Here are my choices for midterm. I have been working on these pieces throughout the semester and they are my five favorites.
This next piece is my soda can gouache. I had a lot of fun with this project because I found a really fun can. I wanted to do a white can so that I wouldn't have to worry about picking out a lot of detail because my first gouache didn't work to well trying to pick out a lot of detail. I was able to just paint in the black and orange and yellow. I did use a little pick out in the nose area. I then painted all of the words and did some washes with a very watered down black to help create some roundness to the can. I added a blue background to help show the edge of the can, and contrast the orange lettering. I also added the Jones soda logo at the top to help balance out the composition.
The third piece I have chosen for the midterm portfolio is my memory portrait. I had fun doing this, I used watercolors and tried to make him bright and colorful. I used red and purple for the shadows in the face and some blue and purple for shadows in the hair. This was my first attempt at using other colors for shadows, and I happy with the way it turned out.
This is my final piece for my midterm portfolio. I chose this three image gouache montage because it took me a while and I'm happy with the way it turned out for the most part. I like the tractor and chicken, but I would redo the wheat field next time. I started with the wheat field and then moved onto the fence, tractor, and finally the chicken. I did go back and mess with the wheat a few times to try and get it to look like a wheat field.
This watercolor is one of the first few that we did when we were just doing exercises to get used to watercolors. I like the way the wash turned out and looks like water ripples. I decided to turn it into a pond with grass and a duck. I like the layout of the painting, how the top of the grass is off the top of the page, but you can still see it in the reflection. Once I had the water and grass done I decided it needed something else and added the duck.
This next piece is my soda can gouache. I had a lot of fun with this project because I found a really fun can. I wanted to do a white can so that I wouldn't have to worry about picking out a lot of detail because my first gouache didn't work to well trying to pick out a lot of detail. I was able to just paint in the black and orange and yellow. I did use a little pick out in the nose area. I then painted all of the words and did some washes with a very watered down black to help create some roundness to the can. I added a blue background to help show the edge of the can, and contrast the orange lettering. I also added the Jones soda logo at the top to help balance out the composition.The third piece I have chosen for the midterm portfolio is my memory portrait. I had fun doing this, I used watercolors and tried to make him bright and colorful. I used red and purple for the shadows in the face and some blue and purple for shadows in the hair. This was my first attempt at using other colors for shadows, and I happy with the way it turned out. My fourth piece is my cartoon. I think this has been my favorite project so far. I really enjoyed coming up with jokes and then illustrating them. My joke is that you can choose a celebrity picture for you drivers license picture now at the dmv. I also had fun coming up with celebrity cartoons, and the other cartoon characters. I created the line art and then used photoshop to add the color in.
This is my final piece for my midterm portfolio. I chose this three image gouache montage because it took me a while and I'm happy with the way it turned out for the most part. I like the tractor and chicken, but I would redo the wheat field next time. I started with the wheat field and then moved onto the fence, tractor, and finally the chicken. I did go back and mess with the wheat a few times to try and get it to look like a wheat field.
