Once I had finished my facial features and my bcakgorund colour, I was able to start dotting in the red negative spaces. I used to colours, beige and white. I outlined my body with dotting first and every line of dots I did, was a different colour from the one before and the one after it. To make my dotting interesting, I created a circle pattern in one of the larger negative spaces.
From the beginning of Term 2, I have continued to paint myself. I began to paint my face and a chose a warm colour for my background. Painting my face was hard because I needed show the form of my face through using different line strokes and tone. I still need to work on these techniques! In the end, I chose to use the colour red as my background colour because it contrasts nicely with the black paper my painting is on and the navy blue of my school uniform.
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Today in art Mrs Vincent was way, so instead of painting we were given a revision sheet for our appraising task that is coming up. We needed to answer questions on some pieces of art work by Vincent Fantauzzo. The questions involved the elements and principles of art used, the colour schemes and some interpretations of the piece. I enjoyed doing this task, however, some questions on colour schemes were difficult as I have not learnt much about them.
Today I finished painting my uniform and body. The only thing left to do is paint my facial features such as my eyes mouth and nose. I think this i going to be difficult because I am not very good at paint in shadow and in my photo most of my face is in shadow as there is lght behind me.
Once I have painted my face, I need to paint over the white gesso in a warm colour so that is contrasts with the cool navy blue of our uniform. I think I am going to paint it orange or red!
Once I have painted my face, I need to paint over the white gesso in a warm colour so that is contrasts with the cool navy blue of our uniform. I think I am going to paint it orange or red!
Once I had painted the background in gesso, I began painting my unifrom and the rest of my body. It was most improtant to look at our photos at this stage of painting because most of our skin was shaded by our dresses and we needed to show this when painting.
I found it really difficult to create a skin colour that was realistic and close to my own skin colour in the photo. I found it even more difficult to paint the showdows at the top of my legs and on my arms. However, with a bit of help, hopefully I will be able to creat the form necessary to make my picture look effective!
In art today, I began drawing in the inside details of my face and the final touches to my uniform. I had to be aware of where the shawdows were on my face so that I could use them to make my drawing more 3D and realistic. I found it diffficult to draw the detail of my eyes with the thick piece of chalk that we used. Next lesson I will paint the background box in white gesso so that it is even easier to see the negatives spaces.
In these art lesson, we had our frames all ready drawn so we could begin drawing the negative spaces.
I turned my picture upside down and I started with negative spaces on the left and I worked my way around until my whole outline was complete. I found drawing like this made my picture more accurate and I didn't realise this until afterwards.
Next I turned my picture right way up and I began drawing in the inside details such as my shirt sleeve, uniform and facial features. I found this more difficult as I need to draw add in the shadows on my face and the folds in my apron and unifrom
I am really enjoying drawing the negative spaces because it seems to make my drawing more accurate.
