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.