This piece of art started with the blind drawing activity in class. By drawing four of my classmates without looking at the paper I was given four very loose representations of people. The main thing I was trying to show in this artwork was four people standing together, I used a few different techniques to achieve this. First of all, I extended black lines from the bases of each floating head to give the figures a "body" and summent them more in the space with each other. In the black line art for 3/4 of the heads it is fairly obvious  what part is the face/hair/clothing. Therefore, I used colors that further summented that as well as adding textures that reflected these qualities. The head in the top left corner was a bit too abstract to do this to so I filled it in with colors and textures similar to the ones found in the rest of the piece. In the end I like to think of the piece as four women standing in a crowd. 

This piece was made with mostly oil pastels with Crayola markers for the background on a large piece of watercolor paper. Originally, this piece started out by using a black oil pastel for the blind drawing activity, this gave me line art to work with for the rest of the piece. To fill in the figures and the border around them I used oil pastel. Oil pastel is a material I have never used before and I thought it was fun to experiment with even though it drove me crazy sometimes. I think the biggest benefits of using oil pastel is its ability to blend together and the ability to scratch texture into it once it is layered up. The Crayola markers I used were admittedly a bit old and worn out, the background  is still fairly smooth but I wish the colors could have blended together a bit better.  

This piece of art is very colorful and full of different  textures. I did this because my process was mostly experimenting with oil pastels. For most of the time when I was drawing I had a scrap piece of paper next to me. I used this piece of paper to test how different colors blended with each other as well as to see what instrument was the best for creating texture. For texture, I used a fork to scratch texture  into the oil pastel, the different methods used creates  the illusion of fabric and hair. I also used cross hatching on the skin and fabric because it adds depth to the piece. I added a border around the figures in a neutral color to make them pop because they were already very colorful and I knew  I wanted to do a colorful background. Overall I think doing this piece was a great introduction to using a new medium.