My mentors name is Taylor and her blog link is taylorwart.weebly.com. She wants to be a costume designer when she grows up, and has taken all visual art classes. She always pays attention to small details. Throughout the mentoring process, I want to get advice on how to improve my art skills.
I morphed a banana and a snail because I found a picture of a banana slug and thought it was a great idea, and wanted to change it in some way to make it my own. To create this piece I started out with a pencil sketch and added in color, value, and several layers with prisma colored pencils. I really like how vibrant and bright I could make the color on the banana, but wish I had made the banana snail larger and the log smaller. I might also change the log to make it look more realistic. Overall, I am happy with the outcome of my banana snail and hope you enjoy it! I chose the acrylic sphere as my most useful warmup because it helped me learn how to create dark and light values with paint other than watercolor. I have never been good at acrylic painting but this warmup definitely improved my painting skills.
All of the mediums have things that make them good and bad. The advantage of doing a pencil drawing is that you can erase it if you mess up. The disadvantage of doing a pencil drawing is that you can't always get in your darkest darks like you could with a pen drawing. The advantage of doing a pen drawing is that you can get very dark values but if you mess up you can't erase your mistake which is a disadvantage. And finally, charcoal which is good for shading and you can simply erase your mistakes into the background using your finger if you are drawing with vine charcoal. The disadvantage of using charcoal is that it's very messy and can stain your clothing.
Nikola Bašić is an architect who created an instrument called the "Sea Organ," which uses the ocean waves to create music. The waves push displaced air into the pipes creating one of seven chords. The instrument is nearly 230 feet long and has 35 polyethylene tubes which all have different diameters. It is located in Zadar, Croatia. Bašić is from Murter, Croatia and graduated from the Facility of Architecture and Urbanism. He has another piece called the Greeting to the Sun which is powered by the sun and lights up with random patterns and colors. Nikola Bašić is inspiring to me because I am not always the best at drawing things but I enjoy sculpting objects. For example, when I was in elementary school I always loved doing the clay projects. Also, this piece fascinates me because it is so amazing how nature and man-made creation can be combined into a wonderful piece of art.
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