Surrealist Painting/Collage

1.) The subject of my creation is a bird pirched on a stick, he is wearing a woolen knit hat, and he is in the middle of outer space with a flower.

2.) I created this piece by first mixing different pictures from different magazines to come up with a composition wearing a hat. I then used acrylic paints in different shades as well as paintbrushes and a collage to create the artwork.

3.) We decided to created this piece of work because it was testing my skills of painting realistically from a collage.

4.) My project evolved from the beginning where it was nothing but a somewhat colorless collage, and then I decided what colors to use for all of my pieces besides the bird. Now it is what i think is a somewhat realistic painting.

5.) I think the meaning behind the artwork is that it's very hard to paint realistically, and that it takes time and patience to get it right.

6.) If there is one thing I could change about my artwork it would be the flower, it was hard to see/make up a color for the flower and that is probably the part that didn't turn out as realistic as the other objects.