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What are your most significant areas of artistic growth? What artistic struggles did you learn from?  As you pursue art for pleasure or maybe even as a future career, what subjects or new approaches would you like to try?
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I think my most significant area of artistic growth is experimenting with different medias. I often run to acrylic for any project, but this semester I didn't use it for any significant parts of projects. Something I struggled with was using oil paint; I had a hard time understanding how to properly use it, but after trying a few times, I finally got it. Oil paint is probably one of my favourite medias to use now. I'd like to try drawing more realistic people and animals, I usually do "cartooned" or simplified people.

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colour test sheet

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inspiration

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primary colours with oil paint

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dresses painted over sketch

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heads painted on top of sketch

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Myth of dragons, specifically the Chinese dragon. I altered the original idea to be a version of the dragon that would be kind of like a water snake. My art piece demonstrates the theme well because it's straight to the point and is obvious what it is, but it takes time for people to see that it has no legs.

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before filling in more white paint

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colour pencil base

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Composition: "S" underlying shape
Technique: geometric shapes
Media: colour pencil and paint marker on black paper
Subject: pattern/abstract/flow?

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myth - chinese dragon altered to be a water dragon type of thing, painted using gouache.

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painted with gouache

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base sketch in pen

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sketched idea

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sketched idea

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Subject: nature
Media: watercolour, glitter
Technique: stippling
Composition: asymmetrical balance

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experiment

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background

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Subject: statement
Media: fountain pen and ink (and some acrylic)
Technique: torn paper collage
Composition: shattered

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in process

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basic outline

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background neutrals

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beginning sketch

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red and green variations in oil paint on canvas paper

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colour test sheet