For this project I am not exactly sure what the set medium for the majority of the people was supposed to be because i know everyone was all over the place with this using primas and painting but i chose to do prismas again. The main idea for this project was that we were supposed to think of cool interior spaces and draw/paint it and/or what was inside of it and it took me a while to really come up with an idea that i would really enjoy doing and like. I started thinking about boxes and board game boxes because, obviously, that would be an interior space, and i tend to really like drawing board game paraphernalia for some reason, like the chess pieces. I remember Mrs. Rossi telling us to think OUTSIDE the box so i started thinking about the scrabble letters and how it would be cool to write some kind of message with the letters and then i thought it would be just perfect if the letters said think INSIDE the box since the letters would be placed inside the box after all. Photographing this was a bit of a challenge, i was trying to get it at a really cool angle that would give the box a cool perspective and try to make it like you really were looking right inside the box. After i sketched it out a few times, i decided that i was going to go with the toned paper from my toned sketch book because i really liked how even the colors could get on it and i think it help for the overall appearance of the seen. I think prismas might be one of my favorite mediums and i had a lot of fun with this. My favorite part was doing the tiles and trying to make them look really shaded but also look like tiles at the same time. Trying to get the actual Scrabble wording on the box was a challenge because it was hard to mock the actual font from the real box, and it was kind of an awkward creamish yellow. One thing i would like to go back and do is add a shadow to the bottom of the box reflecting o the background of the project because i think that aspect of the project looks really flat.
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.
To prepare for the work with our everyday objects that we were to paint for our next project using oil paints we practiced on sheets of square canvas and did one with the paint brushes and one with a palette knife. We did an acrylic wash in the background and for the one with paintbrushes I used a blue wash and for the palette knife apple I did a burnt Sienna wash. The apple with the paintbrush turned out ok I think but I didn't do as much reflective values in the apple as I could have I think which might have helped with its 3 dimensional aspects. using the oil paint was a challenge and this was my first time working with it. Trying to figure out how to lay the paint down with it all blending together was hard especially when every time I would lay down white it would blend right in. The palette knife apple was just a ... no its just no. I never imagined how hard working with a palette knife would be but it was extremely difficult, like smearing on icing. I can't really see myself ever voluntarily working with the palette knife haha.
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