The theme that I chose was fantasy because I absolutely love fantasy novels and movies. It wasn't hard for me to think of a memory to go along with this theme as I have read a lot of fantasy books in my life. For my memory I decided to choose the time I locked myself in the room for a week to read the Percy Jackson series. This lead me to decide to turn the people in the original picture to mythological creatures that could be found in the books. These two creatures are a water nymph and a satyr.
My adjective was grim because the original picture was already pretty creepy so it inspired me to make it even more dark and creepy to be grim. Also I thought that the adjective grim could fit very well with fantasy because some fantasy books are very dark and creepy to the point that I would consider them grim. The first strategy that I chose to use was college. I decided to make the pond that the nymph is in a college of pictures of water. After I was done with it I decided it was too bright to be considered grim so I watered down some black paint and painted over top of it to help it fit in and I'm really happy with how it turned out. The next strategy I chose to use was color scheme and that was very easy to pick. I chose cool colors keeping everything close to my theme and adjective. To me cool colors go very well with the adjective grim because a cold person with a dark outlook on life is considered to be a very grim person. My third strategy was expressive line, this one is hard to see in the final picture but if you look closely you can see the lines in the trees and a little bit in the grass which I used to help add texture and depth as well as express my adjective grim. The lines are all very short which to me resembles a life being cut short by a tragic event or something of the sort which is very grim. I decided to keep the little girl who I thought was creepiest which happened to be the one standing off to the left but since I already had planned a new character to go there she had to be moved. There was another problem with this little girl though, she was wearing a red dress which didn't fit with my color scheme. So I put her into photoshop on my laptop and used what knowledge i have to recolor her dress and scale her to the exact size I would need for my larger version of the painting. The elements I used were line, texture, and color while the principals I used were emphasis and movement. I used texture to give both the trees and grass more detail and I used line within this texture to express my adjective. I used color to further express my theme. I used emphasis to draw your eye to the water nymph in the front of the picture because the eyes of the other two characters pull your gaze away from her so I tried to create a sort of balance, this also caused the movement in my picture as your eyes move between the three points. This is my first post that I used to create all my tags for future posts.
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