Breadth #11

This is a piece from my sophomore year that I reworked to include in my breadth section. We were advised to have an interior space piece in our breadth, so I decided to fix this one up. Originally just acrylic paint, I went back into it with markers to sharpen edges, brighten colors, and add interest to the piece. This is obviously a painting of the inside of an old gym, so it can only be so exciting, haha. But I wanted to add personality to a seemingly lifeless corner of my old highschool gym.

Breadth #9

So this was my attempt to create a more abstract piece. I started with a sheet of black paper and used an x-acto knife to cut out an outline of a tree. Then I layered the cut paper on top of a canvas that I had poured paints on and gone back in with colored markers. Then I covered the entire thing with a layer of clear gel medium. Now that I'm rethinking the piece, I wish I had created the cut paper tree so that the paper created the negative space around the tree and the colored background filled in the positive space. Either way, I think the piece would have turned out pretty well.