Art: An End-of-Term Reflection

 Hi there! 

Today I will be writing about what I have been doing in Art class the past couple of weeks.

In Art, we have been recreating and studying photographs by Slinkachu, we have also been learning about another artist, John Baldesarri. 

Slinkachu is a street artist who is from England who leaves miniature figurines out and about in bustling city scenes since 2006. He waits for real life scenarios to affect the mini figures. For example, he might leave mini figures by a melting ice block in the sun and come back later and see the results.  He has three best-selling books with his various art pieces.

John Baldesarri was a conceptual artist who influenced and transformed Los Angeles into a contemporary art place. He was an American artist who started out as a painter and then later moved on to photography and also combined them together to create his artworks.  He would paint with bright colours over black and white images. 

Earlier in the year, we learnt about focal points, leading lines and rules of thirds too. Here is an image with focal points, leading lines and rules of thirds:

Here are some of the images I made which were inspired by both Slinkachu and John Baldesarri:

This is one of my Slinkachu inspired photographs which I took. This was one of my first attempts at creating a "Slinkachu Style" photograph. I'm not really happy with the photo but it helped me take better photos later on.  

This is also a Slinkachu inspired piece of work.

You've seen the originals; here are my Slinkachu-Baldesarri images:

This was my first attempt at creating my own "John Baldesarri-Slinkachu" piece of art. 

As you can see, I have "painted" on colour in various places in the image; this is what John Baldesarri did to his photographs and I feel like I have channeled this well. 

I think I have done really well making my pieces of artwork. I am proud of the work I created over the past term, and also enjoyed creating them. I have enjoyed learning about Slinkachu, David Lethinhal & John Baldesarri. I had a lot of fun creating artwork which is inspired by them too. However, I think that if I were to do this again, I would try to incorporate more of Slinkachu's style and technique into my photos because I feel like I didn't channel it enough as I could've. In this class, I have learned:

   - How to work and gain skills on Adobe Photoshop

   - How to mix different styles of art together

   - To take good photographs on various devices (iPad, smartphones etc..)

   - About different artists and how they make their artwork. 

   - How to use Adobe Photoshop on different operating systems such as iOS and

Windows

Here's a question I'll leave you with; if you could change something I have done in the art above, what would you change? Comment that down below, just remember to be nice :)!

Thanks for reading!