Last post for 2011..

I haven't posted in a while,
and I just wanted to post one last thing before the year ended..
strangely i've been reading michael mcintyre's autobiography, he is one of my favourite comedians and one day i was so bored that i decided to draw him. It's just a sketch, but at least it's my last post for this year. Well, now i'm done for 2011, Happy new year!

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it." - Ansel Adams

I just thought i'd upload something different for a change. I just bought a new camera and thought i'd test it out a bit and take some test shots. The picture above is of me and my 2 younger brothers about seven years ago. Don't know why it's there but just wanted to make the quality better. The rest of the photos are probably the photos i will eventually end up drawing.




 

But for now, these are just some of the pictures i took!
Hope you like them!

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see"

I know i haven't posted in a while, but just thought i'd post some pieces of art work
i'm doing at school for my Art GCSE. We are doing still life at the moment, and
i drew this trainer with chalk. It's not very good, but i'm working on it...

Kitchen utensils

Sorry it's been a while since i last posted. I drew this piece of work with chalk for my art lessons at school, showing kitchen items. It's important to use different media in art and chalk suited this picture. Leave your comments about what you think, as i hope it would get good credit at school.

"Life isn't about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself"

This quote says it all. Life isn't about finding out who you are, life is about creating yourself and letting yourself be who you want to be. Don't worry about what other people think of you, you can create yourself however you decide too. This relates to my life. I've realised not to worry about what other people think of you, but worry about yourself and who you are. It's what inside that matters.

"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend can be my world." Leo Buscaglia

 

I drew this picture to show the meaning of true friends. (Sorry the writing is backwards), but what the writing says is:

"Don't try to be someone your not, Don't try and act as someone else would. Always be true to yourself because one day when you need a friend, they won't be there anymore. Always know who your true friends are..."

A simple picture can have a big meaning.

"The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will"

 

This is another image i drew. The point of this picture was to show people that you can't interpret art when looking at it once. You have to look closely to see what the art actually is and what it means. This picture shows a face cut up into different pieces, almost like a jig-saw puzzle. It tells me that you have to put the pieces of any picture together to see what the piece of art is. I think this is the real meaning of art. 

Sorry!!

Sorry but i'm not posting any blogs for 2 weeks as i'm out of London.
When i'm back the posts will keep coming :) ...

"What is art but a way of seeing?" Thomas Berger

Drawn on the 11/08/11

This picture i drew tells me something. It may just look like an eye but it has a deeper meaning. It shows us that you can't quite work out a piece of art just by looking at it. Every piece of art has a deeper meaning to it. You have to look deeper into the painting to interpret it's true meaning. And that's what this eye symbolises.

My self portrait- Drawn on the 09/08/11

Look at my other artwork below in my "Artwork Gallery"
Click on any of the images to make them bigger.

"One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings" Banksy

Another artist who i love is Banksy. Banksy creates realistic pictures and paints them on walls where no one would think to look. I think this shows off who he is and makes him an individual. Above, i drew one of banksy's most famous painting called "sweeping wall." I interpreted Banksy's drawing and tried to draw it similar to the way that Banksy drew it. This shows us how art can be expressed in different ways. Banksy's work is unusual, yet exciting. And that's how i want my work to be thought of as well.

"The essence of drawing is the line exploring space." Andy Goldsworthy

One of my favourite artists at the moment is Andy Goldsworthy. Coincidentally, we learnt about Andy in our Art lessons this year at school. The picture above symbolises what art is. Art can be anything you want it to be, and done however you want to do it. He takes landscapes and natural objects in the environment and turns them into art. Wherever he is. The picture below shows us how he demonstrates this. He took some old stones and used them in the most simple way to create a piece of Art. He inspires me to be creative and to use what i have around me and to create Art. There are many other artists that inspire me to be creative in different ways. Everyone has passions and hobbies- art is mine. And i couldn't be interested in Art without artists inspiring me. Andy is one of those people.

"Every good painter paints what he is" Jackson Pollock

This quote is how i feel about art. Every time you pick up a pencil or a paintbrush, you draw things that reflect who you are. Even without knowing it. When i was 4 i used to draw a bright, yellow sun in the corner of my page. And at the time i didn't realize it but i drew a sun because it reflected who i am and my personality.

Now, when i pick up my pencil, i draw things like landscapes and people. And this reflects who i am and my mood. It just shows how you can quickly change in your lifetime.

Art- What i love to do

I'm Ellie Taylor, a 14 year old school girl from London.
I love drawing and painting in my free time.
Next year i will be doing art for my gcse's and i wanted to make this blog to show all of the pieces of art work that i have already done. And that's what inspired me to create this blog.

My grandpa loves to paint, and he was one of the people who got me to love art. From a young age i have painted and drawn pictures and i want to continue this in the future.

Below are some of the pictures i have drawn recently and when i was younger. Leave your comments or suggestions to tell me other things i could draw or paint.

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