This idea was out of the blue, I thought it would be cool to draw a container of peanuts, however i was out of peanuts so i resorted to peanut M&M's. My other idea was to do a closet but I didn't think i would have the time to draw it, however I probably should have because I think it would have looked better than the M&M's. In the planning I did the M&M's in pen and I think it looked better than the paint, I also wasn't use to using acrylic so it took me some time to get use to it. My process was laying down a base color for all the M&M's then going back in and adding highlights and shading to each M&M. I then did the base layer for the granite counter top and still have to add to it. An obstacle I faced was getting the glass jar right, I drew glass for the first time a couple weeks ago and that was already pretty hard so to paint glass it made it even harder. I'm still adding highlights and shading and colors to make it look more realistic but it'll just take time to perfect painting glass. Another obstacle I faced was the background, and painting granite, I don't really like it and I still need to add more detail to it. One thing I think was successful was the M&M's themselves, I like the highlights I got with them and I also like the colors I got. One thing I need to improve on is time management and detail in the background, I think if I were to add more detail to the background it would make the piece pop more. I also need to improve on the glass because as of right now it still doesn't look like glass, however I do plan on fixing it and making it look more realistic. What was gained from my project was learning how to do shading and highlighting with acrylic paint, I don't think I've ever done that with acrylic paint and you have to work a lot faster than I thought you had to since acrylic drys so fast. This has inspired me to use more oil paints because I like the way they look and I like how you can work on them a lot longer than acrylic paint for detail and it's a lot easier to add detail to oil for me. What I were to do different if I did this project again would be draw the glass bowl differently and I would add more detail to the glass and granite so it looks more realistic. I would also find a way to add a shine to the granite so it looks realistic and add more highlights to the glass. Overall I think my piece is successful I ended up getting rid of the granite and adding a simple background, I then added more to the glass bowl to make it look realistic and I added the letters to the M&M’s. I really like this piece now that I’m done with it, also now that I’m done with it and I’m looking at it I might add more to the background since it’s very plain but other than that I like the way this ended up looking.
I got this idea by wanting to originally paint shoes, however I've already made a piece with shoes, so I then decided to do hats. Both these hats are my hats and they're two of my favorites. Originally I was going to do one hat then I was going to do three or four and I ended up with two. The rolling stones hat is my personal favorite, the hat is black however I used shades of blue and red to get a black vibe. The cream hat was the hardest, it was really difficult to get shading in the hat and all the details on the hat took a while since oil paint takes so long to dry. The benefits of planning and sketching for me was deciding how many hats to do, and what position I wanted the hats to be in. I went with two because I liked these two the most over all them and I liked the picture that I had of the two of them together. Originally the background for the piece was white and I decided to have the hats sitting on a brick landscape and a flush pink background. I didn't want white and I thought the maroon and pink would look best for a background since I used so much blue, white, red, and tan in the hats itself. Some obstacles I faced were getting the textures of the hats and the shading of the hats, it was a lot harder than I intended it to be, however overall I really like the way the hats turned out. I do have a favorite because I spent more time on the rolling stones one compared to the marine one. Another obstacle I faced was not using black, black is a flat color however the rolling stones hat is black, so I improvised and used shades of blue and red to get a black vibe, I know its not black but it's as close as I could get and overall I really enjoy the way the hat looks. I think I was successful on the drawing itself and the painting, I wish I had better time management for this piece because I ended up spending the majority of the time on one hat, so the other is a little flat and not as detailed as I'd like it to be. One thing I need to improve on with painting is adding colors that you don't see but you know belong there, its hard for me to add colors to a piece when you don't actually see them in the picture however adding these other colors gives dimension to the piece and makes it look more realistic. I also could improve on the proportions on the right hat, I think the proportions are a little off and I wish the top of the hat mixed the lid more. I gained experience from this project, this was the first time I ever made a final piece with oil paints. I liked them a lot more than I thought I would and I like how you ca blend out the colors so nicely. I also gained skill with blending paints and creating colors for these hats. This has inspired me to learn more about oil paints because in Art 3 I never really gave them chance since I liked acrylic so much, but after giving them a chance I really like the way my piece turned out and I enjoyed using them. If I were to make this piece again I would change the proportions on the right hat and try to add more shading than I did. I think for the first time really using oils I did a good job and I like the way it turned out.
This was my first time really using oils, I had experimented with them before but didn't know how to use them. Personally I liked using the pallet knife more, however the colors were more likely to get muddy for me, I also really liked the texture you can get with the pallet knife compared to brushes. The brushes were a bit difficult for me because the paint takes so long to dry , but it's all new and overall I really liked using the oil paints for the first time.
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