Stars and Stripes

For this project, we were asked to incorporate the stars, stripes, red, white, and blue without recreating the American flag. I decided I wanted to use the Liberty Bell as my symbol of freedom. I chose to make the bell blue with white stars and make the support for the bell have red and white stripes just like the American flag. Once it had made my sketch, I had decide which material I wanted to use to give it the color we were required to include. I didn't want the streaks of a marker but I wanted that boldness of color so I chose acrylic paint. I wasn't using paint paper yet I found out I could still use paint on this Blick Paper anyway but it did make it wrinkle in the end. I outlined the stars, stripes and the bell with Sharpie to make the contrast then more. I believe that if I could go back, I would change the paper I used because I don't like how the paper wrinkled and the grey clumped up.