My First Abstract Piece

After visiting the National Art Museum in DC, I wanted to do something that inspired me from what I saw there.  I wanted to try abstract painting because I had never done it and I thought the abstract pieces at the museum were cool.  This is how my painting started out.  It all looked really choppy and I wasn't really happy with it at all.  Then I started blending the colors in more and making it darker on the outside and bringing different values in.  This is what it turned out looking like:

Lions Eye

This is an acrylic painting of a lions eye.  I layered on a bunch of colors so that the fur would look more realistic.

Acrylic Paint--Representational

For my next project, I chose to explore acrylic painting.  I had tried acrylics my freshman and sophomore year of high school, but I was never any good.  This time, junior year, I decided to try it again and try to take more time on it.  I chose a couple of photos of mountains and started painting.  I worked on the mountains after I had finished the sky.  The mountains were hard because there were a lot of shades of blue and greys and white that I had to try to incorporate into them.  I did the trees last.  The trees were difficult for me because I had to find a way to make the trees in the front pop out instead of them all becing the same.  So I went back and put dark, dark green trees first and then put lighter colored trees after.  I incorporated yellows, greens and reds into the trees in the front.  Now that it's done I am very happy that I decided to try acrylic again.

Artist Observe

For artist observe I did a charcoal portrait of my grandfather.  He and I sat at the kitchen table for about two hours while I completed this project.  When I brought it back to school, I did a few touch ups to it like shading in certain places.  At first the background was just white but I thought it would stand out more if I did a dark black background.  I am very pleased with how it turned out. 

Text Art Project Completed

I finally finished my text art project which was the word "Shattered" made from pieces of glass glued to sheets of glass.  Instead of gluing the glass onto a white board, I thought it would be better to put the word in front of different people.  I think this expresses the emotion different people feel even if they are all different going through different problems in their lives.  I enjoyed the project a lot and I am very excited to start my Artist Observe project.

Art Three Blog Snapshot #2

So far for my text art project, I have put together the letters of the word "shattered" with all glass pieces.  I have put them on a piece of dry wall painted white. Now I am starting to glue everything together and putting it into one whole piece. Here is a picture of what I have done so far.

Text Art Project

Dig Deeper
https://www.pinterest.com/Mersinab7/art-3/

This is a link to my Pinterest board where I re-pinned ideas that I could do for my text art project

Challenges
The two challenges I did was the black out poem that read "Although their time had question, their direction is definite." I also did a sketch of the word "Wet" and put water droplets on the letters and made it look like they were being dropped in water.

Final Project Ideas
For my final project I am thinking about breaking colored glass bottles or glass in general and then put the pieces together to spell out a word or phrase. The word I was thinking about was "Shattered" but I think I might do some kind of saying.  I'm still not sure what I will be gluing the glass on, but I'm getting there.