Final Drawing and Painting of the Horse in the Style of Picasso

         I used both analogous and complimentary colours of orange for my monochromatic colour scheme. I used only analogous colours in the horse, both tints and shades. Some of these analogous colours were presented in shades because of Picasso's style of cubism. I used only orange's analogous colours so that the horse would be brought into the foreground by the warm colours. I used both analogous and complimentary in the Dove of Peace and Light of Evil. I used more analogous to bring out the middleground, but used a little monochromatic to bring the middleground deep into my painting. I still wanted the horse to be the centre of my painting, so I used blue to move the viewer's eye away from the middleground. In the background mountains, I alternated between a complimentary blue and an analogous shade of orange. I did this to create depth and make the viewer focus on the foreground and middleground first. The cold colours create depth and movement in my painting. I used a light tint of orange, ahead of the mountains, which surrounded the horse, Dove of Peace and Light of Evil. I used a slightly dark tint of orange behind the mountains (blended in with backround). These nice analogous colours helped create depth and complete my painting.

         The process of the painting started off by learning about Picasso through a video. After learning about the great artist, I started to draw my horse. First, I drew it exactly, with all the lines and body parts in the correct positions. Then I "Picassoed" it (created it with Picasso's style). I made all my lines straight, added half of the horse's head on top of the original horse's head and added designs that Picasso had in his paintings. I originally had trouble changing my drawing, but overcame this trouble and made the necessary changes. I then added the Dove of Peace and Light of Evil to my drawing. I added these objects because I wanted to add more of Picasso's style, so I added two famous objects from his paintings. I then added mountains in the backround. The next step was to transfer my drawing on the sheet of paper that I would paint it on. To transfer, I had to trace the drawing on to a tracing sheet. I then flipped the tracing sheet over and traced the just copied drawing with the sheet I would paint on under the tracing paper. I was able to see a lighter outline of my objects, which is ideal for painting. I was able to start my painting. I decided to used orange as my main colour because it's a bright colour that goes well with blue (its complimentary colour). I started painting the  horse. I used orange and analogous colours of orange in my horse in the form of shapes. I then painted the objects in the middleground using analogous and complimentary colours. I used a dark shade of orange and blue for the backround mountains. I used a light tint of orange around the object in the painting. The last part of the process was outline things within my painting. I used black to do this because it brought out the part that was being outlined. My only major difficulty during the project was changing my piece to look more like Picasso's style. But, I was able to overcome this problem and used Picasso's style throughout the project.

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