Stars and Stripes

Stars and Stripes

10x14

For this project the prompt was stars and stripes. The color pallet I had to choose from was red, white, blue and black. I also had to have stars and stripes on it in someway. I had two different ideas to start with one of which I felt wasn’t creative enough so I chose the other one. The design that I went with was an awareness ribbon with half of it red and white stripes and the other half blue with stars. Then I put red and white stripes in the background and the ribbon was in a white square.

I started making this project by sketching the whole thing out on canvas then I started by painting the background stripes with acrylic paint. After I finished those I did the stripes on the ribbon. After I was finished with all the red I touched up the messes with white to make the lines come out more neat. When I was finished with all the red I started with the blue. For the blue I started off paining around pre drawn stars and when that began to get messy I decided to just paint the whole thing blue and then just go over the blue with white to make the stars. I used a stencil to make the stars and had to do many coats of white to make them more opaque.

I really liked making and coming up with this project, I really like the idea and the color pallet because I think that those colors look really good together. I like the way my project came out however I wish that the stars were clean, neat and straighter. Overall I am very proud of this project and think it is one of the best ones I’ve done this year.