I developed art making skills with oil pastels by learning that you can use white to blend colors or stretch them. I like working with oil pastels a lot just because of all the things you can do with them. I feel like you having that girl come in here to show us things really taught me a lot about oil pastels like the way you have to use black sparingly.
I developed art making skills with chalk pastels because I learned that you can either choose colors that are near each other on the color wheel or you could even use colors that are on the opposite side of the color wheels. While we were working with chalk pastels you introduced the color wheel to me for the first time. I had an ok time working with chalk pastels but they're not my favorite things to work with. Artistic Behaviors #1
Artists Take Risks on Man v.s Machine. The way I took risks was by not knowing how to even draw a car and coming out and making a pretty decent car. Also the background, I have never had to do a drawing in which i had to elaborate on drawing a background but i actually came out and in my eyes made a really good background. Artistic Behaviors #2 Artists Develop Art Making Skills on Pinch Pot Monsters. There are a couple ways I developed art making skills. Usually when I would do really anything I would only focus on the part where everyone would see not on the whole entire project. So I developed the skill to going through my entire project and get better on working just as hard on the back of my project as I did the front. I also developed the skill to slip and slide everything. When we first started talking about slipping and sliding I had no idea what so ever what that meant. But whenever you taught us I feel like I got pretty good at slipping and sliding. Artistic Behavior #3 Artist Solve Problems: One way I will solve a problem is by adding some smoke to the back of my picture to get rid of the pencil that i erased. I messed up on my car because I drew it to low and small so I had to erase it and add some smoke to cover it up. So the smoke will come out of the exhaust pipes and have a face in it whenever I finish my drawing. Jacob Lawrence, Diners (also, Café Scene), 1942
Gift of C. Leonard Pfeiffer Gouache on paper, 14 1/4″ x 20″ © 2013 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |