Print Making

SELF EVALUATION

 

1.     Describe the overall composition of your artwork (balance, unity, rhythm and movement).I feel like my artwork has a pretty good balance of negitive and positive space, and all the other things. 

  

2.     How did you add texture and contrast to your print? Is this important? Why? To add texture in the print, you had to use a variety of differnet thicknesses' of lines. I added contrast in my print since I used a color for my paper and a color of ink that differs and shows up easily. It is very important to have texture and contrast in each print.

3.     Explain how you used positive and negative space to show your image.

        To get negative space, you cut the parts that you want out from the       linoluim. To get postive space, you leave it untouched in the linoluim.

 

4.     Describe the craftsmanship of your print. (How good the project is technically crafted)  Most of my prints had good craftmanship since I mostly stayed in the registration marks. I also labeled all of my prints correctly.

 

5.     Were you able to achieve depth by showing a foreground, middle ground and back- ground? Explain. I think I somewhat acheived creating a foreground, since you can tell that the flamingo is in front and the flowers and grass is placed behind it.

6.     Explain your experience with Printmaking. What were the obstacles and advantages? One thing that comes to mind when I think of a obstacle that I faced is that it got messy sometimes. When cutting things out of the linolium there was a lot to throw away by the end of class. One of the advantages of print making was learning new things and techniques.

Chalk Mural

Chalk Mural Critique

                                                                                                                                                       Self evaluation (must write at least 3 sentences for each question)

 

 

1. Explain your experience working on a team and executing your ideas for the mural.

I enjoyed working in a small group for this project, since we got to work as a team and get to know eachother a little bit. If there were more people in the group, we would have been crowded, but if we had less then 5, it would of been harder to get the work done. When we were thinking of ideas for our final chalk mural, each person in the group contributed and we didn't have much of a problem when it came to thinking of ideas.

2. Explain the importance of collaboration when working on a team.

It was really important to work together as a group when thinking of ideas so that we could come up with good ideas for the final chalk mural and so that we had many ideas to choose from. Also, we needed to all work together and have a part when doing chalk on the brick wall so it would get done in time and so that one person wasn't doing all the work while other people would sit back and relax. If we didn't work as a team for this project, it wouldn't have turned out as good and then one person would be forced to do all of the work.

3.  How successful was this project? Explain how and why.

This project for my group was sucsessful. We got our chalk mural up on the wall and it stayed there and withstanded the weather. We also worked together which was one of the things that we were supposed to do, so I would say my group was sucessful.

4. Explain how you feel about creating artwork that others can interact with. Ex. Invoving the whole school? 

I actually enjoyed creating artwork that others can interact with and I think that it's a really cool idea. Anybody can just walk by and interact with our artwork; some people probably even interact without even knowing. The project was fun and it didn't feel like a pain doing it, which is always good. I'm glad that I was a part of decorating the courtyard of my school with these great murals!

Print Sketch

Print Sketch Critique

1. Why is texture so important to have in your sketches?

  Texture is important to have in your sketches so that it looks more realistic and three demensional.

2. Why is it neccessary for you to have several references of each animal and each background? Explain.

Having several referances for each animal that you draw is a necessity since you need to see the animal in differnt positions and at different angles. It's important to have a few background choices for each animal too so that you can incorperate the animals habitat into the sketch and to make it look like it's more real.

3. When you look at your sketches are you able to see which sketch is the strongest and will make the best print? How do you know this? 

Yes, I think that it's pretty easy to tell which sketch was your best since that's the one you take pride in the most and the strongest one of your sketches will have lots of texture and look the most real.