This was my first time practicing with oil paints. I don't like to paint in general, so I was already against it, but as I finished this, I actually like it a tad. I like that I can add water to the paint to blend it, and that the paints themselves blend easy. I've always had issues getting different colors or shades of one color to blend nicely into each other. The one thing I don't like about the apple I painted are the abstract colors. I like realism painting and drawing, and adding colors that I do not see on something, like the blue and green on the apple for example, is something I do not like doing and I don't think I'll ever get over that because even that is too abstract for me.
This is the piece I did with Prismacolor colored pencils. The theme to this project was that we were had to draw something reflective, and in the reflection had to be something that represented our lives. I chose to draw a rabbit with focus on its eye. And in its eye, another rabbit! A rabbit reflects my life completely, I've been raising rabbits since I was three years old, and now raise them for show and show in several states. I relate everything possible to rabbits, so quite literally, my life is rabbits.
This is one of my summer art pieces, I stippled a Great Dane owned by a friend and then went over with colored pencil to give it a warmer feeling with more contrast. I really like how this piece turned out. This is the first piece I did over the summer, a self portrait. The emotion I was trying to convey was sadness or loneliness. My boyfriend had been in the hospital in critical care for three weeks and I was worried about him, and spent a lot of my time thinking about him later at night, and that is when I took this picture. I cut all the lights off in my room and covered my windows and only turned on a bright lamp and had it very close to one side of my face to give heavy contrast with the shadows. I used a certain type of colored pencil that blends well with water added, so when I finished coloring it I went over all the solid black with water and a little bit over the lighter shadows. I didn't want to blend them together too much to look like there was no texture. I know this is a little hard to see because I took this picture in bad lighting. Sorry. This is my piece with 3 reflective objects in it. I used a small stainless steel dog bowl, in that is a pair of dark sunglasses, and surrounding those is a bit for a horse's bridle. I took the reference photo on a sunny day with a few clouds in the sky to get a good reflection in the sunglasses, but in the shade under a tree so I wouldn't get a bad glare. I just used regular pencil for this drawing. I like the composition of the bit, it kind of brings everything together by surrounding the bowl and sunglasses and has good texture to parts of it with the rope coming to the front of the picture and the leather parts of it. Item submerged in water was the topic for this. I put marble things in a wine glass of water. I took the picture from an angle of looking up at it, and the top of the water made a nice reflection of the marbles. I first tried this in color, but did not like the way on was turning out at all, so I abandoned that and started over in black and white. I used the three drawing pencils in the picture below. I am not too fond of this piece, probably because I was rushing a little bit to get it done before school started. I could have gone darker in the values and put a shadow or some kind of ground under it, which I may do soon... This is my last summer art piece, it was to do a collection of bottles. I used tan colored paper so that the white and reflections would show better. All I used here were black and white Prismacolor colored pencils. I like that I added the black wine bottle because it gives it a more completed look and brings more contrast to the piece. I used all different sized and shaped bottles to make more use of line and shape. Overall, I really liked how this turned out, the only thing I could say I could have done better is added darker shadows in the pitcher and square bottle on the right. |
Caitlin Lee's Art BlogMy mission as an artist is to expand my techniques in my art to further my artistic abilities. I am trying to use different medias that are less familiar to me, and to go beyond my comfort zone. |