Category: Accomplishments

Watercolor Painting – Woodland Landscape

 

Watercolor Painting Artist Statement – Painting & Printmaking

My watercolor painting is a fall day after it had rained with leaves. The setting is a road that is curving with a wet effect with leaves laying on it. There are trees making almost a tunnel effect over the road, but there is still a pale blue sky. The trees are made up of bright and vibrant colors such as yellow, orange, a strong red that has a pinkish tint to it, and green. There are two textures of leaves throughout it and I would say a good variety of colors. Some branches and trunks of the trees are more of a solid brown indicating that it would be closer to you and the ones that are more faded causing a further distance look to it. 

The Intended meaning of my painting was to just enjoy looking at it. I chose a good fall vibe picture to go off of and enjoy creating it into my own. I wanted it to draw people’s attention and give them a happy feeling when looking at it. Joy, happiness, and comfort was my intended goal for this watercolor painting. 

I created this painting with watercolor, smaller sized paint brushes, water, and a photograph. When sketching this out I used a pretty light pencil for any mess ups so I could erase easily. One of the techniques I used to darken a color instead of just having a ton of pigment was to layer colors, with this it helped to give a nice leafy look to it. Some areas stayed lighter while others would get darker over top of the original layer. Another technique I used was to have a ton of small dots pile up on one another so also make a cool leafy look. This one took the longest but with the different techniques it added good texture and contrast. 

Some elements in my artwork to support my intended meaning would be the colors of my trees. All of the different shades of each individual color also brought out a good contrast. I really enjoy how welcoming this painting makes me feel. 

The thing I would probably do differently when painting this again would be first the time management I gave myself, and also how I went about the leaves. The leaves alongside of the road could look a little better and I would try harder to make them look better and less sloppy. 

A good goal after looking and working on this painting for the future would probably be to just trust the process. I kept saying how much I disliked this painting as I was working on it and that honestly could have been a good factor into why I pushed it off. In the end I got a lot of compliments and ended up finding good things to point out in it. 

Speech Outline

Hattie Bennett

English 1 Block 2

Mrs. Duitsman

August 26, 2019

 

Three Objects That Make Me, Me

 

Good morning, I’m Hattie which I bet you all know. Today I’m going to be talking about three sentimental objects that explain who I am and who I have become. 

For my first object I brought my necklace, it is key that says the words “courage”. I bought this necklace for my grandpa a year ago while he was battling cancer and he never took it off unless he had to for medical reasons. The night he passed away, my grandma handed it to me and I’ve always had it with me since. My grandpa was a huge part of my life and when he was diagnosed with cancer my family was devastated. 

I brought my goggles for my second object. My goggles represent my love for swimming. I am always in the water during the summer, if its practice or for fun. If you look at them they have lots of scratches on them and that shows just how much I use them and how I’m constantly in the water. I’ve been swimming since i was about 5, I wasn’t even in swimming lessons for one summer before I switched over to swim team. 

Then their is my third object which is my roller skates. These are a few years old because I haven been able to go to the skating rink since it was torn down. These mean so much to me because it was part of my younger childhood and its part of me growing up. My mom worked at the skating when I was born and so I was always at the rink, when I learned how to walk the next thing I learned to do was skating. My mom ran the skating rink, my dad worked their for a little while, my aunt and uncle both worked their and so did both my grandma and grandpa and also my great grandma. We had a family their and about a month or so ago we celebrated my grandpa’s birthday and we got everyone who worked their and was part of our “family” together and we skated in honor of him. 

Thank you for listening to me talk about my objects and what they mean to me. I hope that I can get to know you better and see the things we have in common. 

“Thank you for listening to a little bit about me. I hope that I get to know some of you better through your speeches” .