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Concentration #2

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     This piece is more bright than the last one, with less realistic colors because of how bright they are.  It continues the concentration idea of using color and composition to convey emotions, but with flowers.  The petals of the flower are in different directions and are not as droopy as the last one, and it is bendy.  It comes across more happy and excited, which was my goal.        A principle of design that I used was contrast.  I used the dark red with the bright yellow to make contrast and draw the eye to that area of the paper.  In the places where the green is darker, it contrasts more with the yellow than where it is lighter.        I know we covered fauvism towards the end of this project, but I knew about it beforehand and I drew some inspiration from that art style.  I like the bright colors, even if they are not necessarily realistic.  I also took some inspiration from expressionism by using colors to represent emotions.        I like how this turned out in
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Concentration #1

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My concentration is flowers and how colors represent emotion.  This first one I chose is supposed to be sad, so I used darker blues and purples.  The composition is (hopefully) umbrella shaped, which fits with the sad theme of this one because umbrellas mean rain and rain isn't exactly a sad thing, but it can be, depending on the circumstances and the mood that is supposed to be conveyed by the rain.  The flower is also droopy, which seems sadder, and the stem is a muted greenish color instead of something more vibrant.   A principle of design that I used is emphasis.  It is shown in the contrast between the dark colored flower and the lighter colored background to make the flower be the focal point.   A style of art that I (tried to) reference was impressionism.  I like the brush strokes a lot and so I attempted to do that.  It didn't work that well, which is fine because I wasn't completely focused on that.  I also tried to do something similar to what the people
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Homework 1/24/20

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Debra Meier Debra Meier does a lot of paintings of nature, in particular flowers.  She uses watercolors to make her flowers.  They are typically Australian flowers and wildlife because that is where she is from.  She seems to really like her country and its wildlife, which is why she draws it.  She was deeply upset by the recent wildfires, and did some other art based on that and donated the profits to an organization to help with wildlife.  I really like how she does her flowers.  They are realistic and colorful.  I think her art will help me with my flowers because she uses a lot of vibrant colors in her flowers, and I plan to use watercolors in mine.  Seeing her technique will be good when I make my flowers.   Alissa Kari Alissa Kari also does a lot of paintings of flowers also. She uses acrylics in her pieces.  She enjoys nature a lot, and wants to improve her skill and learn new things.  She now paints professionally a
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Composition

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Work in progress!
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Cut Paper

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In this project I did a close up of a leaf with the veins and a little caterpillar on top of the leaf eating it.  All the color is in watercolor besides the background which is a colored mat board.  The actual leaf is different shades of green and red and a bit of colors that lie between those two colors.  The veins of the leaf are a very light shad of green which is hard to see from the picture.  It is raised about a half an inch from the base mat board.  The caterpillar is based off of the caterpillar from the children's book,  The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carl and a cute picture of one that I found on the internet.  That caterpillar from the book has a green body with a red head and purple antenna and was one of my favorite books when I was very little.   One element of art that I used was space.  I used this in the difference between the foreground of the leaf and the background dark green mat board.  The elevation of the leaf from the mat board also add to
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Revision

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For this project I tried to focus on using different mediums as a comparison and also working on perspective and drawing shells.  I have never drawn a shell before for some reason so I figured this was a good time to do it.  I figured I would struggle the most with the shell from the side angle, and I did.  I ended up doing it though, and I don't love it, but I did enjoy doing it.  I did it in colored pencil, which is probably one of my least favorite mediums to work with.  I like how the inside edge turned out a lot on that one.  I haven't done a project in just colored pencils since draw 1 I don't think so.  It was good to practice it again, but I still don't like it much.  I did a sketch shell from a top angle in graphite and I like it, but it doesn't match the color scheme of the rest of the shells that I tried to keep consistent.  The two in marker, one with Sharpie and the other with the better drawing markers, I don't like a whole lot.  The colors we
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Air Port Contest

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     I painted a picture of a jellyfish in watercolors.  It is blue and purple with lighter blue in the background.  The background is a box that the jellyfish sticks out of, creating depth.  The box that the jellyfish is above has light blue in it that is more concentrated at the bottom edges and gets more watered down as it goes to the center and top.  The most details are in the head thingie (cap? head? thingie?) of the jelly fish, drawing the viewers eye to that first.  I tried to make the tentacles help with that by adding less detail and not as much concentrated color as in the head, and by making them, for the most part, point back to the head.  The jellyfish also appears to be closer to the viewer in parts because the tentacles get bigger and the shading isn't as dark.  The darkest tentacles look further back because of their dark color and that they get much smaller in the places where they are supposed to be farther away.        The darker blue and purple of
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