Art II Painting Portfolio
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Phoenix
For this project I put book pages in the background and then painted people and buildings on top. Then I painted a phoenix on top. Above the phoenix there is “999”, which is my angel number and it represents rebirth. The first layer is a stained brown canvas. I did this with water and acrylics. On top of this I glued on book pages from my favorite books. These books include “The Outsiders”, “Girl Interrupted”, “The Perks Of Being A Wallflower", and “Alice In Wonderland”. Then I added water color over top of the book pages so they looked older and worn. After this I used acrylic paint to paint buildings and people walking to the buildings in black and white. I then used acrylic again to paint orange, red, and yellow phoenix, which takes up the whole canvas. After this I used water color to make a fire/light effect around the phoenix, and I added "999” above the phoenix. At the end I used prisma color pencils to make the phoenix stand out. This art work is meant to represent me, and how I feel. The people and buildings are in black and white because they're boring. It represents the boring people just trying to fit in and follow the crowd. They go to their boring office jobs and waste their life away. That is the last thing that I want in life so I made a phoenix to represent me. Phoenix's are special and unique, they also represent rebirth and new beginnings, which is what I got when I moved to Texas. Before I moved I was like the people wasting their life and following the crowd, but after I moved I decided to be myself and stop wasting my life being someone I didn't like. The phoenix and the "999” represent this, and my goal is to show people that the best thing that you can do in life is be yourself. I really like this painting and I feel like I was able to get across what I wanted to get across.
Ghost Friends
This painting is called “Ghost Friends”. Its two people, dressed as ghosts with heart sunglasses, sitting on a window ledge. I made this painting using acrylics and I tried to incorporate different values of gray. I did the same for the tree in the background. This painting was inspired by a picture of my friend, Bell, and I. We went around our school, and took different pictures of us dressed up as ghosts. The one I painted was my favourite picture that we took. I didn't just copy the picture though, I also added in some symbols that represent our friendship. The books are there because we met each other in English class. On the window ledge there are air rifle pellets because we do marksmanship together in school. My goal for this painting was to symbolize me and my friends' friendship. I think I was able to get this across with the small symbols that only we would understand. Overall, I like this painting. I think I was able to get my idea across well. If I were to do it again I think I would try to give myself more time and I would make the ghost on the left lighter, because I think it's too dark. I would also add more detail to the background. I think I will take this into consideration in the future when working with different values of one color.
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