Creativity Post 13

I decided to do something totally different than I have ever done before this week. I've obviously taken some inspiration from Jackson Pollock with the whole splatter painting technique. But I also feel really good about this painting because it's the first time I've ever painted something that was absolutely 100% done without looking at something else as a basis. I love the abstract feel of the painting and I think it looks pretty darn good if I do say so myself. I think I got pretty creative here. This ideas for this one just kind of came to me as I went along. I first put down a thick black stripe across the middle. That's all I knew I wanted at first. The light blue came down as a sharp contrast and as the lines got closer together, I liked how the white stripes looked so I left them. I looked for colors that would look good in contrast with black and blue. Red was first and it turned out well but I could tell it needed a little something more. I applied some white splatter lines and spots and I just knew I was done. This is one of my favorites for sure.

Creativity Post 12

I thought that I'd show a little more of the process in this post. As an artist, my "roots" have always been in black and white pencil sketches. I only started painting last semester but I've been doing pencil drawings my whole life. I remember back to my elementary school days having a great love for sketching like this and I still feel that way now. Because of my history and tendencies as an artist, my painting kind of relies on my drawing as a sort of crutch. I always sketch out what I want to paint first in pencil and then paint over it. I can paint pure paint if I really want to but it's never quite as good as when I stick to this process. Closing in on the end of the year I'm feeling a little nostalgic and wanted to do another version of the UGA Arch. The last one was dark and almost a little spooky. With this one, I think I'm going to go for the complete opposite and make it very bright. Sunshine, blue skies, the whole nine yards.

Creativity Post 11

One aspect about becoming a better painter is improving specific skills. Aside from the fact that I love Peanuts, I wanted to paint this picture so I could practice my color blending/transitioning. Making a consistent transition of white at the horizon up to a royal blue at the top of the sky was pretty difficult, much more than I had imagined anyway. To do this, I mixed a series of different shades of blue. I painted white at the bottom and the blue that I already had at the top. I then painted a section of each mixed blue that I had in between. I used broad strokes to mix the wet paint on the canvas to make it look more consistent. The trees and clouds offered some obstacles to the blending but it worked out. I feel much more comfortable with this specific skill now that I really spent time to concentrate on it.

Creativity Post 10

Wanting to do more simple paintings led me to this one. I can't really say why I like this painting so much. I just do. It's definitely a blend of the color scheme along with the challenge of painting the female face. I think this is an example of an image where less is really more and maybe that's what I like about it. Aside from taking forever to try and not let the female look like she had a lazy eye, the other huge challenge was to get a consistent blue over the entire background. That ended up being a lot more difficult than I had anticipated. I think I might lean towards doing some more minimal works in the future.