Circle Project

Velociraptor

10.5 x 8.5 inches

For this painting I had to make circles the theme. I could do that in pretty much any way I wanted to. I chose to make my painting circular and when I thought of circles I also thought of space and planets. But, I thought that a circle with just the night sky would be a little boring so I decided to add another object in front of the circle that would not be contained within the borders. That object is the velociraptor skull. I can't tell you exactly why I chose to add a velociraptor skull. All I know is that I like skulls and somehow that popped into my mind.

This painting is entirely acrylic paint. I used varying brush sizes to paint the background and add the small details.

I started out with a very solid idea of what I was going to do for this painting. I did not stray very far from my original idea. The only things that I did differently are that I painted the on color instead of black and white and I gave the skull open jaws instead of having them closed. I am very satisfied with the way that this painting turned out however, I would like to improve the shading on the skull because I rushed it and it could have looked better.