First Day in the Woods

Today I made my first trip into the woods to get supplies for my art project. I had decided on the design that I posted last week but I decided on a few changes. In their design they design individual characters and the children decorate them. I feel that that alone was not enough to represent the beauty of nature and what I wanted to capture with this piece. I decided to create two or three nature fairies with natural materials (i.e. sticks, leaves, bark, etc.) while also creating a background for them using water colours and other natural materials.

I went to short hills today to look for supplies for my first drawing. I was hoping that for this piece I would have one fairy with cool colours that represented winter and one fairy that represented spring with warm colours. One problem I seem to be running into however is that there is not a huge variety in colour in the forest right now due to the subzero temperatures. For this first piece however I would like to use natural materials and I can use more colour in the background to compliment the cool colours of the fairies.

                                                          Vanessa Kiedrowski (2017)

I am thinking that most of the materials that I would find in nature at this point would be the colours of browns, greys, and possibly greens at this point. After this piece is completed I will likely create a piece that is some kind of representation of nature rather than directly taken from nature. Until next time friends!