Course 1, Diary 5: Self-portrait Part 1

6.10.2015 The presentations have been given. Now it was time to move on to the next topic: making a self-portrait. As was expected, everyone got horrified. "I can't draw!" many – including me – said. But we are in luck: we can choose any style of modern art or modernism. The portrait does not even … Continue reading Course 1, Diary 5: Self-portrait Part 1

Course 1, Diary 3: An art relationship test and art museum

2.10.2015 Eerika and I finished our presentation on Thursday, but not everyone else managed to do that. The teacher gave some exercises for those who were ready already, but everything backfired on this Friday: there was a baccalaureate test exercise and the computer mice had been taken for them. Of course our school has desktop … Continue reading Course 1, Diary 3: An art relationship test and art museum

Course 1, Diary 2: A presentation about pointillism Part 1

28.9.2015–1.10.2015 After making the Me and art collage we had to make a presentation about one of the isms of 19th and 20th centuries. We formed pairs and the teacher drew the isms for us. Me and Eerika got pointillism. We looked up some information on Monday already and from Tuesday onwards we went to … Continue reading Course 1, Diary 2: A presentation about pointillism Part 1

Course 1, diary 1: “Me and Art” collage

23.9.2015–28.9.2015 My first visual arts course during high school began on Wednesday by starting to thinking about and making a collage about our relationship to art. We had to answer some questions and then we started to make the collages. As a hobbyist artist I am interested in the whole course, and this particular task … Continue reading Course 1, diary 1: “Me and Art” collage