Lexi's Spring-Summer Project

Sand Jounin

so as you know,
or not know,
i've been starting to paint my walls, after i re-did my room.
i started out with painting them green and salmony pink,
with the help of the home hardware people,
then i was gonna leave it at that.
but i got some acrylic paint and started experimenting different stuff.
i didn't want a plain flowery wall,
so this is what i painted.
started the project during early spring,
and ended about last week.

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the white person started as an outline for a simple profile picture of my brother,
then he no longer had the patience.
so this is what i had to improvise.

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photocredits to danny.

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better view.

Leaf Genin

Awesome ;P

Leaf Chuunin

This is totally sick!!! You must have some mad skizzles if you painted those! I just wish i could paint my walls...

Sand Jounin

it's actually some images ripped off of google,
and you have to use a lot of salt,
it makes it look better :)

Leaf Chuunin

How exactly dose the salt make it look better and howwould you use it?

Leaf Jounin

Those are pretty good ^^
Your a good artist.

Leaf Genin

nicely done. :3

Subject: Re: Lexi's Spring-Summer Project Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:47 am

Interesting. Thats definately different...

S ranked Missing-Ninja

It takes a lot of skill to actually copy something, and repaint it on a wall. And the salt is used for the pain to look a bit more...real. Right? I tried painting something, and used some salt to make the picture stand out more?

Sand Jounin

..
you've never painted with salt?
salt makes the image pop out, etc, look real.
it also makes the image look 3-D,
and since you're painting on a wall, it brings the effects it'll have on paper to the wall,
and it's like a turn of the head, since it's not .. flat on the desk.

don't use watercolour paint, unless you want that drippy effect.
i use acrylic paint, and it's a matter of skill-and-speed,
as you put the paint on the wall,
you have to almost throw the salt onto that specific part you want.. accented,
before it dries.
i duno bout your walls, but on my walls, the paint dried pretty quickly and the salt fell off quickly.

and no,
a 2 year old can re-paint something he sees.
it's not a matter of memorization, since you have the image in front.
you draw the outline for it,
then you paint it.
it's not rocket science.
you get the hang of waht to paint,
then you start interpreting other images.
questions?

The Fourth Hokage

Beautiful work.

Leaf Jounin

That is truely amazing work, and you are right. We can normally copy what we see and draw/paint it. In fact, that is the only form of painting in which I have any skill at all. However, it takes more skill to be able to add our own touch, to put ourselves into it, if you will. And even more to completely grasp the colors, their positions, vibrancy, and the perspective of what it is we are imitating ^_^

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