For this project we had to think of everyday objects in our lives and paint them on canvas using oil paints. This project would by my first project using oil paints besides the practice that we got to do with the oil apples right before this. I was looking around my house for everyday objects and was not really coming up with much inspiration for it until I saw the Halloween candy that my mom had just bought spread out on the the table to put in a bowl, candy that she had bought a whole month in advance which is weird i agree. I just decided to take a picture of it which i thought would be a cool perspective and it really fills up the whole canvas which would look really cool, and i think turned out pretty cool as well. I used a burnt sienna wash on my canvas and then started painting once it dried. The one thing i really enjoyed about doing this project if nothing else, was all the different variety of colors that i got to use, so i never really got tired of using the same one over and over which happens so often. The part that i really had a lot of trouble with was figuring out that you have to let the oils dry a little if you are trying to add in the extra values like shadows and highlights or it all kind of mixes together. Also, which i think must be obvious from my previous spelling errors in my Yankee candle project, i spelled starbursts wrong which really bothers me and i think that it sticks out like a sore thumb but maybe that's just because i know its there. Overall though i think i enjoyed using the oils and it was something cool and different to get to do and i would be down to use them again.
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March 2016
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