PAINTING

Jenna Deutch

For my final project, I decided to paint three canvases. The first two are 3x3 mini canvases and the third one is 6x6. I chose this for my final project because painting is something I more recently took an interest in, and I have been wanting to “hone in” on my skills more, now that I know I have the ability to paint. I went with a nature theme because I find myself more at peace when I am in nature, around nature, thinking about nature, and painting about nature. I do, however, take a more abstract approach while painting, which is not something I plan on doing, but it ends up being the result.

​

This project is important to me during this time because while the world is easily finding ways to destroy happiness (whether it be through not being able to see people in person, having to watch our every move, and more), I think that it is important to stay positive. Painting takes my mind off of everything going on and any amount of time being productive in a different manner sheds a little light for me in this situation. That being said, each painting took me vastly different amounts of time and different skill sets. For the wave, the real difficult part was painting the wave itself because I had to blend colors to make ones I do not own and make it so that it appeared to have texture in the white part. For the sunset, again, I had to blend colors, but in a very different way. This time, I had to blend very different colors into the next one to make a beautiful, sunset sky. This allowed me to have light and deep blues, reds, yellows, oranges, and more in the sky. In the water, I had to use very dark blues to make the sea and I had to make it have texture as well. I then used white and orang to reflect the sun into the water. Finally, I made the abstract tree. I made it have an abstract background that would pop, with the branches on top. From here, I used Q tip ends to “paint” the petals by using multiple colors, such as different yellows on the base, and then dark blue, magenta, and dark green to pop on the surface.