1. Define which techniques you tried and mastered? Struggled? 2. How did you draw inspiration from other artists techniques or aesthetics in your work? In what ways did you derive meaning or gain historical perspectives from their work? Why these artists? 3. Describe the evolution of your piece. Decisions made. Compositional elements. 4. If you could consider doing something over, explain why you would do this and what you would do next time? 5. Elaborate on how this piece links with your other pieces? What is the common thread?
Image that I had drawn inspiration from.
1. A technique I tried with this piece was control of watercolor. From personal experience I found that watercolor tends to do whatever it wants. My goal was to be able to control what the watercolor would do. For example I tried the wet on wet method with different amounts of water to create gradient. In addition I had also discovered the importance of brush size. This was especially important when outlining the skeleton's figure. 2. I had drawn inspiration from a drawing I had found online by an unknown illustrator. I found that the piece used a variety of color that was coming off of the fish, depicting some type of change in the subject. In addition this piece reminded me of the Love Has No Labels project. These ideas combined so that I can create a piece that applies to everyone in general.
3. Initially I had not planned to include different colored flowers but only red flowers. However as I began to finish my piece I found the blue and purple flowers to bring more attention within the piece. Also while I had known that I wanted to put the skeleton on the right third of my paper I did not know how I would make the skeleton have more movement and appear to be melting. With these difficulties I learned more about depth with the use of flower sizes. 4. If I were to do this piece again I would have planned my sketches to be more thorough instead of delving into the piece. This would have prevented me from improvising with the "fading" of the skeleton. 5. This piece connects with my previous pieces as they all follow this common theme of "identity". The point I am making is that everyone is the same inside, a skeleton, and every so often there will be some type of conflict that would positively impact the person. These conflicts and impacts are what sets us apart and not how we physically appear.