These practices were actually really fun!!! I had never used a palette knife before and I thought it was really cool and different. The avocado was also fun because I improved my blending skills and making shapes more dimensional. This was a sort of non-stressful art that I enjoyed. The canvas paper is so cute and I just wanna paint a billion lil things on it!!! I think the most difficult thing for me was getting the highlights and shadows in the blueberries, and not over blending and turning everything brown. Overall this was a good experience for me to discover creating texture and applying different elements of art with a relatively new media.
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This piece was very frustrating for me, to say the least. The idea of doing a bowl of cereal was pretty interesting and unique, and I translated the idea of cereal into being bright and colorful like Trix (even though it's not a personal favorite breakfast choice). I am not super experienced with oil paint, and I had trouble executing the vision I had for this piece. I wanted it to be a more abstract piece, and focus on color and shapes and I think that turned out alright. The color choices were very intentional; initially I was gonna do a rainbow color scheme for the cereal but I decided to stick to 3 colors and a pinkish/ orange background. I like how the background looks, and it has good contrast with the bowl and cereal. I struggled getting the right texture in the cereal, so as I was working I decided to put in the swirls, which I ended up really liking. It made it more interesting and bubbly and that was what I was going for. I kind of gave up in the end because I felt like I was never going to finish and it would never be good enough and I could just go on forever trying to fix it. Normally I wouldn't do that, but I needed to move on and start on my next project and focus on things I want to put in my portfolio. It's definitely not one of my best pieces but it helped me get a better feel for painting with oils.
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This project is one of my favorites!!! I haven't done a true mixed media with a strong subject matter, and I really like how I executed this one. I think one of the reasons why I put so much of my heart into it, is because it has a lot of personal meaning. I loved the idea of translating my thoughts and inside my head, into the inside of the storage closet. Originally I was gonna make the closet like a dark place, but as I kept working I realized that as sad of a place my head can be sometimes, I wanted to make a piece that made me happy, and show how vibrant I can be when the "switch is turned on". I really liked how intentional all of the colors were as well. The yellow exterior meant to show how I can look happy on the outside, and sometimes it's a whole different reality on the inside. The purple contrasts with the yellow, yet flows with the red of the door and blue/ green in the ceiling. I like how clever I got to be with this project as well. I snuck in a few magazine cut outs in the floor that have a carpet texture, and even the word "carpet" in the floor. I also put in the light switch to represent bipolar depression- how my emotions can switch on and off like a switch. I even threw a caution sign on the door, just to keep it from being plain, and kind of like a warning to others for how complicated and dangerous it is to understand and really get in my head. Overall, my use of prisma, acrylic, pen, and cut outs make this piece really stand out. The bugs, colors, textures, words, etc were all very intentional and made me think about the deeper meaning when working. I haven't done a ton of conceptual art, and this one seems like a mix of conceptual and real life. I hope to do more pieces like this in the future.
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I have a love hate relationship with this painting. I love the picture I took so much that I feel like nothing will live up to it. However, there are lots of things I like about it. I really like the water, because of the turquoise blues and purple. Also, it doesn't blend too much with the sky. The boat is also really cool, because of the contrast with the mountains with the bright pink/red colors. The mountains are dimensional as well, and not pointy :). I think by far my favorite aspect of this piece is the sand. The sand obviously was not originally pink, but it makes the piece more of my style and whimsical. It was different than other peoples, which I always aspire to do. The composition is pretty much the exact same as the reference photo, with a few changes made. The mountains and texture cause movements that make this piece very interesting. One thing I may have changed would be to have some more balance within the composition, because everything seems to be on one side. Overall, I think this piece is good. Its not my best, but that may stem from the fact that I absolutely hate landscapes, so I dreaded every day that I worked on it. The meaning behind the piece though, is what makes it special.
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