The next level...

In my last post I talked about the art journal that I've recently been keeping. Well now I'm taking my art to another level. I chose three of my favorite pieces and transfered them to photoshop. I then made them less complex so that I would be able to paint them. After this I picked one that I liked the most and make a painting out of it.

This was actually kind of a challenging process for me. When I was looking through my art, I couldn't really find three pieces of art that I was proud of. I found one that I really liked so I started by scanning that one so that I could work with it on the computer. It was a picture of some balloons that I drew with markers. I ended up transferring it onto a dark blue background and adding stars and a moon so that it looked kind of like the balloons were soaring into space. This idea struck me because I have always wondered where your balloon goes when you let go of it. 

My next idea was kind of harder. When I was looking through my notebook I came across a drawing that I never really finished. The drawing was a locked box in the middle with thought bubbles all around it. I called the piece box of secrets and the thought bubbles on the outside were supposed to contain secrets that people could have. Unfortunately I never got around to putting the representations of secrets in the thought bubble. So I decided to do this because I thought that this might make a good painting. So I did this but when I transferred it onto photoshop, something just wasn't right... Then an idea was given to me. I decided to look up pictures of everything so that it would be more clear to what each "secret" inside the thought bubbles really was. I think this idea worked out pretty well so I decided to use this one as the one that I would paint. I hope the painting turns out good!