Glue and Chalk Pastels

This was a fun project. I was sick the day we had the paper handed out so I had to go get my own supplies. I got smooth paper which was the first mistake of the project, although the paper didn't crinkle like many others did. I decided to use the butterfly as my main focus area and work on making other designs around it. I kept the design the same within the butterfly so I was able to keep that as my focus area. Around it I did swirls, random shapes and other lines that seemed abstract. I was very pleased with my end results considering I didn't draw anything out with pencil before. I decided to free hand this whole thing, sometimes your best art can't be erased. I forgot to put the textured lines in so I did it later and had to dry it with a hair dryer.

During class we learned the next step of this. We had to use a limited amount of chalk pastels (5 colors) to create this into an abstract picture. We thought of it as a stained glass window and how the colors had to be solid. I love using chalk a lot in pictures because its messy and fun to create different things with. I had a hard time putting the chalk on my paper however because it was too smooth. I had to hairspray my paper a few times in order to get the chalk to stick enough. I did probably 4 layers of chalk, which took almost the whole stick of chalk. I was able to complete the project but I believe if I would have used the right kind of paper I would have been able to make the colors smoother and more appealing. I am pleased with the results considering the difficulty I went through to complete it.