Intro To Painting

Reverse painting on plexi. It was fun doing this painting. I was very confused which design to choose and how would it appear when i reverse it. But I tried my best and its not that bad.

This is my part one of my plexus glass painting done. It came out much better than I had originally expected!

I think it turned out great! Unfortunately it’s incomplete. After I drew the characters with marker I decided that I wanted to revamp the stay at home part so I’m going to add that later. In total the characters took me about 7 hours to paint. I found out very quickly that painting normally wouldn’t work because the paints weren’t fully opaque. So I put down a base layer and added an extremely thick layer on top of that after it dried. I had a lot of the black paint that we made from the first project left over (although I did add actual black paint into it to make it darker). I wanted to keep the color scheme of the collage but I also wanted to add that red highlight that they main characters have to the other ones as well. I also had to problem solve the shadows because they are very choppy and it was hard for me to get a smooth curved line. Overall this is my favorite method of painting so far and I will definitely be making more art works with it in my free time! I’ll post a pic over a white background to show the end result better.

Above are some compositions of shapes that I have created. I didn’t really know what I was really supposed to be doing so I just let my mind go wild and started to place shapes all around and see if something would be created out of it. Then I realized that I would most likely have to paint this so then I tried something more simple, which were the colorful squares. 

Here is my shape collage; when beginning I placed the swatches of my colors close to each other, let them mostly dry and the colors were discord to one another; though, when fully dried most of my colors were discord to one another, and two other colors dried as a darker set of their own discord. Next time I try a painting like this I must try to make sure that the swatches are completely dry before I start painting on my canvas.