My Final Painting

Dot Painting

After the outline of my body was done using chalk, it was soon painted in the suitable colours shown in the picture. Different tones of colour were used to show the various colours of body, skin and hair. After this was done and dry, details were added like shadows. A dark brown colour was used to indicate the shading on the body. The colour's used for my hair were a light brown and green. Green was used because in my art image, it showed my hair as green from the way the sun was shining on it. After all of the final touches were finished,gesso was paintd around the focal point (the body). Following this, any colour chosen was painting on top of the gesso (dry). I chose bright yellow. Numerous colours in dot painting bottles were placed on a table, and the class had to pick 2-3 colours for dot painting. The colours offered were a light greern, black, white, yellow and a skin colour. I chose balck and white. When the paint surrounding the body was fully dry, I started dot painting. The first line of dots were white, I dot painted around the whole body and broomstick. I also dot painted around border of the piece. After the white line of dots were finished, I started to use the black colour keepingin mind that the shape of the dot couldn't be too small, but not too big.

Process Cont.

After you start drawing yourself according to the picture (using chalk) , you add detail by using paint. You paint eg. your tunic, hair, shoes etc. After you have finished adding the final touches, you can start to dot paint.

Process of design

1. paint 3 pieces of cardboard paper in -balck, red and blue
2. take a picture of yourself in any wanted pose
3. print the picture in colour A4
4. Make the picture of yourself smaller by ruleing out some parts on the outside, remember at least 3 parts of the body must be touching the edge of the frame
5. when completed, get one of the painted cardboard papers and draw the outline of the photo in chalk
6. To make it easier when drawing, draw within the frame, a half line etc on both papers- the photo aswell.
7. turn the photo upside down and start drawing accoding to the box scales (you turn the photo upside down because it turns the creative side of your brain instead of the logical side)
8. start drawing