Embellished Blind Contour Self-Portrait Drawing

Although we started this project on February 2, I am a little behind due to vacation. When I was first introduced to this project, I had no clue what to expect. As I started, I found this project to be quite fun. Even though I am not as far along with this assignment as I should have, I have an idea of what to do next. This assignment is a fun task and I look forward to how the final result will turn out.

Empty Bowls Dinner

February 9, pencil that in. We are holding our empty bowls dinner which includes pasta and soup. For about a month now, my classmates and I have been busy working on creating bowls to help make this night happen. We rolled out the clay, shaped our bowls, had them fired, and topped them all off with a glaze. Each bowl has its own unique color and shape. The profit we make from this wonderful night will go to The Food Bank of South Jersey to help thousands of starving people who rarely have something on their plate. Come eat at this fabulous dinner and help feed those who are starving!

Lantern

I've got to be honest, when I first heard about this assignment, i wasn't too thrilled. I had never heard of anything like this and was not too sure how the final piece would turn out. When i started the project I began to enjoy it more and more. For this project, we had to pick a season: winter, spring, summer, or fall. Our job was to make a paper cut out of that season and turn it into a lantern. At first my lantern was going to look like a tree, but i decided to turn the tree into a funky, unique pattern and make a cut out of a city skyline. On the bottom of my lantern are some bushes. I am happy about the turn out of my lantern and would love to construct one again!

Artist Research Post

M.C. Escher was born 1898 and died in 1972. Escher became famous with his amazing graphic pictures. Most of his drawings were of unrealistic and impossible structures. Most of Escher's paintings were in black and white and had a 3D appearance. He was a left-handed artist who made over 2000 drawings and more than 400 woodcarvings and lithographs. This artist did not only draw wacky looking structures, but he produced many murals, book illustrations, and designed stamps. M.C. Escher met Jetta and married her in 1924 in Rome. I like this artist because he mostly uses black and white which makes the observer use their imagination to determine the colors of each thing in his drawing. I also enjoy his creativity towards different perspectives that he draws. For example, Escher drew pictures with a sphere in someone's hand that shows them looking at him or herself and an eye with an image in the pupal to show what the person or thing is looking at. I am also fascinated by his ability to make his sketches look 3D. An image that appeals to me is the drawing of the hands that looks like they're going off the page and that one hand is drawing the other hand. Another picture that appeals to me is the hands holding a mirrored ball. This picture fascinates me because it puts the observer into the person's shoes that's holding the ball and making them feel like they're the painting. It makes the person looking at the painting think a little. Another drawing of his that I like is the one of a boy looking at a frame in a gallery and making himself feel like he is really there. The picture he is looking at looks as if it is coming to life and that it will take the observer there. I enjoy this picture because its unrealistic but yet still makes you think and believe you are in the painting as well.