Suggestions for art projects?

Question

I'm a junior in high school, and my art teacher lets us think of our own art projects. I'm fairly good at art but I suck at thinking up a project and he always tells me my projects are too easy. So I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions of art projects I could do. I really enjoy sketching, colored pencils, and water colors. I'm not very good at 3-D stuff so preferably nothing like that. Please and thank you!

Answer 1

3D is exactly what you should do just because you aren't as good- it's like music- practice practice practice!

What about doing the same image but with different styles or using different tools to create it? As in pen & ink, cross hatching, dots, dark to light shading. Or watercolor, acrylic (which is more opaque) and pen & ink. You could also do realism, collage and maybe cubism (Picasso)- different art styles.

Look for ideas in magazines- ads are a great source actually. or use Google or Bing Images

Another cool thing to do , maybe with a group of other students is cut up an image into squares- each gets a square and you draw that-when all put together you have a "mural" of the image. We did this in Art School with a class of about 25. It was fun because we had just a square with a number on the back and didn't know what the image was going to be until we put them all together.

Answer 2

I have always enjoyed adding humor to my art projects. I like to draw or paint piles of stuff. I once bought a case of rubber duckies, threw them in a corner, put a spotlight on them for high contrast and got to work. I've done stacks of clothespins, which have great angles and spooky shadows if you point your light source so they cast huge shadows on a wall. Or just go through your house and assemble a pile of stuff with a variety of textures, prints or surfaces.



The point is: challenge yourself because that's where success in art comes from. It's the tension of the unexpected that makes art interesting. You will need to do it everyday on the job if you are planning a career path in art. Anyone can put an apple on a table and draw it exactly as it appears. But drawing it with a pair of earbuds and an iPod gives the apple a whole new meaning.

Answer 3

This thoroughly has to do with your personal viewpoint of truth and delusion. For those who find lifestyles to be dull and mundane, then you should exhibit that in your art work that offers with truth, and vise versa for fable....You would see it only in sepia tones, like that in a narrative publication, or you would make an even larger assertion and with ease use textual content to form a photo of fable. In the event you to find lifestyles to be pleased and lovely, then you could traditionally wish to show that in wealthy shiny colours with tons of use of light. You can also think the equal of delusion. Simply do some brainstorming... What are the primary phrases or suggestions that come to intellect whilst you feel of the word "reality?" Now what colors and motifs come to intellect while you consider of those phrases that you simply notion of. Now do the same for the word "myth." If this is all too problematic, or in the event you simply need extra suggestion, then simply look at films just like the Matrix, or anything else that deals with duel worlds. I only in the near past noticed the Corpse Bride once more, and it is very evident how the two color palettes play an most important function between the emotions exuded by way of both worlds.

Answer 4

Shoes, landscape, houses/your school.