Art Board and Art Technique Progress

Since the last blog post, I have worked on one piece in particular. This is the charcoal sketch that I have since updated to show a black outline and a colourful background. The progress shown below is what I had done before the beginning of this term. The feather was incomplete and the picture had no background.

The picture has since been improved upon and shows a completed feather, a colourful background, and a solid black outline that separates the charcoal sketch from the coloured rainbow background. This finished piece relates quite well to the kaupapa I have of hidden or obscured truth. This piece shows a girl completely separated from the colour and brightness of the world around her. The quill she wears behind her ear represents old fashioned ways and how they keep her from this colour and the beautiful surrounding world. These old-fashioned ways and this knowledge obscures her from the truth and colour and keeps her in a bubble with only this old and unreliable knowledge. 

This set of pencil drawings was a piece I recently rediscovered. I worked on it before quarantine while still considering my kaupapa and subject matter. While the camera drawing doesn't fit into my kaupapa as I originally thought it would, it started a good process for me to eventually develop my kaupapa. The apple doesn't hold much meaning as a drawing in relevance to my kaupapa, but it did make for some good work to look into toning and shading with real objects. 

This is another pencil drawing that I recently rediscovered. It was a still-life that I worked on during the quarantine period. This helped me with drawing realistically with proportions. 

This recordation shows my progress with art technique. The internal contains the task of creating media (wet and dry) that shows still life subject matters. The progress I have made so far is to begin the process with mainly dry media drawings. This can include everything I have worked on that shows tonal differences throughout the piece. I have started the wet media, but at this point have less subject material for it. 

The second internal which is to demonstrate an understanding of artworks from a Māori and another cultural context using art terminology. This internal is one that I have already completed with Excellence.