self portrait

Create a reflection journal on your Blog and answer the following questions:
1. Why did you select the inspiration pieces?
2. Why did you select the media to create your self-portrait?
3. What challenges did you face in creating your self-portrait and how did
you overcome them?
4. How does this piece represent you?
5. What elements and principles of art did you apply in this work?
6. Did you enjoy working on this project?
7. What do you think of your final artwork?


1. I selected the images of William Henry Harrison, Vincent Van Gogh, and Portrait of a man because they were

Very inspirational. These portraits were what I set out to create.

However my portrait lived up to my artistic ability. 
2. I used pencil to create my self portrait because I like using pencil. 
You can shade well and the pencil makes nice lines in the portrait.
3.The challenges that I faced in creating my self-portrait was the drawing
the part.  I am not a good drawer at all but I overcame it but just doing
the best that I could and drew a self portrait.
4. I think the piece does kinda look like me, and I think it represents me
I think because I drew it.
5. I tried to use elements and principles of lines, shading, some pattern
and proportion as I drew this portrait.
6. I did enjoy working on my self-portrait.  It was fun, my children even
tried to draw their own portraits.
7. I like my final artwork a lot and think that it is work that was done
to the best of my ability.

http://s908.photobucket.com/albums/ac281/cherylrober/self%20portrait/?albumview=slideshow

Course Expectations

1. What were you expectations for this course and where they met?

yes i beleive they were, I wanted to learn about art and be able to talk about it intelligantly. I now know alot about art and how art basically came about. I also learned about art concepts and how they work or apply them.

2. Now that you've been through this course, What is art? How would you define it now compared to your initial posting?

In my initial posting i stated that i did not know much about art, i think art is a concept that has been developed over years and that there are many forms of it.  I think art is truly in the eye of the beholder but i can now look at a piece and know how it was made or a least the concept used. 

3. Who was your favorite artist in your original posting and who is your favorite visual artist now? If there is a difference, why do you think so? If you have the same favorite artist, why do you think so?

I really don't have a favorite artist, I didn't when i began the course and i still don't. I have alot of art work that i like or like the concepts to which was used but i don't really recall a favorite artist. 

4. Now that you've completed this course, how do you feel about taking an online course? Is your answer the same as it was in your first posting? How is it the same or different?

My answer is the same on taking an online course.  I have taken a few of them and  find to have no problems with taking a course online. I prefer it being a mom who works full time.

Blog Refection

The projects that i reviewed were Growing Pains by Brittany Douglas, Nature in Art by Aarron Reese, and Made of Itself by Eliaas Taveras.

I chose Growing Pains by Brittany Douglas because it consisted of children, a subject near and dear to my heart.

The challenges i faced in critiquing Growing Pains was that i felt a little uncomfortable doing it because I am just starting to develop my education in critiquing an exhibit or art itself so it felt like i was driving for the first time on the highway.  However I did it in accordance to your guidelines in hopes that i did a good job.

I do not want to read what my peers wrote about my Art Curation Project only because it just feels to personal.

I would rate my finished article a 7 because i felt as though i was honest and followed all the guidelines for the project.

I found the project to be challenging and i like a challenge so yes i did enjoy the project.

Videos for 15

I had watched the Greenberg on Pollock: An interview by T. J. Clark and An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance (Giorgio Vasari).
The key concepts that i learned throughout these videos is how each artist contributes something new to art. Artists used realistic style to express landscapes or how contrasting light to dark to create depth, or how math was also brought to art.
Also in Greenbergs video the concept of what is real art was brought up and mural paintings departed from boxed characteristic of modern paintings.

I hope that these films will help me to identify the key concepts in my art criticism work.  I hope to use many of these ideas while critiquing work.  I believe the videos will help to also see what this artist has brought to his or her art work and if it contains the concepts that are need to make a great piece of art work

I like both films, the Greenberg video was very interesting because he was very down to earth and honest when answering Clark's questions.  And in An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance video i thought was overacted but the explanation of art was very education in the explaining of how each artist expressed or set a new bar or technique for newer artist to learn, practice or outdo.

reflective Journal

Project 4 reflective Journal

I had alot of fun doing project four, I had recently learned about tessellations and artist that make tessellations.  Tessellations are made by using the process of creating a two-dimensional plane using the repetition of a geometric shape with no overlaps and no gaps.  The art that I used in my slide show are famous and beginning artist.  I had a very hard time finding out some of the artists medias or when the artist produced the art. This was my only challenge in project four.