For my pet portrait, I chose to do my boyfriends sweet puppy named Lilly. She's a cute pitbull mix and she's fun-loving and extremely playful. That's why I think the picture I chose to do captures her personality perfectly. I did this painting in oils, but my first intentions were not to make her multi-colored. At first I was going to do her in actual colors, but my creativity got the best of me and I went wild with the colors. Starting with the blues and then adding in the other colors. I'm actually pretty satisfied with my final piece, I think it captures her perfectly in a very colorful and fun manner. She's an adorable dog so it makes me happy to paint her cuteness. If I could change one thing in this piece I would probably choose a different background. I just did the rug, but maybe I could've added something in the back! I feel like it would've filled the canvas better. But I still love the way it turned out. This is only my second time using oils, and I'm really starting to get the hang of them. I'm becoming a fan of how easy they are to use and blend, they really create a smooth and soft look. I hope to use them in further piece in my life. I enjoyed this project, and I'm glad I got the opportunity to paint her. |
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For this mini project I got to work with my "mentee". Her name is Althea and she is in Art I. I'm supposedly the "mentor", but for this project I really have to give the credit to Althea. She did awesome and basically took the reins and I just did what she said. The whole piece looked like a really old fashioned scrapbook collage, but Mrs. Rossi only cut out two smaller pieces from the whole collage that she thought were best. I got this piece and I really like it. I think this project was fun, and I think it was interesting working with someone else and seeing their process when creating a project. Overall though, I really don't think collage work is my thing. I think it is definitely Althea's thing though which is super cool for her! I wish I could do collage work because I think it's really fun and definitely different than painting and drawing. Maybe if I do a few more collages I could improve, but it's not worth my time right now when I have to complete 4 other projects in a matter of 3 weeks. I've named this piece "Scraps Book" because the style looks like a scrapbook but it is made of different scraps such as buttons, magazine clippings, and tissue paper. It's clever I know. Thank you for your applause. For this project, I chose to go with a color-blocking self-portrait, and I really liked the outcome. I got the idea on Pinterest from the picture in the top left corner and I thought it was really interesting in unique, but I changed it up a little when I did it myself. I made it look more like me and less cartoonish. I definitely thing the final product looks a lot like me. I think the project was a lot of fun. I chose prisma colors as my medium and I think it was a good choice to get the rich solid color that I needed for this project. I didn't struggle too much with this project, it was relatively easy to lay down the colors. I think the hardest part by far was trying to draw my face and get it proportionally correct. I think it took one day alone just to draw my face in pencil perfectly. But the time I took definitely made the outcome of the final piece better than if I had rushed my drawing. Another tough choice I had to make with this project was the color of the background. Since I used almost every color imaginable in my face, it was hard to choose a background that wouldn't clash or look repetitive. I chose gray because I didn't use any gray in my face, and it was a nice shade between the white and black blocks in my hair. Honestly, I don't think the gray was the best choice but by the time I started with the gray it was far too late to change my mind. Minus the gray background, I think this project is awesome. Maybe in the future I can do more color blocking methods because it was a fun thing to do, and super easy. I hope other people see the uniqueness in this piece like I do. I decided to name this piece "Block Me" because of my choice of the color-blocking technique. And it's also clever because of social media terms. Which Mrs. Rossi won't understand because she doesn't know what Twitter is. LOL, Jk Mrs. Rossi you're great!
For this project we had to take something from nature and basically turn into something mechanical. I chose butterflies because I thought it would be cool to make their wings on hinges. Turns out as I got more into the project I didn't even end up doing that. I still really liked this project and I liked how it turned out. I chose a different medium than I am used to called ink paint (or something like that). Basically you paint but with ink, so everything is different shades of gray. So I officially call this piece "50 Shades of Gray-t Butterflies". It's cute, I know. Anyways, I really enjoyed working on this because it was different to work with the ink. It was kind of difficult to get all of the values I wanted because I was so limited with one color: black. But overall it was a cool experience. I really liked how I could basically just freely create anything I wanted mechanically. I just let my imagination run wild with different types of gears, belts, pipes, cords, plugs, bolts, etc. It was cool because normally Mrs. Rossi makes us draw straight from a picture and being able to let my imagination run free was a nice change. I hope I will be able to do more projects like these in the future. One thing I think I could improve would definitely be the different values in the piece. When I was finished with the piece people told me that all the different shades looked relatively the same and I agree. I could've worked a little harder on the contrast in the values and made them a little bit more dramatic, but by the time I was given this tip I had already finished my project and was on to the next. I'll definitely keep that tip in mind though for my future projects. And who knows, maybe I'll do another ink project just to see my improvement! For my interior space I did none other than a basket of shoes. This was not fun at all. I think the main thing I have learned from this painting was the fact that I really hate painting shoes. It's clearly just not my thing. It was hard to get all of the small tiny details on each shoe and I just got bored and lazy and frustrated with it so I pretty much wanted to just give up, but I couldn't. No, I did not try my hardest with this project because I really just wasn't a fan. Mrs. Rossi loves shoes so of course she loved the idea of me doing them, but I don't think she realized that I have a certain style, and shoes just don't really go with my style. Hopefully one day I'll be able to paint shoes perfectly, but that day is not any time soon. It's okay though. It was still a good experience and I definitely learned a lot about me and what I do and don't like to paint.
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