Gilda Rodrigues's Senior VA Artwork

Artist Statement

2011-04-07T11:47:00.001-07:00

Boston Arts Academy has helped me develop my artistic skills. I started making art when I was young, but I became passionate at the start of sixth grade. I decided to attend BAA because I wanted to become a better artist. I have taken many art classes at Boston Arts Academy like Art Connections, where I learned how to make different types of books and got to use various mediums like collage and paint. I also studied anatomy, architecture, photography, printmaking and graphic design. My nomination and acceptance to Putney School in Vermont allowed me to meet people from all over the world. I was able to take art and vocal classes.

Before BAA I did not know what value meant, but now I feel that I am a master when it comes to value. There is contrast in my drawings, from lights and darks and in between. I love realistic drawings and I try to make my pieces look entirely realistic with value. I love drawing the anatomy of the human body. My goal is to be able to learn more about anatomy and draw the human body without looking at it.

My training as an artist will prepared me for my future goals as a doctor. Having Figure Drawing every Friday and taking anatomy class has helped me understand how the human figures and the proportion of a human body. While taking anatomy class I realized that I was curious of how they body functions and all the body parts. I am a visual person and being trained, as an artist will help me in my future goals because I will use that skill to understand the body and other things as well.

Senior Visual Arts Exhibition 2010

2011-04-07T11:38:00.000-07:00

2010-10-22T14:47:00.000-07:00

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Skeleton and GildaLisa

2010-02-12T09:17:00.000-08:00

Project in Progress

2009-11-02T16:32:00.000-08:00

In this piece I am working in pencil, and I am focusing on form, and proposition because I believe these are my weakness.

Reflecting on the Critique

2009-10-28T08:24:00.000-07:00

The critique that we had during class was very helpful. Sometimes it is hard to remember what others say about your work, but when someone else takes the notes for you, then you would not have a hard time remembering things. Over all, I believe that this type of critique was a good critique than what I had before because your peers critique your work and so do you.

Self- Portrait of Food

2009-10-15T15:37:00.000-07:00

This project we had an option to draw or make a piece that uses the theme of food or our interest. I chose to do a self-portrait by using different food to represent my features. For example, I will be using broccoli to characterize my hair that mostly is in a bun, peach for my cheeks, strawberry for my nose. I also will be using grapes to symbolize my eyes. In this piece I will do a water color wash and work my way in pencil. The size of the paper is 13" by 12''

Metal Kitchen Tool in progress

2009-10-07T16:17:00.000-07:00

This piece was done in pencil. My success with this piece was adding the value, the value has different contrast that makes it look more metallic. My struggle with this piece was drawing the form, it was hard getting the right shape.

Figure Drawing

2009-09-23T18:26:00.001-07:00

In my figure drawing class, my class and I use different mediums to draw a model. In this piece I used pastel pencils.

Walnut Piece 3

2009-09-23T17:49:00.001-07:00

This is my third walnut piece and the materials I used were watercolor and pencil.

Walnut Piece 2

2009-09-23T17:45:00.000-07:00

This is my Final second piece. This piece was done in pen.

First Walnut Piece

2009-09-23T17:35:00.000-07:00

This was the first piece that I worked on. In this piece I worked in pencil.

walnut piece 2 in progress

2009-09-23T17:15:00.000-07:00

This is my second piece in progress. In this piece I am working in pen.

Welcome

2009-09-16T05:28:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my senior VA blog. In this blog you will see some examples of my finished work as well as my work in progress. Enjoy and check back frequently!