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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.
On easter monday, I basically painted all day to produce this. It is a step way from what I have previously been doing, as it is more rendering than simply color blocking. I am really happy with how this is progressing, but I'm not really sure what to do about the background. When I was starting this, I was planning on just having it be a really loose piece, that I would eventually paint over with something different, but I really like it and now i am without a plan on doing the background.
So these are my finished At Home projects I chose to do the Art-Assignment thing. For the first one I did the Invisible places one(or something like that I have been unable to find what it is actually called). I took a picture of a rigger and oar on the water before the quarantine situation where I was actually allowed to row, and then drew it in pen. Originally we were just supposed to take a picture of an "invisible place," but that was boring so I decided to draw it. I was going to draw it in colored pencils, but when I actually started it I figured that I'd better ink it because I was low on time and colored pencil would take too long. For my second piece I chose to do "Relative Stranger." It is a portrait of my childhood friend that lives in my neighborhood and goes to Maggie Walker, so we are still close friends, but the relative stranger part comes from me not being able to see him or hang out with him in person for a long time because of the quarantine. I painted him because I like painting things, and then for the background I wrote "queen" in gold sparkly acrylic paint because he is a queen. Below are some process pictures.
I kinda didn't want to use this photograph since it wasn't from my usual boat and my blurry finger in the top left corner and because I really wanted to get the shape of the boat in the picture rather than just the rigger, but it was the best one that I took when I went out on the water, and I can't go out to take a new one because our season has been "temporarily suspended" due to the pandemic of COVID-19. I am doing the Art Assignment thing again because the last ones I did both got scholastic awards, but also because I feel like I can use them also as portfolio pieces like the one that I have show cased above. I can't remember the specific name of the assignment nor can I find it again on the Arts Assignment website, but it had something to do with going to a place invisible to others, but visible to you and then document it. Being on the water in the manner that I usually do is not something many people experience, and many people don't even know what our sport is, so I figured I would use the beautiful landscape that I used to see everyday(before the quarantine). I also really wanted to draw something related to crew because it would branch two things I love to do. For my second piece I am either doing "Relative Stranger" or the destroying a piece of art work thing(again I cannot find the actually assignment's real name, but Julianne did it for her last home project) depending on time, because I am worried that I might not actually finish this piece with enough time to do the relative stranger one, but I made a little painting on Saturday that I wouldn't care to much if I destroyed and it would probably improve the content to destroy it so i will decide later.
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