Lily's Arts Award

Did you achieve your arts challenge? My aim in this Arts Challenge is to learn how to do portraits and different faces in different mediums, and to learn how to do proper facial proportions when drawing. I think I have achieved this, and I am happy with most of the pieces of artwork I produced. I wanted to try out pastels, but my artwork ended up not getting finished on time. My art teacher helped me with doing the facial proportions, and using different techniques with the different mediums. What went well? Why? Ever since I begun the arts challenge, I have been drawing a lot more than I usually did, so I have improved on a lot of my skills. These skills include drawing technique, using the software for digital art, and getting the facial proportions right in all the mediums I practiced in. What was more challenging? Why? For me, I always had trouble with creating similar or symmetrical features on portraits, and I still find it very difficult to help change that on my portr...

What happened at the arts event? Tweny One Pilots' concert, The Bandito Tour Where did you go? Manchester Arena What did you see/do? Twenty One Pilots concert. When did you go? 5th March 2019 What happened at the arts event? Music concert. Describe which art forms were involved. Music and visual arts. Have you seen or done something like this before? What was similar to things you’ve seen or done in the past? I've been to one other concert before, it was similar, but the contents of the concerts were very different, the way visual arts were used and also the styles of music. Was there anything unexpected about what you saw/experienced? During their third song, in the middle of the song, the music cut, and Tyler Joseph (the singer in Twenty One Pilots) fell down into a hole in the stage, and then he reappeared almost immediately in the crowd, on the top floor of the arena, with the spotlight on him, he then co...

Reflection I was inspired to draw this by looking at photos. I thought about drawing a person in a hat at first, but this didn't go as planned, so I resized the drawing, and drew a better version of the picture.   I decided to draw him in a bandana instead. I enjoyed designing the picture, and I also enjoyed drawing the face, and perfecting the picture. I do find it difficult to get proportions right, like getting both the eyes to be a similar shape and size. It's also very time consuming to complete the drawing, so I spent a long time on the drawing. Colouring it in was quite simple, but finding the right colours was difficult, because sometimes the colours clashed and it didn't look quite right. Now that I have completed the full photo, I am satisfied with how it turned out. 7th December 2018

I sculpted this portrait as suggested by my art teacher. It was quite difficult, but I got help off my teacher, who advised me, and helped me with the things I struggled with (getting the shape right and making the clay smooth). We started off by outlining where we wanted the portrait to be, and then building up on the outline in clay, to get it how we wanted it to be. I particularly struggled with proportions on this, especially since I haven't worked with clay much before. It was fun, but i don't think I would regularly do it, I prefer painting and drawing. I am not completely satisfied, because the colouring I used is not very similar to the actual photo, and I did not get the proportions right, so they don't perfectly look alike. However, I do like the outcome, however, because I like the way the face looks, although it doesn't look like the photo. People have commented that the pale green that I used on the face reminds them of old bronze statues and ...

I started this painting off, because I wanted to try to draw and paint a more 'cartoony' style figure. I find painting in acrylics fun.  I really like the colours I used, since they are bright, and i like bright colours. I don' t really like the outline i did, since it is a lot thicker than i wanted the line to be. I am happy with the cartoon-like proportions of the face, and the simple look of the painting. The painting has helped me to learn what works well in acrylic and what doesn't.  Overall this was an enjoyable piece. 12th December 2018

I started this picture off with a vivid idea of what i wanted to do. I wanted to work off an album cover that I liked, but it didn't turn out like how I wanted it to.   So I drew the person in a room instead of the background shown on the album cover. I enjoyed drawing the background, and drawing the face. I like my paintings of the fish most, since they look nice. The painting of the face didn't turn out as I had hoped because I did the colours wrong, and it was a brighter red than I wanted. Overall, I find watercolours really fun, so I enjoyed creating this piece.

Reflection 2 26th October 2018 The colour looks a bit faded in this photo, the first one is nearer the right colour. I wanted to practice painting water colour faces I want to improve my water colour techniques. I watched some YouTube videos of people doing water colour faces to get some ideas. I found painting the hair challenging, but I was happy with the result, in the online photograph that I copied, the man’s hair was lit up by a blue light and I think I achieved that effect quite well. I would like to improve my shading techniques in water colours and to improve my neatness. But overall I am happy with the picture and consider it finished when I have cut the picture to size.