For my interior spaces project I painted my grandma's kitchen in acrylic paints. I was originally going to do this as one of my summer projects but I got lazy. I'm glad I had the opportunity to still use this photo though. I really liked it and I knew it would make my grandma really happy to know I made art of her. That's mainly the reason why I chose it, but I also liked the perspective of the photo. I've been meaning to get better at perspective for a while, so along with color schemes that's what I mainly focused on in this piece. In my opinion, colors are what makes or breaks a piece. I'm a lover of color, so I often put a lot of it in one piece. It sometimes works in my favor, but I find that in painting it's usually best to keep the palette a little simpler. I try to limit myself to 3 or 4 main colors, but for this piece I decided to go with two. I started of by putting down a wash of the two colors inverted. So the parts that would become pink were teal, and those that would be teal were pink. Pink and teal is my favorite color scheme.I've used pink and teal together along with another color, like yellow, but this was my first time just using those two alone. It was hard at first because my usual painting formula consists of 3 colors. After I put down the first coat of paint (excluding the wash) it looked kind of boring. Nothing stood out, the darks just weren't dark enough. I refused to mix black into it or add another color, so I reused the inverted technique. I began painting my dark areas in the opposite color. When they dried I painted it back over with the color it was really meant to be. It resulted in a much darker value. I loved the result. I think I could've pushed it even more.
Along with color scheme I tried to improve my perspective skills. I can't say I did a great job on that, but I think I did a better job than I would have over the summer. I really needed to make the lines at a more extreme angle. While it may not be lined out perfectly, I think the way that I colored this helps a lot with the perspective though. I wasn't expecting those elements to work hand and in together, but they did and it worked. Overall I liked this piece, and so did my grandma. She got so excited that she had my grandfather print it out and hang it up under another piece I made in 9th grade. This is my everyday object painting. It's my first oil painting, and was done all in palette knife. I came up with a lot of different ideas for this project, but most of them were pretty boring. I thought and thought and thought until the end of class, and then it hit me: bras! Bras are so much fun and I'm actually surprised I haven't seen more art exhibiting them. When I got home I put all of my bras, (and some of my sisters), into a huge pile. I arranged them in a bunch of different ways. When I showed Ms.Rossi the pictures she liked the idea, but suggested putting them in an usual place. I thought it might be funny to put them on a flag pole or something, but I don't have one at home and I'd probably get in a lot of trouble for doing it at school. I decided the best thing to do was just put them in random places all over my house. I put some bras on my fan, on the stairs, in the hallway, on some door knobs. Eventually I put them in the fridge and knew that's the one I had to do. (I really hate showing people my references because they can see how much I messed up, but this one is too good not to show)
The first thing people ask me when they see this is "What did your family think?" When my mom saw me walking down the stairs with heap of bras she of course asked what I was doing: "Where are you going with all those bras?" "Oh, I'm gonna put them in the fridge." "Ok." And that's how it went. I really love this photo and I regret cropping it in the painting. I was just worried the objects would look too small if I did the whole thing. My favorite thing about this piece is that even though the bras are out of place, that's totally what it would look like if someone kept their bras in their fridge. Or at least it looks that way to me. I think I'm probably gonna redo this piece as a drawing sometime, and maybe turn it into a series by using the other photos I took too. Oil was a lot of fun to use, although I think I could've done a better job. It was a good learning experience though, and I learned some techniques that I might use in the future. I love how textured paintings can become with oils, I think they're a good match for me. In the future I'll have to be more careful when using black. I didn't do that patterned bra justice at all, and I think the black outline is the worst thing about it. Maybe I'll fix it when it's dried. I think it was a decent for first try though. I look forward to using more oil paints, and getting a chance to use them on more familiar subject matter. |
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