Cut Paper
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