This is the first painting I have ever done in years, and it is of my old school's pit being flooded after a rain. If I could do it again, I would choose a simpler photo with less colors, and cleaner water, which is what I struggled on the most. I also wish I used proper blending techniques instead of what I did. I think the reflections on the water don't really look like reflections but instead just blobs layered on top, it doesn't really feel part of the water, because it isn't and I did the reflections a day of 2 after I did the rest of the water. The sky too could use a little work, but at least it looks better than the water, I tried keeping the clouds at least similar looking to the original. 

The process to make it started with the original picture with a paint filter applied to it, to use as a reference. It was then printed out, where I labeled the layers of each section of what to paint on top of what. I then covered the back in graphite by scribbling on it with a pencil. So then I could trace over it, and it would appear on my canvas because of the pressure. Now that I had the outlines to everything on my canvas, I began painting the sky, which underwent several revisions to get it to where it is now. I then continued this process for the rest of the layers to make the final piece.

This is a whistle I sculpted out of clay and then glazed. The beak sadly fell off making it look less like a bird and the eye glaze melted and dripped down. But the only thing that matters is that it works as a whistle.

This is a pot I modeled out of clay. I decided to glaze it brown and gold so it would look good wherever you put it. If I could do this project again I would be less spotty on the glaze to get a more evenly colored result.

This a bowl design I made by placing clay strips over a real bowl and smoothing it out. If I could do it again I would put less holes because it doesn't work as a good bowl as most things your would want to put in it would most likely fall out. I decided to glaze it tan colored so it would go with most environments you put it in.

This is a watercolor painting I did of a fish photo. This was for an assignment where we paint an image in one of the color schemes (triad, complementary, analogous, or monochromatic). There was no need to change any of the colors on my painting that were different to the original photo as the colors. Red and green already compliment each other. If I could go back and do something differently it would have to be the attention I put into getting it into painting in the lines. Whenever paint would drop outside the lines, I would try wiping it off, but that would just spread it. I later learned if you wipe if off with a wet paper towel you can get it off without spreading, but by then it was too late. Some of the red from the fish would bleed onto the background. I remedied this by cutting out the fish and pasting it onto a new background, but next time I don't want to need to do this.

This is an oil pastel piece I did of a picture of a butterfly on a flower. I started on the background putting down green and blending it. I then did the flower, limited to only about 3 shades of purple. I did the actual butterfly left because of how much work I knew it would be. It was a ton of black, and thing about black is that it can spread very easily and ruin the entire thing, so I had to be very careful. To get in between the crevices of the orange on the wings, I used the baby oil technique, allowing me to have a fine tip, as well as essentially use it as a paint. This took me a lot longer than for usual projects as the image this was based off of had a ton of detail that needed to be replicated in the artwork. In the end, it turned out pretty good.