During this project, we worked with water colors and pens. This was really hard for me because I had never "professionally" used water color paints before, and they were way out of my comfort zone. I don't like painting very much because the colors blend together and I don't like the way that looks. That's why I decided to add pen. It's something I'm comfortable with and used to and I wanted to bring in a familiar aspect to this picture. I also did it to cover up places I didn't think were blended together well enough. You can see that in the picture I did in drawing, I used markers because they have an almost cartoony look, which I really like. Since I hadn't used water colors before I didn't think my picture was going to look very good. I chose to do a landscape that is a mountain range with a sunset in the background. I chose to do this because I wanted to make something people would be able to understand, and I appreciate sunsets a lot. They are one of the things in life that make me extremely happy because they are something we can never change or alter. They literally have a natural beauty. The paper we did these on was water color paper, and they were a standard paper size, 8" by 11".
In this slide show, the first picture is my reference photo and the second picture in the one I painted.
Color glazing
This project was very new to me. We first found a picture we wanted to do a painting of in black and white and painted it as realistically as we could in black and white. We then added color, but we did this by severely watering down the colors and doing a light glaze of the color over the black and white. You had to do many layers of the colors to make everything more pigmented and stand out. I decided to do a lemon that was cut in half. I chose to do this because it was simple but challenging for me because I've never done still life art before. I painted the background pink because I wanted it to have a pink lemonade sort of vibe. I also decided to add a light orange border around the lemons because I wanted peoples' eyes to be drawn more to the lemons. The size of our canvases were 16" by 12". I like the way my painting turned out, but I feel like if I had spent a little more time on it I could have made the lemons slightly more realistic.