This ad has big thick text like the cereal  in the box.  The little caption at the bottom is sparkling and shining like its crunchy and explosive.

Charcoal Portraits 

Today we watched a video of a charcoal portrait being drawn, we were asking to research some of the key points.  To the left is a portrait of Gandalf put together with charcoal.  when you make one of these you can put charcoal dust on the page first and move it around with a shamy cloth, make sure you can see the lightness and darkness of the photo or object you chose to do.  Make notes of the dark and light spaces, or as the lady in the video we watched today said "go into photocopy mode" and then you can really pick out the spaces.  Another important thing to do is not to think about symbols, but to think about eyes, nose and the mouth.  When you think its good to go or you maybe need to change something you can stand back and check it out for any changes. 

This is an ad for the Dodge Ram and it is sponsering Bosch tools, they make tools for tradesmen and this ad is manly and that is why there are bolded thick letters.  Dodge trucks are big and tough like Bosch tools so that is why the text in this ad is very strong. 

Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris just before he turned 20, and his beginnings were not easy.  He was alone and had economic difficulties, Pablo began to depict the world which he lived in.  He created a melancholic universe of blue tones. This was the beginning of his so called blue period. 
He uses blue as a sad colour because his life at theses stages are rough.  The blue he is using is a dull blue which makes everything darker and you can see the sadness in his work. 

Valley Curtain

This is "Valley Curtain" by Christo and Jeanne-Claude.  They produced a huge orange curtain made from woven nylon fabric in 1970 and hung it across a valley in Rifle, Colorado by 1972.  We have been learning about these artists in class time and talking about their great achievements. 

This is another painting by Giorgio De Chirico, he uses a lot of buildings in his art to show shadows and make things dark.  The space here makes me feel like someone is watching or in the area

This is a painting by Girorgio De Chirico.  The space in this picture makes me feel suspicious or uneasy because of the darkness in the sky and the shadows of the buildings, the person with the walking stick around the corner of the building makes this painting even more suspicious.   

When first started talking about blind contour drawings i didn't have any idea of what they were. The first time we did one i constantly looked down at the paper when we weren't supposed to. My drawing was way out of proportion and no where near life size. ill get better with more practice and time.

Greek sculpture, Archaic Classical and Hellenistic

This is an example of an Archaic Greek sculpture because the face is masked, it has little muscle tone and his feet are slightly in motion. 










This is an example of a Classical Greek
 sculpture because his arms are free from his body and he is more toned and in motion.

This is an example of a Hellenistic Greek sculpture because his body has extreme motion and tone and his face is highly detailed.