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This is my last project of high school, senior year. I really put thought into this and I really am proud of it. There are so many metaphors in it. First off, the heart and the brain both have a person in them, one actively hurting, and the other healed, This represents how the brain often knows better than the heart, an knows what the heart has yet to accept. The heart is closer to the light in the center than the brain is, representing reaching clarity as the heart can often show us things even our own brain can't. They are both reaching towards each other with the heart trying harder than the brain representing the logic and emotion and the holds they have on a person. The heart has barbed wire and hands on it symbolizing pain, protection, and connection. The brain having bandages covering up the past that has since been healed. It says "Think" in the clouds and "Feel" in the heart to symbolize a lot of people believe they have to follow one or the other, with "Listen to" and "them both" in opposite corners. The heart is erratic in its pattern while the "head is in the clouds". This was my favorite project and I will always cherish it. I used acrylic paint, pencil, and sharpie. I attempted to keep this all one unified color scheme to piece it together.
Landscape Painting Reflection
Landscape Painting Reflection
The painting on top is my personal recreation with a levels adjustment and crop in Pixlr, of the photo reference I took on the bottom. I chose this subject for my painting because I’ve lived near lakes all my life and have always been drawn to them .I used depth in the manner of placing a giant plot of trees and land in the back, making it smaller to show that it is further away from the viewer. I added size changes to the leaves and plants in the foreground to help give the illusion of depth. The foreground is given much detail and brushstrokes, the middle ground has average detail and an attention to reflections and light, while the background does not have much at all except for a color change. My values were separated into 3 extreme levels, the middle ground and sky being the middle levels, the foreground having the darkest value along with the forest on the other side of the water. The sun and reflection of the water are the lightest. I used a long version of a teardrop shape for leaves and grass, curving lines around the sun to show the shine, and branches with multiple branch-offs into smaller, thinner branches. I used very little paint on a dry brush to add a grass tuft texture that's more out in the water, and did the same for the shimmer in the reflection of the sun. I used a bigger brush to blot and smudge clouds in the background. I blocked in the major colors to make the entirety of it simpler and easy to fix/adjust the little things in the end. I did layers to acquire the texture and shades I wanted specifically for the sky and the foreground grass platform. When it came to matching colors, I kept the separations of subjects in the art to keep it around the same value, by keeping them 3 different value “levels”. I painted over the tree with the clouds and sky but lightly so I could retrace the tree with no problems, as I wanted to keep my sketch relatively close to the end product. I did not use anything but paint, water, and brushes. I watered down the highlights in the sky around the sun, and the highlights in the water. I maintained softer blending with the tufts of grass in the water and in the treeline in the background. I used very little paint on a dry brush to add a grass tuft texture that's more out in the water, and did the same for the shimmer in the reflection of the sun. I used a bigger brush to blot and smudge clouds in the background. I learned painting with values and levels makes it a lot easier to color match and keep things accurate to a photograph or any references used.
Photo Reference is above, by Casey Baugh "Yellow" 2023
Cropped image of my painting with no edits is below
Photo edited in Pixlr with Levels adjustment is below.
My version of a painting in Casey Baugh's style. I researched him and his history, along with his style. I chose to attempt to make a portrait following it as well. I edited it in Pixlr and will provide an edited and uneditedd version for viewing purposes.
I chose Casey Baugh as my artist. I researched thoroughly about him and his style, his style is very realistic and often painterly, but smoothed. The meaning in his art is simple; just portraits of people, often in a thoughtful position or almost passionate. Casey starts out with a model, sketches them, and then goes layer by layer, adding paint atop the base sketch until the final product is produced. I followed the base sketch reflecting on the proportions on my model (myself), as I went along tweaking anything I thought to be disproportionate. I finished my base sketch and began laying down blocks of color, layering until I had come to a point in the project I was happy with. Mine is more stylized towards my original style and less painterly, though this was not intentional. It does not resemble Casey Baugh’s artwork in the way I had hoped it would. I followed their methods besides the size, drying time, and overall project time. The meaning of my portrait is just meant to look like I’m lost in thought, glancing at something behind the capture of the canvas, I thought it was a beautiful touch to Casey’s style. The content is explained through it’s meaning.I was heavily discontent with the end product of this project, I personally felt like I could have done much better. The proportions are definitely off, and seem more semi-realistic then fully realistic like Casey’s. I was proud of the shading and color mixing for the most part, the edge around my lip and my hair I feel like is something I definitely could’ve improved on. The process went fine. I feel like I did really well with keeping the overall look of it at least resemblant of the reference. I enjoy the fact that it’s better than my past work was. I think my eyes could’ve been worked with a little bit more and the blending and matching of colors had a little improvement that I also could’ve worked towards with more time. I wanted everything to be at least 70% alike to the reference photo and in reality it was closer to 53%. Just too simplified.
