So in my art journal, I have also made some pieces that I am not sure really would work. Remember that I plan to photoshop a picture and then paint it using tempera paint.
The following are pieces that I am having difficulty trying to choose from.
This is one of those pieces. It is a watercolor piece that I tried to make look like a sunset. Heres the twist, it was suppose to be the opposite of what you would typically see in a sunset picture. Instead of dark silhouettes, they are white. Instead of deep blue ocean, it is bright yellow. You get the idea.
Why I like this piece is how I used something that was very common and put a spin on it. The only difficult part of that is how to make it still seem like that common sight, but not. The only thing that I don't like the piece is the purple sea foam coming up to the shore. This is because you can't really recognize it enough.
This piece is also done with water color, but it is produced from continuous brush strokes rather than a real picture.
There are a few things you can see in this picture. A roof of a house with some orange things spewing out of it, a cloud in the top right corner that is producing lightning bolts and rain, an orange figure being sheltered from the rain, and someone fleeing from the orange person.
The orange person looks as if they are crying under the the protection of the rain. The yellow person has dash marks, making it look like they are fleeing from the person.
The only thing I don't like about this is how complicated it is. The amount of work that would have to go into re-creating this just seems too difficult.
This piece I did in markers. The piece shows a note that has produced a girl on one of its 'legs.' In the background, spectacular lights stream from afar.
Music has always been something key in my life. I was part of the San Diego Children's Choir, sang in my church choir for a while, and even now I constantly sing along to my favorite tunes.
The message I was going for was music is beautiful. However, I really don't think that this piece does a good job of portraying that message. In fact, there isn't much I could tell you about the message it portrays now. I think that eventually the piece started to take its own course and ended up as such.
Some people have made suggestions to get rid of the bright unusual background and instead have this piece be behind it:
What this would allow me to do is create a piece that was only focused about music, and eliminate the unusual colors.
Please provide feedback as to which one might be nice to take the next step and do some photoshopping with. Thank you.
In this piece, you can see red rain falling up from a cloud with multiple blood spots surrounding it. I believe I was feeling slightly depressed that day.
This piece is done with watercolor. It is suppose to be based on the idea that we don't always know what we really are. The red question mark represents that questioning of oneself.
This shows a baby floating with an umbilical chord that is made out of circuits. Below the egg that the baby is floating in is a sort of control panel.
The basis of this piece was 'A heart of a lion.' You can see someone lying on a bed, as the EDG or electrocardiograph measures their heart rate. On the screen a lion appears.
