Beautiful Oops

Artist Statement:

The setting of this piece, is in a valley in a mountain range. I used graphite pencils, colored pencils and watercolor crayons to create it. I chose to create this piece because the ink splotch looked like a girl's head from a side view, with a braid going down her side. The elements and principles I used were color, line, and texture. I used color almost throughout the whole piece, I used line when drawing the trees, and texture in the grass, mountains, and trees.

One composition rule/technique I used was high horizon line, because the horizon line is near the way top of the paper. My project originally was going to be a girl in a house with her family, but I decided to change it to outside, because I thought it would look better if she had something in front of her, and a pretty background.

The story behind this piece, is the girl is at her dad's favorite place that they used to visit together, but he passed away, so she visits the place alone to mourn his death. This project relates to my life because I love going outdoors, looking at nature, and getting a breath of fresh air. If I could revise something in the future in this project, I would choose to make the mountains more realistic, add more trees, and add more grass. This is because I think if i did that, it would look more put together.

Artist Statement:

The subject of this piece is a giraffe. I used graphite pencil to sketch the basic shape of the giraffe, Sharpie to outline the pencil marks I made, watercolor to color the giraffe, acrylic paint to create the tuft on the giraffe horn, and markers to create the background. When we were asked to choose from a pile of papers with different ink splotches on them, this one immediately stood out. As soon as I looked at it, I saw a giraffe in it, and I was very determined to create what I saw. This piece contains some elements and principles, one being shape because both the giraffe and the background are composed of shapes. It also has color for obvious reasons, and pattern because the background has one.

I believe this piece has the composition rule/technique of framing, because the acacia tree branches in the back kind of frame the giraffe. When it came to this piece, I didn’t really have to give it much thought, because I was super sure what I wanted to do and how I wanted it to look. Though, I wasn’t sure about the background at first, I thought the acacia tree branches would work, because that is what giraffes eat. I also was originally going to add a mane to the the neck of the giraffe, but I forgot to do so.

If this piece could be improved or made stronger, I would add a mane to it, add more spots, put more detail into the background.