I was constantly altering and fixing the lips, nose, pupils, and the red light falling onto the skin. The whites of the eyes weren’t too bad but shading and proportions were a constant refinement throughout this project. I received feedback about proportions and lighting, and it ended up helping guide me towards a more accurate and pleasing overall look of the painting. I was getting opinions out of class about proportions and what I could do to make it more accurate, writing down the things that were more important to be altered. I kept heavily busy from the start to as close to the end of class as I could.
My version of a two-point perspective project We were allowed to choose between 1-2 point perspective and create an imagined space to show that we know how to use 1 and 2 point perspective. Pixlr.com was used to crop, and adjust black and white levels.
I learned how to draw objects both freehand and referenced in two point perspective. I was able to properly replicate and create an imagined space drawing. All lines come from either vanishing point, and depth is added both with color and lines leading back into or out of shapes. There are aesthetic drawings that are often a background of lo-fi music, and I wanted to create my own design of one. They are often well-lit, have a girl as the subject matter, and a background involving living rooms or bedrooms. I changed part of the reference for my personal liking with me and my cat and her bed as well as her toys for the subject. I changed the colors as well as the outside of the window to fit my liking. I had quite a few things that did not come out how I would've liked them to, a couple being the shading done with colors and the background outside the window. I think if I were to worry more about quality rather than how the paper would bubble due to the layers of watercolor I might have done a better job. The red shading and depth on the bed was successful and I was quite proud of it. I think I did well adding the shades of white, gray, and black to the cat and picking colors that suit the theme well. Making sure proportions were right and that I didn’t have any stray lines was the most stressful part of this project and I would’ve liked to have done better on my linework. I sought out advice for the backing to mount my project on, the placement, whether to cut my paper down for more accurate proportions, and the medium being used. I also asked about if certain shades looked good and what I could do to improve the drawing overall. I did fix all of these to my liking and think it brought it together really well.
Unedited, uncropped
While replicating my still life collection into art, I learned how to properly shade, that shadows follow the overhang of objects, how to proportionally place objects in a 2D surface while making it resemble the 3D model. Starting the process was a thumbnail sketch, used to figure out where the objects were to be placed and angled. A second rough sketch was added on a smaller paper vertically and horizontally to figure out what composition kept the eye. Then, using a larger paper, I used a ruler to give the art a 1 inch border from the edge of the paper all the way around. I used my ruler and previously learned proportion techniques to keep the same measurements and space between the objects while replicating them onto the paper, using rough relative shapes to keep the size and location right. When I had a sketch that was right on proportions and the way I wanted it, I used a light table and transferred my sketch onto another paper of the same size, which made the sketch clean with no eraser marks or guidelines. I used an eraser to remove the markings on the newest paper, and used the engraving from the previous pencil lines to guide the wax colored pencils when I started on the coloring. Putting base colors down first, I used a light hand to prevent too much wax from being put down, then slowly layered on colors until it got to the consistency and value that mimicked the actual objects. I then moved on to shading and paid attention to the way the light fell over the objects, reflecting on the glass, making certain petals and areas of the stems lighter, the very thin shadow the twine cast, and even the darker insides of the wilted roses. I added highlights, took a picture, and did a color and levels adjustment. Originally my plan was to be about the armed forces and good men dying young, but I changed it to a reminder that sometimes holding on too tight causes negative omens, hence the wilted flowers with twine around their jar, coming loose with scissors on the end of them. I wanted it to look like it was too late with the wilted/dead flowers, as a reminder not to wait so long before making choices for yourself. The light source is supposed to be coming from above/behind, I just replicated what I saw in front of me, which is where I had the light source. I demonstrated 3 Dimensional shading by adding it to where light would fall around the object. I reshaped the glass, added reflections from the lights, as well as continuously asked for suggestions on my art. Feedback pertained to everything I ended up fixing. I fixed the shading and paid more attention to the abnormal shadows that fall off of the objects. When coloring the flowers, I added a darker center for my personal preference because I wanted it to resemble the actual flowers better. The rose stems crossed each other and so I ended up adding shading to where the shadow from the stems would fall on other stems.
Un-Edited
Un-Edited
Just coloring and picture, nothing changed.
Edited
Edited
Levels and Color adjustment in photo altering program, I used Pixlr.com.
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