Final Blog Post: Landscape Project

1.  (re) state you intentions for this work.  Include how you addressed the theme of landscape.  Define how your work is representative of your "artistic voice".  Explain what formal and aesthetic decisions you made to express your intentions.

- My intentions for this piece originally was to create a classic landscape piece but also include a modern structure such as the one I drew in my piece. I also liked the paintings that had a fore, middle, and background and I tried to incorporate that in my painting. I feel that my style as an artist focuses on details and simplicity and I think that I did a good job of expressing that in this project. In my building, i made the decision to leave out doors and windows because I felt that the simple look of the building looked cool in relation to the hill and trees in the background.

 

2.  Provide us with a list some of the words/phrases provided to you in the discussion session.  To what degree does this feedback supply you with the feeling of having successfully communicated your intentions?  What words/phrases resonate with you most and why?

- Simple, Inviting, Peaceful, Geometric, Nice Lines, Calming. I specifically am proud that other people were able to recognize the simplicity and thick lines that I intentionally put into my drawing. 

3.  In the area of "develop craft" how did you improve as an artist through this project?  Does this project fully represent your overall technical and formal development achieved this year?  How, or why not?

- I think that this project helped identify the type of art/style that I want to focus on in the future. Being able to work in the kind of medium that I feel comfortable with and incorporate a simple, geometric style in my drawing was important in defining the kind of artist that I want to move forward as. I think that this project helped me build off of the artist emulation project where I emulated Piet Modrian and enjoyed working in a similar style. 

 

4.  Did you fully "stretch and explore" in a manner that led you to novel representations of your intentions?  In what ways may you have pushed yourself further in this regard? 

- I believe that my drawing represented by intentions fully and I am pleased with the outcome. Possibly working in a different medium (paint, ink) could have pushed me further in creating a final piece. I also could have improved the trees to make them look more realistic than in my drawing. 

Interim Landscape Project Post

Landscape: visual features of an area of land, including physical elements of landforms such as mountains, hills, water, etc.
My understanding of the art world, in this case landscape paintings is that the painting is reflexive of what the artist can see. I think the landscape needs to include a horizon line or point where the foreground/middle-ground meets the background. I also think that a landscape picture doesn't need to be in nature either. While my definition doesn't include urban life/city landscapes I think that a landscape painting of a city horizon can be very cool and interesting.
In my first two sketches, I tried to implement one and two-point perspective. I struggled with my first two-point perspective of the gym because I was drawing from a tough angle but I think I became more comfortable and felt much more comfortable in my second sketch which was a one point perspective drawing. In my oil paint painting, I was interested in the brink wall surrounded by leafs and trees. I think I could have picked a better location to draw for a landscape but I think it will look better when I finish it.