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PAINTING PORTFOLIO​

“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.” Georgia O’Keeffe

I call my painting Tree. It is a green monochromatic forest with trees and other plants around them. I added texture to make my bushes and leaves. Then I added value to the greens to make it more monochromatic. 

To make the trees I used regular thin brushes and fan brushes to make them more airy. For the leaves and bushes, I used medium-sized brushes and hard bristle brushes to give them more shape and texture. I used big straight brushes to make the tree trunks and the sky in the background. Finally, for the little grass at the bottom, I used very small and thin brushes to give them the proper shape and size. 

I saw pictures of forests online and thought they were very pretty so I decided that I wanted to paint one. I wanted to create a calm vibe with my artwork, the type you feel when you're standing in woods and all you can see is pretty trees

​I named my artwork glitch. Glitch is an array of colors in multiple different circles. I used the paper marbling technique to make my art. To make the circles I layer dye on top of each other and in between each color I waited for it to expand to make a circle shape. A popular form of paper marbling inspired my artwork. I've seen that form before and I wanted to try it out for myself and I was happy that I was able to experience it. My goal with my work was to try something new. I've always seen paper marbling and wanted to try it myself.

I named this piece KABOOM. It's a volcano made from watercolors. I painted the body of my volcano, but the fire was made from Ink blowing. I used to see volcanos explode and I loved seeing the pretty colors, so I decided that I would make my own exploding volcano would be fun. I also thought that ink blowing had a good technique that matched with the exploding part of volcanoes. My goal with KABOOM was to try and get better at manipulating my paint using a different material other than a paintbrush. I learned that a lot of paint can be in one small area even if it doesn't look like a lot and a little paint can go a long way and create bigger shapes. 

Creepy Crawly is the title of this piece. It was made using the soot from a candle. Then I used Sharpie to make the smoke into a big spider. I wanted to try a different way of art and use two different materials in my artwork. My goal with Creepy Crawly was to try and get better at using the smoke to create actual images, and I'm still working on that. When using candles to make art it's easy to get wax everywhere and to combat that I learned different ways to hold my candle and paper to minimize the wax on my final piece. 

My painting is named Itzy Bitzy and it is a giant spider web with water droplets on top of it.  I used acrylic paint and push pen markers for these pieces. When making the lines of the web and the water drops I had to use very thin paintbrushes to get the lines precise. My inspiration for Itzy Bitzy was a dream I had about spider webs filling up my neighborhood and being forced to walk through them to leave my house, even though I was terrified of what was hiding in them. I believe my piece of art let me practice a different form of water. Typically when I paint water it's in a very stagnant puddle and now with Itzy Bitzy I was able to practice making water in a more challenging form, and I'm happy I was able to try it out. 

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I decided to do my next painting called FootSteps on a pair of baby shoes. The shoes have child-like designs with clouds, suns, vines, dots, and flowers. It was inspired by images you would see in children's books and things I remember drawing when I was younger. I used acrylic paint on my shoes and mixed my own colors. My paint brushes ranged from very small to medium to create the proper strokes for my piece. I painted one shoe green with pink accents and the other pink with green accents. I like the way pink and green look next to each other and decided a mitch match pair of shoes would be a cute idea to make for kid shoes. FootSteps was my first time ever painting on shoes and I learned that it is slightly different from painting on other types of fabrics. I also learned that it is harder to erase your mistakes compared to a canvas or other smoother objects you can paint on, and that was also my biggest challenge because it was difficult to not be able to cover up your mistakes as easily. Another challenge was getting my lines straight because of the texture of the shoes. It was a fun experience and I'd paint on more shoes and objects that aren't typical canvases again. 

I call my piece 8ktopus, which I made using watercolor and pen. I painted the background of my octopus blue with some green mixed inside it. The octopus was a fade of colors starting from red and then going into yellow. I used Sharpie for some lines and eyes of my octopus, I also used salt on the tentacles to get the suction effect on my octopus. Outside of the blue box, I made sure not to use any color aside from the parts of my octopus that stuck out of the box. On the bottom of my painting, I used ink and made different types of sea plants. I researched the type of plants that were typically around Octopus to make sure they were accurate. For the sides of my painting, I drew seaweed just to add more to my art. Then the top of 8ktopus I drew a lot of bubbles. When making 8ktopus I learned a lot of different pen and ink techniques along with more watercolor techniques like using salt to make effects. If I did this piece again I would focus more on my Octopus tentacles and add a few more details as a whole to 8ktocpus I still loved making this piece and I'm glad I was able to try different techniques when working on it.

My watercolor is named Zesty.  I taped off different sections and then colored them different colors. I decided to put different fruits that matched the color of my background. I outlined each piece of fruit with a sharpie to make them pop out more. I chose fruit for this because I'm a big fruit lover and wanted to put something that I really enjoy into my art. 

I named my piece Blues and Tunes. I decided to dedicate this painting to my sister, so I incorporated different elements of her into my work. Knowing my sisters into different musical instruments, I centered my piece around a guitar. The background is fully monochromatic purple because it is her favorite color, and I made the guitar blue because that's her second favorite color.  To make Blues and Tunes, first, I started with a sketch of a guitar, then I moved into the background. I wanted to add cubism elements into the painting, so I split the background into different sections, which would be a different purple. I also added different sections inside my guitar, as well as a few fades in order to add more cubism into my painting. To paint my piece, I used a lot of thick and thin brushes to make the lines cleaner and fill in space faster. From Blue and Tunes, I learned a lot about cubism, especially while I was in the middle of painting. I realized that in many cubism paintings, the shapes are smaller and consist of more fades inside the shapes. If I were able to do this project again, I would make the shapes in the background smaller and sharper, as well as add more fades into them. I would also add more musical elements or instruments into my painting just to add more flair to it. Overall, I don't think I would ever try to do another cubist painting, because I'm not a fan of this style, but I'm happy that I tried it once before saying no. 

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