Beautiful Oops

Throughout this piece, I struggled to come up with an idea and stick with it. I knew I wanted to show how you can turn something small and ordinary into something unique and extraordinary. This is when I saw the commits. The splotches of paint were in the shape of commits, and that's what set me on the path of drawing space. Without the Ink marks, I would have not been able to think of doing my own twist on space and asteroids.

To make this piece, I chose some materials I was not very familiar with. I started out with some masking tape to help keep the edges of my artwork neat, and then went in with a B graphite pencil to sketch out my idea. After I had my light sketch, I outlined the planets with a gel black pen to make them pop out of the background. Then it was time for my watercolor. This was a little more difficult because after getting the planets to be the colors I wanted, I had to figure out how to get the space effect behind the planets. I started by lightly putting colors everywhere and blending them in and eventually came to a beautiful twist on a space sky. Finally, I used my white acrylic paint to add some stars and clusters to the back.

Getting to my final piece was difficult. I first struggled to come up with an idea to go along with the ink splotches, then I struggled to get the watercolor to the right color and light or darkness I was going for. For this piece, I did not use much research but rather my old knowledge from school planetarium trips, and science units of studying space. that's how I came up with my own take on space. There was a lot of color switching and new features added and removed throughout the process of creating this, but in the end, I was able to finish my piece and sign it.