Laufenburg Goes to Summer School

I Express/Communicate Through My Work To express yourself and communicate through your artwork means that you represent ideas, emotions, experiences, interests, important issues, and/or meaning in the work that the viewer can interpret. 1.Exactly what did you communicate - an idea, emotion, experience, important issue or personal interest - in your artwork?   I represented the idea of emotions in my artwork.   My artwork communicates (expresses) that I feel different at different times as I go through my day. 2.What images did you use to communicate your idea, emotion, experience, important issue or personal interest in your artwork?  I used the image of color because they are symbolic of my emotions. 3.What art materials did you use to communicate your idea, emotion, experience, important issue or personal interest in your artwork?  I used acrylic paint to create the work because it allows me mix the exact that represent how I feel. 4.What te...

i Engage and Persist/Solve Problems To engage and persist means to use mistakes as learning opportunities. It also means that I can learn to embrace problems of importance and develop focus within my work. To solve problems is to try alternative solutions. 1.What stumbling blocks did you come upon as you worked, and what did you do to solve those problems?   The stumbling blocks I came upon were trying to get contrasting colors. To solve these problems I chose to make the sky warm colors and the ground cool colors.

i Envision/I Create Original Art To envision and create original art means that you think creatively. You develop original ideas. In your mind or on paper, you imagine or plan the next steps of your artwork. You think up lots of different ideas. 3.Give examples of at least 3 alternate ideas that you considered before you started the finished artwork?   Other ideas I had for this artwork were flower petals on the forehead, exaggerated big lips, and a crown around the head. 4.Describe the ideas of your own that you used in your work to make it original? (Remember: It usually takes 4 aspects of the work to reach originality.)   My ideas for my artwork that make it original were flames coming off the top of the head, the long exaggerated nose, and florishes coming off the eyes.

i Develop my Craft/Art Making Skills Developing your art making skills means that you learn and improve techniques and processes. You explore media. You learn to use tools and materials and the practices of Drawing or Painting. 1.Describe a technique or process you used in this artwork and how it was challenging?   A technique (process) I used in this artwork was Blending the paint to make it look smooth like an egg.   It was challenging for me because I had to be careful not to get too much of the darker color, red, into the hghlighted area, which is white. 2.Describe another technique or a process you worked on as part of the art, and how it made this project successful.   Another technique/process I worked on was dabbing the paint with my paintbrush to get a textured surface of an avocado.   This technique/process made my project successful because the dabbing allowed for some of the paper to show through to make the surface look really te...

i Reflect To reflect means to analyze artwork and the process. To reflect means to think and talk with others about your artwork and honestly assess your work and process. To reflect means learning to talk about the work of others, share ideas and knowledge, and give positive critique. 1.As you were creating your artwork what was working well?  As I was creating my artwork the shading was working well because I used a 4B pencil that allowed me to get really dark shading in the background, and I was able to smudge the pencil to capture the effects that the original artist had created in their drawing. 2.As you were working, what needed to be revised or changed?   As I was creating my artwork the highlights needed to be revised because when I used a paper towel to make smudging effects the highlights got filled in.  So, I went back and erased out the highlights to make them show up more.

I Express/Communicate Through My Work To express yourself and communicate through your artwork means that you represent ideas, emotions, experiences, interests, important issues, and/or meaning in the work that the viewer can interpret. 1.Exactly what did you communicate - an idea, emotion, experience, important issue or personal interest - in your artwork?   I represented the idea of experimenting with the wet on wet technique in my artwork. My artwork communicates (expresses) that…when you paint a wet color next to another one they run together and create a new color. 2.What images did you use to communicate your idea, emotion, experience, important issue or personal interest in your artwork?  I used the image of a circle because I thought it would look better to have the colors moving outward in a circular motion. 3.What art materials did you use to communicate your idea, emotion, experience, important issue or personal interest in your artwork?  I used water...