Trying to Acrylic
As it turns out, I will not be going to tomorrow’s final Midweek Matinee since I will be taking a horrid AP mock, Calculus. Putting the fear that this has caused aside, I guess I’ll be reflecting on my art process since acrylic painting is fairly new to me. I will begin by discussing Ms. Luz’s requested piece. Ms. Luz asked for a “landscape with trees. water, and an angel,” all of which are truly new to me. I’ve never done a landscape and I had also never really worked with acrylic on canvas which altogether made me feel very hesitant. The only paint I had ever used was gouache, a sort of opaque watercolor with strong pigments and a very matte finish. Acrylic, however, is very different. Its consistency is thick and it is not as water soluble as guache, and unlike guache, it sticks to canvas. When I first started to work with it, I realized that due to its thick nature, I would be unable to use the grisaille method I tend to use with gouache and that the shading would have to then come after the base colors instead of before. You can imagine my frustration trying to use methods that prove useless with acrylic but nonetheless, I think I got an okay hand on it. The subject altogether was just overall exasperating. I know nearly nothing about how to paint a landscape, so it was difficult to travel away from my comfort zone in portraiture and work on the intricate textures in the scene described by Ms. Luz. Ms. Molina requested an “angel playing the piano’ which I thought might be easier to draw (easier than the landscape) but my piano ended up looking like a brownie. Overall, the experience was very interesting and, thought it was strange and difficult, I would like to continue opening up my horizons and explore more art stuffs. Journal 8: Demain, je n’irai pas a le Midweek Matinee dernier parce que je vais prendre un horrible examen faux de calculs. Donc, je vais parler de l’art que j’ai été créant. Je peindrai un paysage avec du arbres, de l’eau et un petit ange pour Mme. Luz, et tous de ces choses sont neveux par moi. Je jamais ai faire un paysage et je jamais ai travaille avec le peindre acrylique donc je m’ai sentis très hésitant. Le peindre unique que j'utilise c’est le gouache, un aquarelle opaque avec forte pigments et un vernis mat. Mais l’acrylique est très diffèrent. C’est consistance est épais est elle n’est pas soluble dans l’eau, donc contrairement a le gouache, elle se colle a le toile. Pour être plus épais, je n’ai pas pu utiliser le méthode grisaille et j’ai eu travailler en arrière. J'étais très frustre. Le sujet était excédant aussi, je sais rien de paysages. C'était difficile de bouger de mon zone de confort en l’art du portrait et peindre les textures de le paysage de Mme. Luz. Mme Molina exige un ange que joue le piano, et je pensais que c'était facile peindre mais mon piano s’a semblé un brownie. L'expérience était étrange et difficile mai je voudrais continuer gonfler mes expériences et explorer plus choses d’art. Mots nouveaux: paysage - landscape aquarelle - watercolor épais - thick
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Reflecting on Day 3
Yesterday, March 8th, went quite well due to the fact that there were less seniors to attend. The music was very lively and many of the seniors in attendance admitted that they enjoyed it very much, and some of them rather listened to the music than speak with us. Conversations died out a little bit since some of us did refer to the conversations as ‘interviews’ which made it seem as if we were only interested in certain things about the seniors and then nothing more which caused some seniors to avoid speaking with us. Those that did continued to have great conversations. Once again, the seniors avoided doing any sort of activity the art folk,. Eleanor and I, came up with, which caused us to be at lost for the day and so we resorted to speaking with the seniors. For our final day, maybe Eleanor and I should have a small gallery where we can showcase our art and give the requested art to those who it belongs to, as well as display the scrapbook the ROTC people along with some music people have been making. The performers should perform some of the requested music, which shouldn’t be all that much of a hassle since some seniors have requested an encore of previously played music such as Ave Maria. Journal 7: Hier, le 8 de mars, était bon parce qu’il y avait moins de seniors. La musique était vivant et beaucoup du seniors ont dit qu’ils l’aime. Des seniors ont préféré écouter la musique a parler avec nous. Les conversations était short parce que du élevés ont dit qu’elles fussent interviews donc du seniors ont nous dit qu’ils fussent déjà entrevue. Mais, les seniors que voudraient parler avec les élevés ont continuer de parler et ils ont de long conversations. Autre fois, les seniors n’ont pas voulu faire d’art avec Eleanor et moi donc nous avons parlé avec les seniors encore. Pour le jour final, Eleanor et moi devrions avoir un petit gallérie d’art avec le scrapbook que le JROTC a fabrique et nous devrions donné les pentures exige. Les artistes de musique devraient jouer les chansons que les seniors exige, comme joue Ave Maria encore. Mots nouveaux: vivant - lively entrevue - interview exiger - to request Ms. Luz
