Wendy+H.

The expressionist painters used unusual colors to paint, drew to express themselves and their feelings and drew the objects figuratively. I didn't use unusual colors, since the colors that represented me were orange and yellow, which was exactly the color of a tiger. I drew this tiger to express myself, since my characteristics and the tiger's characteristics were similar. My tiger wasn't cartoon-like, it was pretty figurative. I chose tiger to represent myself. Tiger is known to be represented as powerful people with self-confidence and elegance. I'm not that elegant, but I think I'm pretty self-confident. Also tigers are solitary creatures who hate to lie around doing nothing, which is just like me, since I hate it when there is nothing to do.I always search for things I can do, even home works. Lastly, they are considered as unpredictable and enigmatic animal. As you can see during classes, I'm very hyper, hard to predict and sometimes hard to control. Now this is alll the reasons why I chose tiger. For my color, I chose yellow and orange. Orange combines the energy of red and the happiness of yellow, it's associated with joy, sunshine, and the tropics. It can represents enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation. I think orange is the perfect color to describe me. Of course I'm enthusiastic, and success, creativity is also part of me. I'm sometimes very determined, I and enjoy stimulating others, in a good way, not a bad way. Yellow is the color of sunshine. It's associated with joy, happiness, intellect, and energy. It's very similar to orange, but the intellect and energy part grabbed my attention. I think I'm very energetic and I consider myself as a smart kid, so I chose yellow too. These were reasons for picking yellow and orange to represent me. I used several different watercolor techniques in this painting. I used rock salt technique on the rock that my tiger is laying on. Masking tape and bleeding techniques were used to make the tiger and the color of the tiger's face was lightened by lifting out technique. Dry brush technique was used for creating the sun's rays and the ground's rough texture. If I can do this project over again, I would want to change some colors of the background, since they don't really look that unusual for me. If I had some more unusual colors, then my painting could've been more expressionist-like. I really liked the tiger's body because the different techniques blended together very well and created a great effect.

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The theme of my room was jail. I chose this theme because I wanted to make a gloomy scene out of this room. The reason for choosing gloominess was because I had a solid idea of making a huge contrast in my drawing by making the room dark and making the background bright and cheerful. While I was thinking of gloominess, three things came into my mind. One was a hunted castle and the other two were abandoned house and the jail. Well, I thought about those themes and I finally chose jail as my final choice. Jail seemed pretty rare and no one was doing that theme so I thought I won't be compared with others and I can express my ideas more freely. Plus I like darkness and gloominess in the first place. My unexpected environment was 'Comic land'. I think it was a good match for my image because my room was all gloomy and sad, so I think this background gave a big contrast between two pictures (room and background). To add on, this was the most brightest and random setting that I could think of for jail. It really looked together too. Plus, I love comic! The biggest challenge for me was improving my room. My theme, jail was mostly gray and other colors were all different shades of gray. To add on, there are only few furniture and I had huge blank spaces everywhere. It was just too boring. So I had to think about different ways to make it interesting. Well, I improved my room by adding the basketball and the dirty smudges on the wall, ceiling and the floor. Plus, adding little details with pencil, like pencils on the desk, spoons, little holes and the spider web. Well, I must say, that I'm proud of everything, the room, background, different comic characters, and the little details. I've worked really hard to complete this drawing and I think I've done the best job possible. I've tried my best to make my drawing interesting as possible and I think I was pretty successful at it. Overall I really like my work. If I can change one thing about this assignment, I would want to change the cutting out and pasting the background part. This is because for me I had many number of holes, so cutting was hard and it took me longer than others. Also, pasting was hard because I had to match two papers perfectly, and with that much hole. It was hard to get the exact spot to paste. Also the glue was ruining my paper and it was constantly falling apart. media type="custom" key="5767999"

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