This mask represents Mother Nature. This mask is part of the Ceridwen tribe which means that they are the goddess’s of magic, nature, and agriculture. Colour plays a big part in this mask. The green in this mask shows the grass and the lands and the yellow represents the sun. Green symbolizes happiness, balance, and harmony. Green is a mixture of blue and yellow which means green embraces the mental clarity and optimist of yellow and the clam and insight of blue, inspiring hope and generosity. Yellow is the colour of sunshine. It’s associated with joy, happiness, intellect, and energy. The river creates a clam and tranquil feeling that runs through the valley of Ceridwen. This mask has a very tall crown that has a dramatic drop to define the grassy mountains that were created by the tribe of Ceridwen.

            This mask project was very enjoyable and fun to create. I enjoyed painting the mask and mixing the colours to make the complementary colours. I also enjoyed decorating the mask. What I had trouble with is trying to think of a way to make it 3- dimensional in some way. 

1)How do exaggeration and distortion affect proportion?
Artists use proportion to create illusions of reality.
Exaggeration and distortion is used by artists to create unusual expressive qualities

2)What distorting effects can an artist use?
Artists can lengthen, enlarge, bend, warp, twist, or deform parts or all of the human body.

3)Why do artists use distortion?
Distortion shows moods and feelings that are easily understood by viewers.

4)How can artists create monumental qualities without using a large scale?
They can create monumental qualities by exaggerating certain proportions (ex. making the head of a sculpture smaller than the body)

What is space?

Yesterday and today we have been talking a lot about space.Yesterday we started making arrangements of different objects then drew them on our paper and then we have to colour in the negative space. We have been talking about the 2 different types of space that we use through out art which are positive and negative space. Positive space is the space that is being used or being taken up. Negative space is the space around the object(s) that isn't being taken up or used. Space can be 2- dimensional and 3-dimensional. 

Examples:

Art Mirror Images

 For the past few days we have been working on creating images of our names and then making the mirror image on the other half of the paper. I have written my name in cursive and have completed the mirror image as well. I found that creating the mirror image was difficult because the "Y" in my name was tricky to make a mirror image for. The easiest letter(s) to make were the "K,L". Now I have to think of a design to make within my name and I seem to be having difficulties with thinking of a design to create.

Magazine value art- March 25th 2014

I have now finished the magazine value project and I had a lot of fun drawing it and showing value by drawing a person's face. I faced some challenges and had great success as I was drawing some of the body parts to the other half of the picture. Drawing the lips was a struggle because I kept making an outline of the lips and not making it a shadow so that part was difficult for me. There was a lot of hair that had to be drawn so it was kind of struggling to make all the hair strands when they where all going in different directions. I really enjoyed making it look like the hair was lighter and darker in some situations. I used the value scales to help my drawing be better and I also used examples found in the class room. Using the other half of the picture was also helpful because I used it to see at what points the hair or the face was lighter or darker in some areas.

Art Media- Feb.28th 2014

Today in class we talked about art media and art medium. Art media is popular types of media such as television ads, posters, radio, and magazines. Art medium can be medium as in size and colour. If something is not big or not small then its medium.

What is value in ART? Feb.27th 2014

Value is imporatnt in art because it shows us the texture of that object. If nothing had value everything would be darkness. The shadows in the object define its quality. Value relates to texture because if there was no value then objects wouldn't have any texture. Texture is what defines that object by the values it gives off. The 5 different ways of drawing value are shading, scribble hatching, cross hatching,dotting, and shadowing. Building value means that we increase or decrease the amount of light that is projected off of the object. We best see value by squinting to see the change in lightness and darkness and to see the different textures.