Final Piece: Sugar Skull

For my final piece I decided to do a Sugar Skull after recently getting inspiration from the movie Coco. I did this on Illustrator.

Change 4: Don’t Splash Your Trash

For my last change piece I decided last minute that I wanted to do something other than painting or drawing. I decided to use illustrator and kind of make a poster out of it. Looking on Pinterest I got some ideas about bottles in the ocean and wanted to put fishes trapped in the bottle. I wanted to keep it simple yet informative.

Change 3: Duck out of oil

For this piece I just wanted to make this just a painting. I recently saw a commercial for the Dawn Dish Soap about how people use their soap to clean the wildlife from oil spills. Instead of trying to make it realistic I decided that I wanted to have fun with it and draw out a rubber duck. I also used India ink for the oil spill.

Change 2: JellyBag Fish

Because of pollution a lot of litter has been washing up a shore. With that, plastic bags in the ocean have been mistaken for jellyfish in the ocean and the plastic bags get eaten by their predators like sea turtles, sharks and swordfishes. I painted an ocean underwater and decided to outline jelly fish out of plastic bags, cut them and glued them on the canvas.

Change 1: Bird’s Nest

For my series of Change I decided that I wanted to do something about how Pollution has affected and changed the ecosystem throughout the years. For this piece I wanted to paint a bird with a nest and use newspaper clippings and collage that over the nest. I wanted to keep it simple and since I don’t know how to paint that well I didn’t want to mess it up too much!

Experiment 4: Analogous Colors

This is my fourth experiment. I decided to do another float because I actually like making the floats! This time I decided to make it analogous by putting in a splash of green. I then drew out a jelly fish on card stock, used a green marker then went over it with some alcohol then I cut it out with an exact knife and glued it on the background.

Experiment 3: Monochromatic

For my third experiment I basically did a float by mixing different shades of blue and letting them drip all over the paper. It was messy but quite fun! After drying I decided to go for an aquatic theme so I painted a blue seahorse to keep it simple.

Experiment 2: Triadic Colors

For this second experiment I used red, yellow and blue paint (triadic colors) and used a bit of water to make it runny. I then put Saran Wrap over the painting while it was drying to give it a cool effect. I then cut a small piece of the painting and put it over small piece of board and wanted to keep it simple and paint three different flowers to match with the background.

1st Experiment: Complimentary Colors

Here is one of four experiments. I used liquitex along with red and green alcohol ink. Once it was dry I took it off from the plastic sleeve and put it on a small painted wood board and I decided to use more of the green and red alcohol ink on the board to make it look like it was dripping off.

Olive de Guadalupe

For my positive and negative assignment I decided to use a photo I took of my cat. I chose this photo because she somewhat reminded me of the Virgin Mary. I really liked this assignment and is my all time favorite! I used India ink and tracing paper.

Scraggly Squirrel

Since I decided not to use a scratch board I decided to use charcoal to design this squirrel. I’ve been using charcoal in my drawing class and so I wanted to use it for this scraggly furry friend. I tried to give it a little bit of value but then again keep it simple. I feel like when I overdo things I make things worse so I didn’t want to risk that.

Hermit Crab in Shell

This is my assignment for realism with color. I’m not good with giving shades especially with colored pencils, so I tried my best. I used a bit of water color as well as alcohol and white paint for some areas to give it a realistic look for the hermit crab.

Organic Shape Blue Jay

Here is the before and after photos of my fourth design. The first image was taken after class and the second one was done a few hours after class. I’d say it has some organic lines with a bit of implied lines.

Stippling Blue Jay

Finished this over the weekend. I really liked how it turned out!

Stippling Blue Jay

Did this third design in my class earlier today. This line design is pointillism and so far is my favorite design. Not finished yet, but will finish soon!

Blue Jay

My second line design. I wanted to do a line sketch/hatch design.

Blue Jay

Here is my finished line design of my Blue Jay! I didn’t really know how I wanted to design it but as it was coming along it made me think of how a color blind test would look. At first, I didn’t like how it started but I do like the end result. I used different colored markers to achieve this look.