Final Project

After we did the change series I found out that I want to play around with oil and soft pastels a little more and see what kind of effects that I can achieve with them and also continuing with natural disasters/weather theme. So far the first piece I decided to do a thunderstorm and trying to achieve a lightning effect. I think this could be better and I definitely need more practice to achieve a better lightning effect.

For the second piece for the final I decided to do a drought. Out of all three this one is my least favorite. It needs something more to it, but I'm not completely sure what it is. I think it is also missing some depth and some shadows. I think it does a good job of showing barrenness which is what I wanted it to. I tried my best to give the sun a hazy effect and I think it somewhat came out.

For the third and final piece for the final series I decided to do a flood. This one is probably my favorite. I really like how this one came out. The water helps to give movement in this piece.

Change Series #4- Volcano in Colored Pencil

For my last piece in the change series I decided to use a medium that I'm use to. So I decided on colored pencils. Originally, with this I planned to have dinosaurs running away from the lava, but I scrapped that idea and instead just went with the volcano pouring down and burning up the landscape. First, I sketched this piece out and then decided how each part was going to be colored.

The change in this piece is a change in perspective, time of volcanic activity, and a medium change.

Change Series #3- Volcano in Soft Pastel

For this one I went back to a similar perspective as the first piece in the series. I sketched out the volcano first and then used soft pastels to color it. Sketching it first was kind of a mistake because when I started to color the lava the pencil underneath started to smudge and show through. I tried to save this by adding a little black to the lave exploding out.
The change in this piece includes a change back to the first perspective, change in volcano activity, and a change in medium.

Change Series #2- Volcano in Oil Pastel

For this piece I wanted to do a different approach. So I drew the volcano from the top to show the volcano bubbling up before it explodes. So far this piece has been the most fun to make and I think I might have found a new favorite medium.
The changes in this piece a change in perspective, change in volcano activity, and a change in medium.

Change Series #1- Volcano in Gouache

For my change series I plan to do different perspectives and different stages of a volcano blowing up as well as them being in different mediums. For this first one I decided to use the medium gouache. The stage that the volcano is in, is it's about to blow up and so is just smoking. 

 I sketched out how I wanted the piece. With the gouache I added blocks of color and then once it dried I added some details.  

Positive and Negative Space Project #2

For this project I wanted it to be different from the other one. So I sketched out the scene that I wanted to do for this project and then I drew lines to make the different sections for this piece and then planned out how I was going to paint it.

During critique it was brought to my attention that the piece leads the eye everywhere, but with no clear direction. So when I came home I added a red dot/explosion to the middle so the piece will lead people's eyes towards the middle and it'll no longer be hard to see what is in the piece.

Positive and Negative Space #1

For positive and negative space I decide I wanted to paint an alien so I sketched him out and planned where the black and the white where going to be.

So for the end project I finished painting the respect sides and added details to the alien and UFO.

This project was really fun and although this one is very simple it is one of my favorites.