Color Design

Paint Heart

(12"x 16")

Acrylic on canvas, paint marker

The main idea behind this artwork was to make a design for 84 shades and tints to go into, I chose a heart with lines coming out of it because of a tattoo that my aunt has.

My favorite part of this artwork is the big heart in the middle I liked the tint I made for it and that it was not just plain red. to create this artwork I started on a piece of canvas paper and did a 1-inch border around the outside with painters tape, after that i sketched the heart with a graphite pencil and then drew 84 different sections with pencil lines, after that, I got my paints and started from the top of the checklist with blue and went down the checklist from there. when I finished those I painted the big heart and then after everything dried I used a white paint marker to draw the lines between each shade and tint.

Some things I had to do was sometimes 3 layers of paint because a lot of them would show through the paper.