Project 3: Inked Octopus

   I wanted to do an octopus painting because of my last project, but I didn't have this in mind at first. One day in art I had painted a piece of paper this blue green color, and then I accidentally splattered  black paint on it.  The splatter mark actually reminded me of an octopus tentacle, so I went with it. After I painted to head and added more tentacles, I splattered gold paint to add more color. This project was kind of easy, but it took a lot of guts. While splattering the paint, I never knew if the paint was going to fall the way I wanted it to. Luckily, it did. Over all I'm happy with this project.

Project 2; Skeleton Mermaid-Octopus

I chose to do this project not only because it went with my skeleton theme, but because I love mermaids! One might forget that is is a mermaid because of the octopus head, but it is. I think the octopus head makes it unique. I originally didn't plan on having the octopus head, but as I started drawing it just came to me. I painted the background first. It was originally just a tan color, but I decided to add texture with different colors to make it look like sand. The skeleton tail was the hardest thing to paint. I had to make really little and straight paint strokes. Once I decided not to paint a face on the octopus, I thought adding glitter would make it pop. I'm really happy with the way this project turned out. It is one of my favorites.

Art 3, Project 1: Skeleton Cut Out

    This project was definitely took awhile. I chose a skeleton theme for my three projects because I wanted a challenge. Skeletons are not an easy thing to create. It took me several weeks to draw the skeleton and cut it out of the black paper. Once I got it all cut out, I placed it over a simple white paper that I painted with a light red and purple watercolor, and placed lace over top of the watercolor. After that, it still seemed too dull, so I decorated the black paper with swirls drawn with white colored pencil. Although this project didn't turn out exactly how I expected, I'm still happy with it. If I did it over again, I think I would take more time on it, and make sure it was perfect!

Project #11: Water Color

Whenever I think of water color paintings, I think of things I did in preschool. But this project was obviously more challenging. I chose a jellyfish because it's my favorite animal. I also think that jellyfish have cool colors and shapes that made the painting unique. It wasn't that hard to draw, but painting it was difficult. I had to get the shading just right and blend the colors properly. Overall, I liked the final outcome.

Project #10: Prints

This project was very difficult. It was hard to carve out the shape I wanted. Although it was hard, I liked it a lot. My shape turned out good, and I liked all the different colors we got to use to print. I would like to do something like this again, just maybe on a bigger scale.

Project #9: Stop Motion *no video

This project was really fun, but difficult. It was hard to get the pictures in the same lighting, and to make them flow together correctly. It was awesome to see my ideas "come to life".  I always watched stop motion videos, and I really like that I got the chance to make one. It was a really fun project. It's one of my favorites.

Project #8: Candy Drawing *No picture

This project was fun. It was hard not to eat the candy while drawing it, but I managed to resist. It was cool to draw my favorite candies in a 3D perspective. I really enjoyed this project. It was simple, but fun.