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Painting Process
For the paintings, I wanted to keep the theme personal to me. My initial subject matter was to strictly depict only paintings of nature; however, I wanted to switch this up and have fun with my new paints. I began to illustrate things that personally interested me and something I would be happy to personally display in my room. I then decided to go forward with painting butterflies, which are my favorite, flowers, and an Iraqi flag to represent my ethnicity!
For this first painting, I was trying to get the hang of the pigments, but it was a bit of a challenge because I was scrubbing the brush hard on the paint, causing clumps to form on the paper, as well as the paper to disintegrate due to how much water I was brushing on. I layered on the paint a few times to increase the saturation of the colors and to make them pop out. I decided to go with this mountain scene to accentuate the colors of the sky and to show off that blending was possible with these paints.
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This is one of the three larger paintings I made. It took a while because I was trying my best to keep layering the colors, as I noticed with the paints that if you don't do that, the colors can look faded out. This painting adheres to the "natural" theme, and I decided on this scenery to show off the earthy tones of the palette. Additionally, here I began mixing colors to achieve shades of green in the background, the main tree, and the color of the ground. (image below). The layering of the turmeric really pops here!
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Here is where I get adventurous with the subject matter. Everyone who knows me knows I love butterflies. Even as a grown woman, I have butterfly stickers as well as butterflies hanging from strings in my room. This still adheres to the "natural" theme but in a different way. With the colors, I layered them a lot to get a pigmented look. For the black colors, it took a lot of swirling with my brush to pick up deep black colors to outline the butterfly. I personally loved how this turned out. (image below)
This is another one of the larger paintings I made, and my personal favorite out of the paintings. This image depicts the skyline of Windsor. It still matches the "natural" theme and also caters to me personally as a Windsorite. This one took especially long because of its size and the many different elements, mixing colors, and layering of paint that I had to do so it would look as colorful as it does. (image below)
Still sticking to the natural theme, I had to paint some kind of flowers. It was a given to paint flowers that could show off the hues of the paint. In this particular painting, I mostly used mixed paint colors. For the purple, I mixed red into it. The orange had some red in it, and the red had some yellow in it. This was a chance to really show off the capabilities of the paint.
The last of the larger paintings was the Ambassador Bridge. I liked the idea of painting parts of Windsor, and what represents the border city more than the bridge, haha. With this painting, I really emphasized layering colors for that vibrant look. I had a blow dryer on deck to paint and dry the turmeric over and over again (not sure why it looks like green on the camera/image). The black watercolor for the bridge took some layering to get that rich black color. the precise lines were then help of a very thing brush that I used.
With this painting, I acknowledge it does not technically fit the natural subject matter like the other paintings. However, this was a painting I truly was inspired to paint out of pure fun. This painting represents a lot for me, and I could not pass off not painting the Iraqi flag! I did not layer a lot with the black, which I wish I did more now that I look back at it. As for the red, I mixed orange and red together to get a bright hue. The green was exceptionally hard because the pigment was hard to pick up on such a thin precise brush.
Overall Look of Paintings
