Elephant Background

For this project, I had already painted two elephants with touching noses. So for my project, I decided to finish it and paint the background! I did the background in multiple shades of teal and blue, with small hints of gold throughout.  This was a pretty easy project for me because it was just the background but I really did like getting to blend the colors with the oil paints that I used. I thought that was really cool and I would love to do another project with oil paints!

Black and White Camera

I did this project because it was more of a still life project and I haven't really painted anything like that before. For the background I did the edges like an old film reel so that the camera looked like it was on a undeveloped piece of film. I was originally going to do all the colors inverted so that it totally would have the appearance of being on a undeveloped piece of film, however I didn't think I would have time to finish the project if I were to figure all that out. I wish I had though because that was my original idea and I really liked the thought of how that look in the end and I regret not doing that. that highlighting of the white light on the camera was difficult for me to paint to capture what it really looked liked and that was definitely the hardest part for me but I really did like the project!

Purple Fish

I really like painting animals so I thought this would be a good project for me. My favorite color is also purple so that's why I decided to do purple for the color of the fish. I thought black would be a good background color because it really made the fish stand out and it almost seemed to glow. I loved painting the fish's tail because it was so flowy and large. I think I have found that my favorite thing to paint is definitely animals!