This is my 4th concentration piece. I was originally going to paint this with coffee beans and make it a bunch of different shades of brown but I took a suggestion from a peer that told me that it might be cool to do it different colors in watercolor. I was nervous to do it because I have never been very good at watercolor and I don't really like the lightness of the colors, thats why I generally prefer acrylic or oil. the black lines that outline everything were meant to look a little carefree and not exact to give it a more abstract feel. I really like how the colors turned out. When I finished the watercolor I really liked it but it still looked like it was missing depth to it. It looked like something I had whipped up in 20 minutes. I went back and added a few darker values to make it look a little better and so I contemplated going back in with pen to add even deeper shadows. i thought I had ruined it until I stepped back and took a look at it from afar and I liked the way it looked. The pen added the more detailed look that I was wanting for it. overall, I think it has an interesting look to it and its differentiates from the style of my other pieces.
This is my 4th concentration piece. I didn't know what to do. I felt utterly stuck and no matter what I drew or painted, I did not like it. This was started as a quick sketch but I kept adding more colors and then more details and I ended up with this. It sort of reminds me of my nature turns mechanical piece because of the colors are blended together. I like the way it looks although I feel like it may not 100% fit with my concentration. I like the way the shading turned out, I thought I had over blended the blue cup but I went back and added some more white for highlights. I also like the colors I paired together, I think they work well together. I might redo this piece and make it a little different or try and change it up a little. Its an average piece, definitely not one of my best but I think that with the time crunch it works fine for now.
This is my 2nd concentration piece. I started out not really knowing where I was going with it but then I continued working on it little by little and it turned out like this. I really liked the way it turned out. I was a little skeptical about using pen because I've only ever used it as a medium once before in Art 2. For the brown I used actual coffee beans to paint it. I had to experiment with a bunch of different types of coffee beans until I found one that I could use to paint with because most didn't resolve all the way. For the black dots seen in the actual coffee I used coffee grounds and used a little bit of water to spread it all out.`i like the way the brown background really makes the hands pop and doesn't take away from the actual hands and cup. This is one of my favorite pieces that I did because it was more on the spontaneous side, I worked with what I had and added things as I went along until I was happy with it.
This is my first concentration piece. I wasn't sure what to make my concentration until one day over Christmas break I went to La Farm Bakery with a friend and took a picture of our coffees when the idea hit me. Making my concentration the idea of coffee, meaning the feeling you get when you sit down and enjoy a cup of coffee, that relaxing and peaceful feeling, that's what my concentration is going to be. I did this piece in acrylic paint, I really like the way it turned out. One of the hardest parts of of this piece was blending the colors together in the coffee and making it look realistic. another challenge was actually getting the shades of brown to look good together and to not have the wood take away from the coffee. Also, getting the color of the wood right was hard because there are so many different shades of brown. I wasn't sure about adding the shadow under the coffee of the left but It ended up looking good. This is probably one of my favorite pieces that I have done.
This is the painting I did for my landscape piece. I did it in acrylic paint and I like how it turned out. I decided to do this mountain scene because I went to the mountains last winter and I remember how beautiful the view was. I wanted to try and depict that beauty in the painting. I think the hardest part about this piece was getting a distance look to it, getting the mountains to seem like they're getting father away. I chose blue instead of shades of grey because I thought that it would change up the look a little but and make it seem like there was a slight haze in the air over the mountains. The black part of the painting s the trees that are a title more visible in outline that make up a mountain. I used a brush and made the outline a little emote jagged because in the reference picture I was using the trees were a lot more visible. I completely forgot to take in progress pictures because I got so caught up in the painting that I started and finished it in one sitting.
