YELLOW BOAT

This piece is inspired by the play write and book, Yellow Boat, about a child with aids and the struggle and hopes he and his father share together.

knowing this, I did more re-search as to what the plays attitude and theme was, as well as its director's style.
String (in the likes of long lengthy fabrics, yarn, thread, and so forth), Yellow Boats, crayons, abstract imagination, and clear cloudless skies were the main visual themes in this play as well as the color Yellow as the main color.
i decided to only use the visual aspects of the literal Yellow Boat, and thread. the background is of blue skies- yet not cloudless and not a one solid blue. though in the play there is only ONE Yellow Boat, I wanted to put in more then one (three) boat. this in itself resembles how true this story is...and how common, with so many other children and families. thus, more then one boat symbolizes more then one alike story.

these elements are shown on a four-pieced canvas (four separate pieces, attached into one single piece), sewn together by white thread, or flaws.
the main Yellow Boat is in the center of the final canvas...but yet placed so so that it is not in the MIDDLE of each and every piece of paper. the last two are far smaller then the main boat...located to the bottom left, and top right.
all boats have an angle to them, furthering the interest of the eye.

How I wanted to show this image was by mixed media. The mediums chosen were mainly watercolor, fallowed by acrylic paint (only white and black) and thread. the actual thread isn't used to show that the boats are all being held up by THREAD...but is used to attached the canvases. the actual thread would be drawn on by my custom paintbrush (made by my own hair, tape, and a toothpick.).

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surprisingly this is one of the hardest, longest pieces I have ever done. though I have worked on larger canvases with far more elements then those chosen here...It took far more brainstorming, re-searching, studying, reading and deciding then that of my usual casual way of doing final pieces.
I have never drawn a boat- or anything at this angle- before, where it's not simply just PUT DOWN on paper or by memory-measurements. most of my studying was of measurements, boats, colors, angles, measurements, length, scale, and measurements. Have I mentioned measurements?
I've done several several ruff drafts of this piece before I finally decided to start on my finally canvased piece.

I would consider this one, single piece, my first ever professional piece of artwork.

STOP MOTION ANIMATION

The process from start to finish was, in one word, difficult. yet still allowed me to learn something new and still did not take away from my joy of art. though in the beginning we all had a tremendous idea for this stop motion film, our vision sadly did not show in its fullest in the final piece presented to the class.
it's understandable why as well, for a minimum amount of people in our group fully participated in the project. it was far too noticeable. though this is noted- also note that it is as well understandable for all of us had no experience as to what we were trying to accomplish.
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personally i would have liked to be more involved with the project- like to be one of the leaders and/or directors of the piece. saying that, I'd also like to mention that YES, i loved my part in this project and had completed my own half on time, and did more then what was asked of me.