Saturday, June 14, 2014

Creative art

Just because I liked the idea, I made a triptych of three identical trees; which was the hardest part. 
I used a graphite transfer technique to trace from. 
I started with just one; I wanted a tea-aged vintage look to my paper. I made a Japanese style blossoming tree with mixed mediums; sharpie, watercolor and tempera paint. 
Mrs. Hobart grabbed it while the paint was still wet and smeared the right corner's edge petals. But I made others, that were more satisfying. 
I made this with mixed mediums too; same kinds, different colors. 
And lastly, 
A tree that grows birds. 
I matted them and titled this piece "trees of life", arranging them in chronological order of the seasons. 
I liked it. I enjoyed it much more when it was finished. 

Water color project

I never actually did, but I wanted to combine these four pieces into a square so that there would be a square space in the middle for my signature, medium information, year and edition; all that. 
Upon peer critiques, I astonished the class. They didn't quite understand my struggle for perfection. They didn't see te flaws I saw. 
Any way, we had two weeks left, so we decided to just do expressive art with any  medium of our choice. I was thinking charcoal, but I remembered how much I hated it. I chose oil pastel instead. I made this cute little guy. 
It's a cartoony hedgehog. I gave it to my neighbor's five year old for her birthday. 
It was mixed medium; ink, water color and pastel. 

Water color project

This is the Chehalis Western Trail, in the fall. 
It looked pretty cool. But when it came to the cement, I should have stopped. 
This was fine. But I was dissatisfied with the lack of cement between the leaves. 
So I painted over it with black. 
Then I magic erased it. And tried to get back to this. 
In the end, I got this. 



Water color unit

I chose to paint tho scene from my Las Vegas trip. 
This was my first attempt. Naturally, I crinkled it and threw it away. 
So I started again.
I quit after this. 
But voile. 

Water color unit

For our final, we just played with watercolors. 
I liked that people immediately recognized my last work, the bridge, so I chose real places as my theme. 
I tried to get that same crackled, dry look with my watercolors, and made the ground. And then worked to the sky. 

Then I painted my windmills 
And let the paint dry, then added sharing to give it dimension. 
Voile! The eastern Washington windmills 

Water color unit.

I chose this picture, but I doctored it when I actually sketched it. 
I also outlined the shaded areas. 
I began to paint; back to front
As well as in color groups. 
It's the Olympia bridge!