Stars and Stripes

12x9 in

Stars and Stripes

This is my "Stars and Stripes" project which was made to have the same aspects shown in the American Flag. The guidelines for this project included having repeating patterns in the stars and the stripes and only using red white in blue (with various shades). I chose to create this specific project because I have been enjoying creating chicken artwork and I think it is going to be something I work on more throughout the year so when we had to create something that was representative of the United States in our mind I thought my chicken theme would fit perfectly.

For this project I used only acrilic paints with graphite lied down on the canvas at first to sketch out the chicken and get the perfect 1 inch dimensions for the stripes on the background. My project evolved while I was creating it a bit because I was very unsure of what colors to make each part of the chicken since I knew I had to add in the stars design and I knew the chicken couldn't be realistic colors or traditional. This project was assigned to mostly focus on line, shape and pattern and I definitely think I created those well on my project and I really like the way it turned out.

One thing that I think could improve on my project a lot is the opacity of the pure blue color in the crest and hangy thing under the beak of the chicken and if I was to go back and improve the project I would add another coat of blue paint there.