For our first project, I decided to do an observation picture of my sister. For one of the mini lessons, we practice drawing perspective of someone when a part of their body is closer to you from the rest. I enjoyed that mini lesson and decided to paint this. I went beyond my comfort zone and created a huge canvas to paint. I projected the picture on the board so that I could outline her body correctly and get the right proportions and then spent the next two or three weeks painting it. I still need to go back in and add more highlights in the hand and hair. I do like how this turned out though. It looks like her and that is what I wanted out of it. The background was a bit of a challenge. The first background color I had ended up looking more like the color of her skin tone then I wanted it to. So when I finished the entire piece, I went back and changed the color. I had to decide between around ten different background colors, but I decided on green because I thought it made the body pop more than the other colors. It makes the piece look bright but not too bright.
If I were to do it again, I would have probably made it smaller. It took me a long time to paint this, but I did like the outcome. But I am not sure where this is going to go now that it is so huge. I still have some things to fix on it, but hopefully I will get that done this week. I enjoyed doing this art project and am glad that I got out of my comfort zone and worked on a big surface area with acrylic paint.
If I were to do it again, I would have probably made it smaller. It took me a long time to paint this, but I did like the outcome. But I am not sure where this is going to go now that it is so huge. I still have some things to fix on it, but hopefully I will get that done this week. I enjoyed doing this art project and am glad that I got out of my comfort zone and worked on a big surface area with acrylic paint.