Cherry on Top Art Project
When our art teacher showed us some pictures of cherries in places that you could never guess, there was this one that made laugh so much. It was a little birdy and two cherries hanging from its neck trying to pretend they were boobs or something else. I just thought it was so funny. That made me think I wanted to do something funny too. I wanted to do my cherries in a place that had nothing to do with them and this is what appeared.
The Cherry Space Trip is the name that I'll give to this project.
This work was made in two separated parts. First in a bristol paper, I made the first sketches of the troopers carrying the cherries. Then with a 0.3 pigment liner I covered the pencil lines and then carefully erased them. Then with soft markers i started coloring, with color pencils I give my drawings more value and texture and with the pigment liners I did the shadows.
In another bristol paper I brushed it with water and then with watercolors, I started painting the galaxy. Every time it dried, I added another layer of color and then to do the stars I picked two brushes and one impregnated with water color and the other one turned around, I started hitting the wet brush on the other brush stick and small dots fell on the painting, simulating stars.
I guess what made me do this design was that I like drawings that don't make any sense and I just try to combine things that I like, in this case Star Wars with cherries and this is what I came with. Also I always liked the design of the troopers armors, so i thought it would be really interesting to do a pair of troopers carrying cherries.
The composition rules that I used for this work are rule of thirds since most of the elements are located at the left. Even if the whole work has color, I still gave more emphasis to the troopers since I didn't want the cherries to be main focus of my work.
When I was starting, I just had planned to do the troopers and leave the background white or black, but the a lot of students suggested me that since this was Star Wars, it would make more sense to do a galaxy as a background, and I thought it was n excellent idea.
This work doesn't really have a meaning, but just showing how to elements completely different can look good together and funny.
With my best friend at Chile, we used to watch all the movies when we were kids and we still are huge fans of the story.
I sometimes feel that I need to add something else at the right, because even if the space has a lot of color and details, I still feel is kind of empty. Maybe I could do the space station "The Death Star" like a huge mechanical cherry.
