The Elements of Art Project

Right now we have to do a project about The Elements of Art. We had to do work on all the 5 Elements of Art which are Color & Tone, Shape & Form, Pattern, Line, and Texture. For this project, we have to have examples of our own arts that represent each of the elements. Also, we have to have examples of each elements that are actual arts that belong to artists. Then we have to write captions for each art, explaining why we think the art piece represents the elements.

Each week, I had a chance to think before going to art class, and plan about each art. The first couple of weeks, I went in desperate because I didn't know what to do. But as I sit there, ideas started to come out. Since then, after I learned my lesson, I always have to think of an idea before going to class or else, I'll waste my time again. First I started with Color & Tone because I thought it would be nice and easy. I had an idea of painting the sky, because there are many tones of blue and it's a good way to represent Color & Tone. I also painted a heart with different tones of pink so it represented Color & Tone as well. For Shape & Form, I drew a castle because there are many shapes in it and it would be a good example. For Line, I drew a landscape and a girl. The mountains, river, sun, clouds were objects that had many varied types of lines, that was why I chose to draw those things. For Pattern, I drew random patterns that I could think of. Basically, things I drew were similar to the African patterns I used to do, only that the color is not African. And lastly, for the Texture, I painted the paper blue, and stick cottons onto the paper as clouds. I thought that it was a good way to represent texture because you could feel the texture when looking at cottons.

Here are the pictures of my arts:

Color & Tone:

Shape & Form:

Line:

Pattern:

Texture:

The Elements Of Art Project Reflection

For this project, I think that I've learned a lot about the Elements of Art. Before we had a chance to do this project, I had basic knowledge about each element but never really know things in this much detail. For this project, I think the hardest part about it is writing and explaining everything out into words. Sometimes it's all in my head, I thought I knew how to explain it, but it turned out to be really difficult to find the perfect words for describing each feeling. While I was writing the captions for each art, it occured that all the adjectives I used to describe each art turned out to be very similar. I think, definitely, next time, I should try to think of better adjectives to describe things as best as I can.

I think I really had a chance to improve my thinking skills and my ability to explain and interpret the feeling or theme that the artist was trying to communicate to us. Because of the Elements of Art, and plus the knowledge we already knew, I had a chance to practice a lot and it's a really good exercise to get my brain thinking about different things. Looking at the art really carefully and trying to use the different elements to help interpret is really useful and it was why it's so much easier than when I was in Chiang Mai. Back then, I still had to sit down and focus for a while before I could actually put everything together, make it sounds sensible and say what I think.

I think the project itself was pretty good and I'm proud of it. I really felt that I had really good time management for the art-making part because I finished everything as planned and didn't really have to do any extra work that is out of class. The art that I did wasn't too hard so it didn't take me so long. I sort of knew my limitations and my ability so I didn't aim to do something that was super hard. But for the research time management, I can say that I could have done better. I didn't really have a plan of when to do what for the research so it was not so organized. But in terms of content, I think I did quite well. I covered wide range of periods and quite varied artists. Overall, I think it is a pretty good project!