This is Beatrice. She was one heck of a dog. She was a pleasure to own for eight years. I chose to paint her because she died right when this painting was assigned. I used acrylic paint on canvas. One thing that made this painting challenging was the value in her chest. I also had to work with shape to help achieve these values. I also worked hard to make the texture look like fur. The most fun part was probably the color. It was fun mixing totally fun colors to get a brownish gray that I wanted. I had a lot of fun with this painting, and it’ll make a great Christmas present for my brother who was super close with Beatrice.
This painting is called Read. The subject matter is a stack of three books with a pair of glasses on top. The background is a white cloth. I used lots of lines when painting the books to make sure they had neat, straight edges. I also used value in the books to show where the light was hitting the books. The background has unity and rhythm because the cloth looks together and the folds are in place. I chose to paint this because I like to read.
This piece is called “1520”. We were assigned to paint a landscape of some sort, and I decided to paint the house I live in. I used watercolor paint. I had to use a lot of shape and value to help paint the perspective that the picture was taken from. I used value to show shadows. Shape played a huge part in painting the windows. I emphasized the red door because it is one of my favorite parts of my house. I also aimed to make everything look unified, especially with the windows.
The reason I chose to paint my house is because I have lived in it for all my life, and it is my home and I know it forever will be. I love painting things that I like to look at and that have meaning to me. There are so many great memories in this house. When I look at it I get happy. This painting is called Simplicity. The first thing I did was paint the sky blue. I did a wet into wet for the blue, and a graded wash in the top right corner. Over the blue, I added some pink towards the bottom of my sky. I did two layers of this to make it stand out. I also lifted wet and dry a bit throughout the sky to make certain areas lighter. For the silhouette, I started by painting the trees a dark green with a tissue paper technique. When that dried, I painted some black over it to make it darker, which really hid the tissue paper texture I was going for, but oh well. Then I dotted some more dark green to give it some of the color back. For the post, I started with a dry brush technique that also ended up getting covered by more layers. The power lines were too thin to paint, so I used ink. For the house, I used a violet/brown color. I also did the color, black, color, for this too. What I painted was a simple sunset that I saw while going on a walk in my neighborhood. The silhouette I used had a couple trees, a big house, and an electrical post in it. I used lines to paint the post, the power lines, and to make the house look like a house. I used space in the sky to make it seem wide. Some principles I used are emphasis and proportion. I used emphasis when doing my silhouette by making it darker. I used proportion to make the house and the trees look proportionate to each other. I chose this sunset because it wasn’t a super extravagant sunset with several colors and clouds and rays and such. It is such a simple sunset, but still has so much beauty. My message is to find beauty in simple things.
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This painting is called Gleeful & Golden. The bottom layer is the background made of yellow-green and white to make a really light green. I used the wet into wet technique to make the color not too vibrant, but I did a couple of layers of that so it wouldn’t look too dull. Then, I lifted dry on the jar to make it have less color to try to give it the transparent effect. Then I used a light blue to make it look like water in the vase. For the stems and leaves, I used a dark green made with green and orange with the plastic wrap technique to give it a leafy look. For the sunflowers, I first painted all the petals yellow. Then, I added some orange to it. Then, for another layer, I added some more yellow to really make them pop. The inside of the sunflowers were my favorite. First, I painted them a burnt orange that I made by mixing red and brown. Then, over that, I put a thin coat of black and brown to darken it, and when that dried, I spotted some red and added salt to give it a texture. For the small white flowers, I rubber cemented them and then put a green/yellow center on each. My subject matter was a bundle of sunflowers with some little white flowers on top. The flowers were artificial. Some elements I used were form and color. I used form to give the flower petals shape. I used color in lots of fun ways by mixing, glazing, and layering. Some principles I used were emphasis and variety. I used emphasis on the yellow petals because I really wanted them to pop. I used variety by not just choosing one type of flower to paint. The reason I chose these certain flowers to paint is because I love yellow flowers. They remind me of my dad, so I knew throughout this project I’d be happy every time I looked at them.
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