I had been waiting for the opportunity to draw a picture of my dog, Olivia, and I was so excited when I found out an animal portrait was our next project. Choosing a picture was harder than I thought it was going to be because I take lots of pictures of her. I figured out that the more posed, "artsy" pictures were not what I was looking for, instead I found myself liking the random off guard pictures that I take of her. I knew I wanted my medium to be prismas because I like the way you can really add details and that they blend so easily together. The photograph I drew this from was a random photo that I took in my kitchen one day after school. At first I didn't like it because she wasn't looking at the camera and you couldn't see her body but then I started to like the composition of it, it made you wonder what she was looking at. I worked the hardest on the eye, I was not initially satisfied with the way it had turned out but then after working on it for a while I ended up liking it a lot. the hardest part was getting the shading of the fur done accurately. I'm still not done with it, I'd like to add some more colors on the fur to make it a more yellow color and I'm still not completely satisfied with the way the wooden cabinet looks like behind her. Overall I am really happy with the way this looks, I did a drawing of Olivia for one of my summer pieces and I can definitely see the growth between the two pieces, I have learned how to use and blend the prismas much better now. I also learned how to better scale the pictures I draw more accurately.
I have never liked drawing or painting faces but when I learned that our next project was a self portrait I was excited to see how my piece would turn out. Right off the bat I knew I didn't was to take a realistic approach so I began exploring the different method that other artists had taken when painting self portraits. I knew I wanted my medium to be paint for this piece because my last two pieces had been with prismas. I also knew that I wanted my medium to be acrylic paint and not oil paint because I hadn't done a project in acrylic yet. After looking through many ideas I couldn't settle on one, then one day in class I was exploring a picture app that i have on my phone and I found that there were many weird effects you could put on a photo so I took the selfie I had chosen for my self portrait and I started applying different filters and effects on it. Finally I came across one that looks similar to my final, the only difference is that it was pixalated and the third color on it was a crimson red instead of the red-orange that I used. I'm surprisingly happy with the way this turned out, I wasn't happy with it when I was in the middle of it and I did consider restarting a few times but instead I stuck with it. The hardest part about this pieces was getting all the lines to be nice and clean and now all over the place. another challenge was getting the colors to look even and smooth. Overall I liked this project and I hope that sometime in the future I can attempt another self portrait maybe in a deferent style.
From the start, I had no idea what to do for this project. The whole mechanical aspect of it didn't really appeal to me. Every idea I came up with someone else was already doing or something similar to it. I chose to do lollipops because I thought it would be neat to do them because of the variety of colors that they come in. I wasn't really sure how to position them so that it would be an interesting composition so that's why I decided to scatter them and have some of the ends appearing instead of it all being just lollipops. I think that the hardest part of this was blending the colors in the lollipops so that it looked smooth. Drawing the actual mechanical parts was my least favorite part because I didn't really know how to draw them or how to make them look mechanical-like. So, I looked up many reference pictures and was able to come up with what I drew in the picture. The sticks of the lollipops were interesting to do, initially I was going to leave all of them normal-looking and make them all white but then upon asking a few of my peers they suggested I do them mechanically. I did a few to look mechanical and then I decided to change it up and make some white too. At first there were only enough sticks to match up with the number of lollipops but then I decided to add 3 more that you couldn't see. I chose to do orange for the background because it was a nice contrasting color that made all the other colors pop. Overall, I think this turned out well but if I could change something it would be making the actual lollipop heads more accurately and get the scale correct.
This is the project that I did for interior spaces. I began with a list of ideas and none of them really stood out to me until I thought of cutting food in half and then drawing it. I had drawn a lemon before on one of my summer projects and I had liked the way it looked so I knew I definitely wanted to incorporate one in this drawing. For the rest of the food I wanted to have different colors for them. I'll admit that at the time I thought of the avocado as being all green but when I started to draw and I realized it was really mostly a beige/light yellow color it was too late. If I could do this again I would change out the avocado for something else that was a brighter color to really make it stand out. I did this in prisma colored pencils, I enjoyed using them a lot. I actually really like the way this turned out. While I was drawing it I didn't really like it that much but after I added details and added some shading it looked a lot better. I think the biggest challenge of this piece of work was coloring in all the small areas in the lemon and orange. It was hard to get it where I was happy with the way that it looked. Another thing that was difficult was getting the placing of all 4 objects to look presentable and not like they were all just clumped together. I do think I'm going to go in and add some darker shadows in some areas.
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