Grade 10 Year Final Summative Reflection

Looking back at my long art goals

Short term goal - practice with watercolors: I feel that I put a lot of effort into completing this goal. I have done 15 different works, small and big, with watercolors. From the beginning of the year to the end, I feel I've improved with using this art medium. I dd a lot of nature and landscape work with watercolors and my goal next year is to expand my work into different painting subjects for water-coloring. I've learned that my own watercolors aren't the best for blending, which you can see in my earlier watercolor works, and I have had more success with the Southridge art room watercolors. My favorite and in my opinion, my best watercolor piece was the hibiscus flower painting I made for my Grandmother in Term 2. The colors were well blended and the shading and texture draw made the flower look more realistic than past attempts a nature watercolor works.

Mid term goal - get better at free styling and being messy with my art: Before this year in art, I worked a lot on reference photos and creating a strict outline and relied on them. this year I worked on my goal of free styling by letting my mind go and putting the brush to the paper, not over thinking my mistakes. I did this during the ink portion of the course. I didn't look at any references or planned out the look heavily before starting and it resulted in me having a lot more fun and a piece with a lot more movement and creativity.

Long term - Learn more art styles and research new artists: Throughout the year, I tried many new interesting art styles. In term 1 I tried doing graphic art with the medium of ink. I found a new love of the art style of graphic art and found I really enjoyed playing with creating new cartoon characters and drawing forms, hands and bodies, in a graphic art style. This year we also worked a lot with continuous line which I also found a new love for. It's now one of my go to art styles when I'm creating something. I have also done many artist studies this year, which you can find in other blog posts titled Artist Studies (then artist's name inserted). I did studies on Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emily Carr, the Group of Seven, Keith Harrington and a little on Cindy Sherman. For each, I wrote up on the artist, their background, inspiration and art style. Then I also tried my hand at recreating one of their pieces that I liked to experiment with different art styles.