(Last project for first semester) Choice Project ,Ghost girl, project # 11

In this project I didn't have much of an idea. I just started to draw a girl and went from there. I knew I wanted to make her look different from a normal girl. I made her have light blue skin and bright red with pink hair. I wanted it to look as if she's running away from something because I thought it would fit the background of darkness with the trees. After I drew out the girl, I began to paint her skin using a turquoise sort of blue, painting light to dark. Then I painted a medium blue background for a night time sky. After I painted the sky, I put in the grass using yellow mixed with sap green. I made the grass lighter where the moonlight was shining down at and darker on the other side. Then I worked on details with the girl's hair and face. I wanted there to be more in the background so I put in some trees. With the face I was originally going to put in eyes, but I discovered that I liked it without them better. I thought it created a spookish vibe, as if she was a ghost. For this theme I decided it would be "Preserve and protect." I thought this would be a good theme because it looks like there could be a story behind this piece. The ghost girl could be running away from something that's trying to get to her land, so she would be trying to preserve and protect. The topic is value because I showed the value of color that went from light to dark. I painted the light moving to the darkness on the other side of the girl. For the medium I used acrylic paints. My color palette for this piece is blues, pinks, reds, browns, and greens.