Monday, 17 June 2013
Website Portfolio
For my Tech culminating I was told to make a Website that would sell me as an artist. Click here to see my website. Enjoy!
Saturday, 8 June 2013
Painting- Art Nouveau
The style I chose for my painting is art nouveau. I chose this
style because I feel it really reflects and expresses me. I found it portrayed
the very feminine side of me. Art nouveau is all about the swirls and naturally
curved lines. In my piece I got to use a lot of swirls and curvy lines. The
background shows my personality because it shows how I like to be very simple yet
elegant. I really enjoyed using this style for my piece because I am also fond
of things being fancy and decorative. Also I used the warm colours red and
yellow because it resembles my warm personality. Of course the swirls in the
background are forming inside the ring tying everything together.
My original idea for the painting was quite similar to the
finished portrait. Although along the way I had to make a few changes. The
first change I made was while painting the skin. A first I decided to make the
flesh a very flat tone with no value at all. It was all one colour which was an
orange-brown. Later I decided to change the flesh to something a bit more
olive and neutral. After I changed the entire original colour of the flesh, I
added in value. I ended up putting the lights and darks into all of the flesh. The
background for my painting was originally going to be a ring with smaller
circles inside of it. I later changed this because I felt like it was not
working for my art nouveau style. I needed something a bit more swirly and
fancy to really show the style I chose.
I used some simple techniques to achieve my painting. The
first step I had to use for my painting was to project it onto my canvas. This
is so I could get the proportions right on my larger scaled portrait. Because dark
pencil marks would show through the paint, I had to make sure I worked light
while tracing lines. When I started working with the paint, I generally used
thick brush strokes for most parts where the paints needed to be one solid
colour. Although I used thick paint for larger areas, I had to use thinner
paint to achieve smooth crisp curves. To make my paint a bit thinner all I did
was add water to it. Adding water to my paint made it a lot easier for it to sink
in and not leave white spots. It was also much easier to make clean curves.
Another technique I used was feathering my brush. Adding value to the flesh
required me to use my brush in a feathering motion to blend colours nicely.
The hardest part of this painting would have to be the
flesh. I found it most difficult mixing the right colours to do this part. The
colours had to be changed several times to get the colour that I thought was
fine. It also was very time consuming because there had to be the right amount
of darks and lights in the right place. For example, I put too much of the
darker shade on the face and had to wait for it to completely dry each time to
fix it again. I also had to make sure I mixed enough of the flesh tone so that I
would not run out and have to make it again.
If I had to change anything it would be the colours I chose
to use. I would probably use different tones of the colours I have used. I
would change the colours to something more neutral like lighter shades. The
lighter colours would make the background stand out less and not be as bold.
Then I would brighten up the colour used for the main part of the portrait just
a bit to stand out more. Overall, I really liked the end product of my painting.
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