So yesterday i had the photo shoot for one of my at home pieces. I am doing an Art Assignment called "conjure your own studio" I think. So i brought my art stuff into the woods behind my house. I am going to do this as a pen and ink drawing I think. I recently got a jar of black ink from a friend, so I think I might include some washes, especially as a basis for the background because i think its cool. I'm not sure what type of paper I am going to use, either watercolor paper for if I actually want to do a wash, or just paper from a sketchbook that i have that I usually use for my ink work. Overall i am excited for this painting.
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This week i did more detailed planning for my piece(including making a pinterest board to get some vibe inspirations and some reference photos for things that i can't take myself). Then I gridded my painting(16"x20") and painted it with a vermillion coat to establish a nice base. I am probably going to work on this over the weekend, so will hit you w/some new updates next week. It is looking good right now. i think im gonna get rid of the crown thing cuz it was awkward when I drew it on idk. also im still working with the positioning of the moth because all of the pictures i can find of Death's Head Moths are just straight on of their back, which is really awkward for my composition. I will figure it out eventually though. Idk how I am going to format so im not putting it in my gallery yet.
Label info: Where are you going, Summer 2020 acrylic on canvas, 11x14 for the three and then 8x10 for the other one Below is more stuff that i made that aren't necessarily part of my summer assignment.
so i actually did all of this in july but forgot to upload everything because I forgot about it and because I low key lost my computer for a while lol. But i finished the second piece and i realized how hard this project was actually going to be to finish. because it is a struggle(mentally) to make essentially the same piece over again the exact same way. So idk if it am actually going to finish it because I is a bit mentally taxing to even think about finishing it. But I probably will eventually lol.
So I finally finished this piece after like a month of putting it off because I don't really like painting butterflies as much as I like painting people. I am really happy with how the butterflies turned out. I spent a lot of time on them and I think that work is reflected in my final piece. I also started another piece on tuesday and spent basically all day on it and I am very happy with the progress that I have made, so hopefully I can keep this painting mood up and finish not only this painting, but also the painting I just brought home from school. I am really happy with how the first figure's body turned out, but I feel like the face might be too big, also I really struggled with the hand on the right holding up her hair, because the angle is awkward and I struggle with painting heads in general, But I think that the torso came out really nicely and I am proud of it.
I painted a person and my brother got upset- idk why because he flashes his chest to people al the time, but when there is a painting of a female chest, that is worthy of getting upset over??? Whatever, I like my painting. It was very quick and loose but I liked the aesthetic. I am happy with how it turned out. I wish I had written vinci on either my chest of one of my sister's chest to get the positioning better instead of just "winging it," but alas it is what it is, and I am very impatient. I don't think I am going to keep the middle fingers over her nipples, because it completely alters and corrupts my attempted content, but I did it because I was having an argument with my family over the "appropriateness" of painting the female chest in our dining area, mind you, which only came about after I had essentially finished everything, so I don't really see the big problem. So i censored it with some foul gestures and words to make it more acceptable to my family?? I don't really understand them. Also I don't have any process pictures of this because my phone was charging in a different room the whole time I was painting and I was too lazy to get it to take pictures while I was working on it. I might fix the background a little bit later. I was originally intending to just make it the solid blue color, but then I ran out so I used some extra purple that I had used in the skin to fill in the rest, but I might just remake the blue and fill it in a solid color
So I have decided to make a series because I was having fun painting women and butterflies. I am not yet finished with this painting. I have to finish up one butterfly and to the other two. I spent all Saturday afternoon until like 2:00 in the morning working on this after I finished the butterflies of the first portrait in the series. I really like how the scars in this one turned out, especially in comparison to the first paintings. I am thinking about doing ones that are less healed but I don't know if it am going to. So i think the series will be an evolution of recovery. Where the first paintings are more closed off with less butterflies and more recent scars, but the later ones will be more like this where they are more open position wise, but protected by clothing and with more butterflies. I don't really know though, I am just going to play around to find something that I like the best. I am really happy with how the hair, the background, and the underpainting interact in the top right edge and I want to incorporate that into my future paintings. I am really excited for this series, but I will still be working on my COVID-19 painting of my mother at the same time as these. I am kind of apprehensive about doing these butterflies, because butterflies are hard. It took me like three hours to do the other two in my first painting, so it should take me quite a while to do these.
I am finished this piece. I think. I am really proud of the butterflies, especially the bottom one, because i struggle to paint butterflies and I feel like it turned out pretty good. I am planning on making these a series, and I am excited for my future paintings.
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