Final Project: Acrylic Catipillar

This artwork took me the shortest amount of any pieces I've ever done before, once I got started on it. I think it's because I actually planned out what I was going to paint first. My classmates wanted to see more Alice in Wonderland, someone demanded a caterpillar, and all that was left was to pick the medium. I picked acrylic paint, of course. It's so versitile :)

I'll admit, when I first planned this one out though,  it was supposed to have a darker color scheme and more realistic details. But I like this, it's nice.... and girly.... and it was fun. I used pour painting for the back and foreground, and I glazed it to give it shine. Overall, one of my favorites.

Fourth Art Project: Eygptian Culture

 As i explained in an earlier post, the art teacher required us to complete to art pieces revolving around a culture,and I chose Egypt. Here's the first artwork I did. It's all very meaningful- the eye in the middle is the eye of Horus, the sun-god, symbolizing wealth, power, prosperity, health, and happiness. The sun in the background symbolizes the same thing. The snake and vulture touching the eye symbolize Egypt itself, which use to be divided in half. I'm not existed with this artwork, but it does its job.

This second piece I like much, much better, in the first one I used paint, which was traditional to ancient Egypt. For this second one, I water-colored the paper to make it look old, then I inked in the rest. Free-handed it, too, which is why I accidentally drew the subject a little big and his legs got cut off. This work represents the death god, Anubis. Easy to guess his meaning.  This work contrasts my earlier one in both  symbolism and color, which I think is clever. The hieroglyphics at the top tell you how to mummify someone.

Feather Ink

 Okay, I admit, when Mrs. Shaffer said we would be using ink, as in a quill and bottle, I was nervous. I'd never done anything like it before! And at first, I sucked at it. So I practiced. And practiced. And practiced. And by the time I actually started on a project, surprise! I'd become a lot better at it. In fact, I learned to love inking. The details you can make are amazing  : )

This first bird has a blue background, in case you can't tell. It came about rather randomly. I was sitting in class when I spotted this picture of a crane and decided I wanted to draw and bird. So I sat down with my ink and paper and newly acquired skills and this is what I came up with. It took a couple of days to finish, and I looooooove it.

For my second ink work, I decided to do a bird to match the first one, in the opposite position and with an oppositely colored background. It was coming along really well..... that is, until I split my jar of ink on it. I managed to save it, but some of the white is very obvious..... otherwise, I think I actually like this bird better. This isn't the best pic of it....

Pencil Project

Here's a picture of the first artwork I did for my studio art class. Mrs. Shaffer wanted us to give examples of our skills thus far. We could use any medium we wanted, and since pencil is the only one I'd really worked with, that's what I used. However, I did go out of my comfort zone a bit by drawing people. I'm big on cartoons and animals and stuff, but not people. I wanted my subject to look tough and edgy. Cool. I think it turned out ok, for a simple pencil drawing....