Did you learn new techniques or processes as part of the work for this project?
Yes, I actually had never painted before this project so I learned a lot of new things. I learned how to do the clouds by blotching them on and lighting blending in the corners. I also learned how to blend on canvas which is what I did for my ocean. I put a lot of the one teal color all over the ocean then added white at the bottom and dark blues at the top to blend in on the canvas. I really enjoyed the blending on the canvas. Another technique I learned while doing this project was how to use a round brush to create the leaves in the bushes. Also how to use dark and lights to create the depths of the bush.
Did you find inspiration from another artist or culture?
For this project we were given an artist and we were supposed to pull techniques and ideas from them. I had Joseph William Turner, he created a lot of works with the water and the sky. So that is where I got my inspiration to do the light house. A technique that I pulled from him was the dark of the ocean to the light of the sky. If I could have done something else from his techniques I would've done the imperfect lines. A lot of this work wasn't perfect lines and perfect color in the right spot. It was a little messy but, a neat messy. I wish I would've been able to do that in this project because that is what I had envisioned.
Did your work take an unexpected turn due to a mistake or did something happen that was unplanned?
Yes! and I did not like the way it turned out. The mistake that I made was making the lighthouse gray. At the beginning I saw grey and thought it would turn out better if i just followed the way the photo was but I was wrong. I really wish I had done an off white. In my opinion it would've turned out a lot better and looked really good against the sky and the the ocean. I also didn't draw out the perspective well enough so half way through painting most of it Mrs. Rossi and I noticed so I had to change it. It wasn't a hard change but it was unplanned.
Yes, I actually had never painted before this project so I learned a lot of new things. I learned how to do the clouds by blotching them on and lighting blending in the corners. I also learned how to blend on canvas which is what I did for my ocean. I put a lot of the one teal color all over the ocean then added white at the bottom and dark blues at the top to blend in on the canvas. I really enjoyed the blending on the canvas. Another technique I learned while doing this project was how to use a round brush to create the leaves in the bushes. Also how to use dark and lights to create the depths of the bush.
Did you find inspiration from another artist or culture?
For this project we were given an artist and we were supposed to pull techniques and ideas from them. I had Joseph William Turner, he created a lot of works with the water and the sky. So that is where I got my inspiration to do the light house. A technique that I pulled from him was the dark of the ocean to the light of the sky. If I could have done something else from his techniques I would've done the imperfect lines. A lot of this work wasn't perfect lines and perfect color in the right spot. It was a little messy but, a neat messy. I wish I would've been able to do that in this project because that is what I had envisioned.
Did your work take an unexpected turn due to a mistake or did something happen that was unplanned?
Yes! and I did not like the way it turned out. The mistake that I made was making the lighthouse gray. At the beginning I saw grey and thought it would turn out better if i just followed the way the photo was but I was wrong. I really wish I had done an off white. In my opinion it would've turned out a lot better and looked really good against the sky and the the ocean. I also didn't draw out the perspective well enough so half way through painting most of it Mrs. Rossi and I noticed so I had to change it. It wasn't a hard change but it was unplanned.