My Art Project Analysis

For my art project, I wanted to explore a different medium than what I am used to, go outside if my comfort zone a bit. The first idea I had for this project came from the thought of water overflowing a page. From there, I developed the idea of a child holding an umbrella in the rain. I wanted to demonstrate the concept of childhood innocence. It's like when you're little, you're ignorant of the real world; It's not until you grow up or start to realize the world around you, that you fully understand what it's like. For what it's truly like, the cruel and harsh world that we have. The rain or the storm around the child is supposed to symbolize death and destruction around the kid. It's also supposed to symbolize the struggle of trying to keep that innocence and many …show more content…
Despite losing the innocence, that might have been needed for one to grow as a person. I’m sure that multiple people had to bridge this gap between innocence and knowledge.

For this project, I used some oil pastels that was in an art kit I had once, watercolour paper that I had gotten from Mr.Wimmer, and a mechanical pencil. I did draw a sketch on a smaller separate piece of paper before I transferred it to the larger paper. As well on that paper, I tried out some of the techniques of oil pastels before using them. I then started colouring and layering the oil pastel onto the larger paper. For this project, I used the principals and elements of color, texture, space, value, movement and a bit of emphasis. I used colour, for the entire artwork has colour, some different intensities of colours than others. Lighter and brighter colours are used on the kid and the umbrella. While darker colours are used in the background and the water. Value is used to show some highlights and some shadows, to show where the light might be shown. Space is used for the entire paper has colour, the