Intense Week: Day 1

This may sound very contradicting, but I like being put out of my comfort zone. Today working with the grids really made me feel a little more confident in drawing. It actually looked like something! I've done grid work before and I guess I wasn't doing it right and gave up the first time. Although reading that great artists like Michaelangelo used cheat- cheats on their master pieces makes me question a lot of art. Then again it makes me realize that those artists are still brilliant for coming up with those cheat -cheats. Many young artists are trying to draw and paint pictures with every little detail in the right place, when even the greatest artists in history couldn't even accomplish that. Also reading that Michaelangelo didn't even know what he was doing with a paint brush when he first started made me feel a lot better. I definitely can relate to that. I am a better artist with pencil and colored pencil but painting has always been a struggle for me. No matter what it is water, oils, acrylics it still looks like a five year old made it. We were given a homework assignment to make different colors with water colors. That was in a way difficult because I am really good at mixing colors with acrylics but I don't know how to make them look good on canvas. Water colors well I cant mix them without making them look like dirt and water mixed together. Even with oil pastels I am terrible with, I have a painting I made this summer with oil pastels and it looks like my little cousin made it. With the way intense week has started off i am looking forward to learning more. I do feel like I got a lot done and learned a lot with just this one day. The grid is a very useful technique.