Ballerina

 

I started up a draft for this ballerina.... it is going to be on top of water as if it were dancing on it, it's going to be done in cut art, which is where it will be cut out and draw on to look like the ballerina but the different pieces of paper will be lifted up to give depth in some natural shadows of the ballerina. Inspiration came from a random painting I found while scrolling though Pinterest, and upon doing so I decided to look up an older artist that painted ballerinas. The first one to mind is Degas. I am going to do this piece in pastels also and not worry so much on the lighting, but putting my attention into the detail of the form and shape of the ballerina.

Project idea

 

This is the sketch for my cut out/figure piece . I have not started the piece yet on actually paper outside of my sketch book. The dancer is going to be on top of water so when I make her I will put ripples of waves at the bottom, I am also going to use pastel as the medium for the piece. I should look cool and give great contrast. My idea for this comes from degas pastel painting of a ballerina but because I am using cut out paper to build up the ballerina so that she pops off the page it makes it my own piece.

 

My sister is finished

 

This is my peice of my sister that is finished and has been sprayed to finish. I enjoyed making this peice, if I had to make another one I would make it lighter because after getting sprayed it darkened.... overall I do like the darker touch to it, but I would just like to see what it would look like if it were to be a lighter shade then it was sprayed.

Little kid value project

This is my value project. I like the attempt at it, personally I don't like the way the hair looks. I am not really good at doing hair but I think I captured the way the hand looked. I did end up cutting off the left side of the head where the hair on the head was the worst. I would like to try and redo this piece with a little more patience and a better understanding of how to do hair. Overall I like this piece and then he contrast between the dark darks and the lights in the hair where the light reflects off the back of the head.

Water color bird

This I my water color piece of a bird, up until I started to do the background, which I don't have a picture of because it looks so bad. I did this piece in the bad watercolor paper because I constantly bounce around ideas and never stay on one thing, but I stayed on this one. Sadly by the time I chose to stay with it I was already on the bad paper and it was too late to stop. Overall I think it was a good second attempt to use watercolor. I just feel like it could have been so very good if I had decent watercolor paper. But I enjoyed doing this piece up until the end. I feel I should work on my lights and shadows when using watercolor. But it was an overall victory.