Extended Blind Contour

Odd Patterns

Colored Pencil

8x11

This is my Extended Blind Contour artwork. There isn't much of a story, but I decided to go for an abstract scene yet again. I wanted it to be a little more different than the rest of my abstract pieces, I split the paper in half and used warm colors for one side, and cool colors for the other side. I love adding lots of color to my work so it pops out and draws your eye to it, and patterns have always been fun for me. I mostly used color pencil but to make it pop out more, I used some marker too. I didn't want the whole background to be just one pattern, and I didn't feel like researching different patterns, so I just thought of them in my head and also tried to get some help from peers around me. I used lots of shapes which I don't normally do, I usually use mostly lines so that was kind of different for me. I had no idea what I wanted to do at first until I split the paper in half diagonally and kind of just drew without thinking. I've been doing this a lot lately, and its worked out pretty well. Before, I would take so long to think of a subject, but now I just draw whatever is on my mind. I think outlining my blind contour drawings (face, hand, item) would make it show more since those lines are thin and are a bit hard to see from the bold colors.