For this painting I used a video of Bob Ross painting as inspiration. He was making a painting called "arctic beauty" and I decided to follow along as I have always wanted to do something like that. To start we had a black and dark purple canvas as the base color. Afterwards a lot of blue and white over more purples made a mountain range in the background. I then made a treeline using dark purple and then white for highlights to simulate trees. The next thing was to use green and yellow to make grasslands and then brown for the dirt down under it. More blue and white was used on a palette knife to make water and then a fan brush for the water fall. The rest of the trees were done in purple and white as well. Over all, I am really proud of this painting even though it was frustrating at times. If I could do something differently, I would like to do the mountains differently in order to better look like a rocky mountain side.
Overall, I really did enjoy my time in the painting class. I made some friendships and even got a few laughs out of the whole wonderful experience. As for projects all but one was enjoyable. Sorry, but water colors are just not my thing. It was kinda frustration for my first piece, but I am glad it was not the last. I enjoyed the Hunderwasser painting as it was different to doing a 2D painting when all I have done were about 3D illusions. The portraits I have come to love. I have fell in love with portraiture of both people and animals alike and, as a result, have come to love our portrait paintings we had. They were one of my favorite projects to work on and I enjoyed the progress of how my portraits becoming more anatomically correct. Another thing I enjoyed was making hair with acrylic. This was very useful to me and I think it shows in my pet portrait I made. Overall, the smaller exercises and bigger projects really helped me excel to be better at painting and making lovely works.
For the pet portrait I decided to do one of my dogs as I had already used my cat for another similar portrait. I decided to use a technique involving a pre-painted canvas. This involved using burnt sciena in order to create a fully valued piece underneath the final layers. After that I used black and white as very exclusive colors as my dog's fur. My dog has various light browns in his muzzle so I wanted to incorporate that as seen in the reference picture. As you can see I did not want a black background so I decided on a red background. I then changed the collar to blue so I would just blend with the background. I decided on a dark pink for the ear and the whole. The rest of the face was build up of grays and a bit of white. I also added some whites for the fur and finally the brown. Overall, I think I could of done things a bit differently. I feel like I could have used more water to make the fur more "whispy" looking. Another think I could have done better was the reflection in the eye to be better. Aside from that, I am proud of this piece and would like to keep keep this in my home. |
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January 2018
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