Sustained Investigation #1

This piece of art's main purpose was to ask and help answer the question, how does bad weather affect mental health? This is up for the viewers interpretation.

This piece was made by first creating a simplistic lake, trees, and mountains with water color and little blending, then using coal and coal pencils to add detail, the eyes, and a lot of shading especially to the mountains. For the water color I used snow as it was a natural resource, and because coal is technically a nature resource as it comes from wood I used it as my second medium.

This art was less of something that I didn't enjoy, or was extremely challenging, more or less this art was just a big jump of faith. I sya this becuase I took so many risks with my art, for example the eyes, I envisioned eyes since the begining but I just could not see how they would fit into the art at all, becuase of this I just took one big step even though if it didn't look good I would have to earase hours of work for nothing. I think the most noticable and scary risk I took was the burning, the idea of the burning was to show the destructive power nature can have especially fire, but at the same time I didn;t want to ruin what I had already made, to make it as little risky as I would I just started small and made bigger holes as a went to fill empty and unimportant space with fire. Im happy to say I am very proud of what I could accomplish with these risks.