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There really is no meaning to this piece and it doesn't relate to my life. I'm proud of the composition of this piece, as I feel I usually don't do to well in that area of my work. But I like how this one turned out compositionally. I did struggle with filling in the little holes in the leaves, as a lot of paint got onto the leaves, where we weren't allowed to draw in. I tried to white it out, but you can still see some of them. If I could fix it in the future, then I would clean up the edges of the holes.
The assignment was to create a negative space drawing using leaves we found outside. Then when we found our leaves, we were to arrange them on the paper and trace them or draw just the outline of the leaves. Drawing in the leaves was not allowed. Then we were supposed to fill in the negative space (space that isn't the leaves) in an interesting way. Of course, the subject of my piece are the leaves and the negative space. First, I traced the leaves with a brown pen. Then I added some more holes in the leaves to make it look more interesting. I then used orange and blue watercolors to fill in the negative space. Lastly, I used gold watercolor to make the triangles.
I tried to make an interesting composition with the leaves and tried to make an even distribution of leaves on the page, to create balance. I'm happy with how it turned out composition-wise. At first I had the idea to use white ink for the triangles, but decided on gold to make them stand out more.
This assignment was also about negative space. We were to look at a still life of stools arranged in front of us and draw the negative space around the stools. We were to use a viewfinder to isolate a certain part of the still life and we had to draw three different looking thumbnails for our sketching. Then, we chose the one we liked the best and make a finished piece. The subject of my piece is the negative space of the stools (if you tilt your head to the left, you can kind of see the stools). I did all the steps previously mentioned, then I used sepia colored microns for the line work and the plants in the negative space.
I wanted the focus of this piece to be about the lines, which is something I don't usually pay much attention to. This is why I only used fine liners. I do think that the lines kind of look flat, as there's no variation in the weight of the lines. They're mostly all the same. Also, the value is really weird. Now that I look at it, there are some places in the piece that are darkened for no reason, which creates unnecessary emphasis. And, there's definitely not enough darkness on the places that have emphasis, such as the top right corner. It looks pretty chaotic from afar, and you can't really tell what it is. The composition is kind of like a zentangle, I drew mainly plants to keep a sense of balance and unity. Overall the composition isn't the worst thing. Originally, I wanted all the boxes to look really messy, like the top right one, so that you would go closer and look at the detail. But I changed that as I quickly realized that would take me a long time, not enough time to reach the deadline. So I simplified the over sections.
There is no meaning to this piece and it kind of relates to my life, as my grandmother has a big garden in her backyard. I picked some flowers from her garden a lot when I was little and she always got mad at me. But the flowers were really pretty, and I would draw them all the time. This is probably why I feel most confident in my ability to draw plants and why I chose them to be the main theme in the project. I'm proud of how I drew the plants. I did struggle with how long this piece took. I have very little patience and this piece probably took at least a couple hours to complete. The line work was super tedious. But I did manage to finish it in time. If I could revise this piece in the future, I would darken some more places to make it look more interesting and less flat.
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