Completed December 9, 2024 during Fall Semester. Tools used: Strathmore Bristol paper and graphite pencil to sketch thumbnails, acrylic paint colors blue, red violet, yellow, and orange on a 16×20 canvas. The objective for this project was to use a phrase from a song, poem, text, etc, and create a painting to demonstrate its meaning.
Project 7 – Final Submission
Reflection/Analysis
1. What is your project title?
A Heavenly View
2. Identify the text you are basing your project on (include the author, source, date, title, etc.).
It’s a song by Coldplay that I heard at work called “A Sky Full of Stars.
3. How did you translate your idea into visual elements? What imagery did you use and why?
As I listened to the song, I imagined a moon behind clouds casting light on a park bench and stars falling from the sky. The light from the moon reflects off the clouds, the bench, and the trees. I used this imagery because I love nature. The night sky can be soothing.
4. What colors did you choose to use and why?
I used various hues: blue and red violet for the sky, yellow tones and shades for the grass and trees, orange tones and shades for the path, and white for the moon and clouds.
5. What things are unifying the composition? What is helping to tie it together/ keeping it from getting too jumbled or chaotic?
I feel the bench, trees, and the moon behind clouds unify the composition. There was enough space to place my shooting stars and dots for stars.
6. What is adding variety to your composition? What is helping to break up the unity, add visual interest, and keeping the image from getting monotonous?
I feel adding the path and the extra tree provided visual interest.
7. What could use more work?
The clouds could be fluffier, and the bench could use more details.
8. What is most successful about your finished project?
Since I have never done a picture like this from scratch, I feel the whole painting was successful. But if I had to pick one, it would be the background. I love how the blues and red violets look to form the sky.