Final Project

So....here it is. 

      In my eyes, this isn't done. I hung it up on the wall behind me and I'm just going to keep on adding to it. I'm always going to see little things I can do to improve it, and I'll never truly be happy with it! I realized that, which is why I turned it in. 

Working on it has been an awesome experience :)

Title: The Ultimate Confrontation: The Flower and the Bayonet

Size: 22" x 25.5"

Media: Black (permanent, I found out) watercolor

Original photograph

Final Project Progress

Here is the progress I've made so far on my final project....as you can see, I've got quite a ways to go.

Obviously there's a lot of adjusting I need to do with the shades. I've also messed up royally on the shapes, even though I used grid drawing. It's like all the skills I've gathered over this course just left early! I might have bitten off more than I can chew with this project!

For size reference

Weekly Drawing Week 9 - Window

This is the view from my bedroom window. It's our backyard and my Grandpa's field and barns in the background. 

This is the picture that I was going off of so as you can see, it is kind of not really very good...more like a fail.

I intentionally didn't include the bottom part.

The trees are a big part of the view, so I thought "Hey I'll make the trees the emphasized part of the picture!"

So I thought I would make the rest of the image not very detailed, then make the trees stand out by adding color. Now I wish that I'd made the whole thing very detailed, and maybe just did the trees in black pen or something. 

So that WAS my thinking. Not really any good now that I've turned it in...just trying to justify it not turning out very well I guess :(

Extremely Rudimentary Frog Painting - Weekly Drawing Week 8

Pretty freaking adorable in my opinion.

Of course he shall be named nothing other than Hoppy.

Hop along, my amphibious friends.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Weeks 6 & 7 Quarter 2: Watercolor Painting Final

         This is what I ended up with after much fixing and un-fixing, doing and undoing and redoing and all kinds of fun stuff! It may not look much different from my in-progress painting but the changes I made are seen-in-person, OCD/perfectionist kind of changes so...yeah.

         While taking off the tape from the edges, the paper was ripped a little (heartbreaking!), but it kinda looks like it was supposed to look like that so...now I'm telling everyone I meant to do it....

Overall, this was an amazing project and a great experience! Watercolors are fun :)

Title: Autumn Escape

Size: 10.5" x 12"

Media: Watercolor paints

the perfect painting playlist :)

Week 6 Quarter 2: Watercolor Painting Progress

     At the end of week 6, this is the progress I've made on my watercolor painting! I think I've got the basic color foundation down, and next week I will focus on making the details really pop and smoothing over the trouble spots to finish it up!

Title: Pending....

Size: 10.5" x 12"

Media: Watercolor paints

Watercolor Painting Progress

         This is my progress so far on the watercolor painting so far. This has about 4 - 5 layers, but the island trees and such have many more.