Artist Statements
Title: Don't Know my Struggle (come out side I'm in your grass)
The title of my piece is Don't Know my Struggle (come outside I'm in your grass). It is based on what's going on in society. It has buildings and above the buildings there are burning stars with the message and below the buildings are the 2 different type of grounds with symbols that represent the things that African Americans go through, then below that is the weight of society. The most obvious elements that are n my art work are shape, texture ,space, color, and value. My art work was made from marker and pencil. The process that I used was to sketch 3 times then I added things and switch some things up then I put everything on paper. The things that inspired me was East Harlem also Tupac and my friends and family.. My work expresses both personal and social issues. The emotions I tried to show was the sadness the sorrow and defeat and also the one single happiness. My goals are to be a better artist and I want people to be able to relate and understand my art when people see my piece helped me reach one of my goals which is becoming a better artist slowly. I cant say my other goals have been or haven't been reached because no has seen my art piece yet. One thing I have learned in making this piece was that as long as I practice I can get better. I imagined my final piece being like this because I knew what I wanted. This will help my other art be great.
This Piece is Grinch's Christmas, its the Grinch's hand holding a ornament with the words "DOUBLE A MAFIA". The tittle of my work is the Grinch Stole My Ornament. I used space, line, color, shape as elements. I used emphasis, movement as principles.
I used construction paper and markers and the strategies I used was drawing the box for my words in this piece was to draw the hand as realistic as possible and to put my own spend on it to make it my own. Then when I drew everything I out lined most of it with a black marker then filled in with my color then I went to crate my boxes for my words then when I was finished with my words I erased the boxes.
The thing that inspired me to create this is I know the story of the Grinch and how he stole Christmas so I decided to make it like I was one of the people he stole Christmas from so that's why I have "DOUBLE A MAFIA" on the Christmas ornament. It does not express a personal or social issue its just something fun I could recreate and make part of it my own. I tried to show like an emotion of where people understand what way I went with the art work.
The Goal in this piece was for me to make it as realistic as possible and to make seem like a real Christmas card. I feel like this piece made me reach my goal because it looks realistic and make it look like the Grinch.
In this piece I learned that I can do different art work and I know that I did it also that its ok to use other ideas and make it your own. This is what I imagined this piece to be the Grinch's hand taking my ornament. This influence my other art work to be better and to know whatever idea I have wither it be hard to do or not I will be able to do it if I just try and put my mind to it.
Tittle: The Underestimated Eye
This is the underestimated eye, it is a red eye with a black pupil with a black eyebrow and black lashes. I did not use any principles but I did use elements value, space, color, shape.
The media of my art piece is marker and pencil. My process I used was sketch the clean up any sloppy mess then go over it with marker.
What inspired me to do this piece was because I feel like I'm underestimated allot and my buttons get pushed because I am like the good kid and I do not like to get in trouble so I feel like if one day my eyes would just turn all red people would understand how I feel. This express a social and personal issue because I know other people feel this way. The emotions I wanted to show was the emotions of the people that feel this way.
My goal as an artist is just to become better at things and just improve my skills at being a artist. This piece did not help me reach my goal this time because I feel like I could improve I some more.
I learned that there's always ways to improve your work. The finial piece was not what I imagined because I did not have the utensils I wanted but its is what I imagined some what. This will influence my other art work to come from my heart and the truth.
Tittle: Husbands Portrait
The tittle of my artwork is Husbands Portrait and it looks like Chris Brown. The elements and principles I used were space, line, color, shape, texture, value. The Principles I used were Contrast, Emphasis, Movement and Pattern.
My art work is made from mechanical pencil and Kleenex Tissue. I looked at the picture and drew the things that I saw when I seen something could be done better I erased and redrew and when I was finished I started to shade as in rubbing my finger and also a tissue against the led from the pencil.
Chris Brown inspired me to make a portrait of him because he is one of the people I look up to and other than me looking up to him as a dancer he also does art. This I feel expresses a social and personal issue because I know people can relate to my reasons and a personal issue is because I feel this type of way about him and not everybody else does. I tried to show the emotions of a artist like time and effort.
My goal as an artist is to become a better artist by drawing painting and etc. This did help me reach my goal just a little bit because I learned how to draw and shade a little bit better.
I learned that its ok to be nervous when you are about to do a art piece but its always good to try and do your best. No its not what I imagined because I thought I it would be more detailed. This piece influenced my other art work to be way better and to try really hard every time.
Tittle: Belcalis Met Gala Troll
The tittle of my piece is Belcalis Met Gala Troll. My Piece looks like Cardi B as a troll wearing her red dress from the Met Gala. The subject matter of my piece is how you can recreate something and make it your own. The elements in my piece is shape, space, value.
The media my art work is from is pencil. The process I used was to look at the the troll troll characters then look at Cardi B then look at the dress she wore at the Met Gala and combine that all in one and also to add some details.
The thing that inspired me was my own idea and the idea in itself. It does not express a social issue but it is a personal issue that you can make ideas come alive if you try. The emotions I wanted to appear in my work was the emotions of the brain and the courage of putting your ideas on a platform every one can see or at least some people .
My goal as an artist is become better at alot of things like being to do more than just have ideas in my head and being able to bring them out and make something great. this piece did help me reach my goal because a while ago I could not say I would have thought of this.
I learned that you can never give up on something just because its hard you wont get through life that way. My final piece is not what I imagined because I thought about it ahving color.