I am so delighted to announce that my painting is at last done and I have to say that when Michelle (the teacher) said your last project should be your best I was not sure if mine would be because I do have good techniques, but I'm not the best. I worked so hard while painting to make the shading of my flower have dimension. The processes has been difficult, but I have had a nice journey during the Sketching and Painting processes. The sketching processes was hard because drawing petals was difficult since the flower petals had a lot of curves. The painting processes was fun because I used a different art media that is oil paint. It was easier to blend the oily paint and apply it but it was hard to get different shades to mix well without the m becoming one of the same color. I used shades of green for the stem, leaf, and buds. I mixed black with white to make grey for the shadow of the petals on the orchid. I painted the background all blue with white with made my painting look nice. The painting of the background was difficult because I had to be careful with not accidentally painting the orchid petals so I had a difficult processes doing that. Overall it had been one of my best projects which I have but a lot of time and effort into.
The painting process has been hard because my orchids needed shading. I shaded the flowers with black and white but I also mixed those colors to make gray to shade the edges and make it look like shadows. Inside the flower I colored it yellow and red and orange because the White orchids have those colors inside of them. I painted the pot white and used the same shading technique that I used on the flowers and made it white with grey shading. Apart from that my stem I made it green with different shade like dark green and light green and yellow. I enjoyed using turpenoid oil to thin out the paint to blend well so the shadow looks real. I colored the background blue with white because I plan to give the painting to my dad, but I used white to make it a lighter blue so there is more of a uplifting and nice spirt to my painting. The dark blue would've added darkness and depression whereas the white is happy and peaceful more tranquility. I also added a bud to signify there is more life to come (that theres a new flower to bloom). For the buds I also used the same technique as the stem. I used yellow and different shades of green. For the leaf's I used a dark green to show the shading of the leaf and a light green for the leaf's background. My pot had soil the shade of brown and I swished the brush with a different shade of Brown that is a rusty brown and moved it around the dark brown to add depth and shadow. I used that technique to also show the different types of colors of soil.
For my final project I have started drawing on my canvas. At first I was going to do a square pot, but then I changed it to bowl. I drew my orchids stem and it will be going bent to right. I have used different photographs of orchids to draw the different orchids. I have taken each day to draw one flower because in the middle of the orchid there are many little details. I have made many flowers and buds and I have not made shading only like and outline because I will be doing it when I start painting. Each day I have drawn a similar or different orchid flower to the one before. The orchids I have sketched have been difficult to do because the pedals are shapes that are a little hard to sketch. In the picutres you can see how I have had to curve the lines. The process has been fun but I'm sad that I do not get to shade with pencil. I have also changes some stuff along the way. I changed the way my flowers were going. I brought them more up because I was drawing them to much going down as you could see in the images.
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June 2015
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