Janet Fish Blog Post

Janet Fish was born on May 18, 1938 in  Boston, Massachusetts and was raised in Bermuda, where her family moved when she was ten years old.She came from a very artistic family. Her father was a professor of art history, Peter Stuyvesant, her mother was sculptor and potter Florence Whistler Fish.

Janet Fish from a young age knew that she wanted to pursue the visual arts. As a teenager, Fish had a job helping out in the studio of sculptor Bylee Lang.

She attended Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts, studying sculpture and printmaking.

She is most known for still life paintings as she is an art instructor at the School for Visual Arts.

One thing I learned about colored pencil light reflection is that when you see a light spot or a lighter color you can not ignore that color. You have to draw the reflection exactly as you see it.

One of my favorite projects in art was the self portrait we did. It was fun using pastels for one of the first times in my art experience. I hope I will get to better my skills as an artist next year and I hope I get to learn new techniques.

When I Grow Up

    When I grow up I will have a job as a professional basketball player. I will be on a professional team and play against other basketball players. To travel to play other teams I will be going on solar powered air planes. I will then take an electric battery powered car to get to the team. When I grow up I will live in a mansion that is environmentally friendly. My house will have solar panels on the roof. There will be a solar powered roadway for cars to drive on. This is what will happen when I grow up.

My Van Gogh Self Portrait

                        

This picture shows my rough draft,                            This picture shows my final draft.
when I was first staring my portrait.                                 My end portrait.          


          Throughout the entire process of creating a self portrait, I learned lots of things in art that I did not know last year. One thing I learned is that to create a self portrait you have to notice everything on your face, including the smallest details. I found out that the darker spots on my face were next to my nose and under my lip. The lighter spot was the left side of my face. Another new thing I learned is that when you use pastels, using the color white in your artwork helps to blend the other colors together. This helps to strengthen your drawing.
    I liked using pastel because there were more colors which meant there were more different types of mixtures. I chose to try Van Gogh's style of painting because it was unique and elegant in a kind of way. If we got to do this again I would try painting with Chuck Close's style just to see how different the two are. Overall this was a fun and interesting unit where I learned lots about art.

                                                                   

The One and Only Ivan

Today we listened to the book, The One and Only Ivan. I think that this is a really good book so far because it's coming from a gorilla's point of view. What stands out to me is that this gorilla, Ivan, can be so calm and mellow even though he is lonely and depressed.

What I am interested in for art

           My name is Beckett Lindsey. This is my second year of art. One thing I am looking forward to is where you draw your face and put all the things you like in the brain of the head. The other wheel class told me that we will do this. One thing I am hoping to do in art class this year is to make clay sculptures. I have never made anything with clay and I am hopeful that we will get to do it sometime during art class. I also hope we will get to use paint. This will help to add different colors to our drawings. In general, I hope that we will get to paint, draw and have a good time while still learning good ways to improve are art.

Eurasian Otter Bibliography

Bibliography

Hogan. “European otter. ” European otter.  n.p., 20 10 2015. Web. 22 October 2015. http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/169873/

Hogan. “European otter. ” European otter.  n.p., 22 10 2015. Web. 22 October 2015. http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/51cbf1f47896bb431f6a74fa/

Multimedia, Heehaw. “Otter (Eurasian, European or Common). ” Otter (Eurasian, European or Common) | OneKind.   OneKind, 01 11 2015. Web. 1 November 2015. http://www.onekind.org/be_inspired/animals_a_z/otter_eurasian_european_or_common/

“Support the. ” Lutra lutra (Common Otter, Eurasian Otter, European Otter, European River Otter, Old World Otter).  n.p., 22 10 2015. Web. 22 October 2015. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/12419/0

“Support the. ” Lutra lutra (Common Otter, Eurasian Otter, European Otter, European River Otter, Old World Otter).  n.p., n.d. Web. 3 November 2015. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/12419/0

Why the Eurasian otter is extinct

The Eurasian otter is listed at Near endangered mostly because of human hunting and water pollution. Why would people want to kill them? The answer is what drives everybody to do things. Money. Killing otters and selling the fur can lead to 120 to 140 dollars on average. Kill two of them and you could probably make near three hundred dollars. Another reason why the Eurasian otter is extinct is because of water pollution, also because of humans. Because Eurasian otters need to live in relatively clean areas, the Eurasian otter population is decreasing by a lot. The pollution pressures the otters to move out to find cleaner waters or try to adapt to the dirty water.