My absolute favorite medium was probably watercolor even though we learned and worked on it for a day. There's so much you can do with it and so many kinds of water color paintings to create. I love it because you can mix some colors together, if you are careful, and get a cool marble look. It's also really easy to clean! You can just make a quick piece around 5:30 and clean up quick enough before dinner. I've been using watercolor since I was a kid, whether it be without skill or with it. I used to make art for Grandma and Great Grandma and the fridge and my family loved it so It's a given for me to love it too. I also like it because its way easier to make tints and shades with watercolors than normal paints. I can't really explain exactly in words why I like it the most....I just sort of like it(:
My class had a mini lesson on watercolors and I brought in a pepper to paint. Before this I had only used watercolors to draw dogs that looked like pigs when I was 3.
better than no shading. Another mini lesson we did was with prisma colors. Our goal was to draw a lollipop and make it look as realistic as possible using tints and shades. I did a pretty good job, I think. I could have added some more shading, but it's ok.
This piece was definitely my worst one. It was the first project I ever did in Art II and I made it in the medium I have the least skill in. Everything looks smudged and not smooth. I am also really bad at perspective drawings and shading in a good transition. I'm better at shading now, but back on the first day I had little to no skill with it. I never really understood the concept of perspective and how pictures and words in it worked. Everyone has one of those all-over-the-place pieces sometimes! Next time, I would definitely NOT work with pencil, maybe make the paper smaller and go slower. I probably would try not to smudge the lead with tissues either. I think I would add some more color to the sky as well. More color overall. I don't think I like making art without even a little bit of color. I completely forgot about the sky now that I think about it. I didn't even shade the sky around the mountains! Wow....I definitely think this is my worst one. I have a funny story about this one though. My little brother was eating pancakes with syrup right next to where I was working. I was having trouble with the box in the center and my brother took his fork, with syrup still on it, and pointed to a piece of the box I forgot to shade. It kind of went in slow motion for me when I saw a little drop of syrup go from his fork, through the air onto the paper. It's on the right
This is probably my most successful piece because the prisma colors are mixed really well and the wood table behind the wing looks pretty well done. I gave this to my Grandma, framed, and she thought I had bought it and given it to her.
best one to draw and found that the most complicated one would probably be the Swallowtail or the Buckeye. I then remembered that my Grandma first started liking butterflies when she was little and saw a Monarch with a broken wing on the sidewalk so that's how I thought of drawing one. It's a pretty simple drawing too. You just have to know what shapes to put on the page. I sketched all three of these out just to be sure of which one I wanted to use and my first intinct was right. I wanted to draw the Monarch. I drew a page sized close-up of the left wing as a sketch. I started off just normally sketching, but, as I got more into the outline, I started putting more detail than I intended. I ended up putting too much effort into it and switched it to my final piece. I would have definitely made it bigger than it is now if I hadn't put so much work into the small one. After drawing the outline of the final, I started adding the colored pencil in layers. I had A LOT of layers. Each layer had to get the perfect amount of each orange, yellow or brown to get a perfect color of the wing. I had to place them in the right spots too. I drew the orange part of the wings first and then went back and drew the black edges. I added some white to some parts of the orange because that's what a Monarch has on it's wing. I also added excess white wing to the black part of the edges. For the wood, I just drew about 2 swirls in two random places and drew lines around them. That was probably the easiest part of the project besides adding shading under the wing and along the edges of each piece of wood. One thing I find wrong about my this piece of work is the wood, actually. I made each piece too small because if you think about a butterfly wing, It's really small. The whole butterfly doesn't even fit on one plank. Besides the little things, I really believe this was my best work.
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