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Cultivating Ideas

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Assignment: Use human, plant, and animal elements to represent an abstract concept: "Communication"

Category: Painting, Portrait/Figure, Cartoon, Children's Art

Tools: Stretch Canvas, Oil Paint, Graphite

Technique:

:bulletblue: I drew the original picture on a sheet of paper the size of the canvas. Then I covered the back of the paper in graphite dust. After taping the paper to the canvas (graphite side down), I retraced the image with pencil again. After I removed the tape and pulled off the paper, the image was transferred to the canvas. :)

:bulletblue: I then simply painted over the graphite outline in oils.

End Result:

:bulletblue: The idea behind this one was to do an illustration for a children's book. :heart:

:bulletblue: It's supposed to teach word association by replacing certain objects with thought bubbles and speech bubbles with the words inside.

:bulletblue: I was actually absent for a week due to an operation (minor), so I didn't really get as much time to work with this one as I would have liked. I think the thought bubbles came out kind of messy and it looks almost TOO childish/flat/2D (I would have liked to spend more time with shading and so forth), but at least I'm slooooowly getting more control over my oils. lol. :)

:bulletblue: Yes, she's watering her garden with ideas. XD
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mother6rusia9domina's avatar
shower is awesome idea...all concept rocks :D