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  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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  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 that none of the main things that I want to continue to experiment with portraits in other materials and work with more spontaneous concepts rather than planning every piece out to a large extent.

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What artistic struggles did you learn from?

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What artistic struggles did you learn from?

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I learned from stepping outside the box of what I was comfortable with. I am a very big perfectionist and feel the need for everything to work out the way I want it to as compared to just experimenting with different materials.  With being "forced" to use oil paint rather than continuing with the materials I was comfortable with (colored pencil and watercolor) I had to try something I had never used before and had to learn how the medium blends

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What are your most significant areas of artistic growth?

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What are your most significant areas of artistic growth?

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I think that my most significant areas of artistic growth definitely came from my growth in my skills of colored pencil and watercolor and expanding my skills to using different mediums that I'm not used to. With colored pencil and watercolor, I have used them extensively and explored a lot of different techniques with them so I wanted to apply the techniques I already knew that I wanted to continue with that but to a specific subject for the whole semester which was portrait. In that, with working

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India ink, colored pencil, pen, and sharpie on cold pressed watercolor paper

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India ink used on cold pressed watercolor paper

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Oil and Acrylic Paint

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Focus on facial portrait and use of oil paint

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Water Color and Colored Pencil on cold pressed paper

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Adding in background of black to express the shadow of the figure from behind

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Dripped continued with same color of face but in a different shade

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Dripped technique with hair to create variety

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Adding in definition of skin darks with darkening structure

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Base wash of colors on each face

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Focus: Fauvism and Watercolor with portraits

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Colored pencil on black paper.

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Shading in colored pencil itself to break up textures throughout the face.

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Yellow/orange are the light and highlighting tones in the skin, green/purple are the shadows and darker areas of skin tone.

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Adding in yellow where highlights are and dark blues in the hair for shadows.

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Beginning on hair with contour line technique.

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Same ideas from previous progress. Focus on darks and lights in skin.

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Used transfer paper onto black paper. Focusing on use of complementary colors in shading of skin tones and shadows.

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Major base of portrait.

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Focus on portraits and use of colored pencil

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Colored Pencil

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Blending the sticks of the tree into each area of the that the magazine strips held.

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Layering colored pencil to get texture that matched the cool tones of the (far right) strip and beginning to incorporate blacks into the (bottom) strip.

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The tree became the center focal point of connecting each magazine strip together.

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Materials Used: Magazine strips and colored pencil