When I first heard we were doing boundary, I immediately thought I wanted to make a piece showing the boundary between life and death. The problem was how to illustrate that. I was envisioning the skull of a ram, with half of it being an actual live ram with it’s muscles, skin, and fur still intact, but I didn’t feel very confident drawing the fur so I opted for the entire thing to be a skull. I’ve always been intrigued with the white and the the placement of shadows on skulls and thought it would look really amazing drawn on charcoal paper with black and white charcoal, but I had already done that so I decided against it. I wanted to try something new. Thankfully we were already practicing watercolor so I wanted to incorporate that in there. I was wondering how I wanted to show the life aspect of the piece, for death is already clearly the skull. I decided to do the skull completely grey to show the dull and not so colorful part of death, and I made color fade out of the horns. As the color moves further and further away towards the other end with more color, gets more vivid. The boundary between them is the grey transitioning to color.
For this project, I researched pictures of ram skulls for reference because I don’t draw many skulls, so I used by global resources. I also learned new things as I strayed away from graphite and experimented with watercolor. I was an interesting experience, very uncontrollable unlike the graphite which is usually precise. And I really wanted to communicate through my art and I think I succeeded in doing that. I just wished my watercolor looked a little better, but it was my second time working with it so I’m not too upset. The only thing that upsets it how crooked it is. Overall I’m happy with the piece.
For this project, I researched pictures of ram skulls for reference because I don’t draw many skulls, so I used by global resources. I also learned new things as I strayed away from graphite and experimented with watercolor. I was an interesting experience, very uncontrollable unlike the graphite which is usually precise. And I really wanted to communicate through my art and I think I succeeded in doing that. I just wished my watercolor looked a little better, but it was my second time working with it so I’m not too upset. The only thing that upsets it how crooked it is. Overall I’m happy with the piece.