Nuria's Final Project

FINAL & GRADE DEFENSE

My inspiration for the last project was Kelsey's street art project with all the colorful trees. I really liked that it was so colorful and catches the eye, so I wanted to do something with a lot of colors too,
so I decided to paint a very colorful background on a small canvas. 
And then I found this amazing picture on the internet of a girl who is jumping out of the water with her arms up in the air, her hair flying around and a water-drops-wave coming out of her swinging hair, splashing over her head and then in front of her face, the water drops are falling down.
I instantly loved this picture and decided that I was going to draw her silhouette with the water (drops) all around her, in black, going over to grey and white, over the colorful background.
I used acrylic colors and different kind of brushes to get a cool, different structure on the background.
I had to create a depth of field around the silhouette and the water, so that it doesn't just seem to be taped on it, but more 2D and a part of the picture. The dominant colors in my painting are black (silhouette) and red, yellow, green-blue and violet for the background. There are also a lot of other colors, but they are subordinated to the ones that I have listed before. I have kind of a color scheme in my painting too with the cooler colors more on the right side and the warmer colors more on the left side.
I think I succeeded in doing this last project, because I like my colorful background and I had a lot of fun painting it, and I'm also really proud of my silhouette of the girl in the water. It took me a long time to paint the silhouette and the water, but I really like how it came out.

I was resourceful in completing this piece. I used the internet and the scanner to make the picture of the girl a little bit bigger. I also used a lot of different acrylic colors, different brushes and different kind of painting styles.
I think I enhanced this project in being intellectually curious in really trying to understand how the water is real and to get the water perfect and to make it more 'organic' on my painting.
I think this last piece shows that I really improved myself in painting, drawing, understanding how to paint more realistically and in developing my own kind of painting style.