Fine+Art

Art Doodles Description of ProjectThe First Picture is the entire front entrance, the second is the section that I designed. The purpose of this project was to decorate the front entrance to the school with student-made art. The choices the class made were what doodles were chosen for the decoration, and where they would be placed in the front atrium. What inspired me were really just the doodles I had been making on planners and journals for the past two years. The process of completing the project were for all of us to make sample sized doodles for the class to choose and vote on, then the class voted on which were chosen and where they would be, then the class took the sample sized doodles and made them into giant banners and portraits. There were a couple of drafts for where the doodles would be placed, but the actual doodles remained the same throughout the process. This project was easy for me, because these were my doodles, but when Ms. Montgomery tried to have other students replicate it, they had a lot of trouble. I ended up drawing an entire section of the atrium. Now that I look back on it, I feel that I did a good job with the drawing, and that they look as if they were one gigantic doodle, when really they are three separate sheets of paper. Description of Quality The school website defines creativity as, “Approaching new and perplexing problems with positive energy, uniqueness and originality of thought, drawing from their own personal experiences and prior knowledge.” I define creativity as being able to come up with your own ideas without drawing from anyone else’s work. This project shows my understanding of creativity because my doodles were made by drawing from my own ideas, a random drawing experience from the 8th grade. Throughout the project my understanding of creativity stayed the same because I was exercising my understanding of creativity through the entire project. I used my understanding of creativity to make this project by using my own ideas that I came up with without drawing from anyone else’s work. If I were to revise this project, I would use my own ideas to add more shapes or types of lines to improve the project.

The school website defines collaboration as, “Working independently and as members of a team, accepting and reacting to oneself based on feedback and criticism, and demonstrating compassion and honesty in all interactions with others.” I define collaboration as, "Being able to work well in a team and sharing the work evenly." This project shows my understanding of collaboration because many people worked on the doodles for the front entrance, and I did a small but equal fraction of the work. I had drawn the portion of the decoration that resembled my doodle, which was a small fraction of the overall doodle. My definition of collaboration changed from working well in a group to working well overall as a class, because the entire class worked to finish a project. Collaboration was used because there were people working on some of the bigger doodles and people working on their personalized smaller doodles that didn't take up more than one tenth of the front entrance.If I were to revise the project again, I would might include a little less of my work into the decoration, because it ended up being a lot more work than I had expected.