Shalia+Wallace

Shalia Wallace**
 * Quater Four

It took a very long time to figure out what type of art I wanted to do. The internet is always the first place I start to look. There was so much to look at that I didn’t have enough time to go through all the types.It took me a very long time to figure out which type of art work I wanted to do. While I was trying to figure out the type of art work I wanted to do, I continued to do small pieces of art work to use the time up. I feel like without words on a painting the colors speak for you. I wanted my painting to speak for me and show my feelings through my art. My previous paintings that I’ve done have all been painted based on something that kind of inspires me. It’s getting close to the end of the year and things are getting really stressful. I’ve decided to do abstract art. I feel that a lot of abstract art seems to not have a meaning. My inspiration is all of the things I’ve been through this school year. It has been a bumpy rode. In my painting, I would have demonstrated my feelings through the color and texture of the painting. I would have blended white with the dark blues and greens to make them lighter and blended with black to make them darker.I would have also used yellow to brighten the colors. I mixed colors for a very long time until each shade seemed to be the right one for my painting. I took a few attempts at painting and I didn't feel like they were good. I think if I were to complete the painting, it only shows half of what I feel. I would need to paint a mural to show it all.

** I did not complete one piece of art this last quarter.During this last quarter of the year, I have done many piece of art work. The work that I have started will be displayed below.

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 * SQUARES:**

The photo above shows a pencil drawing of rectangles and squares. I wanted to make a painting of this but I moved on to another small piece of art work before completing the painting. I drew the squares from a rectangle on the back of a book and then overlapped them.

The photo above shows different things that influence my happiness. I drew big music signs because I feel like music is one of the most important things in my life. I use music as my escape from reality. During Q4, My english and history collaborated with Leah Stein Dance Co. to create site work dance. The dance was performed on 6.9.10 in the [|AiO] festival along the river. The photos above show the site that my group used to perform our dance.[More photos of the AiO[| Click here] ]
 * MY LOVES:**
 * AiO:**

Shalia Wallace
 * //Quarter Three : Untitled

Below are two drafts of my final piece. While completing these drafts, I practiced drawing flowers that ranged in size. But as I got close to getting ready to start to paint my final piece, the flower i began to draw increased in size.

Below is my final piece://** [The Black in the flower in the top left corner, has flakes on it with black paint over top of it.]

I begin to look up many different types of paintings on the Internet. Only few that I saw interested me. Those that interested me each included flowers. Although at this time I didn’t realize but that was want I wanted to do. Within the time I had in class, I begin to draw many flowers. That’s when I realized that I was kind of good at drawling flowers and that I wanted to do my project on it. Once I got my canvas, I begin by taking many of my drawings and picking certain flowers out of them to combine in one. I had a hard time choosing which colors to use. My first thought was to use my favorite color, green but then I thought that if I was painting flowers, the stems should be green. I thought if the stems were green then maybe shouldn’t use green in the flowers. As I began to think about what other colors to use, I realized that I wasn’t using crayons or color pencils and that meant I could mix colors to lighter or darker shades. I started to experiment with different colors until I felt like I had the right shades for each color. I began by getting a clean piece of paper and started with the primary colors. I mixed lighter versions of each, then began to add other colors. Now that I’ve found what color and the types of flowers I wanted to draw, I began to make my masterpiece!

“Sailing” By Shalia Wallace

Above is my first sketch of my idea w/ color. The yarn will replace the lines in the final painting. Above is a photograph of progress. There are light sketches[That may not be viewable in the picture] that I used to show where the yarn needed to placed and any other objects within the painting. Here is my final product!

My piece of artwork was inspired by music and another student’s artwork. I enjoy listening to music while doing almost everything. While searching for ideas for my artwork, I found a very peaceful song titled “Sailing” by Avant. (You can listen below.) While working, this song just gets the negative thoughts out of my head and gives me an inspiration to work harder. After listening to this song I began to imagine an empty boat floating on clear blue water. I find that any type of water whether it is running tap or flowing up stream, is very peaceful and quite beautiful.
 * //My Artist Statement//**

After finding my idea for my artwork, I needed to find out what type of artwork. I began to look at different types of artwork with boats on the Internet. As I began to look deeper into different types of artwork, I began to notice the work by other students that surround me in school. I saw a painting by a student that I believe was completed in art class. This type of artwork was not like any other painting that I viewed online. It had yarn on it and it stood out from the rest of the paintings. The thing that really inspired me was that there were pretty blue waves that you could actually see. In most paintings I’ve seen, making ridges on the top of water creates waves. It caught me eye and I realized I finally found my type of artwork and my idea for my masterpiece.

I made a few attempts that I didn’t like very much. In some attempts I made, the colors seemed to be a little off or there wasn’t enough of a certain color and when the color was inserted then it was too much. I knew my artwork was complete when I took a step back and took a long stare at it. It seemed as the image I had imagined it to be, printed itself from my head and glued itself to my canvas.

Shalia Wallace
 * Quarter One: Incomplete**