SRQ Project

This was the painting I submitted for the SRQ airport contest where I humbly received a certificate of appreciation. I decided to do a landscaping scene and I did it with watercolor. I also decided do the piece in blue monochromatic. I am personally a huge fan of shades of blue and I really enjoy painting in just different typed of blue. The piece started off with just the mountains and then I decided to add in a lake because I wanted to work with reflections and the texture of the water.

I have discovered that I am absolutely horrible at composition. It could possibly have a "S" composition or maybe even a "U" composition?? I also can't decide if I'm bad at creating a composition or just finding composition in a piece of art. A principle of design could be unity, I think the whole piece flows nicely together especially with it being monochromatic. Proportion could also be another principle, the mountains are all proportion, nothing is unrealistic. There is also rhythm in the mountains as well, with how i decided to do three mountains and not just one.

There is literally no meaning behind this piece at all. And if were are being completely honest, almost all of my art is never personal. I just saw a drawing of a mountain on pinterest and I really liked how they did the shading and how to showed depth through simple line work. So I took that idea with the mountains and just rolled with it, adding as I went. I looked at little references for this piece, other than the occasional example of lake reflections.

I think this piece turned out quite nicely, I really like the whole monochromatic thing going on. I think I could work of adding more depth and just not adding a line in between the mountains and lake. That line haunts me. On another note, I am quite proud of how the reflections turned out, I was effy at first with them but looking at them now, I think it turned out pretty decent.

Value Project

This is my value project, it was the first project of the year. I used only graphite pencils for this, which I am still not happy about. I was really feeling hot air balloons for some reason so I decided to try and draw them. I focused mainly on that main hot air balloon close up and then just kind of went around that after to be honest. I really wanted to try my hand at shading and trying to get the texture of the fabric of the hot air balloon.

I did a rule of thirds composition and made sure to place the hot air balloons our proportionally. For a principle of design, I think proportion is a fitting one because of how I placed the hot air balloons around the page. Balance could be another principle because I think that putting two hot air balloons opposite of the one big hot balloon really balance each other out. There is also rhythm in the piece with the clouds and the hot air balloons themselves. 

There is no certain meaning behind this piece. I really just wanted to work of texture and depth. I absolutely never work in graphite, I don't enjoy it at all, I prefer color, lots of color. I referenced different pictures of hot air balloons, trying to capture the way the light hit the fabric and how the fabric moved while in the air itself. 

I have no feelings towards this piece. I don't think it is complete garbage but at the same time, if it ended up in the garbage, I wouldn't mind. I think for never working in graphite, it wasn't half bad but at the same time I just look at the line in the middle of the waterfall and just cringe Why did I do that, I have no idea but yet I did and it was too much of a hassle to go and erase it.