Reference PhotoFinal This is my twelfth and final concentration, of Dover, England. My family ditched my disabled grandma and took a day trip to get to France. We took a ferry from Dover, where its white cliffs are famous. On the boat back this was the money shot with the cliffs at dusk. It was unbelievably beautiful and extremely steep to climb back up. Yes our car was at the top. I did this at the very last second, so I knew I had to make it quick. I kept on messing up and started over three times. I mixed green with black to get the vegetation on the cliffs. Then added the black as the rocks. I used the blue in the sky and the water and added a little of green to show a reflection. The way I didn't mess up the sky was by using a big brush to blend all of the colors. Sorry I didn't take in progress pictures, but this actually took me 10 minutes. I wouldn't redo anything if I had the chance.
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Reference PhotoIn ProgressFinal This is my eleventh concentration, the view from ponte vecchio in Florence, Italy. It was our last day traveling back up to Milan and we had a day to spend in Florence. We decided to see this famous bridge at dusk. This is the cityscape I saw from it. I blended the blue, yellow, orange, and red together to get the sunset, then I added white to show the clouds. I had a hard time figuring out how to do the water. I kept on blending the navy blue with white with a big paint brush - I got it eventually. I then added small strokes of white and yellow to show the lights reflection on the water. I then worked on the buildings. i tried my best and they turned out how something would after two days. They aren't the best and I would redo them if I could go back and fix something.
Reference PhotoIn ProgressFinal This is my tenth concentration, a picture of Capri, Italy. My family and I took a trip to Italy over spring break. One day we decided to take a day trip to explore the Amalfi Coast. We went to Amalfi by a bus on the way there and a ferry on the way back to Sorrento. This was a picture I took of Capri while on the ferry. This is a silhouette of the island with glittering water surrounding it. I blended two blues to create the sky and added white for the highlights. I used the navy blue hue to create the tint I used for the island. The black boat was a final touch I added. I had a hard time with the water; I had no idea how to do it. Eventually I painted a combination of short and long strokes of blues and white to get the water effect. If I could do t his all over I would change the water because if I had more time I could have made it better.
Reference PhotoIn ProgressFinal This is my ninth concentration, a selfie I took while skiing in Chamonix, France. This was Easter weekend, which is the last weekend to ski. My mom and dad decided we had to take the opportunity to ski in the Alps. I was stunned that it would be my first time skiing, so I got nervous because the Alps are intense mountains and I had zero idea how to navigate them. It was all good because we got a ski instructor. While learning how to walk up a mountain I got very discouraged because I was unable to get it down. I then became so frustrated I became very frustrated and started to cry - I hope you enjoyed that story-time. I left the instructor and learned how to ski by trial and error, and eventually got off of the bunny hill; the next hill up was a solid 40 degree angle - very scary.
I started this piece hand sketching it in the middle of second period. I actually did 90% of this piece in other classes while instruction was going on - whoops. After I free-hand sketched it perfectly in 20 minutes--to show someone that I don't need to trace to draw a person perfectly--I started on the sky. I used two blues and blended them into the clouds to get a more realistic look. Then I started on the helmet and goggles. While avoiding most of the face I did my jacket and sweater. I mostly avoided the face because I kept on forgetting face prismas at home. I added pink and browns to my face to show depth and rosiness. The yellow on my face is the reflection of my goggles. If I could go back and do something over I actually wouldn't change anything. rEFERENCE PhotoIn ProgressfINAL This is my eighth concentration, a "cityscape" of Brighton Palace Pier, England. Last summer my family and my grandma went t6 England. We decided to take a day trip to Brighton to shop and check out the pebble beach. This pier has an arcade on it and is extremely busy during the summer. There were venders along it and, of course, shows british pride with the Union Jack on either side.
