Blog Post 2- Elefly

Artists Solve Problems
How did you respond to challenges that occurred as you worked? 
I responded to challenges that occurred while I worked by making it incorporate into the art and turning it into something new. At the bottom of my "Elefly", I messed up with the colors of blue. One ended up purple and one ended up blue which conflicted with the complementary color idea, so I ended up just mixing the colors together on both sides and making it look like it was supposed to look that way. 

Did your work take an unexpected turn due to a mistake or did something happen that was unplanned?
Yes, the proportion of the sides of the patterns in the butterfly wings/elephant ears were off. I had to move things around to make it look more natural. I figured out a way to make it look normal by using the technique of burnishing to ensure that the old lines were covered up.
 
Artists Collaborate
 Did you ask another student for feedback during your work process?
Yes I did ask another student for feedback while working on this piece. I had an idea of what I wanted to do but I didn't really know exactly. Someone at my table suggested the complementary color idea, I thought that would be a really good technique to use with this butterfly project. I used that and it turned out looking really good. 

Did someone help you understand important information or inspire you?
I had originally gotten this Idea from a post I found on Pintrest. This artist had done the whole body of the elephant. They had also incorporated a desert looking background for this with the butterfly wings for ears making it look more natural with the elephant being in a natural habitat. I took this idea and changed it by only doing the elephants head and by doing a more leafy and green background. 
 
Artists Take Risks
Did you try something that you weren’t sure about as part of this project?
I did try something I wasnt very sure about in this project. I wasnt too sure about this whole butterfly for ears thing because while I was looking up butterflies and examining the wing patterns, I found it hard to make the wings look very realistic. But I followed through with the idea and it ended up working out in the end. 
Did you pick a material or technique that was new or different over something that was familiar?
I ended up not really trying anything new in this project. After finishing the eyeball zentangle project, I found myself more comfortable with the technique of burnishing and incorporating the complementary colors in there to so I ended up just taking that route again. Although, I did end up doing a little bit of shading for the elephant head to really contrast the color from the elephant head itself. Also, there was the challenge of making the butterfly wings look more realistic like i said before in the first question.