Conflict Painting

This piece of work was basicaly an experiment for me, i tried something new, & i did not even have a draft, i just thought on my feet. At first i really was not pleased with the outcome of my work, but now when i look back i think that it looks okay, honestly not one of my favorites but i like it. With this piece of work, what i basicaly did, was i got warm colors and mixed them, then blended them together, to make a background, then i took some colors like black and red, to show some conflict in the painting. While i was working on on this project, the number one skill that i have learned would probaly be the fact that i took a risk, i had no idea what i was going to do, and how my painting would turn out, all i knew was that i needed conflict. And i think that is an important skill that i am going to need for art class & and soemthing i can take away from this lesson to help me with not only art in the furture but many other things as well.
A conection i can make with this painting is that conflict is every where in the world, and a part of everyones life, when i made this painting i was not thinking of anything in particualar but now when i look at it, i see the conflict where some poeple are living in poverty and do not have enough, and how they are not getting enough help. If i could start over with this painting, what i would change is to think it over a little more, and take my time doing the painting in general cause towards then end i started to rush seeing that everyone was finished with thier work.
While i was working on this assinment i felt pretty frustrated at times, because i was not very happy with my work, and it did not look the way i wanted it too.
In conclusion not over the top happy with my work but i am pretty satisfied, i mean it could have been worse.

Van Gogh sketch

Physical response:
When i first started saw the Van Gogh sketch that i had to draw i honestly did not know where and how to start. Then with some help from Mrs.Bammi, i got started. I did not look at the sketch as much as i should have, i kind of just went with the flow of my drawing, with just a few peeks to see the basic structure of the painting. When i was doing this piece of art work i was really nervous that i would
mess up, but i think it was a lot of fun sketching this piece of art.
BY doing this sketch i did learn some skills, like for example how to and when to us different pens. I learned to see the depth in the drawing like when i should us a thick pen and when to us a thin one.
A connection that i made is that in science class we are told to obsurve different substances using a microscope, just like we are told to do in this art class. We were told to observe our drawing and pay close attention to it.
If i could do this assignment again i would have spent more time on the background of the tree, i spent all my time making the tree itself and then ran out of time, and behind the tree there are only lines now.
From this lesson i learned how to do black and white sketch with simple lines and curves and how good the outcome can be.
I felt relaxed while i worked on this assignment, while i was sketching my drawing, it was a good time for me to think. Thats one of my favorite parts of drawing and painting-being able to think while we work.
I am very satisfied by my final outcome, but but i think if i did not rush it in the end with my background i could have done a lot better. But in general i am happy with my final piece.