I started by tracing it out because I am horrible at drawing straight lines and I did not want to mess up the letters in the sign - you have to know your strengths. After I got the hard lines, I went and filled in with more details. The sky was the first thing I did. I put the hue in some places and blended out the tint into clouds, where they were just the white paper. Then I started working on the sign; filling in the letters with a yellow and outlining them with the red. I messed up quite a bit with the outline, but that is okay. I then worked on the building with adding harsh black to create shadows in the distance, darker lines to show different columns, and shading to create more depth. The flags were a little tricky because they are blowing in the wind and don't have exact proportions. My main concern with this piece was creating sharp and straight lines - if I accomplished that is a different story. I hope I did. If I could fix one thing I would fix the the inconsistency of red outlines on the sign - it just bothers me. Reference PhotoIn ProgressfINAL This is my seventh concentration, my sister on a train in Clarens, Switzerland. My family and I took a day to explore Switzerland by train and adventure out through the Alps. By doing this we ended up in Bern, Switzerland - the German speaking part. To do this it required an early wake up call, so we slept through some of it; my mom was so mad at us because we were missing the amazing views on the way there
When I started this piece I decided to trace part of it so I could get my sister to look as much as herself as possible. When I started putting prisma to paper, I saturated the architecture of the train while providing the shadow in the background. Then I progressed to work on Jen's hair; I mixed two browns with a light yellow and a beige. I went in with a white and a dark brown to add the highlights and shadows to create depth. Jen's face was easy, but it was difficult to get her facial features to look correct. The eyelids and lips was the most challenging part. I feel kinda bad because her lips look like they have injections, but that's exactly the shape they were in the picture - oh well. The left side was the easiest part. I initially had no idea how I was going to cohesively do a reflection in the window. The background was easy, but the other Jen was horrible. She doesn't look like Jen at all. I gave up after I realized that and started working on blending the background in with the reflection. At the last minute I added the white streaks, I don't know if I like it. If I could go back and do it all over I would redo the whole right side of the piece and make it look more realistic. Reference PhotoIn progressFInal This is my sixth concentration piece, a watercolor of a Plane tree in Geneva, Switzerland. These trees are all scattered around Geneva, but I took this picture right outside of Parc de Bastions. These trees are a hybrid of different types of sycamore trees that have umbrella branches that provide shade. When my family first landed in Geneva I was so fascinated with these trees -who wouldn't be- and at one point we asked out Swiss-German waiter in Bern, Switzerland the Swiss-German name for it. This city is an important banking town, so there were not a lot of touristy things to do.
When I started this piece I decided I was going to make the background more saturated and the foreground muted. After I sketched out the tree and the building I painted the sky with a more navy blue. The building was interesting because its a yellow-brown-green color and I do not have the skill to do that so I just decided on orange. I then added a muted green color on the top of building directly behind the Plane tree. When I started on the tree I focused on the harsh darks to ease into it; yes, I am more comfortable with going extremely dark first - it's backwards. I mixed brown and black to get the grey color you see in the tree. I would add more shading to some parts of the tree and more highlights to others depending on the reference picture. I tried to make this as close to the picture as possible. I didn't run into many problems but I was worried that the tree would fall a little flat with few values, so I hope it has enough. My problem was with getting the really light lights because I was also doing very dark darks at the same time as the highlights. If I could go back and do this again I would clean up the buildings in the back, but it doesn't bother me too much. This is my second watercolor and I am starting to really enjoy painting with it. I Finished this project in less than a week - That is a record. I am so proud of myself. I think my next one will also be watercolor, but after that one I have to start to use a different medium. I am just scared to use oil paint because I know it takes me so long to do. Reference PhotoIn ProgressFinal This is my fifth concentration piece, a city-scape of an apartment building in the 7th Arrondissement of Paris. This was the view from the terrace right outside the quaint apartment my family stayed in for three days. This building was built in the 1800s, which is represented in the roofing and the overall architecture seen in this photo - this building even had an entrance for horse-drawn carriages. Once my family settled into the apartment, my mom told me these apartments get passed down generations through rich french families. The inside was up-to-date and had a spiral staircase! This picture is very line heavy, so I am going to emphasize them and I also want to make the sky a really vibrant blue for the heck of it.
