Water Color Silhouette Day 1

Day 1: I am starting a water color painting with a cut out silhouette in the middle. The silhouette is of a girl with her head down. I started by drawing the girl onto the watercolor paper. After that I used an Exacto knife to slowly cut the girl out of the paper. This took a good amount of time since there were lots of curves and edges so you must take your time. After I cut her out the edges were all torn and jagged so I used a lighter to burn the edges of the silhouette. You must make sure the edges are put out quickly or else it will burn too much and you'll lose the details in the figure. I am going to make the painting look like water in which the girl is standing chest deep in. I want to go into very fine detail with the water and make it look very cool. I also might make a green meadow in it to add a different range in color to the background. I also traced the outline of the girl so I can play with it in different medias in the future.

Abstract Painting

Abstract Painting

I kind of laid off of art for a couple weeks since I had done a lot of pieces the last couple of weeks. When I came back to it I decided to start doing some abstract pieces like the one below. This time I decided to use a wood board canvas instead of a traditional canvas. I started by staining the wood board yellow by thinning out yellow acrylic paint with lots of water. After that dried I used acrylic modeling paste and made some shapes and figures out of it. After that dried (about a day later) I thinned out a decent amount of purple paint with water and pored it along the top of the canvas. I then stood the canvas upright and let it seep down. After that dried I flipped the canvas and did the same thing with green paint on the other side. At this point I was running out of ideas so I did the same thing with blue paint in the middle except I constantly rotated the canvas so it could drip both ways. After that dried I poured small puddles of black ink and used a straw to blow it around the canvas. I did this about five or six times. After that dried I used different sized chisels to carve out parts of the wood board. I then used a finer tipped chisel to make small carvings within the black ink. This is intended to be a mixed media piece but I went very abstract with it. I enjoyed doing it and how relaxed it was.