1. Describe the craftsmanship of your painting. (Is it neat and well executed?)
I really like how this painting turned out. I think it looks clean and everything is where it should be. I do plan on adding more detail after it dries enough, and I want to add more shadows to the tree trunks up front. I liked them a lot better when they were darker. 2. Describe your choice of colors/color harmonies and how you used them throughout the artwork. I tried my best to stay true to the colors in the original image, but I did wind up having to exaggerate the tonal differences in the browns in order to make the piece more interesting and keep things from blending together. I used a lot of pthalo blue and burnt sienna in this piece, but the color I went through the most of was lemon yellow. 3. How did you create contrast in your painting? I used both color and texture to create contrast in this landscape. Things in the foreground were given thicker layers and deeper colors, while things in the background were given lighter colors and thinner layers, in order to create a sense of distance. 4. How did you apply textures, highlights and shadows to enhance your artwork? I noticed that in the picture a lot of the foreground was in shadow, so I made it darker but I incorporated highlights where I thought the sun would show through the leaves. I put different textures into each aspect of the painting, in an effort to mimic the way the trees and dirt and water would feel in real life. 5. How were you able to create depth in your painting? I created depth using different values, perspective, and by building up thick layers of paint with both palette knives and piping bags. In the areas where the paint is really thick, I didn't have to do as much work to create an artificial sense of distance, because the distance was actually there. 6. What painting techniques did you use that made your painting successful? I used a lot of impasto medium and liquin in my oil paint, which cut down on the amount of paint I had to use and actually made the paint go on smoother. I didn't use a paintbrush very often in this piece, because I wanted there to be a lot of texture. I used palette knives and piping bags, and it really helped me create interesting shapes. I did the leaves in the foreground entirely with a piping bag, and I think they turned out really neat and clean looking. 7. Describe any difficulties you had creating your drawing and what you could do to improve your drawing? One of the hardest things was creating the highlights on the water, and making the dirt look like it had rocks and sticks in it. I need to go back in and add more rocks and sticks, and I plan on going over some areas of the water with a little brush and some white paint once the paint is dry enough to not be damaged by touch. There are some areas that are a little wrinkled because I tried to go over them when the paint was half dry, and I plan on fixing that later, too. 8. Explain the successes you had with this painting. Overall, I think this painting was successful. It was my first time doing a piece like this, and I learned a lot in the process. It could be a lot better, but I put a lot of effort into this and as soon as I make a few adjustments, I'll be completely fine with it. I think the trees and the leaves in the background turned out really well, and I like the big trees in the front of the piece. The color of the water turned out nicely, too.
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This is the painting I did along to the Bob Ross video. While I enjoyed the video itself, I don’t think the painting I did turned out right. It was nice practice, though, and if I did the same painting again it would probably turn out better, now that I know the placement of everything. It would have been easier if I had had a picture of the final painting to look at while I was painting mine. I learned some new techniques for doing landscapes while watching this video and found it to be an interesting experience.
1.) Describe the craftsmanship of your painting. (Is it neat and well executed?)
I like the way this painting turned out. The lines and colors flow well, and it looks pretty similar to the way I imagined it. I like the way the goldfish look against the water. I incorporated different styles into the painting to make it more interesting and give a collage-like appearance, and, in my opinion, it worked out. 2.) How does your work embody the artist’s style? I used simpler shapes in my painting, with flat colors. There isn't any shading on the face, and I outlined the different features instead of blending them into the skin. I also included a center with patterns radiating out from it. 3.) Describe your choice of colors/color harmonies and how you used them throughout the artwork. I tried to put complimentary colors next to each other when I could, like I did with the orange fish against the blue background. I also utilized simple colors, like plain blues, greens, and reds. I only used one type of blue, mixed with white, for the water. The green plants aren't a very realistic shade. They're brighter and stand out more in the foreground. 4.) What is the emphasis (focal point) of your artwork? The face is the focal point in the painting. The waves ripple away from it, and the goldfish face towards it. I tried to make the colors on the face more complicated than the colors through the rest of the painting. The eyes are pale, which brings more attention to the red eyelashes and the dark lip color. The hair takes up a lot of space, and sticks out instead of flowing down. 5.) How did you use textures and patterns to embellish your artwork? The most obvious patterns are in the water, the plants in the background, and the trees. They're simple patterns, so they stand out the most. The swirly leaves in the foreground are also a pattern, and so are the curls in the hair. The goldfish are almost a pattern. If I had added one or two more they would have repeated enough to be considered a pattern. 6.) How did you put a border on your artwork? How does it enhance the work? I created a red border lined with a gold marker, and I put leaves and clouds inside of it. I embellished the border with sequins, 2 pieces of gold star confetti, and buttons. I think it makes the colors in the painting stand out more, since they are mostly cool colors, and it brings the warm colors in the painting forward a bit. 7.) Describe any difficulties you had creating this artwork. Getting the lines right was difficult when using a paintbrush. I had to paint over a lot of the waves, because I accidentally got different shades of blue on them. I also had difficulty with the hair, and I would've liked to do more with it. The lighting makes the glitter in the hair look green, so I think adding some pink streaks through the hair and more curls would improve the appearance. Here are the sketches I did for this project: These are my watercolor pairs. The colorschemes are monochrome, warm colors, complimentary colors, and cool colors. I liked working with watercolor, but I didn't like the way the paper warped so easily.
My favorite part of this still life is the lemon. I used purple, green, and brown for the shadows and I think those colors mixed well with the different yellows. I like using oil paint because you don't need as many layers and it dries slower, which makes it easier to blend, but it makes it easy to blend too much as well.
5. Describe your craftsmanship. I spent awhile on this painting, and I think it turned out the way I wanted it to for the most part. The leaves are very neat on the right because I spent more time on them, but the leaves on the left aren't bad. I think the sky turned out really nice. 6. If you were able to do something different what would it be and why? I would add darker colors to the water and improve the reflections. I heard that lighter trees have darker reflections and darker trees have lighter reflections, presumably because of the way the light hits them. I would like to improve the way the reflections look when I have time. 7. Explain to me what you have learned about watercolor and how it has improved or discouraged your development in art. I learned new techniques for watercolor painting, and I learned how to keep the paper from warping. Now that I know more about watercolor I would like to work with it more often. Here are the references I used that belong to me: This is the practice painting I did:
This is the practice I did with different shapes, and the pear I did to practice for the final pear paintings.
These are the techniques we practiced in class. Some of them got smeared because they were too wet when I put them away, and the paper warped a lot. I liked the saran wrap because of the way you could manipulate the paint.
These are the shapes I did with prismacolor. I also did an eye because I wanted to practice drawing something more natural, with different types of shading.
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