For my second concentration piece, I decided to do a painting of my cereal, which I do eat everyday. Before starting I really wanted to do oil paint because I have not done that in a while but I realized that it may slow me down. I usually am very slow with oil paints. So I decided to do acrylic paints instead. After I painted the background and my bowl, I realized that painting cereal may not have been such a good idea. It was very difficult for me because I just could not get the value in the cereal nor could I make it look like some of the cereal had a shine of milk on it. I realized that I also needed to add some shadows under the cereal to give it that 3d effect. That actually helped out a lot. From there I just put in more cereal, which did take a long time. Eventually I painted in the spoon and put some value and shininess into it. I put some shadow under the spoon too and I think that really helped with making the spoon seem even more 3d. I even then decided to put in a newspaper, not knowing how I would put in the words without it looking really messy. That took a lot of time as well but after I finished the newspaper, there was not a lot left to finish, just some shadows and the mat on the left side. I really like looking at this piece from far away because it looks even more realistic from a distance. My favorite part from this piece is how the spoon turned out, I love the white at the bottom of the spoon, it makes it look like the milk is reflecting into the spoon. I am really proud of how the whole piece turned out, although some of the cereal could still use a little bit of work and the newspaper could be a bit better but overall I think this piece is really good.
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May 2016
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