Art Name Design

Art Name Design!

This is my draft.. Over here, we drafted all of our designs that we might want to do for our final. For example, over here, I had balloons, snowballs/ ice cream, popsicles, and Legos. After the conference with Mr. K, we finally decided on what the theme was going to be. 

After I chose my theme, (the snowball/ ice cream) I drafted the circle of 4's. This is just to help you know what color you're going to be using for your final draft. We used water color on the top right, color pencils on the top left, oil pastel on the bottom left, and acrylic paint on the bottom right. As you can see, I used different theme for everyone of the circles to know which one would be better for my final. 

Finally, I decided I wanted the oil pastel as my name and acrylic paint as my background. But an artist can never be sure if they might change their idea afterwards. So of course, we first drafted pit our theme on a big piece of paper. Then, made a rough draft to see how it might look like on the final piece. As you can see below, you can tell that I experimented with both oil pastel and acrylic. I would sometimes try oil pastel in my name or in my background, or sometimes, I would try acrylic paint in my name or in my background. And so with that being said, here is my final draft: 

Last but not least, I have finally decided that yes, I would stick with oil pastel as my name and acrylic paint as my background. So I just technically, I just kind of copied my out line of the rough draft and applied acrylic pain on my background and oil pastel on my name like planned. I really liked the background kind of looked like ice cream or snowballs were dripping. It really gives you the texture of the picture slowly 'melting' down. 

REFLECTION: 

1. What was the best part about this assignment? 

The best part was that I got to experience with different types of materials. For example, acrylic paint, oil pastel, water color, and color pencil. I also got to learn how to control different types of materials. For example, if I was using water color, I had to make sure the brush wasn't too wet that it made the color go every where. I also learnt that when using oil pastel, you always have to keep an eye on the tip of the oil pastel because if you're watching the edge of the pastel, you edges would all be ruined by oil pastel when it was suppose to be acrylic. 

2. What was the most challenging part of this assignment? 

I thought the most challenging part was making the sure 'droplets' didn't go 'out of bounce.' For example, sometimes, the paint might have kind of mixed together with different colors. I also had to make sure the rain drops were in place and didn't over lap with the other places. That was really hard because I had to make sure the tip was painting the outline of the rain drops. If the tip wasn't at the right place, I would just have a blob of paint on every single rain drop. 

In conclusion, I really enjoyed making this piece because I really liked how it blended with my name and also blending it with the different colors that I used.