For the style project I made the first drawing to see what I wanted to do with the beachy-underwater theme for my art. It ended up being too simple with not enough detail, even though I personally like the colors more. The final project had more detail, looked more realistic, and looked much nicer, but I wish I had taken a bit more time choosing colors to make more of a color scheme. If I could change anything I would make the colors in more than one place to make it all blend and look more like the same piece.
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| Beginning idea for style project |
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| Finished style project |
For the color project I did a sunset on the beach where a little bit of the water can be seen. I think that this conveys a feeling of relaxation at the same time as conveying a feeling of excitement about walking up the boardwalk and seeing that first glimpse of ocean. I really like the way this turned out, I was a little bit worried with this painting and using tempora, which I don't use often. I wish I could have gotten it to look more realistic, but other than that it came out very nicely.
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| The picture I used for inspiration |
Again on the color project, the sunset was probably the most difficult part of this piece. I couldn't get the colors to blend as much as I wanted, and I followed the shape of the sun too much on both sides. I ended up making a larger green spot near where the yellow dips near the boardwalk, and I used white paint, almost like white-out to cover it up and then redo that area. It came out very well, and its impossible to tell that there was a spot that didn't look right. I also put some water over the sunset and sky to blend everything together, and it didn't work as well as I wanted, but it helped a lot.
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| Finished color project |
