Beautiful Oops

Describe: In this piece, I mostly stayed centered around the two fishes; along with adding in some more back that included a snippet of the ocean floor. The materials that I used in this piece first started with the outline, which i sketched out in pencil. Realizing that my base sketch kinda resembled chicken scratch, I did the final outline/layer of this project in ink. The reason why I decided to create this specific piece of art work was because when I was trying to come up with ideas, I stumbled across a picture of a fish on the internet; and it caught my attention. I saw how its back fin resembled that of my biggest 'oops', and taking that as my inspiration I decided to create my fishes. Shape, line, and space all played a part in this piece. Shape and line both made up my fish; while space gave them the feeling of a stand still.

Analyze: For this piece, I was trying to give the image a feeling of informal balance. But I quickly realized that I couldn't do this because of the way the dots had been placed. Either way, I still tried to go with this plan. In the end though, I'd have to say that it came out more to the formal side. I think this is notable throughout the whole piece. The evolution of this art piece developed a lot from the time that I started and ended it. I originally had a whole different idea for this piece; it was going to be a piece featuring a french revolution soldier. But after sketching it out, I realized I wasn't happy with the portions; so I returned to the drawing board. That is how I later found the picture of the fish; inspiring me to make this piece.

Interpret/Evaluate: I know how some artists have meanings and stories behind their work; but in this piece, I never really had one. I do admit, there were other ways i could've placed the fish. But the reason I chose to have them facing each other was because I often saw my own fish doing the same thing. Just bubbling around each other, spending a few minutes just staring at one another. I have no information behind why they did this; but when I was deciding on placement of the fish, this is what came to mind. If I were to go back, and revise anything about this piece, I would want to add water color to it. Besides adding more color to it, instead of just having the black and white setting, it would also cover up my faint outline of my old design.