Acrylic Landscape Painting

I took many steps to try to create this great painting. It took time, effort, patience, and most of all motivation from my art instructor. First, I planned out my color scheme. Then, I used those colors to paint my sky 3/4 down my paper, I used composition and darks and lights to demonstrate the atmosphere at certain heights of my initial landscape. I then painted my background and the objects on it. Then of course I did my foreground  and painted the objects that lie on it. I finished by adding a light source to demonstrate shadows and lightened areas. For my painting I used a large brush to paint the sky and a small brush on the grass blades and trees. I used value in my painting to help overall enhance the view and perspective of lighting and depth in my landscape painting.

Ceramics Project

           The medium of my project was a clay. The size was 6 inches by 6 inches. The radial design element was stressed during the construction of my project, as you can see I used a spiral design radiating from a single point in the middle of the piece. My piece serves a function as a bowl for chips and other hard foods such as fruit, vegetables, and wrapped hard candy. I created the design for my project by simply taking wooden cylinders and pressing them up against the clay to make circles rotating out. I learned that there is many ways  to shape, form, and color clay to your own specific specification or liking. If I were given a chance to change my project, I would have made the base more durable.

Pastel Still Life Project

       I planned my composition by first creating a thumbnail sketch. A thumbnail sketch is the process of planning out how your picture, drawing, painting is going to turn out by creating a picture of a picture without any details. I used my handy dandy sketch book to plan out my whole still life by making a small horizontal rectangle and sketched my simple objects just to see how things would look!
       I did this several times until I got to the layout that most interested me. The viewfinder helped me locate the best view and composition for my still life. It helped me by giving me a different perspective of all my objects.
       I made my objects appear three-dimensional by using contour lines and lots of depth and shading that would give even more perspective. To top off my picture, I made a unique light source to demonstrate shadows and other fun uses of shading.