Andrea Ghandour

Alpina

During my GCSE course, I have explored many artists and styles. Edward Hopper and Ayjaja were the two artists that inspired me the most, Edward Hopper taught me how to use paint and Ayjaja taught me how to use watercolour. I mostly focused on watercolour which has been the best style I have tried yet, I have learned how to mix and blend the colours and shape paintings. That was the style I used for my mock exam.

After focusing so much on watercolour, I am now trying out some different styles like clay and oil paint. I have never used clay or oil paint before and after trying it out, I felt more comfortable with oil paint. I liked oil paint because of how I can mix the colours really well and if I made a mistake, I could fix it easily. I still need to work more on my oil painting skills but I think it is going well.

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YEAR 11 ART EXHIBITION BOOK | 2021 - 2022

For my ideas, I usually make a mind map or draw sketches in my book and then make a piece out of the ideas that I got. I want my work to turn out very well and detailed, I want it to be my best work but to do that I need to use all the knowledge I have.

I want people to admire my work and have different ideas. I want to have some pieces that make people think a lot and like them. Also, I want everyone that looks at my art to say why they like the pieces or dislike them. Then, with the responses I got, I can improve my work and use the ideas of other people and combine them with mine.

To display my work, I think I would like to get one point in common with every art piece that I make by putting the common point in the middle and attaching some kind of strings to all the pieces to bring them back to the common point.

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