Painting I: Final Project
This past Fall semester, I took the first in a series of painting classes required for my major. Most of the paintings I produced for this class were pretty boring, but this is the painting I created for my final project. The subject was required to be a portrait, so I painted a picture of me playing with my dog, Penny, on a hot day in July.
This semester was the first time I have painted with oil or acrylic paints since high school, so it was interesting getting back into shape. This time around, I only used primary colors and white to create my paintings. If black was needed, it was achieved by blending all my primaries together, making it difficult to be consistent, but it was worth it to prevent the painting from being neutralized by using a pre-fab black.
The painting I created as my final project
Here is a montage of the process I went through to create this simple painting:
How I created this painting, step by step.