And squint!

Another one of my tools I have used throughout this art course is our eyes! Yes we have used our eyes! We use them not to just look into the mirror while drawing self portraits or to look at the colours on our colour wheels. Another way we can use them is to squint. Squinting is useful when your drawing with conté. Once you loom in the mirror and see what is there if you squint it makes drawing easier and you can see almost like a black and white photocopy. It helps to block bright, neon, sparkly colours out. (Don't forget the boring ones too!!!)

Final Days

Tomorrow is the final day for our gallery. Also the first day of our exams. Next week our gallery will be taken down, and school will be over. This year in art has been an enlightening experience. It is very different compared to grade nine studies. Grade ten art has been a little harder, but my art skills have come farther than what I was in grade nine I believe.

Below is a picture of my artwork in the gallery.

Oil Pastels

The past two weeks in art class we have been using oil pastels. 

Like this package of oil pastels

The first thing we did with the pastels was make a colour wheel. For the colour wheel we were only aloud to use the colours red, blue and yellow.

Our colour wheels looked like this slightly.
For ours we went all the way in and made pizza
like triangles.

After we made our colour wheels we made portraits of ourself with two complementary tertiary colours. For mine I choose red-violet and yellow-green.

This is the type of art we did with our pastel portraits. Except
for ours we only used one picture and two tertiary colours.

 

Gallery

Next week in art class our class is holding a showcase in the gallery. Through the week students and teachers will be able to take a walk and look at the self portraits, and sculputres.

List of all of the projects:
 - Conte drawing
 - Oil pastel drawing
 - Space sculptures

let's talk about TEXT baby!

"Text is image, image is text"

Text styles are created everyday by  individual stylists.

Body copy is meant to be read in large chunks. It is found in novels, newspapers, etc.
Leading: is the amount of vertical space from the baseline of one line of text to the Baseline of the next line of text
Kerning: Adjusting the space between two letters.
Bold: is a typeface with thicker strokes than regular. It is used for emphasis to make certain words and phrases stand out from surrounding text.
Italic: a style of typeface in which letters are slanted to the right. Italics are most commonly used  for the titles of works that stand by themselves, such as the names of books and magazines.
Legibility: The quality of being clear enough to read
Script: the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing
Typographic Ligature: in writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined as a single glyph
Grapheme: the smallest meaningful contrastive unit in a writing system

Mirror, Mirror in my hand!

One of the many tools we have work with all semester is a mirror (like the one shown on the left). For the mirror we had to hold it in front of our face, not lower nor higher. How we would draw what we saw was by looking at your face, then drawing what you saw, not what you knew.

Interview

Right now in our grade 10 art class were are starting to prepare for our self portrait process reflection interviews. During our time in art class we have been developing our self-portrait drawing skills. We have work with multiple tools including:

1. A mirror
2. Ned/Nancy Normal (proportions of the human head diagrams)
3. Art history references to self portraiture (ex. Van Gogh, Schiele, Rembrandt, Picasso)
4. Photographs of our own heads from three different views
5. Computer research on artists and text styles intended to express meaning through language and style.

THE INTERVIEWS START MONDAY AND END ON WEDNESDAY