth. where do you see that you have grown the most? think about the studio habits as you answer and explain--observe, stretch and explore, craft, express, understanding the art world, reflect. which of these areas do you feel the most comfortable with? how do you see that comfort showing up in your creative practice?
three. course evaluation. which assignments were the most successful? which assignments were the most frustrating? What are one or two things that Mr. O/Ms. Seal do really well? What is one important piece of advice that you would offer your teacher so that they could make this class better?
one. An engaging project we did was the collage project with Camille. I loved getting to scour through pages of magazines to find imagery to use in my piece. It worked best with my style of gathering inspiration and then having it come together in the end. Similarly the "daily practice" project was really fun because I was trying something new every day, getting to experiment with different media and use my intuition a lot more than formal editing and planning skills. I fully owned my process in the times where I was forced to work quickly. The daily practice project allowed me to experiment with a wide range of interests and helped me to build up my body of work. Rather than having a long drawn out project where I would probably end up doing things at the last minute, I was able to have an objective and meet it within one class. I'm not sure if there was one project that I got completely lost in. However, I really enjoy the gathering and making of images as a part of my process. I get lost in sketches and line drawings and the work that happens before the "final" piece. (Often times that work becomes my final piece through collage or other ways).
two. I have become more familiar with how I work and why I make the choices I make. Overall I have a better sense of my artistic process and I am coming to realize some reoccurring themes throughout my work. I feel comfortable sketching and expressing myself through my work. I see that comfort with sketching and creating and expressing come through in mark making, and again in the work before the final piece. (Also I really enjoy the crafting part of etching. I loved the Goya piece, it was one of my favorites).
I learned that sometimes I frustrate myself when processes are longer than a couple days (ie. photoshop or etching). However, I have slowly become more comfortable with mixing media and using photoshop. It is a tool that offers refinement and opportunities for improvement within my work. I hope to learn how to leave more time at the end for editing and helping my art to "live up" to its full potential.
three. The defining artistic process projects were very useful to me. I think the artists as activists project and self study project were successful. The hero's journey project was a little frustrating for me, but that was mostly because I was experimenting with photoshop. Mr. O really gave us time for critique in group and individual settings. That was immensely helpful. Whenever I felt stuck, he helped me to articulate my intentions and reorient myself. I would make the artist's process/statement projects in the middle of the year, so that we can then use what we've learned about ourselves for the second half the year.
notes. from artists as activists project critique
The bottom image is intriguingly drawn; great imagery; reminds me of Kathe Kollowitz – the interaction of the collaged people watching Need to work on the negative space – too much white? Collage is working – How do you work toward resolving the interaction or the tension or the sense of “unity” between the collaged and drawn elements What about the sense of activism – there is a them of religion: controlling architect of god with angels in upper image Bottom has clear religious iconography; something about society The demographic of people in the lower; unifying all these people through suffering: dark or macabre shared experience
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