I did a painting for my boyfriend's birthday. He loves Star Wars and his favorite chracter is Boba Fett. I have obviously painted Boba before and I really enjoyed it! I knew this would be a good gift a good wrap up to an awesome project!!! I have many areas for improvement, but I think this painting was really fun and a way to show others my progress. I know there are two chracters that were pretty rough, but I think overall this is my best painting. I hope that you have enjoyed this process just as much as I have, and I know that in the future I will definitely use the many different art styles I explored!!!
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I completed four paintings this week because I know that next week I am going to revisit a medium for a birthday present. Watercolor was weird to use, but it was far better than some of the other mediums. I enjoyed using it because I decided how thick or thin the consistency should be because it would help determine the strength of the color. I would like to use watercolor on a coloring book in the future because I think it would be a cool twist. I wasn't able to get any supplies for my oil pastels and as you could tell from last week, it was pretty rough not having the proper tools. I decided to work with my acrylic paint some more and I decided to do some abstract art. I know this isn't what we were expecting, but because of these 'unprecedented times', I had to change it up a little bit. I hope that watercolor goes as planned, but at this rate, I'll use the wrong water or not enough color. I only painted one picture this week because I didn't have all of the supplies needed for oil pastels. I need oil pastel paper specifically for oil pastels and I need blending sticks that I didn't use for sketching. Walmart was completely sold out of 90% of its art supplies and I wasn't able to go to a Michaels or Hobby Lobby type place. I tried using my fingers to blend the pastels and it didn't work too well. Hopefully next week I can get the supplies I need, and maybe I can move on with my project. This week went better than last week that is for sure, but I had the same issue with my pastels breaking. I found it was easier to blend the colors with my fingers rather than a brush. I thought drawing a sunset over the ocean would be hard, but I found it was fairly easy. I am not too sure if I will use pastels again shortrly, but when I am a more experienced artist I might try again. Week 7. It's crazy how Genius Hour is over halfway over. I started using soft pastels and I will not lie, they are hard to use. They were extremely fragile and broke every few strokes. I was only able to complete two paintings/drawings because my pastels kept breaking. I have to go and buy a new pack for next week. My boyfriend's fish died and I decided one of my pictures should be dedicated to SwimShady. I hope next week will go better than this week did. |