My Experience At The Art Department - 1221 Words

Everyone has a passion in life - mine is art. Not going to galleries and looking at paintings by artists from the 1800s but using paint and pencils to show me and my life. The saying A picture shows a thousand words which is very true but in my case a painting shows a thousand emotions. I ve never hated school but I ve always loved being in the art department. All the different possibilities, the different sizes of paper. It is somewhere that I feel as if I am me and nothing will ever change that. Picking up a paintbrush and letting my imagination run wild has always been so much easier than showing anyone my emotions. From red to blue, black to yellow, there is a colour to represent how I am feeling. The colour wheel never lets me†¦show more content†¦It gives me a chance to make something which is mine, it may never become a colour used by millions each day but it has a purpose to me and my work, it is something that I can add to my work that relates to me and my emotions. In art there are seven visual elements - texture, tone, line, shape, form, pattern and colour - and in second year when I was first introduced to these, they never really made sense. Now it all makes complete sense, as when I m drawing I enter another world and I use these elements all the time. The different patterns in a piece, the dark and light tones - it just makes my work mine. I can tell how I felt that day from how dark piece is, the simple dark shading can convey tonnes of different emotions. Art is a part of my life that I use and think about everyday. It is something which I can just escape into, leaving the world behind me. Art is a way where I can be right no matter what anyone else thinks. Throughout school I have fell out with my friends, argued, and had some difficult times. Rather than shouting and screaming about my problematic life, I picked a paint brush up. Two years ago I fallen out with most of my friends I then had became too scared to come to school and face people. I had transformed into a hedgehog in hibernation. When I found the courage to come to school, it had turned into me hiding in the art department every break and lunch. Hiding away from people with my