Sustained Investigation #1

I’m calling this project, sustained investigation 1 because it is the first in a series or pieces that I will be creative. I chose to create this specific work because I wanted to incorporate a dog that I had taken a photo of but change the color and background to give it a unsettling feel. When I was creating this I had a realistic idea in mind.

For materials, I used colored pencil. I used the colored pencils to make the whole thing. I used a variety of techniques and methods including: shading and playing with the background. While creating this work, I paid close attention to making sure that the grayscale corolated to the green. I wanted my artwork to show and altered dog and I did this by changing the color and background.

I like the way the background looks. However, I struggled with making the shadows deeper with just colored pencil. If I created another work like this I may do something with different medias so I could get a deeper shadow. My work shows that I learned how to make a piece of work from a prompt I created.