In-Depth Project. Abstraction of the form.

         For this In-depth assignment, we were to create an abstraction of the chair form the chair we designed. I based my design around the idea of the unicorn and a centipede. The personality I was trying to convey is weird/different, I wanted people to act shocked or maybe even grossed out when they saw my piece. For this unicorn and centipede piece I was also working with the idea or cute/innocent but morbid and creepy. 

         The artwork is 24''x34'', this is a much larger scale than I am used too. Canvas is something that I am not comfortable with either, to me this was ambitions. The media I used was acrylic for most of the unicorn and then the centipede, unicorn mouth and guts were all oil paints; oils I don't work with usually. I very much liked this piece and I believe it was well executed. 

Process of making the artwork.

Because this was a very large piece, the only thing I had available to me at the moment was a large canvas. I dislike drawing on canvas because it smears and stretches it out, what I did to prevent that was to first sketch it on paper to then use as a template. 

Once I was pleased with the sketch, I cut out the drawing and then traced it on the canvas. When I finish the tracing I then refine it to make it look cleaner and it makes it easier for me to see what I will be painting. For my unicorn I wanted some fantasy like color so I went with a type of light purple or like a lavender. I used acrylic to achieve the color and texture.

I stopped painting at about halfway of the body so that I can then sketch out my centipede that will be bursting out of this unicorn.

For the centipede, I based its body out in a thin layer of acrylic paint (light brown and a mustard tone). While it was drying I continued to paint the other half of the unicorn. Once the centipede's paint was dry I would then paint over it in oils so that I would get an opaque coat and it would make it easy to blend the colors. I painted the bands first before I would paint the head and legs.

Once I finished painting the centipedes body I then work on the legs and head by using the same process I used on the rest of its body. I now begin to work on the organs which I painted with oils and the gums of the unicorn.

 I then begin to detail the painting, I paint the unicorn's horn in a mixture of gold acrylics, I also began to detail the organs and paint the inside of the unicorn along with inside its mouth. Once the focus seemed to be complete I then begin to paint the background black.

Once I painted the whole background I then refine the details a bit and add some glare and then the piece is done.