Bianca Pereira

Reverse plexi glass painting

https://www.artic.edu/artists/37327/karl-wirsum

For this week’s painting I decided to paint characters from the video game Animal Crossing. Animal Crossing New Horizons is a new game that came out in March of this year just when quarantine was beginning. This game really helped me get through quarantine by having something to look forward to and a way to connect with my friends. It really helped being able to escape into a virtual world where things were simple as the pandemic was spiraling. For my painting I painted three characters that are my favorites. I had a bit of trouble with it the beginning and had to scratch off all the paint to start over. Getting the very small details was really difficult so I used posca markers for details like their face features and the details on their clothes. All I have left to do is the background which I plan to paint it a mint green with a leaf pattern that is from the game.

For this week’s painting I stuck to darker colors for the discord. I made the squares red and green since they are complementary colors then I made the background color a blueish purple. I thought the purple could help add to the discord of the red and green. I found mixing the paint and getting the colors correct really enjoyable. I think the hardest part of this painting was the masking since it is very tedious and has to be done correctly first before I could start painting.

I think for the discord excercise I got the colors’ tones really close to one another. For the first red and green one I didn’t have to add white or make it darker. For the middle one I did analogous colors green and blue which I had to add a tint to. The last pair i worked with red and green again but wanted the discord pair to be darker. So i added some red go to the green and some green to the red.

For my painting I wanted to work with squares and rectangles as well we just two colors. I played around with laying the shapes on top of each other and tried some comps where none of the shapes are touching. My favorite composition out of the 5 is my 4th one.

Here is the progress of my painting. I just need to do some shading and add the light dots to it. For the painting excercises I enjoyed doing them it was cool to see how colors can affect how you perceive them.