From my chemistry binder

Some leftovers from before winter break. I recently discouvered them now when I was looking for some more lined paper for chemistry class. They were done in my art class.

The head was done quite a while ago, maybe even in October/November. Everything else slowly came after it, starting with the girl. I just had this huge animal muscle study session the day prior to painting these so I wanted to continue running with it. I think the red paint looks pretty nice as an accent.

"I want to buy you flowers//It's just a shame you're a boy."

I've been  using flowers in a lot of my paintings and titles for said paintings. 


I sketched on a base for this picture first, and even crudely shaded it in with pencil. At some parts, I just went over it with a black wash.  And I just touched up some of the flowers on her chest with some Copics to give it that deep red colour I originally wanted.

Semi-inspired by the song (you guessed it) Flowers, by Emilie Simon, and I only say "semi" because it has nothing to relate with the actual lyrics. I was just thinking about it when I did the piece, so yeah.


Painting these pictures made me realize that no matter how less paint I use, I always get too much. I got a drop of red for the top pic, and even that couldn't be used up. What happened? I used to use too much for my paintings a couple of years ago:

Silence

At least there wasn't much worry about warping. Pictures (or at least, when I pulled them out) came out pretty flat.




Drawn with mechanical pencil on paper not meant for paint.
Painted with really watered-down tempura.
Second picture touched up with Copics.