Gracie Morse

For this assignment, the task was to create a project with the main idea as circles. To start off I sketched out a few different drawings that involved circles, obviously, to get some ideas of what I might want my main project to be. After brainstorming, and sketching my ideas, I could not choose between the hoop earring (Influenced by Sydney Silva) or the sunflowers. So as you can see above, I choose to incorporate both.

The materials I used for this project were acrylic paint and a pencil of course to sketch out my work before I go in with the paint. After everything was sketched out, I went in with the paint and made the background a light color as you can see above. During the process of this, I realized that it probably would've been easier if I painted the gray background first and then went back with pencil and drew the rest. That way I didn't have to worry about going in between things like the pedals of the flowers. However I painted the background gray and then went and painted the sunflowers and the person with the hoop. I chose to create this piece for the circle project because I really like flowers and my favorite flowers are Sunflowers and I was already inspired by the hoop drawing that I wanted to add both to add my own personal detail and to spice up the background.

Overall, I do like the way this piece turned out and I am especially proud of the hair, I thought that was going to be a bit of a challenge for me but I figured out how to do the right brush strokes to make it look realistic. However, Like I said earlier I wished I had done the background first so that way it would have been more smooth and all one tone of color and not many white spots. Also it would have been easier for me to make the flowers more cleaned up and not go out of the lines. However, I now know what to look out for in the future while doing other projects.