Joanne's visual diary

Today, we continued with painting out paintings. I spent the whole art lesson trying to make my skin tone and I succeed with the help of Jessica and Ms. Hampton. Next lesson I'm planning to put tone into my skin and finish painting my head.

Colour wheel (above)

Warm and Cool colours (above)

Tone create depth and atmosphere in a drawing. In order to make a drawing look "realistic" you need shadow because in the real world everything has a shadow. If you draw something with only one width line and don't render shadow, your drawing is going to look flat, two dimensional, and unrealistic. Adding shadow automatically adds a small bit of perspective to the drawing because the shadow indicates that something is in front of and/or behind the object that would cause it to cast a shadow.


Line is the most basic element of the drawing. And in it's most basic definition, it's what separates one area of the drawing plane from the other. A single line will segment your piece of paper into "that area" and "this area". The more lines that are added, the more complex and numerous the separations become: light from dark, foreground from background, positive space from negative space. Line can be uniform and all one width, or to be more interesting, and to convey more information with a single line, a single line can be of varying widths.
Shape.

Shape occurs when the first line is drawn. The most basic definition of shape is the white area on the paper. Shape is the information that is presented between two or more lines, or is the thing that is enclosed by line. Shape helps define the object that is depicted as much as the collection of lines that make up the object in the drawing. Incorrect use of shape will cause the drawing to "not look like what it's supposed to be."

Visual learning is a very valuable way to help you'see' the world and understand you own way of being in the world. Visual understanding happens holistically, 'word' leaning is more linear.

Media is what you use to draw, paint, sculpt with eg paint is a medium. As work with different media and techniques, you learn skuills so that you can communicate visually using media.

Today, we officaially started painting out painitings. After finishing the chalk outlines, we painted sall the outside spots inside the rectangle white . Then we were suppose to make out skin colour and paint the right skin bits using tone but that's when I got stuck, I couldn't make my skin colour again! So I spent half the lesson trying to make my skin colour but i got nowhere close.....
Next art lesson, I am going to ask for help and try not to waste time like I did at this Art lesson!

Today, we got various colours that we had to mix to get the tone of our skin and the colour of our school uniforms. The demonstration made me feel that this was a very easy task but when I actually tried to create my skin tone, it wasn't as easy as it seemed. We got 4 colours to use to make the skin tone; red, yellow, white and black that had a more professional name the was far too artistic for me to remember. I mixed lots of yellow to the white, added a bit or red and the whole thing turned pink. I decided to add some black which resulted in the colour of pinkish cream. more yellow and black was added, followed by three squirts of white. I noticed that my palette was starting to overflow with paint but the paint was still pinkish greyish color that was not even close to my skin tone. I gave up and decided to add all the yellow and white I have which and the outcome was the colour of my skin! (I admit, it was still a bit pinkish and greyish but it was close enough) By the time I finished my skin tone and cleaned my palette, the bell rang and the art lesson was over. I learnt that finding the right colour isn't as easy as it seems and I learnt that I like painting even though i'm not the best one around.

I think the one on the left is Kiki and the second one is Bouba.
Kiki sounds like a short, sharp name pronouced like; Ki!Ki!
The shape on the left is also short and sharp.

So that leaves me with Bouba and I think Bouba is the shape on the right.
Bouba is wavery and flowing like; Boooooooou~~~~~baaaaaa~~~~~
The shape on the right is also wavery and flowing.

Today, we drew the models again but this time we started off with chalk, then we used graphite and we also used biro for out last drawing. This time, with chalk, we focused on ‘filling’ the dark-coloured uniform in. This was the end of the drawing activity and starting next lesson, we are going to get back onto painting our paintings.

At the art lesson we had before today’s lesson, we started drawing models (students from our class volunteered for this) with graphite. Graphite is a big chunk of the things inside a pencil with out any wood around it. We had to draw loosely and quickly. We drew about 5 different poses and I thought it was a fun activity. Our hands got grey and we started putting in some details and tones.