Painting of a sandwich

<------- This is my painting of a sandwich (tower). Before I got my mark I thought it would be insufficient, because I wasn't finished at all! But I got a 7 for it and I agree with that. My teacher said: "You get a mark for what you have done".

I like the colours of the tomatoes and the cucumbers. But the colour of the bread is not really what I wanted it to be.

It was a funny assignment! (:

Colour theory

Johannes Itten was born on 11 November in 1888, in Süden-Lindern in Switzerland. He went to the theacher-training institude in Bern, to bacame a primary-school theacher. Later on he also got a diploma to theach at secondary schools. But Itten bacame a painter. In 1913 Johannes Itten was a student from Adolf Hölzel. And between 1919 and 1922 Itten was teaching at the Bauhaus in Weimar. He even founded his own art school in 1926. Johannes became director of a museum, a school, won prizes and wrote books about colour theorie. After a life of hard-working and succes, he died in 1967.

As you can see in the picture there are three primary colours: blue, yellow and red.With that colours you can make the secondary colours: green (yellow + blue), orange (yellow + red) and violet (blue + red). And if you mix the primary and secondary colours you get the tertairy colours.

When you add white to a colour it's called a tint. If you add black to it it's called a shade. Each colour of the colour wheel also has its opposite colour: complementary colour. E.g. red and green, yellow and purple, blue and orange. You can see them in the flowers in the middle of my colour mixing sheet:

I got an 7.5 for it, I think that's such a high mark for it, because I didn't finished all of it. And some colours aren't really what I wanted them too be. For example: you can't really see the difference between orange and orange yellow. That's also because when the paint dry's it changes a little bit in colour. 
But I'm happy with my mark!

Banknote Assignment

We had to draw a banknote with lots of patterns in it. This is mine. You can see I drew the earth and a lot of flags. I did that because it's a banknote of the whole world. The name of my banknote is CONNECT, I chose that name because it's connecting al the countries in the world. My mark was an 8! I think that is a good mark for it. When I had to hand it in, the inkt was wet so I couldn't erase the pencil lines.

Graffiti



-Love This-

 This is my Graffiti drawing. I got an 8,5 for it.But I was a little bit afraid for my mark because the assignment was: make a Graffiti drawing without any white in it. In my drawing there is a lot of white. But now I see that it doesn't really matter because it's all united. If I could draw it again, maybe I gave the lines around the letters another color; Than the letters get more attention.
One thing that I really like is the font, because most of the time, I draw letters like bubbles,so this is a new "discovery" for me.

It shows:

• That I love to watch and make films
• I love to listen music, and I like to play the guitar
• I like to dream
• I like flowers

A piece of art in my neighbourhood...

This is a painting in my house. It's made by Ad Verstijnen, he had an exhibition in Nijmegen. First Ad made very serious paintings, but when he saw the drawings of his grand-children he made paintings like this one and they became very succesfull! On the painting you can see two 'girls'. The girls play with hoops. My parents bought this when I was arround 1 year old and my brother was almost born. My mother says when we get a boy, the right person on the painting is a boy that is dressed to represent a girl. And when we get a girl the right child is a girl. In my eyes it always were two girls. I choose this piece of art because I grew up with this painting; I saw it my whole life! and when I was little I loved this painting because it was so colourfull and cheerfull. But when I'm older I think that I don't buy a painting like this one. But... I always became happy when I see this painting!!
Eva

my prospective family

Eva, september, 3jaar