When I started this piece I knew I could not draw straight lines at all, so I decided to trace it. I also traced it so I could finish this piece earlier. I am very pressed on time and very stressed out, but who isn't? After I used transfer paper to trace I went over it and created more lines and made the traced ones darker. Next I started on actually painting. I knew I wanted to focus on the blues in the image, so I used a navy and cobalt blue to create the different blues. I added black into the blues if I wanted it to be darker or more muted. This project was more meticulous than hard. The challenges I faced were painting all of the dark black lines in the piece. The black was never dark enough at first, so I would have to go over it multiple times. I was worried about layering because I did not want it to look messy or ruined. I like the muted tones in the piece with the vibrant roof. If I had to do this project over again, I would make it less messy. I think I am going to do more water color pieces. I finished this in three work days - I am so proud of myself. Reference PhotoInprogressFinal This is my fourth concentration piece; it is a picture of me and my sister hiking through Triberg, Germany. Triberg is a small town in the Black Forest region where they are known for Cuckoo clocks and Black Forest cake. This hike was Wasserfalls, which means waterfall in German. My family is a big adventure family, so we always find the coolest things to entertain ourselves with on vacation - hiking was one of them. The main goal of this leg of the trip was to hike, see some waterfalls, and get me a Cuckoo Clock. My favorite part is my sister and I hugging, so I am going to make us stick out by dulling the background and saturating us.
When I started this piece I was scared about getting the spacing and proportions right, so I only traced the outline of each of our faces. I wanted to sketch everything else at home, so I took my time and focused on getting everything perfect. It took me a long time to get the courage to draw the faces eventually I did it. When I started coloring I started on the pants first, then worked on the shoes, then the shirts. Most of the clothes I had to blended at least two colors together to get that specific color. The clothing, shoes, and hair were the easiest part of the piece. I took my good sweet ol time with the background to make it as perfect as possible. The rocks were mostly time consuming, after I did the first two I got the technique I wanted to use down. I was eminent on having a dull background but still having enough values to make it make sense. The trees were my worst nightmare. I just can't do trees, they are the worst to draw. The nature part of the background needs much improvement, but I have been working on it too long and I know I can live with how it looks.If I could go back and fix anything I would fix how broad my sister looks, but oh well. Reference photoin progressFinal This is my third concentration piece. This is the clock in Musse d'Orsay in Paris, it is an art museum that holds Monet, Van Gogh, and many more. My family and I roamed through the whole museum and into French Impressionism, my favorite era, where we found this. Everyone was crowed around it trying to take pictures to post on their social media; people of every race from all different countries. My favorite part of the picture was the contrast of the blue sky against the stark black of the clock. I enhanced my piece by changing the sky to more of a sunset type changing the color of the sheen on the clock.
When I started my piece I knew I couldn't draw this freehand so I decided to trace it. I am so glad I did it because I would have spent a solid week just trying to perfect the circles and make it look as good as possible. Then after I transferred the graphite onto my paper I made the sketch darker before I started coloring. After I got the details right I went in with the black since I knew it would be the quickest to finish. I knew I wanted to blend out the clouds and not have such a contrast where they started and ended with the sky, so I blended the orange into the white to get the yellow. I did this is the same cloud pattern like in the reference picture. Next I colored in the sheen of the clock and I decided to do a different color than orange so it wouldn't resemble a pumpkin. I used a blush pink and blended it with the orange I used in the sky to make it more cohesive. I finished my piece by filling out the sky around the rim of the clock. I eliminated most of the challenges I would have faced if I had not traced my picture onto my paper. Other than that it was about planning how to enhance my piece, which meant picking the color for the sky. When I finished I did regret not making my sky more of a funky color like a lavender purple, but I am not going to erase half of my piece to do so. It reminds me a lot of Halloween but I can get behind that vibe. I hope this piece grows on me. I do not have time to sulk I have to finish NINE more pieces. If I have time after I finish all twelve I may change the sky color. I like the black. |
AuthorEach piece I post here will be added to my AP Art Portfolio. This is the second half of my yearlong journey in Art 4/AP Art. I will be extremely stressed, do to the pressed time . I hope everything goes well and I will actually have 24 pieces to submit to College Board Archives
May 2019
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