My idea for this piece was mechanical bunnies on a stone pathway with bushes around it and the main bunny up front next to a flower coming out of the side. This piece was one of the harder ones to do this semester because it was my first time combining multiple pictures for a composition. Usually I just have a reference photo to go off of. The part that was the hardest was the metal. Metal has so many highlights and darks that when I usually do metal, I have one reference photo and I break the metal into different chunks and focus on the shapes of the different shades. So without a solid reference photo, it was hard to know where all the highlights and darks were supposed to go in order to make the metal look realistic. But these challenges have helped me grow as an artist and focus more on established a light source or multiple and how that effects the shades and highlights on the objects.
In my first attempt at palette knife, I said I would never do a piece in it unless I had a change of heart, which I guess I did. The reason I choose to do palette knife was because the way the picture was set up with the grass and everything, I felt like it would be a good one to do in palette knife. Plus we were in a rush to get this piece done, so I thought it would be faster, which it was. I had free time in drawing, my next period, so I got most of it done in the two days using both of my art periods. The reason why I picked this lanscape was because I wanted it to be a place that means something to me, instead of painting something I have no connection to. This was taken at the beach of the hotel Atlantis Lodge, where my family has gone every year with our dog since I was born. Some thing that I liked about this piece is all the pops of color I could blend with the palette knife, like pink into the sky or bright green into the sea. Some things that I had trouble with was not overblending a color so you couldn’t see it. I also had trouble doing some details like the volleyball net since the texture in the sand was so rough. Overall I’m happy with how the piece turned out and how the colors look together. This might inspire me to do another palette knife painting in the future.
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March 2018
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