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Featured Artist - Swathi Dinesh

Swathi Dinesh —

I wanted to put everything I had learned throughout the term into this piece of art, so I first chose a blue dye base. I selected blue because it is one of my favourite colours, and blue looked cool for the examples I saw in this type of combination painting. I then spread the dye around the page until I was satisfied with the shape. I wanted to overlay everything because I thought it looked cool. I then got bubble wrap. I chose white because I was too scared to put another colour. 

They came out okay but needed touching up, so I made them more prominent later. After the bubble wrap, I used dark blue paint and painted a few blobs on top of a portion of the bubble wrap. Finally, I used a leaf stencil and a sponge to paint the leaves onto the painting. After all of that, the painting looked okay but a bit bland. So I used a black and white fine liner pen to add details to the painting.