This is as far as I've gotten with my pumpkin piece..... but as you can tell from the flowers it's gonna be bangin' 👍👍👍 7 more days. haha
I've drawn so many self portraits so I wanted to do something new for this project. I wanted to do something I've never seen before so I came up with the idea of cutting up a piece of paper and connecting it with wire. I really liked the idea of playing with negative space and I liked that there was a sculptural aspect to it. I started off by printing out my reference and cutting it up in different ways, pasting it on a piece of paper, and drawing what the wires might look like. Then when I started out the final version I drew the outline of the whole face, shaded the parts I wanted to keep, and cut them out with an exacto knife. My next step was to add the wires. I glued the wires on the back of the paper with a hot glue gun. I used thick paper so the glue didn't warp it. My biggest obstacle was creating a background for it. As of now it's pasted on a piece of cardboard, with some wires attached to it, and a photograph cut out, but it looks kind of cheap to me. I'm probably gonna take it off of that and find another background because I think it just takes away from the piece, and makes it look kind of childish. While I was still adding wires I put it on top of a piece of cardboard that i've been using as a palette for the last year and it looked really nice. I might try and replicate the way this looks on a canvas because I think it looks a lot better than the first one. I'm still figuring it out, but I think I'll get there soon.
I have three pets so it was kind of hard to pick one of them for the portrait, but I decided to do my dog, Puff. I chose this picture because I liked the lines in the pillows. I used water color and pen to create this. The last time I used water color in a piece was the summer before my junior year. I don't have much experience with it, but I love the way water color looks so I wanted to get better at it. Unfortunately I don't think I did the medium justice with this piece. In retrospect I probably should've drawn it or used acrylic. Most water color pieces I like are landscapes or portraits with a lot of varying colors. The best thing about this piece is the pen work in my opinion. This was how it looked before I added the pen work. I prefer the pillows without the lines, but Puff looks way better in the top picture. I have a lot to learn about water colors. I think my biggest struggle was getting the color I desired on the paper. It looks kind of washed out to me and not in the good ways. As I layered the paper got kind of gross, especially in the top right corner. I'm going to continue practicing water color at home and hopefully I'll get good enough to do another pieced for class.
I really enjoyed this project, it was the first time I ventured in mixed media. I got along great with my mentee, Megan, and I had a great time collaborating. I was instantly drawn to the iridescent/transparent plastic. I knew I had to grab it so I raced out of my seat to grab it the moment I had the chance. We went through the fabric books and placed the plastic over each page. We thought it looked nice with a lot of the floral prints so we made that our theme. I was worried Megan
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