Trees and Journal

The moves I see in these videos all have to do with how the artists go about painting their trees.  For example Bob Ross does less detailed tree groupings and uses silhouettes to create trees in his paintings.  The disney animators however have different moves, like painting a tree through the lens of an architect or letting the paint blend ion the canvass to give life and movement to a still painting.

The artists describe what they are doing by referring to the techniques they use to make their trees.  I noticed it is a combination of little tweaks and additions that all add up to create a specific style for each of the artists.  They direct our attention to why they are doing something--why the paint is mixing on the page, why lighter fluid is being mixed with the paint, why they are starting with a basic black silhouette.

Each artist had their own style when creating trees.  Bob Ross used very basic designs that added together to create a detailed picture.  He used a series of brush strokes to create a forest of "happy little trees." The disney painters also had their own styles that resulted in very different outcomes of the same subject based on their interpretation.  One painter's tree came out to be abstract because he saw the tree as a structural being with less detail and more bold outlines and edges.  Another saw the tree as full of life and alive, so he gave it movement by mixing the paint on the page and using pallet knifes instead of brushes to give it a wispy willowing look.  Another went for three dimensions using shadows and outlines and the last used realism, focusing in on the details of the bark.

      My rough draft was really rough because I couldn't figure out how to say what I wanted to say, so basically I had trouble putting my thoughts onto the paper.  It was frustrating because when I wrote them down, my organized thoughts that sounded so good in my head no longer sounded so good.       Pretty happy with my final draft since I cleaned things up a bit and made things more clear.

The question of “what does this mean” helped because they reminded me I had to go back and define terms that I knew but the reader might not necessarily know.  Also, the question of “how does this relate to exigence” reminded me to relate my evidence back to my original claim.