Jordan+Young

For quarter 2, the work from my art piece from quarter 1 was still in process. Much of my time was lessened on this art piece due to the fact that there were many days that I was piled with tons of homework for other classes. Don't get me wrong art is as well a important class to me, but it was just the fact that the art piece of our choosing was a on going thing where as my assignments for other classes weren't. but back to where I was goin with the art piece. Last year I did a project in which I drew all forms of art work. From graffiti to perspective drawings, I did it all. But after doing last years project where i got a feel for other various forms of drawing, there was something left that I hadn't felt I fully went into depth with as an artist. This in particular was perception drawings. I figured taht a person which such a wide spand of imagination might find this easy to jump directly into. But for quarter 2 and the last quarter I was wrong. I guess I made it difficult on myself because I wanted this piece to be one of my best art pieces created throughout my high school years. When I mean one of my best pieces, I want this piece of art to incorporate as many of vibrant colors, numerous styles of art as possible, with much symbolism and all other variables artist take into consideration before creating their art piece. This piece may not look like anything now but if not fully complete this quarter much of it will be done to my satisfaction.

//**Quarter 3 Art Work:**// For this quarter it was originally planned for me to have finished the abstract piece in which I had been working on last quarter but never finished completing. As the beginning of this quarter had begun things were going quite well with my abstract paining, I had began finishing the final touch ups on the entire outline and added a few more elements to the portrait to bring it more flavor and to fill up some of the empty space there. After finishing the last few touch ups, I was pretty much ready to paint. The first thing I had began painting was the rainbow above the head of the face in my painting. As far as the colors went within the rainbow, I pretty much kept it simple with using primary colors such a, red, yellow, blue, and the secondary color green. After coloring in the rainbow I then began coloring in the tal sky scraper next to the ear of the face. To make the buildings pop out seeing though, this portrait was intended on catching peoples eyes with bright colors, I began painting each of the small rectangles pink and baby blue in a pattern fashion, of blue first, followed by pink. After finishing the buildings, earlier I had drawn a white flower opposite corner of the chin of the big face in the painting, that i began painting next. I'm unsure of what type of flower it was of but the flower was pretty big, about 6x6 inches with white petals and green leaves, with a yellow pollen tip coming from the center base. With painting the flower I painted the flower with tits natural colors of green leaves, white petals and a yellow yellow pollen tip coming from the center base of the flower. After painting the flower, I then began painting the face with various colors, from red, violet. I mixed multiple colors together to again bring out the painting itself.

As I was half way done painting the face in my abstract piece, at the end of class my portrait still had wet paint upon it, so I sat it down on the drying rack. As it was time for me to have art the second day of the week, I came back ready to finish my portrait, but it was not there. I looked throughout the classroom and had no luck what so ever with finding it. From going through all of the paintings on the drying rack one-by-one three times and looking in each of the cabinets and shelves of the side room in the art room, I still had no luck with finding my art piece. With only 2 weeks remaining before quarter 3 ended, I had to restart a smaller project, one in which I could get graded for. Heated with the fact that someone had taken my art piece that I had worked extremely hard on for this quarter, I went home and got the idea of what I could draw within two weeks to get a grade on. While sitting down, playing with my 4 year old sister, she began drawing herself and I asked what she was drawing and she replied "Spongebob Squarepants" and her reasons for that was because Spongebob is her favorite character. So I too got the idea to draw pictures of Spongebob characters to in the end give to my sister to put in her room.

With the two weeks remaining before this quarter ended, I successfully free-hand drew a few Spongebob characters. The drawing of the Spongebob characters weren't quite the same as my abstract piece that got stolen, but what the motivation had been far greater this time around. It was quite a task for me in the beginning of drawing the characters because it has been a while since I have drawn a actual cartoon character, so I had to get back to the feel of drawing something less realistic then I'm currently use to drawing. Overall I regret not having put my painting in a more secluded area of the art room, but things happen. To be honest I actually want to take the drawing of the Spongebob characters to a bigger level but have to get household permission. Because my sister loves Spongebob so much, I actually thought about making a compiled sketch of multiple Spongebob characters that I potentially could draw in my sisters room. It almost would be a mural type painting but in a wall of a room, but the bigger picture is a mere thought right now unless my mom will allow me to paint a wall in my sisters room.