Stars and Stripes

Patriotic Flowers

This is my stars and stripes design that includes the red and white stripes, stars, flowers and leaves. I decided to make flowers because I think they are fun to make, and so I tried to incorporate the design with the American flag. I did this by having the stripes in the back, the flowers blue and the stars in the leaves. This relates to my life because I live in the USA and I like flowers. I used pencil to sketch out my design and then traced it over with black sharpie. I used acrylic paint because its my favorite media, but I was originally going to use water color. I wanted the design to be stronger though, and I felt acrylic paint would let that happen instead of water color. I did my design on a regular 8x11 piece watercolor paper since thats what I thought I was going to used, but I still think it turned out well. I used the same colors as the American flag, red white and blue (also added black), used shapes which were rectangles in the stripes and the stars, and also a use of pattern with the alternating colors for the stripes and the use of stars on the leaves. My next step could be to clean up the edges of the leafs and trace the black sharpie which was the branches with paint to make it more opaque. The colors also aren't as opaque as I wanted them to be and an extra coat on the blue and red would've been my next step.