Painting 2

Ms.Garrity asked us to make 4 paintings all with a different meaning to us, this painting was the "life lesson one". I'm a firm believer that any sport can teach you a life lesson if you play it long enough. I've played baseball my entire life, and I've learned a lot about myself from the many hours I've spent on those fields. So I figured I'd paint something baseball related, which ended up being a baseball field. I started the painting with by painting the whole canvas a green that I mixed to be a little bit lighter. Then I used transfer paper to transfer the baseball field to the canvas. After that I painted the dirt of the infield, then the foul lines, then the bleachers. I extended the bleachers after making them because there was some empty space on the bottom. The artwork is just me showing a sports field that taught me a lot about myself. I want my audience to wonder what lessons I could've learned and what lessons they've learned from the sports or hobbies they've done in the past. The most difficult thing for me was how I was supposed to paint something from a birds eye view, I didn't quite understand how to make the dugout look like a dugout from this view. I overcame the struggle by putting the yellow fence lining most dugouts have to protect players from trying to jump over a fence for a foul ball and almost impaling themselves. Realism, my mistakes and color make it unique to me with how I mixed some of my colors. I really like the colors I managed to make.

The idea was to try and show my beginning skill at the start of Painting II, I found a pretty landscape that had no copy write attached and attempted to mirror it. I first painted the black line in the middle that was supposed to be a bog that holds trees in the middle of the lake. Then painted the trees black because it was dark out in the picture I was using for reference. The artwork doesn't mean anything in particular, I just want my audience to see the landscape I've painted. I'd say the hardest thing was trying to mirror the trees I've painted in the "water" below the bog, it was hard trying to replicate and mirror it evenly. I'd probably draw a line with a ruler where I planned to put my trees so I could be sure that they were evenly distributed. Realism, it's unique because of the way I went about painting it, most people probably wouldn't start the way I did.