Stars and Stripes

The ideas that are visually evident in my work is that I tried combining Maine's state flower into the stars and stripes project. I think this project can relate to my life because I live within the U.S and I live in the state Maine. I chose to make the project like this because I knew the stars in the U.S flag represented all the states so I wanted to incorporate the state I lived in into the project.

I made this project using acrylic paints and I used tape to help make the stripes somewhat perfectly straight.

At first I was thinking of painting an eagle for this project but I assumed a lot of people were gonna do that so I went with the idea of doing either Maine's state bird, Maine's state flower, and Maine's state animal. Then I really liked the idea of doing Maine's state flower because usually you wouldn't really think of a pinecone as a flower. My project didn't really evolve, though I will say towards the end of the project I wanted to change the idea and go back to the eagle idea because the pinecone one didn't really make since for this project. But decided against it since it was too late to change the project entirely. I do think in the future I would definitely do an eagle or maybe the statue of liberty since they both make more since for this project.