This is one of the houses that was on my childhood street. I started with the structure of the house and continued on to the landscaping. The house is made up of various shades of brown. I did not run into trouble until it came to the windows. On one side of the house I decided to do the windows in black which ended up being a mistake. Then I had to water down the windows and lift the color up. That ended up not working so I had to mix the color I wanted with white acrylic to go over and fix it. The shrubbery was a huge challenge to me because I've never done anything like that in watercolor before. I had to look at several tutorials before I could move forward with the landscaping. I used a flat brush for the bushes and the trees to create texture. My favorite aspect of this piece is the brick because it is made up of so many colors and it was also very simple to do. I put different colors on my flat brush and moved it slightly to create a brick effect. Overall this piece was a little challenging and it took a significant amount of time but I am very happy the way it turned out.
For one of my first concentration pieces I decided to do Bears Den Cabin from a park in my hometown. I did change things up from the original photo to make the piece more eye catching and detailed. The first stuff I started to do was the leaves on the trees and bushes. I had to look up various styles of leaves and techniques to use. For the larger trees I created the leaves using whisps which was simple yet time consuming. For the tree on the far left I did continuous loops and used a thicker pen for the leaves farthest away from the viewer. The most challenging were the bushes because I was undecided of how to make them up. After trying different ideas I ended up with the three pointed leaves. I shaded some areas of the bushes to create depth. The cabin was the easiest part of this piece because all it was, was shading and straight lines. Then after a long time of coming up with ideas, I decided to put a little stream in the foreground with grass around it. I love this piece because it shows how secluded this cabin is and the beauty that surrounds it.
I chose to use one of my pictures I took over the summer as a reference. I decided to use one of my favorite mediums, pen and ink. I also decided to go small because of the medium I chose. I used different techniques to portray certain elements such as the trees and leaves. I made whisps to create the tree leaves and heart figures for the vines. I decided to color the trees pure black so it they would contrast to their surroundings. One major decision was to only use ink but no ink washes because I like the simplicity of this piece. This is one of my favorite pieces I've done all this year because it's simple but also has detail such as the background. I hope to become more intricate when it comes to pen and ink.
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May 2016
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