Last week I spoke with Ms. Luz . The conversation went well and was pretty general; nothing very specific in terms of names and years. I learned that Ms. Luz was born in Ecuador and moved to the United states in her thirties and then lived in Texas. She had children; one of her sons married a pakistani woman, and had a son whom I resemble - apparently, which led her to believe that I was pakistanian. She was astonished when I spoke to her in fluent spanish. I initiated the conversation and sat next to her since she was by herself. I brought up my little art lesson and placed a couple small objects in between her and I. The objects were simple, a cubic pencil sharpener, a couple packets of butter and a pawn chess piece. I handed her a piece of paper and explained that we would draw the outlines of the objects in front of us without looking at the sheet of paper below our hands,therefore we would be drawing contour lines blindly (hence why it’s called ‘blind contour line’ drawing). Ms. Luz was hesitant. She believes she’s not very good at drawing or any sort of art so it took some effort to actually get her to draw. She also was very stubborn and kept looking down at the page when the instructions said not to. It helped that Staphany had joined us, since she also encouraged Ms. Luz to draw with us. We had a little chat about the weather and snow and so on. Ms. Luz also really enjoyed the music that was played in the background, particularly Ave Maria during the second day. Journal 6: La semaine dernier, j’ai parlé avec Mme. Luz. La conversation était général, rien fut spécifique. J’ai appris que Mme. Luz est née en Équateur et elle est venus a les États-Unis quand elle a eu trente ans et elle a habite en Texas. Elle avait des enfants. Mme. Luz était très heureusse quand je l’ai parlé en espagnole. Je lui introduis la session d’art mais elle était hésitante parce qu'elle a pensé qu’elle est un mal artiste. Nous avons dessiné du objects simples comme un boite et un pièce d'échecs. Je l’ai donné un papier et un crayon et l’ai dit que dessiner et elle dessine le contour de les objects mais elle continue de regarder les objects quand elle n'aurait pas faire ça. Staphany s’a nous jointe et ç’aider Mme. Luz parce quelle s’a senti plus calme puisque Staphany n’a su pas comment dessiner aussi. Nous avons parler ensemble en même temps et Mme. Luz appréciait «Ave Mria» pour Sheila . Mots nouveaux: fut - was contour - outline/contour joidre - to join Drawing Conclusions: Part 2
I think that yesterday went well. The music was complimented a little more than last time, particularly Ave Maria. It was a little difficult to speak to the seniors this second time around due to the fact that we were really early and they were being served lunch, and too many of us were hesitant so we would not seem rude. Even then, many seniors did not want to speak as they had already been “interviewed” before. To fix this issue we must stop following the interview structure and follow a more flowing form of just “talking.” As for the art portion of the project, many seniors seemed very uninterested in doing anything related to drawing, so Eleanor and I will draft a new idea to follow through next week. For next week, we are still to determine the materials that we will need. I am in the process of creating the requested art pieces (I am not sure what stage Eleanor is in). Currently I have collected photographs for inspiration and have drafted a rough sketch onto the canvas of both drawing, however I will be buying the paint and other materials this weekend and will have Friday until the last day to complete the pieces. Journal 5: Je pense que hier fut bien. la musique était complimenté plus que la fois antérieur, particulièrement la chanson Ave Maria. Il fut un peu plus difficile parler avec les seniors ce fois parce que nous sommes arrivés très tôt et ils ont mangé le déjouner, et trop de nous étions trop hésitant. Les seniors n’ont pas voulu parler avec nous aussi parce que ils ont dit qu’ils ont ete déjà entrevue. Quant a le portion d’art de le projet, les senior étaient très indiffèrent en dessiner donc Eleanor et moi vais faire autre plan pour le prochain semaine. Je suis en le processus de créer la pièce d’art exigé (je ne sais pas ou Eleanor est). A ce moment j’ai collecte des photos comme un source d’inspiration. Je vais acheter les matériels ce week-end et je vais compléter les pièces près de vendredi. Mots nouveaux: hésitant - hesitant Quant a - As for source d’inspiration - inspiration |
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