Beautiful Oops

(9x12 inches)

Beautiful Oops

I’m calling this project, “Beautiful Oops” because I made a drawing from a mistake of ink droplets on the page. The subject is a fairy. I chose to create this specific work because the little dots made me think of fairy dust. When I was creating this I had color in mind.

For materials, I used colored pencil and ink. I used colored pencil as a material because I wanted to be able to layer the colors I wanted to use. I used a variety of techniques and methods including: burnishing and layering. While creating this work, I paid close attention to the colors I was using to shade by looking to see if the colors I was using looked good together and had similar tones. I wanted my artwork to look colorful and I did that by adding multiple colors to each component of my piece.

I like the way the legs on the fairy look 3D by using different colors. However, I struggled with adding a cool background. If I created another work like this I may spend more time on filling white space. My work shows that I learned how to layer colors.