Water-color painting
My watercolor painting was a traced picture of Amber. I chose to paint her because she is a good friend of mine and said she wouldn't mind being a part of my project. I applied the concepts of the color theory to my composition by using warm colors for the background: a mixture and range of red, yellow, and orange, and cool colors in the front: a mixture and range of green, blue, and purple/violet. Since I mixed the three primary colors to make most of my colors, there were analogous colors included in my painting. The point of emphasis in my composition would have to be the necklace since it is a warm contrast to the cool foreground. With those cool colors in the foreground, once the viewer sees Amber, their eyes move to the background. I think the most successful aspect of my project was the background since I got the reds, oranges, and yellows to fade into each other. If I had the chance to improve my work, I would have spent more time on the drawing to make it more realistic.
Group Portrait Painting
Final Project
Artist Statement
What I chose to do for my final project was a watercolor painting of a lake by my house. I chose this topic for a number of reasons. First of all, the project asked each artist to depict what they personally thought art was. So, one of the first things that popped in my mind was this lake. It is located less than a minute from my house and I pass it at least once a day. I, as well as many others, find it a very beautiful and a big part of my town. Lakes are one of the many things that make each town different and unique in their own ways, and that is what I believe artwork is. The aspect of any one thing and what makes it beautiful and unordinary. For the research part of my project, i chose the artists, J.M.W. Turner, Z.L. Feng, and Albert Bierstadt. The reason I shose them was because they had all done realistic paintings of water and landscape with a warm background and cool foreground, which was what I was striving to accomplish. Overall, I think I was pretty successful. I think my foreground and background came out nice, which could be credited to the water on water watercolor technique I used that made the colors blend into each other well. The only thing I don't really like were the trees I painted. They didn't come out as realistic as I had hoped, but other than that everything else went fine. I think if I had more time to complete the final I could have planned my painting out better and gotten a better idea of what I wanted to accomplish before I jumped in and started working.