2015-2016 Art 3 Reflection

This year of art has been full of crazy fast learning.  The huge variety in media and topics that we touched on in class was so cool and I learned about kinds of art I had never really focused on before.  Before this year I had never worked with oil paint, so being able to actually paint with it was an awesome learning process.  I also learned the importance of mark in a piece and its continuity.  I saw the most development in my art process with the field of sculpture. Going into this year I saw sculpture as something that my teacher would make me do and I would just try to get through it without actually enjoying or exploring it.  Sculpture ended up being perhaps my most successful area this year.  My very favorite piece that I made (maybe ever) is the dress of mature and trash, I could not be more proud of the result of all the time i spent on it.  On thing I feel I can still learn much about is composition.  My compositions are always okay, but never any better than that.  Learning how to arrange and crop is ver important and I need to work on that in the future.  Because I have been able to explore so many different things this year, I feel like I have a better and more knowledgeable background to further my art adventures.  I now know for sure where I want to pursue art, using the realism and figure skills learned with contrasting patterns and painting from other lessons.  I had so much fun this year and I can't wait to continue!