The piece on the left is my abstract painting, I used the wash water color technique to create it. I found it a but challenging because I had to use white water color in the piece. The paint just took on its own shape in the water and that's how some of the cool effects appeared. I like this piece and the results of it.
The piece on the right is my still life painting in a book page. I really likes this project and would like to another one. I'm really wanting spring to come early this year and that's what inspired me to do flowers. I used a wash water technique and I'm really happy with how this project turned out.
This piece is my landscape. The painting is of a Japanese Cherry Blossom tree in a mountain landscape. The challenge of this piece was getting the tree to look as realistic as I could. I think my project could have turned out better, but I'm not completely disappointed in it.
This piece is my tutorial. The painting is in an African setting and shows elephants and an native tree. My biggest challenge in this piece was trying to get all the colors in the sky to blend well. I am happy about how this piece turned out in the end though. If I could change something, I would add more detail to the ground.
My solution was to create a color wheel into a tiger. I chose this because tigers are my favorite wild animal and I thought it would be perfect to interpret a color wheel into. I felt challenged creating this, I had a hard time creating some of the colors, my biggest challenge was the yellow green. My work did turn out the way I envisioned it and I love it. I could make it better though by doing a few more coats of white paint and I could of made the tiger more realistic looking.
My favorite project was my ancient vase because of how incredible and accurate it turned out to be. I used skills and techniques that I had used on previous projects before, such as slabs, coils, and slipping and scoring. I glazed it with stroke and coat paint and glazes that explode different colors. I love my ancient vase project and feel that it was a great success.
This project has not yet been glazed fired since it was my final. This project was definitely my biggest challenge, making a functional teapot into the shape of a pig. My solution to making this a success was to just take my time to make it right and not rush it. It was a challenge getting the shape of the teapot just right. If I could do it over again, what I would do differently would include adding more details to the teapot. I loved it when I saw it completed and it was a success.
This free form shows my favorite colors, it's not very personal but I feel the way the colors lay in the project and swirl reflects my work as an artist and I love it. The artwork is just a very simple piece and it let me express myself
