EmilyE

I choose this picture because I thought it would be challenging.I thought the horse and the boy would be very difficult. I also choose this picture because of the country western theme, I thought the little boy with a horse would be more appealing than an adult with a horse. I also choose this picture because it's something I can relate to. Although part of the reason I picked this photo was to challenge my artistic abilities I got very frustrated with how hard it was to oil pastel everything correctly. The hardest part of the whole picture was the little boys shirt. In the original picture his shirt was plaid, but I made and artistic decision to make the shirt solid because with the shirt being wrinkly it was very difficult to make the lines match up. The hardest part of the process was blending colors to match. The green shirt may just look green but there is green, yellow, white, and black just to make that color green. If I could do this project over again I would choose a different picture. Although I like challenges, I don't like challenges that feel to hard to accomplish. Another thing I would do differently is play around with my oil pastels more. Instead of just starting right in on the background I would have figured out how to make the color on a separate paper then copy it onto the background. Although there are things I would have did differently, overall Im happy with my project, Im happy I pushed myself to finish this.