Above is my watercolor painting to which I humbly title "Ladybirds". It is my piece for the class's paint-by-subject drawing, in which I had to draw insperation from the word 'ladybug'. Of course I played it safe by painting a bug on a flower, with maybe the slight twist of unique dimention. For this piece I tried to employ shape, color, and proportion, which I think turned out relatively well dispite my inability to paint a clean oval. This is the first time I've completed a watercolor painting (successfully) and I think this is made obvious by how I avoided detail work or intricate scenery. Also, as far as the illusion of dimention, I believe I made a mistake in darkening the stem field at the center, making there be shading at the sides and center which leaves awkward bright spots at the middle-left and middle-right. The ladybugs turned out okay, which was the point to begin with, but the overall picture dissapoints me and I feel I could have done better had I put some more time into sketching out the scene before painting.As far as tha picture itself goes, it could really be one of two things. If my illusion of dimention was successful, I've illustrated the journey of a single ladybug by painting several in a sort of mine that gradually gets closer. If I've failed to achieve the illusion, it is a diagram displaying the results of radioactivity in a dandilion field, flowers mutating to mature at a larger size and indiginous insects growing from their normal pebble size to that of a
ping-pong ball.
7 comments:
HannahRM,
I love your funky perspective. Artists who can pull this kind of thing off really amaze me. Thanks for sharing!
Mrs. Llibre
Hannah Mangan,
I am enamored with your depth and obvious insect expertise. However it is the Grey-Haired Dandelions that please me the most, how you were able to achieve such perfection in their little tufts if beyond me.
With much excitement towards your next work,
Kate
The fish-eyed effect is what catches my eye first. It looks like a simple raindrop, too.
Watercolor is such a preposterous medium to work in personally and it amazes me ever so to see someone succeed with something I fail at; it gives me hope that I can eventually master the medium.
The Mangan sisters make such amazing pieces.javascript:void(0)
I'm so jealous!
My talent with water color paint is non-exsistant. But all of the talent, I see, was given to the worthy, instead of poor little souls like Gretta :(
Use it well [insert meaningful Star Wars quote here]... ^_^
sorry I'm so weird
Gretta
Hannah!
I love your piece:) I had to delete my other comments because I used your last name. Sometimes it's hard to remember that there are creepers out in the real world. But this artwork is fabulous, the bubble effect is astounding!
Yay for off-the-beaten-path perspectives and people that can actually make water colors work for them. And in the form of ladybugs no less!
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