The first drawing was an analytical cubsism:
In this picture I chose to focus mostly on the guitar, and drawing other details in afterwards as that is what I preferred to do. Even though I focused on the guitar, I chose to draw the manequin in the middle, so that when people first look at the picture, they firstly see the model, and then see several aspects and contours of the guitar. I think that the drawing was okay. I feel that something is missing in it, and i think that it is the shading. The shading could have been better to get the draw complete. This is something that I need to work more on.
The second drawing was a synthetic cubist painting:
For this painting we could choose what we wanted to draw or paint and so therefore I wanted to draw something that was close to me. My religion. The painting includes Ganesh, one of our gods, the 'Om' symbol and the swastika symbol.
When I was finished with drawing it, with different views, I started to paint it. I wanted to have some sort of effect that will strengthen the painting and that was to paint it very dark at one place and get it lighter and lighter as they go along. Like the hand, the right side is much darker than the left side and this can create some sort of shading. I hadn't managed to complete it without help from Marta, Seyia and AJ.
I also chose to use three main colours that complement each other to create more of an effect as well. The piece of brown paper at the bottom is not supposed to be there actually, as I thought of using complementary colours after I had glued it on. The swastika symbol was also not in the same colour, so it stands out but that doesn't matter.
I actually didn't want to include the swastika symbol at first because for me it means peace, strength and good luck, but for most of others, it means hate and death. I didn't want to explain myself to others as to why I chose to draw it, but when I finished with everything I thought about it and then I came to an conclusion that if the symbol actually means something to me and my religion then other people shouldn't stop me. Therefore I also chose to write a text, which will be placed beside my painting, about what the swastika symbol means for other cultures for some people, and what it means to other people. This will make people understand more and will give international awareness to the students and teachers.
Overall I think the painting was successful!
The unit was also very good. I didn't understand it fully at first, but after some practice, I was able to understand :-)
- Anisha
