The most helpful warm-up was the hue value scale because my painting used a lot of hues of blues and orange and the warm allowed me to learn how to do that well and give the picture more depth.A bay in Delaware is represented in my picture. I have always loved the beach and I grew up going to the beach in Delaware, because that is where my family lives. This painting represents my memories at the beach with my family.
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Most Helpful Warm Up
The value scale was the most helpful warm up for me because it allowed me to figure out the mediums of value. Also how to blend the values together the best, and was able to use the in my pencil drawing, which had lots of value and details.
Vocabulary
Value: Element of design that defines the lights and darks in an artwork.
Composition: the placement or arrangement of usual elements or ingredients in an work of art, as distinct from the subject of a work.
Composition: the placement or arrangement of usual elements or ingredients in an work of art, as distinct from the subject of a work.
Beth Cavener
Beth Cavener is from Helena, MT, she attended three schools for Art to earn her MFA and BA along with attending an art school in Italy. She has received many awards and her art work is in exhibits all around the US. She has eleven collections including one in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Also her art work is featured in many publications including her own periodical. The materials she uses are clay, paints, glues, epoxies, maquettes and armatures.
The sculptures Beth Cavener create focus on human psychology, stripped of context and rationalization, and articulated through animal forms. On the surface, these figures are domestic individuals but beneath the surface, they embody the emotions and feelings of human fear, apathy, aggression, and misunderstanding.
Both human and animal interactions show these emotions and allow for a link between the two. Beth has learned to read the meaning in the subtler signs; a look, the way one holds one’s hands, the incline of the head, and the slightest unconscious gesture. She relies on animal body language in her work as a metaphor for these underlying patterns, causing the animal subjects to portray human psychological.
Beth Cavener's artwork is inspiring to me because of the ability she has to portrait human emotions in an animals body. How she is able to read a persons emotions just through their body language and facial expressions is amazing. I have always loved nature, specifically animals, and growing up I have tried to understands people's emotions the way Cavener does. Also wanting this ability truly allows me connect to Beth Cavener' s artwork even more inspiring me to work harder in my artwork and striving for artwork as amazing as hers. The black and white color of some of the animals draws me in the most because it shows the emotion the most, especially when the rest of the piece around the animal is in color. Also how she uses material things like chains and ropes in her pictures to restraint the animals and add more meaning to the piece.
The sculptures Beth Cavener create focus on human psychology, stripped of context and rationalization, and articulated through animal forms. On the surface, these figures are domestic individuals but beneath the surface, they embody the emotions and feelings of human fear, apathy, aggression, and misunderstanding.
Both human and animal interactions show these emotions and allow for a link between the two. Beth has learned to read the meaning in the subtler signs; a look, the way one holds one’s hands, the incline of the head, and the slightest unconscious gesture. She relies on animal body language in her work as a metaphor for these underlying patterns, causing the animal subjects to portray human psychological.
Beth Cavener's artwork is inspiring to me because of the ability she has to portrait human emotions in an animals body. How she is able to read a persons emotions just through their body language and facial expressions is amazing. I have always loved nature, specifically animals, and growing up I have tried to understands people's emotions the way Cavener does. Also wanting this ability truly allows me connect to Beth Cavener' s artwork even more inspiring me to work harder in my artwork and striving for artwork as amazing as hers. The black and white color of some of the animals draws me in the most because it shows the emotion the most, especially when the rest of the piece around the animal is in color. Also how she uses material things like chains and ropes in her pictures to restraint the animals and add more meaning to the piece.
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A student in high school, Art 1.
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