We had three choices of artwork to 're-create' and I chose a tree with a blended pastel background. I chose it because I love working with pastels and the background looked awesome with all of it's different colours.
We were put into classes according to the artwork we chose and I was in in Room 8. On the first day Mrs Raisin created a piece of artwork for us. First of all she drew the tree lightly with pencils, but there were no leaves on it. Since we were working on a landscape piece of paper the branches needed to be wide, not tall.
Since I am in the school choir I had a little less time to do my calendar art because of our afternoon practices, but before school I began to draw up my tree lightly. Once I had completed the basic shape I made the trunk wider and certain branches to make it look REAL. I had drew the branches in a certain way so they were almost like individual boxes. You'll understand when you see the picture.
Soon, I began to add the pastel. I put it around the edges of the paper and next to the branches. I did at least two different colours in each 'box'. After I had finished rubbing the pastels on the edges I got a tissue (you could blend it with your index fingers, but they got dirty and smudged rather than blend) and kind of 'dragged it' down. By that I mean I placed my tissue on the pastel and dragged them into the middle. I continued this the whole way around the boxes and then blended on from there.
I tried to use a different range of colours; red, yellow, green, pink, skin colour, orange, brown etc with dark and light colours as well. It looked amazing.
I also blended the pastel by the bottom of the tree - underneath the branches. I did yellow at the bottom and then worked up darker and darker, almost like a sunrise or ombre. I put brown in the corners, red by the trunk, and green and blue by the edges.
I have now completed my Calendar art. Now I can show my family and they can order my artwork in either a pack of cards, diary, as a calendar (obviously) or mouse pad. I think I might get a diary and calendar...
Here is my finished artwork. Do you like it? >
Hi Jaime, I really like your calender art you did a wonderful job. Next time you should work on not smudging it so much. What was the hardest thing to do? I look forward to seeing more of your work.
ReplyDeleteHi Sophie! The hardest part was smudging the pastel in the smaller 'boxes'. I had to be careful not to overlap another one.
DeleteHi Jaime, Naomi here. I enjoyed your Calendar art because you smudged the colours well together, and it made a perfect coloured smoke effect. You added shine to your tree which made is a bit more realistic. Maybe next time add more than one colour into each leaf? Either way it was a great artwork.
ReplyDeleteThanks Naomi!
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