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I ‘sis Green Final “What is Art?” Essay DUE: February 13, 2009

Technique:

In the process of crafting my art piece, I debated on whether I should designsomething on the computer or draw. Because I felt like drawing is not onlysomething that I enjoy, but would be something more original, I concluded that Iwould start from scratch. When I began drawing, I had no ideas of what mydrawing would convey. I decided that I would challenge myself by creating apiece of abstract art. I drew different symbols objects that were allegorical. Eachtime I drew an enhanced draft, I used more and more techniques to make the arthow I wanted it. I used some of the following tools:- Kim taught us about the Value scale of colors and shading in our Visual Artsclass. Specifically, when I colored the one side of my drawing-intended for justblack and white effect-I used the techniques that we learned by coloring fromdark to light. I used the shading technique of the bridge in my piece-that madetransitions from dark to light. I started off by shading it dark, and each time I wentover it creating a darker tone. Because the other side is color, I used color wheelas an example of how to make different colors. I only had a choice of 5 colorsand I had to use the techniques of softly mixing colors by shading two colorstogether.-I experimented with the Photoshop application, though; I decided that it was inmy best interest to just draw it. However, I did play with the tools that we learnedin Digital Media Arts in order to see if I could make the picture more advanced. Iused the masking tool to take out the blank space off the poster board. I also

played with the pen tool to crop out certain parts of the images and experimentedwith different color tones, textures and effects. Ultimately, after spending daystesting out my drawing through Photoshop, I realized that I drew my picture withmy own pencil, poster board and creative mind. I decided to add more details tomy drawing instead of transforming it digitally.

Point of view:

What is art? This project challenged me to think beyond a general meaning of art. However, I still believe art can be anything. There is a beauty in any kind of man-made production, organism, and etcetera.

Above are examples of my first few of drafts. (Neither of the above are my

final draft.)

Before:

These were my different drafts for my "What is Art Project" product. If you look at these images, most likely the first thing you recognize is the eye. Whyis the eye there? First and foremost, I love drawing eyes. I think they can meanso much. Personally the relevance of the eye came from the importance of perspective, what you have witnessed, and the emotions you have conceived.Focusing on the streetlight that eventually turns into a road- gives the audiencesomething to think about. People could perceive this as a symbolical or metaphorical meaning of a path towards enlightenment, or they could alsoperceive this as the journey of the past in relation to the eye of emotion. It is likeforming your meaning based on your artistic theory. How could you form ameaning? You simply analyze the drawing deeply, so that you can respond incomparison to your reality. There is also a possibility to analyze through other peoples theories. The city life, heart of the moon and sun, the eye of fire, theground of tumult, and the lonely female are all ideas that can form manymeanings depending on who you are and what you experience

Now:

On my final drafted art piece, my art piece changed a lot. I started to formmore of a general message for my audience. I made the picture so that one sidewas black and white and the other side is colorful. I drew based off of the theme“life is better with art in it”. I demonstrated my message by making footstepsgoing towards the colorful side and dark clouds over the dark city. Above thecompelling image in the middle (the “bridge”) is a tornado. Why? I felt like the