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Kylie Lake - "Starfish on the beach"
6x9, Watercolor and acrylic on canvas, 2025
The idea behind this painting was to create a happy beach with a starfish on the sand. Going to the beach is one of my favorite things, and that is why I decided to paint it for my baseline painting. I started this painting out by painting the sand with tan acrylic paint. Then I painted the water using watercolors and created light blue, dark blue, and green-hued parts of the water. Lastly, I painted the starfish using pink acrylic paint. When someone looks at this painting, I want them to feel happy and like the beach is a peaceful and fun place. The most difficult part of this painting was the starfish on the bottom right corner. It was hard for me to make each side of the star even with another. I overcame this by sketching the star over and over again until I got it right, and then painting over it with a tiny paintbrush. Then I used the same tiny paintbrush to create the dotted detailing within the star. This painting is realistic, and it is unique because the water has many different colors all blended together. I love how it has bright colors, which makes it happy to look at.
Kylie Lake - "Beach Sunset"
8x10, Acrylic on canvas, 2025
I decided to paint this picture because it was a picture I took at my grandma's house in Florida. This place has a lot of memories for me, my family, and I go there every spring break. My idea behind this painting was to bring the picture that I took to life. For this painting, I used acrylic paint on an 8x10 canvas. I started by painting the sky, then the water, and then the reflection below. I used many different paint brushes to blend the colors of the sunset together. The orange warm color, and the blue dark colors show that the sky is fading from day to night. For me, this is a happy painting that brings back a lot of fun memories for me. For me, the most difficult part of this painting was making the shadow of the sky on the sand. It was hard to show that it was sand, while also reflecting the sky. I overcame this by blending the colors together a lot until they did not look seperate but instead looked like they flowed together. If I were to start this painting over, I would paint the sky and the reflection of the sky at the same time so that I could make them look as similar as possible. This artwork is realistic, and it is unique to my own personal style because it resembles a place that is meaningful to me, and that is also something that I love about this painting
Kylie Lake - "Best friends"
8x10, Acrylic and paint markers on canvas, 2025
This painting is a portrait of me and one of my best friends posing in front of a brick wall. I got this idea because I wanted to paint a portrait as one of my paintings for the semester. I started this painting out by using transfer paper to sketch out the image onto the canvas. After that I then got started on the brick background. I painted all different colors of brick onto the canvas and then I went over it with black paint marker to define the shape of the bricks. I then painted in the skin tone of me and my friend, the clothing, and our hair. Finally I outlined our hands and fingers with a darker shade of tan to make sure the hands stood out. When a viewer looks at this painting I want it to give off happy vibes and look like a positive painting. This picture was taken on a warm summer day, therefore I resinate good memories with it. The most difficult part of this painting was knowing how to paint the hands. I wanted them to be visible but not stand out too much. I overcame this struggle by outlining the hands and then going over it with water to soften the color and make it blend into the rest of our bodies. If i were to restart this painting I dont think that I would change much, however I would add more dimension to the hair so that it was not just one solid color. The style of this painting is abstract because the faces are not drawn in and it is just a blank head. This makes it unique to my personal style because it leaves the viewer curious as to what the face features may be. I love how this painting shows us being happy and spending time together, it was a lot of fun for me to paint and I really enjoyed painting a portrait as its not something I usually choose to paint.
Kylie Lake - "Starfish on the beach pt. 2"
6x6, Watercolor and acrylic on canvas, 2026
For this painting the idea was to recreate my baseline painting from the beginning of the semester and make improvements. I evolved this painting by adding more detailing in the water as well as the starfish, I decided to fully outline the starfish this time. I was initially inspired to create a painting of the beach because going to the beach is one of my favorite things. I do not do it super often however it is always very special. I started this painting by outlining everything lightly with a pencil. I then painted in the water using watercolors. I used shades of blue and green to create an ocean effect. Next I used acrylic paint so I could paint the sand and lastly I painted the starfish in the corner using light pink paint, then adding details using hot pink paint. This is supposed to be a happy painting where anyone who may view it can have a sense of joy and happiness. In this painting there isnt necessarily and symbolic imagery other than it being a replica of my first baseline painting that I created this semester. The most difficult part of this painting was drawing, painting in, and adding details to the starfish in the corner of the painting. This was hard for me because a star is a very hard shape to draw and it also has very small details. I overcame this by using a very small paint brush. If I were to start this painting over I would not change anything. I would say that this painting is realistic, it makes it my own personal style because of the many different colors within the water. I love this painting and I think that it definitely is better compared to my baseline painting.
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