Chloe
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Since most plants are dead here, I chose to compare two rocks. I thought that it would be hard to find a lot of information on them, but when I dove deeper, there were lots of hidden details. This was a very meaningful exercise. I think that we go by so many beautiful things each day, that we don't take enough time to look at the details. This got me in the headspace to become more motivated, and it was also quite relaxing.
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I really enjoyed this exercise. I think it is so important for us to stop and observe things because sometimes the most beautiful things we just pass by. This is especially important to recognize and appreciate the nature around us because it is going away. For my sit spot, I went to my backyard. I found it easy to list out noises that I heard, it was hard for me to list out what I saw because I see those things every day and I don't think of them as interesting or different anymore. Although, I don't ever really stop to look deeply into them, and this exercise really helped with that. I'm excited to go somewhere other than my backyard to try this exercise. It will be interesting to see all of the other cool things in nature. I saw a bird oh, I think it was a chickadee but I'm not sure. It kept wanting to come to our bird feeders, which we had put away for the snowstorm that recently hit us. I felt bad for the thing, but it eventually flew away probably to someone else's bird feeder. This exercise was actually really calming, and I am definitely going to try it again. If I do do it again I will try to add some sketches to my pages.
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It was hard for me to find where the light and the dark spots were on the object, I found that it was easier to first take a photo of it, and that brought out some of the more obvious chiaroscuro. I am feeling more comfortable on putting the marks on pages, I am finding that I am more capable of doing these things than I think.
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Drawing off of this photo was quite difficult for me because I'm such a perfectionist. Noticing where colors were supposed to be came pretty easy to me, I am just not very good with watercolor so it was challenging to make the color look nice on paper. If I weren't asked to draw this photo I don't think I would have noticed the detail on the wing that feeds into the tail. It will definitely take me lots of tries to get better. I think it will be hard for me to draw live things because it moves, and I am a slow artist.
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1. I wanted to try something new. When my grandpa came to me with the idea that we do this course together, I thought that it was a great idea and I definitely want to try it. I do enjoy watching and listening to Nature whether that be while I'm out in a walk or just sitting on my back patio. Also, I wanted to build my art skills and skills to listen and observe small details. 2. I enjoy being able to have a peek into people's journals that have more experience with this than I do. I loved all the ideas especially the ones that had lots of drawings. The last Lady on the first video was one that really stuck out to me, I thought it was cool how she set a goal to draw something every day and later realized that was too big of a goal so she changed it. Her work was also very high quality and I liked the way that she wrote her titles and dates. I want to try making my work look very high quality while also being understandable. I also want to try and stretch my skills with fonts titles and writing. 3. I have done some bullet journaling before and this reminds me of a lot of it. I took color swatches of all of my watercolors at the beginning which is something that people who are into bullet journals do. I think it's cool how we can mix different skills to create something so beautiful.
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