Eva's Art Learning story

Eva’s Art Learning story

“Every artist was once an amatuer”- (qoute by Ralph Waldo Emerson).

In the first week of term 1 my class discovered a new art style called surrealist art. In this type of art you combine real and unreal things to make it surrealist.

I had made a surrealist potrait but when I went to find out what success criteria I used I realised that what I had made was a really good piece of work but it was not surrealist art because I just added something else to my face, I did not add anything else it did not meet the success criteria it was just kind of plain. I went back and started to plan again. After four or five attempts had finally created something that was surrealist.

While we were learning about this type of art I used the k.c skills of participating and contributing by sharing my ideas and taking risks by just going for it. The k.c skill that helped me the most was relating to others because we could friendly argue and share ideas about the problem.

I think I was good at just going for it and trying my best to work hard and focus on what we were learning, by finding a good place to sit and not distracting other people also not getting distracted, and by not making everything look perfect.

Somethings that were hard were trying to combine things on my portrait that show my identity e.g Cultural patterns and different symbols that represent me and my identity. It was hard because I had to try make something that included my identity while not making it random like my first one. 

Things that I learnt were when you are doing art you never rush because if you rush then there is not much thought and effort going in to your piece of art, I learned this from the first portrait that I made. Another thing I learned was how to create a good surrealist portrait, by not rushing my second portrait, and taking other people’s advice using it to help improve my art.

I think something that could help me in other parts of my learning would be, taking a risk and not caring what happens because I know that I can always go back and change it.

I was feeling pretty confident with my first design. But when it got put on big paper I was not happy with the way it looked, so I started a new design, when I started my new design I thought about it well and when I was done I was really satisfied with the outcome of it so I decided to go with it.

Anahera thought that:

Eva self managed well, managing to ignore all distractions. Sitting alone helped her to produce a well created piece of art. 

I had gotten better at learning how to express my identity in new ways such as a surrealist art. I also got better at combining things to help add more detail and to make my picture more effective and interesting.

I think my next steps would be to take my time and not rush it, also make sure that anybody Can look at it and tell some things about my identity. other than that I think I did really well. 

By: Eva