Extended Blind Contour

Artist statement:

For this project, we were asked to take our blind contour designs and turn them into something even cooler. Our original blind contour has three images: one of my face, one of my hand, and one of our art partner's face. (my art partner was Taryn.) I decided to turn them into things from the sea such as seaweed, fish, and jellyfish. It is actually quite funny that I decided to do sea creatures because I was looking at my old artwork from last year and it looks like I did a jellyfish there. I think it's because sea creatures (jellyfish especially) are really flexible especially if you have some random hair strands. The blind contour hand also looked like seaweed so I knew that that was going to be my theme.

For materials, I decided to go with watercolors. When doing anything where your art takes place in the ocean I find it best to use watercolors. You can blend the watercolors so flawlessly to make a water-type design with cool colors. I also tried to use some warmer colors for the fish and jellyfish. I thought it would be good to contrast the ocean backdrop.

If I were to do this project again I would definitely try to do something other than fish and watercolors since I've done that twice now. I also would try to make them all much bigger because it could be cool if they overlap. I thought that's what I was doing as I was drawing but when I finally looked down I realized that is definitely not what I did. Whoops. Since it was blind contour there was not a lot of editing or revisions to this work. And with the watercolors you really just had to go with the flow.