Paint, Pastel, and Paper Hearts

Hello everybody! So, if you're read my blog post directly under this one, you can see I was a little grumpy about due dates. Well, naturally, after posting that I miss more than one due date. This was late, a sketchbook assignment was missed, and I have a Media Log which- thank heck- is due tomorrow.

So starts the post of amazing bloggity-ness.

For one of out most recent assignments in class we were asked to take a cropping of a larger pastel drawing on day one of the semester. Of course not realising what we were doing with these croppings we all chose only what we liked that went along with a composition. Taking a diagonal composition, I chose the following cropping(of course, it's been enhanced to show you colour and areas of interest.);




With this cropping we were to complete three works of art, a large pastel piece, a small painting and a large painting. I loved working with pastel, because it brought me out of my elements, however I still much enjoyed working with paints.

When working with my large painting, I was given a large brush and instructed to use only that one brush for the entire painting. A challenge, I liked it!! But oh the PAIN it was to mix up so much paint for the blues and the pinks. and the LAYERS for them!! Additional to water marks and bubbling, it was seriously difficult to get any great detail into the painting... but with a pink bold line, a blue bold line and white bubble, what could be hard?

Layering, my friends, is a pain in the butt.


Large Painting is ABOVE.

Going on to my small painting, I loved it. When I'm painting I try to go for tight, clean lines... but who am I kidding, when do I ever do clean lines? For our small painting we had the option of sticking with the original cropping or cropping the cropping. Staying with the original, I began to paint with a smaller brush. This time, I did not need as much paint as I had before, and found that the colours were a lot easier to blend together with the smaller brush. Details could be achieved!!

Details such as brush strokes, and I could erase all of the small daubles of blue paint I happened to drop on the pink section without having to mix a whole jar of pink all over!


Small Painting is ABOVE.

Though I enjoy both of my works, I think I could have done better. This gave me a great taste of actual work deadlines and how you have to work quickly and efficiently to get something done!

Now... I'm going to go kick my butt into gear and start on my Music Video assignment for Tech. 'Paper Heart' by Tyler Ward, featuring whoever I can get who can act!!
(And now you know why the title of my blog is as such.)

Actually, I'll eat an orange first...

Procrastinating gets me nowhere,
The Night Angel.


March 7, 2011