For our second piece we had to create something that had to deal with things we see or use everyday. For my piece I chose a couch from my living room at hoe that I always sit on after school. Now, going into this project I knew that if I did an everyday object, I wanted to put a little twist on the whole thing. I planned out three sketches one of a couch with an 80's look, one with a couch under a street light, and one of a couch underwater. I ended up choosing the 80's looking couch, which I am glad I stuck with. I chose the 80's couch because I wasn't feeling sure if I could execute the other ideas right, I was afraid I would mess up and create chaos on a canvas. I wasn't sure if I could paint an underwater look or a street light look and make it look presentable. (Seeing my work now I think I would have done okay, though.) To create my project I used layers a lot. I painted based colors first to know where everything was going to go. Then I added black to my base colors and painted the shadows. Sometimes, the shadow layer with black was to dark so I would just add another layer of the base color and the shading looked a lot better, an example of where I used this technique is on the front pillows. After shadows, I painted the background and then I painted the patterns and after that, the shading for the patterns (which was very tricky!). Some challenges I faced were the background, using transparent colors, and shading. The background was challenging because I wasn't sure if I wanted to color it purple and so I tried to paint different colors but they were transparent and let all the other colors I tried show through. In the end I still painted it purple. Painting with transparent colors was a challenge because they don't cover mistakes and they can't be used for layers because they show everything underneath. I overcame this by adding white to the colors I was trying to use and it layering them on themselves. An example of this is when you look at the patterns everywhere. Shading was hard when I was trying to shade only the pattern alone because I had to be very careful on not smudging everything and staying in my lines. My successes were my color choices and my patterns. My color choices are a success because they make my couch pop a lot, especially because the colors fit together really well. My patterns were a success because I executed them very neatly and the colors for them are really vibrant. With acrylic paint I learned how to paint neater when I want to have a more sharp looking piece. I also learned how to paint with certain colors that I want and how to make them pop. During this project I grew in many ways. From making more 3 dimensional art, knowing where all my shadows should go, and by creating something so different from my other art I've done.
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