Final Blogs - Ideas Before I Started My Project

    I decided to paint Alison Krauss, not only because she is really pretty but also because she's one of my favorite singers. I also looked into doing J. R. Tolkien, but he isn't one of those "picture" type of guys, so I decided to stick with Alison. My painting sort of came out exactly as I had depicted it. I just really wanted to make sure I did something different than everyone else, because I wanted to keep my style unique. But, I had hoped it would've come out a little less fuzzy looking. What I mean in fuzzy, is that I wish I had gotten my lines and all the squares completely straight and smooth looking. And, I guess the reason why I could not do that is because of the tremor in my hand, as I have talked about in an earlier post. I feel like this project has helped me learn how to keep my hand more steady, but I still have that slight shake, which really stinks because I really try my best to make straight lines. Anyway, I decided to pick the monochromatic blue color for my background because it's my favorite color. And then I asked Mrs. Story if I could do something a little different than just the circle pattern, and she said yes. So, I planned on doing squares but when I saw other people in my class starting to paint squares, I wanted to do something different. So, I still painted the squares, but I made it into a different pattern. I actually really liked how they turned out, but if I had to change something, I would try to make my squares inside my squares more clean looking, (i.e. paint the lines straighter). I also decided to do the same pattern for Alison's hair. I decided to paint her hair monochromatic brown colors, to 1. to keep the monochromatic pattern going, 2. to relate the brown color to the blue background colors (which go nicely), and 3. because brown is my other favorite color. :P I actually pictured my painting with dark blue colors in the background and dark brown colors for her hair, but I couldn't make that many different dark blue and brown colors, and I needed the colors to vary a bit. So, I ended up adding not only dark brown and blue colors, but also some lighter colors too. I then decided to make Alison's face normal skin colors and add gray-ish green eyes and pale-ish pink lips. As I had already said, my painting came out pretty good. I like the colors I chose and it actually looks somewhat like Alison, except that it isn't painted precisely and looks more like a unique modern piece. But, I still like it. :)