Final Reflecion of Artwork

In art this semester, we have been working on a negative painting. The process in which the artwork was completed was:
1. We painted 3 large cardboard pieces in the colours of reed, black and blue.
2. We then had our picture taken doing a unique and individual pose.
3. In the third lesson, we were given our printed off pictures and had to enlarge them onto our selected choice colour of the cardboard we painted (I chose my black piece) using chalk.
4. We had to draw our enlarged image upside down, and only using the negative space in our picture, therefore only drawing the background of our pictures.
5. After our chalk drawing was completed (this took a few lessons), we started to draw in the features inside our selves, such as facial features, and zips on uniforms, ECT.
6. We then painted the square (negative space) which our chalk image was drawn in with white gesso.
7. After this was done, we painted the positive space. This included painting our uniforms, skin and face. This took a few lessons to get right!
8. When the positive space was completed, the gesso was painted with a warm colour. The colour I chose to paint my background was a warm orange colour. I did this because I thought it looked effective against my positive space.
9. Once the background was finished, it was time to start our dot work. The colours I chose were white and gold. I chose these because they gave a good contrast between the negative and positive spaces.
10. When the dot work was completed, our artwork was cut out.




WHAT WAS THE MOSTG DFFICLUT THING?
I think that the most difficult thing throughout the process of creating my artwork was drawing my face, getting my skin tone the right shade and also drawing the negative space correctly. I found drawing my face the right way challenging because it had to be drawn small and look like me and this was challenging. To overcome this problem, I asked for Mrs Vincent’s help. In the end, I think it actually looks like me! I also thought matching up my skin tone was challenging, because I couldn’t get it the same colour as it was in the picture. I resolved this problem by adding different colours until I got the right tone! The last problem I faced was to draw the negative space correctly. I overcame this problem by trying as hard as I could to get the same shapes as my photograph.
WHAT WAS THE BEST THING?
I think that the best thing about my painting is the dot work on it. I think that the dot work is the best thing about my painting because it has a good contrast against the background. It also stands out and the colour match. Another good thing about my dot work on my artwork is that I have created patterns on it-like the two circles that are on my artwork. This gives it line, and overall makes it look more effective.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO DIFFERENT IF YOU WERE TO RE-DO THE TASK?
I think that if I were to redo the art task I wouldn’t change that much, however I would change a couple of small things. These small things include trying to make my artwork look most like the picture, and also things like being neater and rushing as much on my work. I think that if I didn’t rush it as much, the dot works could have been neater and the overall look of it would have been cleaner.