This piece is one of my favorites from this semester! I love how the colors flow together nicely, and the texture I was able to create from the watercolor was great. I really enjoyed using watercolor pencils as well, I could get good details in there and values as well. Another aspect of this piece I like is the interesting architecture, and I think I executed the perspective well. One thing I wish I could have changed was the composition. I like the composition, but I think it could have been a lot stronger. The only issue is that I only had this photo from my trip and it would have been difficult to try and imagine it differently. Despite a somewhat weak composition in my opinion, I really really like this piece. I took a risk because at this point I wasn't very comfortable using watercolor, but now I feel like I have somewhat of a mastery with this media. I am really impressed with the detail, value, color scheme, and texture all being well executed, so I feel like it is a solid representation of my style and concentration as a whole.
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I think this piece is pretty cool. Its not my fav but I also don't hate it. The perspective might be a little off for some parts, but I think the colors, composition, and idea itself make up for it. As you can see, I originally had a green background and it looked really weird. I can't remember who gave me the advice, but I ended up painting over it and giving it a light sky blue background, and it looks sooooo much better!! It really takes me back to haiti considering these apartment buildings are everywhere. Although in reality they're kinda dirty and filled with people living in unsanitary/ impoverished conditions, I choose to remember how the beauty of the people and culture reflect into their environment. On the surface, Haitian homes are kind of sad and depressing despite their bright paint, but deep down their people and my memories are full of vibrancy and beauty, and I wanted that to sort of translate into my concentration.
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This piece is sooo cool!!!! This one is another one of my favs. The original pic that inspired it was blurry, so I took a photo of one of my friends and used his facial structure for the portrait. I really like the contrast of the black and white face and the colorful background. Again, I wanted to take a concept that might be deemed "third world", and show the beauty/ vibrance found deeper. I used acrylic paint, watercolor, and marker to get the finished look of the background, and overall I think its really freaking cool. I might go back and add gel pen (I literally just thought about that as I was typing this) but I really think this is just a dope piece. The texture, values, and interest created by the use of the pen is my favorite part. It went by so fast, I think I finished the entire head in like 2 class periods. I think the composition is pretty alright, maybe could have been stronger but again I think the positives outweigh the negatives. I named this piece "Carribean King" because even though he might not be wearing a conventional crown, he looks confident and strong.
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This is one of the only oil paintings I'm actually kind of happy about. I really really like the background. I find it funny how much I love to use magenta in my pieces but I would never wear/ use it in real life. I think It has really nice contrast with the skin tone in the feet, and just flows together well overall. The wavy look in the paint strokes was intended to imply some kind of movement and I think it looks super cool and abstract. I've noticed I really like doing kind of a mixture of (kinda) realism and abstract in a weird way that (usually) works together. The composition is pretty successful, it could have been better but again I didn't have much time or reference pics so a creative composition was kind of lacking. What I like most about this piece is the vibrancy of colors and movement. One thing I wish I would have done differently was a more interesting composition, maybe from a different angle (foreshortening) or with more feet. However, I still think overall this is a successful painting. As much as I kind of hate oil, this one was pretty cool and had some nice textures. Another thing to note here is that Indian dancers will sometimes dye/ paint their feet with henna, creating an orangish-red tone on the bottoms of their feet and toes, which I incorporated into this painting.
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This drawing was super cool to do!!! One of the cringiest bugs I have EVER witnessed in my life was in India. It was terrifying. And they were everywhere! So I wanted to do a piece to pay homage to the disgusting yet beautiful Stag Beetle. It is perched on a the ledge of a short concrete wall right outside the front of our host house. I found some cool pictures that inspired me to be a little more colorful than just a straight up black beetle, so I added a ton of other colors to show the reflective quality. The gel pen also created a nice shiny look to the shell. I really like this piece, but I wish I did something different to the background. I don't know what, but something different. I think the composition is fine, it was hard to come up with without copying from someone directly. I think I was able to get some good details in by using prismacolor/ gel pen, and I was glad to be back using one of my favorite materials. With my style I'm still noticing a cool interpretation of the real world- where things are a little more imaginative colorwise. Overall, this piece is a cool little drawing that has a story behind it that I will always remember.
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When I was at the children's home in Odisha, one of the only things the boys did to pass the time was play Carrom, a south asian board game. It was such a wonderful memory to see them get so excited and play. I think my decision to do pen and watercolor was a good move, not only because it was fast, but because it looks cool with the perspective. I really like the composition of this, and how the game pieces look from those angles. I like how I used just red, yellow, and blue to create all of my colors, it was a challenge but also flowed together well. overall, this drawing was really cool to make. It was central to my concentration idea, but it was also executed well! It's not my favorite, maybe I could have done better, but in the time given it was successful.
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