For my two free choice art pieces I used acrylic paints to create a Halloween pumpkin and a forest. There are a few things that I like as well as dislike about both pieces. My pumpkin painting had very good contrast and balance in the painting but some of the paints I used were not good and wouldn’t cover up some of the darker marks that I made on the pumpkin. As for my forest painting, I like the leaves on the two trees up close and I also like the grass in the foreground. I don’t like the trees in the background or much of the grass either. Overall I think that they were two well developed paintings with a foreground, middle ground, and background but there are still things that I would fix if I had the chance.

For my foreshortened self portrait I was thinking about doing a standing pose of this image of Christ.
because I want to make the image be looking at myself from the ground up. The most challenging part of this project is going to be drawing the right shades of skin because I usually like to draw what I know and not what I see. Another good example of fore shortening is in this self portrait.



This is good foreshortening because almost everything in the image is coming at the viewer. I was thinking about doing this pose while showing my full body unlike in this piece. This piece seems as though it is showing frustration and this is often times how I feel so this may be a good idea for me.