Color Design

These isn't really anything I'm trying to say in the color strips except that I know how to make tints and shades. With my house I was trying to bring back childhood, I loved the movie up and I love thinking about how blissful it must've felt being in the comfort of your own home while floating away. If you look closely you can see that none of the windows are open and the door doesn't have a handle meaning that no one can come in and no one can come out, I wanted that to represent how for many children and adults you don't like letting new people in and you don't like letting the ones you had leave. So even though you're in a place of happiness you're scared and nothing can change.

When making this I started by printing out a picture of the house that I wanted to use, once that was printed I traced it in sharpie on transparent paper. I then used a light table to trace the house onto my canvas using a pencil. Once the house was done I painted my balloons, once I had done all 82 it looked pretty empty so I decided to add some more. The first painting that I did was the sky because it was the biggest and easiest thing for me to paint. Once the sky was done I added in a few wispy clouds here and there. Then I started on the most time consuming part, I spent house mixing and paint my 82 colors plus the extra ones for the extra balloons. Once that was finally done I started to paint the house using similar colors to the original but a little darker. After all my house painting was done I did a few outlines to break up the blue on the house from the blue sky. When creating my value strip I used a ruler to get all my lines right and then I had to pick a primary and a secondary color, I choose red and purple because they're my favorite. I mixed my darks first and then my lights and painted them on while staying inside the lines. Once I had my many coats done and fixed where the colors might not have looked good next to each other I was done.

I did a little research, first I had to find a good image of the house face on for tracing, then I had to find a photo of the house floating so that I could get a good reference on what everything else should look like, and lastly I found a simplified version of the house so that I could get the colors right. I had re-traced the house a few times because I either messed on the lines or did it on the wrong side or accidentally drew the house backwards. In order to make my value strip I looked at a reference online so that I could keep my colors from being to drastically different.