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.
My Art project for the final project is going to be the genre of still life. The type of art will be in painting and the media will be oil paint. The artist's that inspired me were Karen Appleton and Trisha Adams who both do still life and paint in oil paint. Karen Appleton work mostly revolves around bows and presents and the way she draws goes on a bit thick but not to much. Her shading follows a bit of the color scheme on the wheel which is Analougus. Karen Appleton does do a bit shading with different shades that might not go a lot with other colors but mostly they do. Trisha Adams makes the painting really thickly painted and has a lot of coats of oil paint. Her shading techniques are using different colors for shading they do not always match the other colors in the painting, but the ways she puts it our eyes do the blending. Trisha paints mostly flowers and uses different colors to make the painting vivid and bright and by adding a lot of paint the painting blends well and even though the colors might not go well together she makes them look good. Both do there work on canvas which make there techniques look good since canvas is good to do oil painting on. My inspiration was a orchid flower and I want to draw it purple or white. I want to draw it white because it means pureness and innocence and or purple which is one of my favorite colors. Another way for me to paint it would be purple with white highlights of shading to include both colors. Another inspiration I have is painting beauty stuff like a lipstick or perfume because it makes up who I am and I love make-up and beauty. I also though of putting a pack of cigarettes or a ashtray with a cigarette to show how life is fragile. The image would represent how by putting cigarettes there the flower will eventually die causing such a beautiful creation to end.
Our unit was perspective for this time. I decided to do a collaboration with my classmates and we chose to do forced perspective. We then choose to do a collage about pictures demonstrating forced perspective. We acted out scenes that couldn't be real, but we made them real through pictures. We used toys or things in the classroom for inspiration as well as pinterest to get a idea of what to do. In one picture it looks like i'm getting eating by a dinosaur or being in teacup and looking i'm about to get drunk out of it. The pictures were like the the dinosaur was up close and then me far away to make it look like the dinosaur is eating me. The fun part was just that, that we were able to make things look possible. The pictures were taken in daisy’s phone because she had the best camera quality. We printed out the photos and tapped the pictures onto a black backboard to make the picture stand out. In the end it looked like a collage. My artwork means to me the journey that our group went through and how much fun we had doing it. The pictures mean what are friendship is and how we collaborated our ideas together to make something cool. In the end we had pictures that looked super cool about thing that aren't really possible. For this Project I created a art piece called Fairy Moon. The theme of the project was What's the Point meaning your art piece had to revolve around that. I chose to take the theme literally and drew my moon pointy. The drawing is of a Moon fairy, and her element is the moon. The fairy is sitting on the moon looking over everyone. She is helping the people of the earth by leading them through the darkness with the light the moon shines. The moon means a lot to me because it hides itself during the day. The moon shines in the night it represents the light that lights up the darkness. What is unique about my artwork is that it represent fantasy with the fairy being on the moon. Fantasy makes all kinds of artwork creative and unique because you're bringing in something that can’t be real and making it real on paper. I started out by sketching out my drawing with pencils and using the technique of shading the moon. My final piece was drawing on a canvas paper with acrylic color using blue as shading for the moon.
My Drawing is called poison heart and my drawing represents a heart being bit by a snake and the snake going through which represent the poisonous part because the snake is poisoning the heart with its venom. The little heart is being torn by the thorns and is under the big heart. The story I am trying to tell is that a lot of people will hurt your heart with there lies or anything bad they have done to you and it feel like there poising you with there venom. The little heart represents you feeling small and weak with all the pain your going through. Sometimes you feel small and weak after people hurt you and your hart feel small so thats why the heart is small. This is what my drawing represents.
My drawing is called "the room" and my idea was that I know a room says a lot about a person. I drew the room to give a little background on the person. The letter represents the person leaving her family and everything behind. Sometimes people have to leave there families behind for many reasons. The make-up desk represents how much the person loves make-up and the iphone with earphones represents how much of a passion for music the person has. The teddy bear represents the innocence of the person and the child inside. Everybody has a childish part inside that shows how we can be kids sometimes and don't always have to be grown-ups. The dog represent a pet that can mean something important and another part of the family. My final piece was bigger with the person leaving there home whereas the little sketch shows just parts of the personality. The bigger piece shows the broken picture which means leaving on bad terms with your family and that your really going to miss them. The person leaving is crying because she has to walk away from the people she loves and leave everything behind. |
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