Intensives

For the past couple of months we have been working our hardest on what we love the best in STAC. For me that was visual arts. I got a lot more out of it than I thought. Not only that, I got a boost of confidence in my artwork.  For starters I have learned many of the things we did already I just didn’t know how to apply it to my work. We started by learning how to do grid drawing.  That technique really changed my art. Things seem much more in proportion when I paint and draw. It also helped me see things in a way of location. Then we started to work with color theory. That completely changed my paintings. I have always been to scared to work with colors because when i do it looks very unrealistic so i stick to charcoal and pencil. Learning how to mix colors better helped me finish and like my final painting. We also worked on faces. For me that was the hardest out of the whole intensives project. I cannot draw humans to save my life. It was so frustrating not getting it. Although the more and more i worked at it it started looking like something. Especially my Glenn Ford piece and my Audrey Hepburn piece. I was very proud of that because i have never made a face that looked as close as the person i was actually drawing. This whole experience has helped me be more proud of my work. My insecurities about my art  were to a point that i didnt even want to do rough sketches because i thought even those looked absolutely. Lately i have caught myself wanting to pull out my sketch book and just drawing anything and its starting to look a lot better to me! The supplies that we got really made a difference in my artwork. At first i didnt want to paint due to me being scared of putting something on paper that was going to look like absolute crap. So i started going little by little and i dont know i just got a boost of confidence and i told myself just to keep going. Im really happy with my final piece. Landscapes are always a bit difficult but ive learned with patience it get easier and more fun! I really liked this whole experience of intense weeks i honestly learned a lot! It helped me so much and i do think we should do it again! Except maybe i would want to try photography or acting. I want to start to try new things to explore the arts and seeing the other stacies work made me very interested.