Can you believe that we are already finished one marking period?! I am excited but at the same time a little upset. There is only three more marking periods and then i graduate and i am off to college. I remember last school year my friends and I all wanted to take art together, now that I am in art I realize art is not just a class you can just blow off and not try in. This class is hard and not just because i can't draw very well but because it really gets you into what you are working on. I never really took to much interest into drawing and I would always just draw a stick figure and give it a face and there you go! But now i am drawing a self portrait of my self, so now it is bye bye stick figure and hello two dimensional drawings. In the beginning we had to draw fruit and it was a challenge and it was fun and I learned that there are different kinds of pencils you can use. Yes, different kinds and i am not just talking about colored pencils, I am talking about regular pencils. We have three different pencils we have to use and they all give off different shades and one is soft, another is hard. After only using the pencils for shading we moved on to colored pencils. Colored pencils are not as easy I expected, they are difficult to work with, but with a lot of practice i believe i did an OK job with them.I feel that with colored pencils or just adding color to a picture can draw attention to different spots in a picture and they can bring out a certain part of your picture if you blend the right colors together. Also, you get to just have fun with a picture and use colors that probably wouldn't even match the original picture.Finally, we are doing self portraits in class and it is a long process. When I first started this project i was just erasing and drawing and erasing. This project taught me how to draw a nose, eyes, eye brows and mouths. When i first started drawing my eye brows they were just half circles but Mrs. Kiick brought to my attention that my eye brows have more curves in them and they aren't just half circles. This drawing made me feel like i wasn't making any process because i was just drawing a part and then erasing it for an entire class period. Eventually, i noticed that my frustration and anger was being put into my drawing and even though I thought i was getting know where with the drawing I was progressing and I was turning a bunch of lines into an art piece.
Going into this art class i had my mind set on the fact that it was just coloring or painting different objects and then saying 'Tada! i have a master piece that Mrs. Kiick can show everyone.' But art isn't that at all, art is actually analyzing what is in front of you and looking at the different points of view of an object and mapping out the dimensions of where to place a certain spot. Who ever said art was an easy thing to do and that it is common sense and you are just painting lines, well you were wrong. Art is so much more than just painting lines, it also takes skill that i am hoping i find that skill to improve even further than where i am at now.
When the going get tough, DON'T stop and quit. There have been plenty of times where I am just like ' why did i even take this class?' or when i am just like 'ok art is not for me because i can't even draw a nose or an eye.' But when I step back and look at what is in front of me I realize that what I am doing is hard and that this experience will require anger to come out and frustration to occur more times then one. No matter how many times i say I want to quit, I am starting to believe that I don't even think I can quit. Drawing is fun and I am learning new things and it is stress releaving because all I have to worry about for the 40 minutes or so I am in class is what color to use next or what part of my face to draw next.
In future art classes and for the rest of the year I am hoping I improve and I show myself that comfort zones are not the only thing I can succeed in.
You have such a great attitude!
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