Mckelly+Timothy





=**Artist Statement #1**=

This is my quarter 1 art project. I drew this because on the first day Ms.Hull asked us what inspired us. Shopping inspires me and my favorite store is juicy couture. and almost every item in this store has a crown or something that represents royalty on it. When we had to work on our project, I was playing with my charm bracelet and noticed the crown on the pillow. I never thought of drawing it until that day. I started sketching pillows, crowns and googling images.

After I drew my first Crown on a Pillow which it the small picture on the lower left. I didnt know how to color it, I experimented with markers, paint,crayons then I saw one of my classmates using charcoal. Then i tried it and i loved how it looked. When I outlined anything with black and smeared it, I got a very natural looking shadow.After that I think that I became obsessed with charcoal. I knew that I wanted the color of my pillow to stand out. So I picked the lightest blue. Since gold is normally what crowns are mad of I made the grown yellow with a slight shade of orange coated over it.

This was a very difficult project for me, because it is hard for me to stick to one thing especially because art isn't my favorite interest. I think that I am very good at drawing things that reflect me or that I feel strongly about.

=**Artist Statement #2**=

This quarter I used my time during art to work on other class work, I spoke to my art teacher about this because my love for art is fading. I prefer to use my time for working on something that I have an interest in rather that drawing.

=**Artist Statement #3**=

This quarter I have been working on flowers.I have been making several sketches of flowers. I was unsure of how to present my final project, but I think that I will make a big poster or make it on a canvas. I started the poster and using charcoal but I wasn't very fond of it because I made a poster using charcoal last quarter.

When I started this project I couldn't decide on what kind of flowers I wanted to focus on. I traced some, drew different kinds then I decided focusing on one flower was kind of boring so my final project would consist of several kinds of flowers

Even though I have several sketches, I couldn't finish my whole project because I didn't want to just draw something and get it out of the way. I wanted my final project to be something I was proud of. So I will be finishing it for Q4. I think that my final will be of bright colored flowers on a big canvas, maybe medium sized because I don't like tracing my smaller drawings to make them bigger because they never look as good.

=**Artist Statement 4**=

This quarter I have been working on my interpretation of a piece of artwork by Perico Pastor. I was stuck on creating my own idea so I decided to find something that another artist did and make it into my own. Here are a few sketches that I worked on which lead me to my final piece. I decided to change the paint brush to a pencil because it was unrealistic, I rarely ever lay my hands onto a paint brush. I also changes the pad that the paintbrush was on into a notebook and instead of a brush stroke I wrote math equations. Since I dont draw unless I am in Art class I drew about something I have love for and do all the time which is math.

In the process of completing this project I had difficulty drawing the hand as you can see in the first drawing. I then got help from my Art teavher telling me stop forcing it. First you have to sketch out the shape of the hand then do the details not the details first. When I did that to me the hand looked very squared but it looked a lot better than the first drawing. Then I decided to just curve the hand a little then it looked perfect. I did 9 sketches then I decided that I was ready for my final. I didn't know what to use to complete my final piece. I always used charcoal so I wanted to try something knew but I strongly dislike working with paint so I went back to charcoal. Since the hand is dark I used light colors so the hand would stand out. After 2 class periods of finishing up my piece with charcoal I was then complete my Artwork inspired by Perico Pastor.