Summer and School

The concept of my drawings is the good and bad aspects of coming back to school. First I drew a girl sitting at a desk in all black, grey, and white. My second picture is of the same girl sitting in a hammock with two palm trees next to her. The drawing has very bright colors in it. It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to draw about, but once I figured out my topic the whole drawing just came to me. Drawing these two picture made me realize how hard it is to draw a person. In the drawings I found contrast between the two drawings and proportions in each drawing. I really like the back to school picture the most because it just describes what the picture is trying to say. I love how the desk is overpowering her.

Principles of Design Research

The work of art I looked at today was a self portrait on the Border between mexico and the United states by Frida Kahlo. The artist's use of The Principles of Design supports the story because Frida Kahlo is trying to describe the difference between America and Mexico. She uses contrast very well because she made the doll very light and everything else very dark. The painting looked as if it was split in two with an invisible line. She tried to explain different situation or cultures in the picture. For example the American flag with smoke around it resembled how America is so polluted from Industrialization.