This was my first time freely painting with oils. Even though I've used them to paint landscapes, I was in a class. Now I'm on my own, and it presents a little challenge. These apples were pretty easy compared to what I will be doing. This is just practice for my oil project. Here there are two types of apples, a painted apple, and a pallet knife apple. Another important aspect to oil painting these was the wash. The pallet knife was the hardest, trying to create values that could only be blended on the canvas with only this tool. Although these were somewhat difficult, I think I got the hang of basic oil principles now.
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This shoe project was my favorite out of all these projects. It gave me time and experience to further my understanding of colored pencils. I used Fantasia colored pencils to color it, and small pens for the line work. This was a great project to help me with my shading and highlights with different objects. I thought the shoe project was a great opportunity to show my skills in representing my family. Not only that, but I was the only one in the class to do this project. Each of the shoes represents a different part of each of my family members. I think it is pretty easy to tell what each person does in my family/what each one represents. Using pencil can be easy and hard at the same time. Pencil is all about value. I've been drawing and shading for years so I know my way around a pencil. Anyways, this project was all about the inside of my mom's car. I used only a pencil and the inside of my mom's car. The reflections in some of my value of shading was the hardest part of this sketch; not to mention getting the proportions right. All I did was sit in the car from time-to-time for an overall amount of about 30 hours trying to perfect this thing and get it prepped for school. This was probably my longest piece that I took extra care of. I like how it has a slight distorted look to the perspective. This element adds into the surrealism of the art. This is an interesting self-portrait I did using different colors of pen. I took a picture and manipulated the color value of it, then increased the saturation, along with some curve adjustments. Then I looked at the image and decided to make it interesting by only having one direction of lines. I used a long ruler as a guide and gave each color different line weights in a sense to change the way you see the picture from afar. The darker colors are closer together than others so that they are visible from far away. I like the way it turned out, and it helped me get a grasp on color manipulation between values in order to achieve a certain POV in an art piece. This is an image I created using scraps of newspaper. It is an image that is supposed to be overlooking a street in my neighborhood. I took a picture and discovered the values hidden throughout the image. I then cut up newspaper, and sorted out the ranges of values from black to light gray. I then planned out where to put the pieces, and once I did I glued them on top of a sketch I had of the photo for placement purpose. After I was done gluing the pieces I drew on it with pen to add more details that I couldn't add with the newspaper. I think it looks very similar to the street in my neighborhood. This was my first newspaper collage type piece that turned out pretty good. Using watercolor is a hard skill to master. Unknowingly, I forgot that with watercolor, the paper needs to be wet BEFORE the paint is applied. I missed that step, but I think this piece turned out good enough. This was my least favorite out of the five I did for summer. One of the reasons why is that the watercolor did stuff I didn't want it to do. This was my first real watercolor project, although I've worked with it in small amounts in the past. This is an image of a "Materialized nature" of the pond in my neighborhood. Most people don't see this, they see a yellow-brick road of some sort. I can see that, but it is SUPPOSED to be a swimming pool, along with other elements of nature that are represented in other ways
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June 2015
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