Evaluating your best work.

In my opinion, my best work was "Drowning", when I tried to use Picasso's style. I drew a painting of alcohol bottles, with a skull, and a fish tank behind it all. It is a collage symbolizing how so many people are drowning themselves with alcohol. I used bright greens and pinks for the bottles to make them jump out at the viewer first, the skull is dark brown and black to resemble death. Then I painting a fish tank in the back ground to show water, and make it like the skull is drowning in alcohol. For the collage, I add actually plants, rocks, and a picture of a fish to give it realism. Also, I put money, bottle caps, and labels from bottles to add to the collage. This was a really fun piece, and enjoyed it a lot.

For my social issue project, I did it on medical healthcare, and why does it cost so much to have. I learned more then have Americans don't have medical help, because they can not afford it. I just think that healthcare should be for everyone, regardless if they have money. I used a lot of red to show all the blood loss from people that don't have healthcare, and make all the writing in bold black. It was my first time attaching printed material to my art work. I think I used to much gloss medium, but with practice, I believe I will get much better.

Taking Personal Responsibility

One goal in my life is to become a Dentist. This is what I am going to school for and finding out it is very difficult, and not that easy to obtain. Obstacles that stand in my way, are room in the class, grades, and money. There are only so many people that can get into the classes I need for achieving my goal. Also, I make pretty good grades with a 3.4, but to be a dentist, I'm told I need a 4.0 to be successful. Lastly is money, and of course it isn't cheap to go to medical school. The steps that I need to take to achieve my goal first finding other school or programs that have enough seats for me to go. Next I need to study harder so that I do better in my classes to bring my gpa up. For the money, there is always grants or scholarships that I can get into. All in all, all need it a lot of hard work and dedication to get my goal and become successful in my life. 

Realistic painting

In the painting, I tried to paint my daughter, even though it didn't come out very well. This was probably the hard piece of them all. I used red for her dress, and brown for her hair. Her face however, was super tough. I tried to mix tan and brown for her complexion, but found out it was hard. Also, drawing her face was difficult. They seemed to all blend in together, because you can badly see her nose or eyes. This was still a fun piece to work on, but I need to practice more with blending my colors together. Also work on making my painting have more feeling, and look more like a real person.

Style painting "Drowning"

This was one favorite, and my option my best painting. I used Picasso as my style by added rocks, pictures, and bottle caps to make a collage. Also, I used bright colors for the bottle to make them stand out. I painted a fish tank behind them, to symbolize a drowning environment, because alcohol ruins so many peoples life. I added plants and rocks from my actual fish tank to give a 3d effect. Also I took labels off bottles to make the painting come to life. Then I add money to show how much is wasted on alcohol. I really enjoy making this piece and will continue making collage the rest of my life.

Painting 3 collage

This paintings were really funny to do. I added collage to my art to make fun and great pieces, if you do it right. The first one, I did on health care, and how you need money to have it. I feel like everyone should have insurance, even if they can afford it. I used a red back ground to symbolize blood that has been spilled because of people not having insurance. I kinda messed this piece up, because I spray acrylic coating on the painting first, when really I need to just spray the tissues. It still was fun adding collages to make the picture to show meaning and point out a issues.

Now the second one turn out much better. I used different colors to make kind of a ocean back ground and then add some Japanese influenced fish to make the painting come alive. That's the good thing about painting if you mess up, you can always try again and make it better. I really like both of this pieces and will defiantly being doing collages in the future.

Peaceful Night

This painting complementary analogous. The main colors I used were purple, red, and green.  What jumps out first in this painting is the palm tree. I also put gesso down to make the tree have a 3D effect. I made this piece dark, showing the night is coming to a end.

I also used black and white for changing the pigment of my main colors. I mostly used black to make the painting look like is was night time. I add white to the red to make the sun glare off the water, looking like a sun setting. This was a very fun piece and will be painting more very soon.

The Lonely Waterfall

This painting is a analogous piece. It is called "The Lonely Waterfall". I used green and blue for the main colors, and then mix them together with white and black to get different shades. This painting was hard, because I couldn't use any other color two and mix them together to altar the pigment.

 I love to draw Mother Nature, but found it difficult to paint it. I used gesso to make the mountain rise off the canvas. I made the sky dark blue and covered it with clouds. The trees are in front of the mountain with them casting a shadow into the lake.

The Take Over (1st painting)

Last Breathe (3rd painting)

Complete Control (4th painting)

Painting 1 Critique

This was my very first painting ever call the "Take Over". I choose to draw a eye, and found  out it was alittle harder then I thought. I first I was just going to draw a eye as real as I could, but was having trouble. So I just did one abstract. Then I saw a face in the art work and decided to make like a demon taking control of the eye. This was the first stage of take over.

I choose to make the eye white, the background black and the demon red. It had a lot of lines that are drawn together to found a weird and strange picture of an eye. The mood is really up to the viewer. I believe it is really scary and maybe demented. I really like this piece for my first painting. It came out a lot better then I thought.

Painting 2 Critique

This was my second painting call the " Demon Inside", and is really where you see the angriness for the monster as he is gaining more control of the eye. I enjoyed this painting because I love to draw fire and never have painting it before. I must say that I was impressed with how the flames came out. Now there is always room for improvement with my shading but that will take practice.

I stuck pretty much with the same colors black, and red but instead of white, I add orange and yellow to bring out the flames. I made the demons face alittle more visible to show him coming alive. Also I used the flames to run into the eye causing it to bleed. This painting mood is very dark and scary.

Demon Inside (2nd Painting)

Painting 3 Critique

This painting is call "Last Breathe" and was painted completely different then all the rest. Instead of using paint brushes, I used my fingers. I wanted to use a lot of paint and the brushes just weren't working. I made this totally abstract, to where you can almost make out the eye, and see the demon's face completely transforming the eye into something else.

The eye I made blue, because I wanted to symbolize like the last breathe of the eye before the demon takes full control. There aren't made shapes, just a bunch of thick lines of paint that I smeared with my finger in a pattern to look like a tornado hit the painting. I used red, yellow, and orange to represent all the chaos happening in the picture.

Painting 4 Critque

This was the last painting of the four and is call "Complete Control". This is where the demon is no longer in the picture, but is inside the eye and has control. Its made up of random shapes that come together as one to represent an eye.

I used just red and black colors on this piece, to let the viewer know the eye is completely different. This was fun to paint because it was a little less basic, and a little bit easier. The mood is calm but yet fierce, letting the audience figure out that demon is the eye now.

Painting 1